What is the difference between a Teacher, a Coach and a Mentor?

Well, the task of the Teacher is to teach and give lessons. Via this you will hopefully acquire the knowledge and skills to perform whatever has been taught.

The Coach helps guide you to bring out the best in you, help your find your strength and courage so you can achieve what it is you have set out to want to achieve, as well as keeps you accountable for taking the actions that you committed to taking or that you need to take.

A Mentor is one that has already done what it is you wish to do. Someone who has often accomplished that which you wish to accomplish. It is a person who has been there and done that and who can guide, direct and suggest to you a path or towards sound choices based from personal experience. Such experience includes both successes and failures, and includes experience from personally run businesses, work, sport or life as well as experiences derived from working and helping others with their challenges.

In business and in life we all really need all three of these.

Certainly, if you are highly ambitious or dream about achieving your next level of successes in any area of life (in business or personally) then you really should seek to have all three. Most people will have come by Teachers. If nothing else, then at least from some amount of schooling. A few get a Coach at some point or another, but very few get a true Mentor.

If you look around and study some of the most successful people from all walks of life, you will find they have all three. The best entertainers all make use of both Teachers, Coaches and Mentors, as do the best sports athletes as well as the pinnacles of business leaders. Look around yourself and look into all the most famous and accomplished people and you will see that it’s true what I’m stating here.

Personally, I have used all three and continue to use all three. While the ones I use may differ from time to time depending on their levels of expertise in a specific area I may be seeking to develop further at any given time, I always make amble use of both Teachers, Coaches and Mentors.

Through The Pitzner Business Solutions platform, I’m offering The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program. This is the pinnacle of my offerings, for it’s highly personal, directed specifically at you, helping you excel further in the areas you wish to grow in or will need to grow in in order to achieve what it is you wish to achieve in life. My super power is very much that of running businesses and making these more profitable, so naturally my greatest focus with you will involve your business improvements and what you need to work on personally to make such improvements happen. But seeing that our business typically has such a great part of our attention, time, effort and life, and seeing how this also affects pretty much everything else in our lives as entrepreneurs, many of our sessions will also include focus on our other personal aspects of life.

I believe we all seek happiness and fulfillment. Just having a successful business alone does not guarantee the achievement of happiness and fulfillment. I have also found that sometimes in order to begin to achieve better results further towards your desired goals for your business, you have to achieve more happiness and fulfillment in other areas of your life first. There isn’t a set formula for this or a specific order that always work. It is different from person to person depending on where you are at in life at any given point of time.

It is a dynamic world and things change all the time. Sometimes we are up and other times we are down again. Both emotionally, but also in our results. Success today is not guaranteed for tomorrow and thankfully, for those where success seems to have eluded them, there’s hope, for success could be in the future.

Personally, I come with vast experience of business. You can study this background further in more detail if you wish by diving into the About page here on this platform, but let me just quickly summarize as follows:

I have worked, operated or owned businesses in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland, and in the United States. These businesses span many unrelated industries and by the nature of geography also span countries, cultures, language, currencies, continents and States. The companies have been privately held, publicly traded companies or taken to IPO (became publicly traded companies). I have personally been in charge of in excess of 400 people at the peak, so yes, I have been through most challenges of the human resource department.

My experience include creating start ups from scratch, to operating well established businesses, to buying existing businesses and evolving these, to mergers and to selling businesses.

Also, my experience has taken me to consult and plug into a myriad of companies and businesses all over the United States and Canada, where I have personally and onsite helped more than 5o such businesses. Oftentimes (mostly actually), these businesses were struggling greatly at the time of my entry, many close to bankruptcy and my task was to turn these around fast, while at the same time having to generate extra cash to the tune of $20,000-$30,000 a week in order for the businesses to pay for my services (which typically ran for some 6-8 weeks, and sometimes far longer periods of time).

I say this The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program is my pinnacle offering because here you get all of it. You get all the Lessons and Teachings that is applicable and relevant to your business. You get Coaching to help elevate you and your team to better results and a better life, and you get the Mentoring from someone who has been there and done that personally in own businesses and in businesses of others that I have served.

Every great leader is a Student first. If you dive deeper into my educational background you will find that I have attended University College of London (England), Columbia University in New York (USA) and Harvard Business School in Massachusetts (USA), but more than that I have an unspeakable amount of seminars and online training behind me, as well as several thousands of books read (some of which I actually can say I retain some of, haha).

In my life, I have had the pleasure of multiple successes in many areas of life, including business, physical activities and sports, relationships and more, and equally, I have had my fair share of huge failures in all the same areas. In other words I bring real experience and not least I bring perspective.

The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program is open to candidates who wish to take their business to new levels or wish to commence their new business. The exact program will be structured around your specific state of your business, so although many of the topics would be applicable to both a start up as well as a more seasoned business, focus and direction will follow what will have the greatest positive impact on your situation right now.

We will always have a focus on elements that we can implement right now that will have a positive influence on your results. Yes, the program does require that you either have a business or are about to commence a business, but there is not a requirement for what kind of a business (though there may be some limitations to which get accepted).

There is an application process for the program, for we both need to ensure there is a great fit, and that I believe that I can truly help make a difference for your business, your results and your life.

So what is the investment here for The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program?

That is a very great question, but as you can see, seeing that individual needs are different, so too will the magnitude of help and time differ, thus creating differences in investment need. Also, let’s be honest here, if you are just starting a new business, and have little or indeed no revenues yet, well, then by default we just cannot structure a lot of personal one to one hours that will quickly ramp up the investment required from you.

On the other hand, I wish to provide as much value and help to start ups as much as to more seasoned businesses, so that comes down to structuring this in a sensible way that makes sense for you and for me.

To get started, please fill out The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program Take in Form and I will buy your first phone session for you (i.e. the first session will be free of charge for you), so we can determine there’s a great fit, that this program will help you and that you will be committed to the levels that I need from my clients. Without the right level of commitment, you are not going to achieve what we set out to achieve, and I only want to have clients who will be successful with this endeavor.

So again, to commence, the first step is for you to fill out The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program Take in Form. Please note that all information is confidential and will not be shared with anyone.

Also understand that you have not committed yet to any investment, until such time that we mutually agree on what the specific package for you and your business will include, which also determines the investment.

 So fill out The Pitzner Business Solutions Mentoring Program Take In Form, and let’s get started.