Ten Strategic Steps to Achieving Personal Success - From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach

Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach wants you to be successful in your business life and in your personal life. And I am committed to continuously strive to provide sound strategic advice and coaching to help people succeed. With that in mind, I developed the following ten strategic steps to achieving success and wanted to share those with you.

Identifying Poor & Pathetic Leadership Styles and Related Impacts

There seems to be a real deficit in good leadership and a large surplus of poor and pathetic leadership in many businesses today. One can easily find example after example of poor and pathetic leadership and the resulting impacts on employees, in particular, and the health of the business, in general. So what are these poor and pathetic styles of leadership? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers a list of ten (10) styles of poor and pathetic leadership.

Empathy or Tough Love - Make the Right Choice

If you are too cold with someone when giving them constructive criticism then one might call you non-empathetic. But you most likely think this is hogwash because you believe in shooting straight and tough love. No sugar coating for you right? Well, great but there is only one problem with this and that is the politically correct crowd may target you for it.

How to Identify and Break The Self-Destructive Habit of Complacency In Your Business

One of my favorite Will Rogers quotes is: “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” And this is so applicable to what I am seeing in too many businesses today. In fact, it has been a major topic of conversation in the coaching of one of my major clients that is very concerned with complacency in their company. Complacency can be absolutely poisonous to businesses chances for success. Complacency is confirming that you and your business are in a rut and you have decided to stay there. Well, just as Will Rogers warns us about sitting on the right track and getting run over, if your business stays in a rut it too will remain stuck and will get run over too. If you or others in your business suffer from this destructive habit of complacency, then Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach urges you to try one or more of the following preventions and cures immediately!

What is ROB-bing You?

As we navigate our way through life, there are times when we run into things that can slow us down or even derail us. Because these things are inevitable, it is important that we know how to recognize and handle them when (not IF) they appear.

Should You Hire A Life Coach?

Life Coaching is the next big thing in the world of self-improvement and wellness. But what is Life Coaching and is it for you?

Why is Society So Afraid of Winners?

We all love to read about winners and we often identify with the winners who are in the news and yet we find that the news loves to build them up and then tear them down. Worse off we find that if someone wins too much, there seems to be a natural tendency to change the rules to level the playing field for all the rest. Of course people should be asking; why are we changing the rules to help the weak who cannot succeed and continue to lose and why would we promote such people and give them the upper hand to win when they obviously do not deserve it?

Are You Ready For Coaching?

Do you want to make change in your life? Would you like to gain a greater clarity and focus on your future? Are you ready to commit to action? Answer the 10 statements in this article and find out whether you are ready for coaching.

Emotional Intelligence Is Necessary For Effective Living

The shared essence of emotional intelligence is to be accurately aware of your emotions and to know your personal strengths and limits. To become an effective change agent whether as a mentor, parent, coach, facilitator, executive or partner we need to understand our own paradigms, especially our paradigms about ourselves.

Detox Coaching - Reaching for Success

How do you know if your detox will be a success? Are you leaving it up to fate or just sheer willpower to see you through? If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Mental preparation is the key to success before embarking on any dietary changes, this will be the difference that makes the difference whether you complete your detox and reach your goal.

Twelve Strategic Leadership Actions To Fire Up Your Employees During Change

Many people and their companies they work for fear and resist change. Some literally detest any change. It is very important to realize that with the application of some solid strategic thinking, change can be a catalyst to energize and fire up your employees. One needs to recognize that change has the ability to open doors, hears and minds that otherwise may remain closed and/or locked forever. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach is a change agent and has learned many lessons from coaching through change. After reviewing those lessons learned from the business coaching experience, here are twelve (12) strategic leadership actions recommended to fire up your employees during change.

The Essence of Change

What is Change? Several dictionary definitions are: to undergo transformation or transition, move from one phase to another, alter one's approach or attitude, shift from one to another, or to become different. When you hear those definitions, what thoughts, questions or concerns does that bring up for you? For many of us, change is often seen as something we want but are somewhat afraid of. Why is this? Why does Change bring up so many conflicting emotions?

Building a Super Coaching Business - Follow-up Is Critical

As a part of building a very successful coaching business, having a follow-up system to your networking, to your speeches, and to your sales is critical. In fact, it is typical to more than double your close ratio, and your whole business.

DETOX in motion

A goal without a date is just a wish and an unfulfilled wish is nothing more than the bitter memory of regret. By focusing on what we want and where we want to be we can easily employ the strategy of owing a SMART Goal. Owning a SMART goal means you are empowered to take action, not just any action, action that is directly related to the outcome of the result you want to achieve. Actions that speak louder than words, actions that measure success with results and results that move you forward each day.

Barrier of Entry

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