Are You Ready for a Coach?
Take the Quiz to Find Out!
Please take a minute and find out how ready you are to live life to its fullest.
On a scale of 1 to 10, (1 being Don’t agree at all to 10 being Totally agree) rate each of the following statements:
_____ I am ready to create more balance in my life.
_____ I am ready to improve my personal or business relationships.
_____ I am ready to make real and positive changes in my life.
_____ I am ready to find and live my life’s purpose.
_____ I am ready and willing to overcome self-limiting belief’s and behavior.
_____ I am ready to create plans and take action to achieve my goals
_____ I am ready to achieve a sense of fulfillment at work and in my life.
_____ I am ready for more fun and enjoyment in my life.
_____ I would like to work less and make more money.
_____ I can benefit from someone who will help me to stay on track.
Total Score _______
Interpreting your score:
Under 30
Coaching is probably not right for you now.
31 to 60
Coaching could help you to look at your life from a different viewpoint as well as help you develop a plan to change what it is that you would like to change. However, if you decide to work with a coach now, you should decide and commit that you will take the necessary action for your benefit or you will not make lasting life-changing improvements.
Over 60
Congratulations! You are ready for a Coach! You are willing to do whatever it takes to create the life you deserve and desire. Please take a moment to go to my website right now for a FREE introductory coaching session to find out what coaching can do for you.
This one click can change your life forever.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Dare to Go for Growth... Even in Challenging Times
Growing is the natural order of all living things, including businesses. If something is not growing, it's by default declining or even dying. Besides, if you aren't continually growing your company, odds are one of your savvy competitors is! As an owner, your challenge is to keep your business vibrant and growing at all times...even in challenging economic times. Have the right mindset, marketing, and dare to go for growth!
Start by making no excuses. Even with a tougher economy, you should still be intelligently marketing and growing your business. While you should conserve cash in your company anyway you possibly can at this time, you should not scale back effective and profitable marketing...emphasis is on effective and profitable. As long as your average profit-per-sale is higher than your average cost-per-sale, keep your marketing machine cranked up. Effective marketing pays for itself! However, many owners are forgetting this wisdom and caving in to their irrational fears. They are running their businesses based on fear instead of based of data.
Start by making no excuses. Even with a tougher economy, you should still be intelligently marketing and growing your business. While you should conserve cash in your company anyway you possibly can at this time, you should not scale back effective and profitable marketing...emphasis is on effective and profitable. As long as your average profit-per-sale is higher than your average cost-per-sale, keep your marketing machine cranked up. Effective marketing pays for itself! However, many owners are forgetting this wisdom and caving in to their irrational fears. They are running their businesses based on fear instead of based of data.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Do You Know Your Unique Qualities?
Do You Know Your Unique Qualities?
- Why do current clients/customers continue to do business with me?
- Why do new clients choose to do business with me?
- Why do referral sources refer clients to me?
- What would friends/loved ones say are my natural talents/gifts?
- What gives me the greatest results with the least amount of time and effort?
- What activities do I do effortlessly, that energize me, and produce extraordinary results?
- What vital few things produce 80% of my results?
If you don’t know the answers to these questions, then you are probably not operating your business at its greatest potential.
To continue to grow, you have to find out the answers to these questions.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Key Terminology that should be in your vocabulary as a business owner:
- Productivity – achieving the greatest results in the shortest period of time
- Leverage – achieving the greatest results with the least amount of effort
- Effectiveness – doing the right things to produce superior results
- Efficiency – doing things right to produce consistent and rapid results
- Strategic – planning for and executing on high-level, high-priority, and high-leverage activities that produce optimal results
How often do you use these words and in what circumstance?
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Stress is what happens when you don't focus
You probably have heard it said that managers do things right and leaders do the right things. The first statement speaks to efficiency, and the latter refers to effectiveness. It is easy to be busy but hard to work on the right things.
You as a leader should focus on doing the right things — those things that matter most to the success of your department, organization and/or company. In short, to be effective you must drive the focus of the organization. You must channel your time, talent, energy and resources into making an earnest effort to focus on the key priorities and goals of your organization. Keep your focus by constantly asking yourself, “What’s Important Now (WIN)?”
In today’s dynamic, technology-connected world, it’s easy for us to lose track of what is most important to our business. We too often get caught up in the day-to-day minutia and distractions (e-mail, voice- mail, cell phones, PDAs, etc.) that must be re- directed, re-focused and re-oriented continually.
Our employees are no exception. As an owner/leader, you need to share your focus and vision for your business or organization with your employees. If you ignore this critical focus, the possibility of wasted energy, time, talent and resources on trivial matters will keep them from attaining the company’s vision and its mission-critical priorities.
You as a leader should focus on doing the right things — those things that matter most to the success of your department, organization and/or company. In short, to be effective you must drive the focus of the organization. You must channel your time, talent, energy and resources into making an earnest effort to focus on the key priorities and goals of your organization. Keep your focus by constantly asking yourself, “What’s Important Now (WIN)?”
In today’s dynamic, technology-connected world, it’s easy for us to lose track of what is most important to our business. We too often get caught up in the day-to-day minutia and distractions (e-mail, voice- mail, cell phones, PDAs, etc.) that must be re- directed, re-focused and re-oriented continually.
Our employees are no exception. As an owner/leader, you need to share your focus and vision for your business or organization with your employees. If you ignore this critical focus, the possibility of wasted energy, time, talent and resources on trivial matters will keep them from attaining the company’s vision and its mission-critical priorities.
Why not consider focusing the team’s attention and concentration on these six primary areas:
- Satisfying your customers/clients
- Becoming outcome driven; expecting results, not excuses
- Learning and continuous improvement
- Maintaining and driving profits
- Letting them know you are in it for the long run
- Having fun
I'll be glad to help you reduce your stress, become more focused, more strategic and more profitable, giving you more free time!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
A Small Business Helping Other Small Businesses
We are The Growth Coach, a business coaching firm that specializes in small to medium sized businesses and self-employed individuals to get more out of their businesses and lives. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs to work less, make more, and enjoy richer lives. Specifically, with a proven quarterly focusing process, Strategic Mindset®, we help enhance the strategic mindset and actions of owners and self-employed professionals. Over a two-year process, we help owners to go to work “ON” themselves and “ON” their businesses. They learn how to think, focus and act more strategically while at the same time, discovering more effective ways to grow and manage their businesses. Because our coaching and accountability process has been used and continually refined for over 15 years, it is so well proven that we provide a money-back guarantee for all our clients.
Because we utilize a proven strategic-focusing and on-going review process, you will:
· Achieve greater income and free time
· Sharpen your strategic focus
· Leverage your time, talent and resources
· Identify more business opportunities
· Assess and overcome personal obstacles and limiting beliefs
· Adopt effective personal-management and business-management strategies
· Create and continually update a customized action plan based upon your vision and goals
· Receive on-going accountability to make adjustments and stay on track
· Achieve greater clarity of direction and greater confidence in yourself and your future
If you are seeking better approaches to managing your business and life, The Growth Coach can help. We understand the unique mixture of pleasure and pain that comes with owning and managing a growing business.Our proven Strategic Mindset® process and many coaching programs help owners like you to slow down, reflect and decide on the critical changes necessary to improve your business and personal life. Through our programs, Growth Coach clients discover practical and highly effective personal-management and business-management strategies and mindsets. They gain clarity of direction, peace-of-mind and greater confidence pursuing their business and personal goals.
No matter how you got into business, the trail that you blaze from this point forward should be more strategic. The fact is, just like any professional athlete, you need a coach with a proven system and an objective, on-going review process to elevate your performance and results. Take advantage of The Growth Coach business coaching process today. Give me a call.
Because we utilize a proven strategic-focusing and on-going review process, you will:
· Achieve greater income and free time
· Sharpen your strategic focus
· Leverage your time, talent and resources
· Identify more business opportunities
· Assess and overcome personal obstacles and limiting beliefs
· Adopt effective personal-management and business-management strategies
· Create and continually update a customized action plan based upon your vision and goals
· Receive on-going accountability to make adjustments and stay on track
· Achieve greater clarity of direction and greater confidence in yourself and your future
If you are seeking better approaches to managing your business and life, The Growth Coach can help. We understand the unique mixture of pleasure and pain that comes with owning and managing a growing business.Our proven Strategic Mindset® process and many coaching programs help owners like you to slow down, reflect and decide on the critical changes necessary to improve your business and personal life. Through our programs, Growth Coach clients discover practical and highly effective personal-management and business-management strategies and mindsets. They gain clarity of direction, peace-of-mind and greater confidence pursuing their business and personal goals.
No matter how you got into business, the trail that you blaze from this point forward should be more strategic. The fact is, just like any professional athlete, you need a coach with a proven system and an objective, on-going review process to elevate your performance and results. Take advantage of The Growth Coach business coaching process today. Give me a call.
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