Do You Run Your Business with a Pitchfork or Wheel...?

Are you the type of business owner/operator that operates their business using the pitchfork or wheel style? 

The pitchfork style has you dictating to your employees what to do, when to do it and how to do it. You have all the intellectual property in your head plus all the key relationships with vendors and clients residing with you?  No wonder you have the time, team and money stresses making you work harder for your business vs. the business work hard for you. 

In contrast the wheel style has you leading your team so they can make economic decision in your interest and they focus their energy delivering on time, spec, budget and wow products and services everytime.  And with delighted clients and customers they bring the wheel full circle with increasing revenues and profits to the owner. 

Wasn't the wheel style what you had in mind when you started your business where your focus is on attracting and developing great people vs. poking every business area?

12 Business Coaches Needed for NTx & Ok by Dec 2011

Hi – I’m Stephen Marino – With the World’s #1 Business Coaching Firm – ActionCOACH.  I’ve invested and own the development rights for one fastest growing business areas in the US - NTx and Ok.  And I’m adding business coaches.

There are over 350,000 small to medium size businesses that can use our coaching services.  We lead/coach the owners though the time, team and money challenges that get in the way of predictable profits and productivity. You can see that this is an attractive value proposition regardless of the economic climate.

Now stop and think back to when you had a coach, mentor or teacher in high school, college or on the job.  Did you achieve more, faster because of their assistance?   Now think of the last time you mentored or coached someone.  How did that make you feel?  Where you delighted that you were impacting someone’s life and benefiting the company or family the most?  That transforming feeling is felt by our coach’s everyday working with owners locally.  Yes, there is plenty of business within 20 mins of your office so you don’t have to get on an airplane or travel across town unless you want to, not because you have to.   

What’s common to the most successful leaders whether in sports, corporations, government or military that small & medium size businesses don’t have?  Access to advisors, a board or a business coach.   Yet, where do small to medium size business owners get this guidance?  Well, that’s our role.  I’ve personally seen the demand for coaching at it’s highest level than it’s ever been in the recent 12 yrs. 

Today ActionCOACH coaches over 18,000 business owners globally with cumulative annualized revenues exceeding $10 Bn.  Our team of coaches expands globally from over a 1000 offices.    We bring the most depth of intellectual property accumulated since 1993, worked with all types of business owner personalities and industries, through numerous boom/bust economic cycles.  A client gets not only you as a coach but our entire network of coaches to assist.

So we know our coaching systems and methodologies work…we even guarantee our work.  Yes, it’s a testament of our effectiveness with our clients and how we develop our coaches.  To achieve these results we use our proprietary franchise development systems.  Why, because they work…they’re repeatable, sustainable and scalable…to quickly build a business, receive an ROI and do some of the most fulfilling work on the planet here in NTx & Ok. 

If you positively knew the ActionCOACH processes would increase profits and productivity, surround the business owner with higher quality teams and systematize the business to work without the owner always being there…would you deny any business owner from knowing you have these capabilities? 

No, of course not…

And if we can do this for others why shouldn’t we do this for ourselves?  We have the integrity and congruency to practice what we coach! 

If you can see yourself successful and fulfilled leading business owners to higher performance it’ll feel both exciting and make you anxious. …And isn’t that what coaching is all about?  Let’s talk… 

Over the next 6 months I’ll be interviewing, selecting and awarding not more than 12 business coach licenses, predominately in the DFW, OKC areas to build off our existing market momentum. 

Contact me at ph:  972 709 6776 and or go to my website at www.ActionCOACH.com.

Looking forward to having a discussion about - Thinking Bigger, Insisting on Win/Win and Being First to Inspire! 

How to Replace Your Job While Doing Some of the Most Meaningful Work on the Planet Locally

Reflect back to a situation where you were mentoring or coaching. Feel that you where making the biggest impact in someone’s career and value to the business? Did that feeling go beyond being satisfied with your job? Are you doing that enough with today’s corporate stresses?

Here’s how to receive that sense of purpose and how to replace and exceed your current income while having more autonomy and fun doing what you love.

You’re invited to a 30 minute live interview with one of our ActionCOACH Firm owner in Frisco, TX - Dennis Wagner. He’ll share why he chose to transition to business ownership, why ActionCOACH and how he’s building his business.

Coach interview call is this Thursday, June 9th at 11:00 to 11:30 am Central Time. Yes, it’s 30 mins, because he’s got clients and you’ve got to get back to your job. 

Entrepreneur or Employee?

Have you debated this question over the past year(s)?  You're not alone.  So what stopped you?  The unknowns...where to apply your talents and passions, how to ramp-up and replace your income and how to attract clients, just to name a few.

Most of us were trained to hold a job verses how to start or buy and grow a business.  We sought highly specialized knowledge and continually developed in that field only.  However, the recent changes in the economy, competition, globalization and overall corporate mismanagement showed the shortcoming of this approach.  If you're one of the many former well paid "white collar" leadership left vulnerable with either no or unfulfilling work, are you ready to take control again?

To get answers and determine if you meet the criteria to lead business owners to higher performance let's talk.  ph:  972 709 6776.

I'm looking for ambitous leaders that want to leave a legacy leading business owners to higher profits, productivity and predicability.  And if we can do it for others shouldn't we do it for ourselves?  Of course ... contact BrianPiccolo@ActionCOACH.com. 

 

One Question Which Will Positively Set You Apart...!

During an interview with a prospective business coach recently they asked, "How can I make you a million dollars?"  Impressive because this was a role reversal from me asking questions and sharing insights to his question of helping me succeed.
It revealed a lot about his mindset.  Seek to understand what's important to me then assess how he could and would assist.  The focus was on the relationship vs. a transaction.   

This mindset of giving first to receive second establishes the trust and integrity required to coach.  This becomes the basis for the long term win/win relationship.  The owner wants business growth and the coach wants to be referred. 

So next time you're in front of your next client ask how you can make them a million, and listen.  That's win/win.

If this mindset is your mindset then ask yourself if becoming business coaching is a path you'd like to know more about...

4 Powerful Words Bring Team Alignment & Productivity

Whether you’re participating in a business, your charitable foundation or your local tennis club, meetings are meant to lead to decisions and action plans.  So let’s get the most from your investment by identifying your next steps by putting the names of the people to be responsible, accountable, consulted and informed per action step.  It’s the visual simplicity that aligns everyone and leads to higher productivity.

ActionPLAN/Issues	Responsible	Accountable	Consulted	Informed
Governance – Voting	(Put the names of individuals in these blocks)
Money – PNL/Budget/Equity
People – Hire/Fire
Purpose – Vision/Mission/Values

These teambuilding skills are what our ActionCOACH business coaches do daily with our clients.  If leading teams to higher performance resonates with you, we’re always looking for top talent.

10 Rules for Problem Solving and Higher Productivity...

Rarely is there a problem without a solution.  Yet, there is plenty of contention on how to positively address the problem without unnecessary confrontation.  Here's a methodology to foster the group or team communication and achieve more faster, effectively.

10 Rules for Problem Solving, Brainstorming and Team Building

1. Headline the Problem / Issue / Opportunity    (Simple newspaper headline terms)
2. Provide Background - Current situation, Which are Symptoms and Causes, Give context to the problem and implications to business.  Define what the ground rules are for a solution?
3. Re-define the Problem - Based on what you've learned from the group what does the problem look like now?  Often what you thought was the problem is not the real problem.
4. Define the Desired Outcome – what is needed/wanted and how committed are the players to the solution?  What does success look like?  Begin with the end in mind.  Work the outcome backwards – what do you have to believe to achieve the outcome, what are the assumptions?
5. Generate Ideas of Possible Solutions – no idea is a bad idea, no critique of person with idea.  Look for relationships of ideas:  Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive and Complete - MECEC
6. Select Ideas of Possible Solutions – prioritize selected ideas as compared to desired results
7. Get Benefits and Concerns (I wish I knew – IWIK; How to – H2), Go through “what if” questions and scenarios - What if things go right?  What if they go wrong?
8. Work the Critical Concerns - Understand why these are concerns.  What can be done to mitigate or eliminate them?
9. Define an Action Plan and Implementation Next Steps – Define Who, What, When, Where, How, How Much for each strategy, tactic or activity.  
10. How to Sell / Persuade / Communicate to the other people impacted? – Answer WIFME (What’s in It For Me), factor the other people's personalities involved and how best to communicate with them.
    Still having challenges getting everyone aligned on seeking solutions, then let's talk.
    
    I'll offer a complementary 60 to 90 min session to understand your situation and guarantee you'll gain at least a half dozen ideas to engage your team, improve communication and implement more effectively.  

Call me at ph:  972 740 3575 or eM:  StephenMarino@ActionCOACH.com

Let's get started facilitating these important problem solving sessions.  You'll work less and make more.  

Calling Yourself Boss More Descriptive of Your Ambitions...?

Reflect back to a situation where you were mentoring or coaching.  Felt you where making the biggest long term impact in someone’s career and value to the business?  Did that feeling go beyond being satisfied with your job?  Are you doing that enough today in today’s corporate stresses?  Here’s how to receive that sense of purpose and how to replace and exceed your current income while having more autonomy and fun doing what you love.

You’re invited to a 15 minute live interview with one of our ActionCOACH’s in Oklahoma City, a former CEO of an environmental services business.  He’ll be answering questions about why he chose to transition from the C-Level to business ownership, why choose ActionCOACH and how he’s building his business.  He'll also cover what's working well and what he would do differently coming out of train. 

Join our Coach Interview Call this Friday, May 13^th at 10:30 to 10:45 am

Yes, it’s 15 mins, because he’s got clients and you’ve got to get back to your job. 

Please confirm your attendance by registering below.

Here are the details:

1.  Please join my meeting, Friday, May 13 at 10:30 AM Central Daylight Time.

www1.gotomeeting.com/join/410771320  Register Here

2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.

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