When I interviewed Dave Buck, President of Coachville he offered valuable insights into how the coaching profession has, as an industry, done a bad job positioning coaches for success. I was glad to see that he has been positioning Coachville to address these insufficiencies.
According to Master Business Coach, Mike Jay, business reality demands that we understand business owners, what's important to them - what makes them tick. Doing It Right is a masters degree from Wall St. to Main St.
Conversations with Dave Buck, Mike Jay, CJ Hayden, and other thought leaders motivated me to make the content and resources of Doing It Right, realizing your company's potential, available at no charge. This consultant-in-print will help those of you who work with business owners and executives and who are wholeheartedly committed to optimal professional and financial effectiveness.
You may not need to understand 'business' in order to coach business people - but you must understand their fears, challenges, and possibilities, if you want a business owner to hire you! "Doing It Right" will help you address issues such as management, growth and transition, succession, and strategic planning - with confidence.
According to a study, completed in 2003 by The Raymond Institute, 89% of all business in the United States are family businesses, including over one third of the Fortune 500 companies and generating more than half the US GDP. The universe of family businesses is huge and no matter your speciality, background, experience, or passion - there is a huge audience of them just waiting for you.
No matter whether we work with entrepreneurs or executives, seasoned family business owners, or Fortune 500 leaders - we can assure our professional success, if we can help our clients develop an atmosphere of shared goals about the future.
To help you and them understand the principles of effective communications, I recommend that you and them read the free research document, The Five Keys to Strategic Conversations.
Preparation: True Success Requires a Serious Commitment!
Professional development is not an easy process, it is not a quick fix, and it will require a meaningful commitment on your part. However the rewards will be dramatic.
Business owners want to know that you understand people like them, understand the issues important to them, and are committed to actionable strategies.
To succeed in today's hyper-competitive environment requires an understanding the relationships, challenges, and predictable flash points that occur in the life of a successful company and its owners, managers, and employees.
Managing Differences.
In almost 90% of the companies around the world - nothing is just about 'business', it's about family issues and business issues mixed up together. It's about the complicated relationships and competition between and among the owners, their families, the managers and their advisors, as well the internal and external network of people who surround them.
Understanding the importance of the strategic management of workplace conflict, the barriers it builds and the creativity it stifles is a priceless addition to your toolbox.
No matter your professional training to date - being able to help your clients manage their individual and organizational differences will be the difference between them moving toward their corporate and personal goals - vs away from them.
You've got to talk their talk.
Business reality demands that you are conversant in the language of business - or your credibility will suffer, and you may not be hired in favor of someone who can "talk the talk".
Success in today's hyper-competitive environment requires an understanding of the relationships, challenges, and predictable flash points that occur in the life of a successful company, its owners, managers, and employees.
That is why we developed and published "Doing It Right" the interactive consultant in print. It is for business owners, a self-managed strategic planning workbook And it is for you a learning, doing, teaching manual - to help you help your business clients grow.
Dynamic Inquiry Builds Capabilities, yours and your clients.
In 2003, after having successfully marketed, sold, and delivered my professional services - and after two years research, I continued my own lifelong quest toward greater effectiveness.
I had, unknown to me, been more of a coach than a consultant all those years. My success came from my clients ability to solve their own problems and enhance their own capacity for solving them and others as they appeared long after I was gone.
I had to leave them more capable of self-managed progress, since no one wanted to have to pay me to be on the scene any longer than necessary.
As professionals our mission is to bring out the best in our clients, helping them uncover what's important to them now so they can create a more satisfying future. From my own personal experience I highly recommend the strategies and techniques that are Leadership University.
Of all the business coach training programs I investigated before choosing one and have come across since, the developmental coaching process that builds leaders at all levels really works.
There is now another avenue that will enhance your developmental growth, "coach training in a box" process. Dozens of interviews, lessons, interactions etc. - all packaged for your use when at your convenience.
You will see how the tools provided in the content can help you recognize the stumbling blocks successful business people face, before they do - so you can help them convert these stumbling blocks to stepping stones for a more successful future.
