Running Your Business Is Like Tending a Garden - by Taruna Chauhan
Intro
Taruna is the Director of T Chauhan Consultancy. Her work involves supporting aesthetics businesses who undertake a regulated activity with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). She mentors and coaches the sector right from the start of their journey with their CQC application and then provides ongoing support to be inspection ready using her Continuous Quality Success Framework.
She loves being a Business coach and mentor to clinic owners, being a business owner can be lonely. Her skills as a MBit Coach, Goal Mapping Coach and NLP Master Practitioner means she works with you on both business strategy and mindset, she calls it bringing out your inner wisdom because we all have it. It's about making a connection with your inner self and finding the answers that are right for you or looking at challenges with a different perspective.
ABOUT TARUNA CHAUHAN
Award-winning Business Mentor , Executive Coach & author in the health sector, Master NLP Practitioner , MBit coach
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Why taking risks is a good thing , if you evaluate and learn
I am starting with the premise that starting and growing a business is analogous to growing vegetables.
I am a novice gardener. I only started growing vegetables! about 6 years ago It has its trials and tribulations like any business!.
We start with a seed of an idea
Research: soil, weather conditions right for growing, when to sow etc
Business: we research the market and write out business and marketing plans based on what we know at the time. In our business we do a SWOT analysis, and do our market research.
Do people want our product/service?
I love the fact that I can grow a vegetable from seed and after a few weeks if its lettuce or months if it other vegetables I can eat the fruits/vegetables of my labour, home grown sweet corn is amazing and actually the best things to grow as the sugar turns to starch once harvested so freshly harvested sweet corn is the sweetest. Garden to table in half an hour!
Tomatoes freshly picked are delicious!
The trick is to grow what you like that you can’t buy easily in the shops and try to grow something different each year that you haven’t tried as it may surprise you in many ways: easiness of growing, taste etc...
Learn along the way what works and doesn’t.
In business you will need to try different things until you find the optimum price, process strategy that works.
You will not find it at the first attempt .
I encourage the PDCA cycle.
Plan, Do, Check, Act: especially if you are going to be promoting a new service.
Using this is a great way to make continuous improvements in your business.
This way of working means that you are always improving what you do but because you do it consistently it is not overwhelming.
I always ask for feedback from my clients, or I learn from something they have said.
For instance, one of my services means sending forms for them to complete and also policies. It can be hard to keep up with what’s been sent .
So, after a customer told me that I created a checklist so they can keep track of what I have sent to them and what they have returned , it’s a simple solution that works.
Your business will evolve. My business is not where I thought it would be. It has evolved.
I now do business coaching and mentoring in my niche and I love it is satisfying to see how much I have supported a client.
How are you tending your garden?
If you found this article helpful and informative, and would like to find out more about Taruna’s work, or how she can help you in your business journey, here are her contact details:
Website: https://www.tchauhanconsultancy.co.uk/
Email: taruna@tchauhanconsultancy.co.uk
Phone: 07910761122
Her Goal mapping can be used for personal and work related goals, she works with healthcare professionals.
She is the author of Outstanding a leader's guide to effective CQC registration. You can buy it using this link
She is a speaker and has spoken at various events about validation and evidence to meet standards compliance.
She has written articles for the Aesthetics Journal and Aesthetic Medicine
She has a podcast on Spotify called Continuous Quality Compliance :
https://open.spotify.com/show/3KXXMSwmWVGNfawnyn7wsa?si=edd7daf9e8884689
