The Sales Buddha

What Does A Business Coach Do?

My number one priority as a Business Coach is coaching business owners and managers to focus on what is really important to improving their professional and personal lives. Driving Success. Balancing Life. How I do that, as a “Business Coach” is not well understood by many. Like all professional athletes, they use a coach to improve their performance for game day. In the business world, every day is game day. So here is a little information about coaching and how I work to assist those business owners and managers in preparing for “game day”.

Coaching is: inspiring an individual or team to produce a desired result through personalized teaching, expanding awareness and designing environments.

The definition above is concise and yet much broader and stronger than what has come before. Here is a brief explanation of the key elements of Coaching. Coaching is inspiring: Often coaches have been thought of as motivators, but understand that motivating and inspiring are distinctly different and that inspiring more accurately describes what great coaches do. Produce a desired result: People hire coaches for a lot of different reasons, almost all of which can be put into a category called "produce a desired result".  It is more compelling than accomplishing an outcome or reaching a goal. Personalized Teaching: Coaching has always had a fundamental teaching component and most people hire a coach because they believe the coach has knowledge and experience to share. Expanding awareness: Most coaches acknowledge that expanding awareness is an essential component of the work but they rarely state it concisely.  The truth is that awareness leads to power (not force) in almost any situation. Designing Environments: The major innovation for modern coaching is in environmental design. Inner work is not enough to change ones life in a sustainable way.  Designing environments to support and inspire is absolutely critical to creating success for my clients.

This is what coaching is to me. These are the items that I work with in helping my clients produce the desired results that assist them in Driving Success and Balancing Life. I look forward to helping many of you achieve your success and your balance in whatever ways you may define them.

Thanks for your reading today, good luck and great Coaching!

TWENTY-ONE RULES FOR A GREAT LIFE

I must admit right up front that I did not create this list. A friend who keeps my name on a mass-distribution e-mail list sent it to me. I usually have these messages go directly to my trash box, but this one slipped by my filters. I figured there must have been a reason! After reading it, the rules sounded like much better advice than I could offer today. So, here it is, read and enjoy!

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

2.  Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.   

3.  Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

4.  When you say, "I love you," mean it.   

5.  When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.   

6.  Be engaged at least six months before you get married.   

7.  Believe in love at first sight.   

8.  Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.   

9.  Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.   

10.  In disagreements, fight fairly. No name-calling.   

11.  Don't judge people by their relatives.   

12.  Talk slowly but think quickly.   

13.  When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?" 

14.  Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.   

15.  Say, "Bless you" when you hear someone sneeze. 

16.  When you lose, don't lose the lesson.   

17.  Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.   

18.  Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

19.  When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.   

20.  Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.   

21.  Spend some time alone.