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Toolbox Series: Jim Woodward on Coaching & Peer Groups
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In this episode of In The Thick of It, Scott sits down with his longtime business mentor Jim Woodward to discuss the value of business coaching and peer advisory groups. Jim outlines the peer group concept, typical meeting frameworks, and benefits such as community support, issue processing with other founders, and executive learning opportunities. He contrasts in-person and virtual formats and stresses the importance of shared values and proper coach training. Jim and Scott explore common objections around time, industry focus, and cost, countering each as barriers with real entrepreneur testimonials and measurable business growth outcomes. They close emphasizing how small investments in the founder/CEO pay exponential dividends across their organizations and families. If you are an overwhelmed startup owner lacking proper guidance, this episode makes the case for finding a mentor.
About Jim:
Jim Woodward spent 30 years building and running businesses as large as $100M, primarily in management and technology consulting to Fortune 500 companies, with full responsibility for marketing, sales, operations, service, and profitability. He also helped to found a highly successful, full-service ice machine leasing business that has become the nation’s largest. Today, Jim is a peer-advisor board chair and a business growth coach for Convene with a PCC coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation. In this work, Jim helps Christian business owners and CEO’s grow high performing businesses on a Biblical foundation so that people thrive and the Kingdom grows. Jim’s life purpose is to help people get unstuck, achieve their potential, and grow closer to Jesus. As part of this purpose Jim designs adult learning experiences like The Work Exchange (www.theworkexchange.org) which Convene and Biola’s Talbot Center for Faith, Work & Economics published.
About Convene:
Convene is a trusted community of Christian business leaders who meet monthly in peer-advisory teams across the world. Together, Convene members process opportunities and challenges, share priceless information from personal experience with each other, and grow in their faith through Christian executive learning content.
To learn more, visit convenenow.com.
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