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Small business coaches have become a critical member of the business planning team. In the 21st Century we will see their role expand exponentially in importance, especially among the members of successful family owned companies.

Successful family owned companies, those whose decisions are often - probably too often, driven by non-business issues make up the vast majority of all companies.

Companies with less than 500 employees, 90% of the businesses across North America, are overwhelmingly family owned or privately held by people who, whether they are actually related or not, act like it.

Family feelings, mixed messages, long held grudges, lack of trust, envy, respect, grievances, love, and every other human emotion possible conspire to muddle otherwise straightforward business decisions. Someone has to help them sort it out. And not someone who is deemed to be, accurately or not, on the side of one group, person, faction, or another.

Business coaches, those not brought in by one group or another - each looking for an outsider to validate their position, do not have any baggage when they begin the engagement.

Depending on the reason they were hired and the degree of conflict, or misunderstanding, or disagreement - often business coaches have their  first meeting with all the principles together.

That first meeting is the time and place to clear the air. Everybody will end up knowing what everybody else knows and when the decision to hire the business coach is made - everybody will be on record.

Getting agreement on the way forward right from the start is vital if this is to be a successful engagement from either the coach’s or the business owner’s point of view.

Business coaches are not motivated to make a sale. This is important, but not in the way you probably expect. For some reason, maybe it’s their over-developed BS detectors working overtime, business owners think that their lawyer and accountant are just trying to create more work for themselves and run up their fee. Some feel that their insurance agent is motivated only to sell a policy and make a commission. Generally this is not true in either case.

Business owners often confuse the value of the advice, council, and professional insights with the way their advisors get paid. If you have a trusting relationship with a professional advisor, you really need to get over that. If you don’t have a trusting relationship with your advisors, get rid of them.

In any case, because business coaches are not selling anything, it’s one less thing for the business owner to concern themselves about. Successful well respected business coaches enter every engagement with the objective of working themselves out of a job. Ask your business coach what I mean by that and if they agree with that assessment or not. Typically they do not want to be part of your overhead forever - they want to help you by enhancing your ability, your capability to work things out for yourself.

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How to Achieve Your Goals with 100% Success Every Time
Dr. Alan R. Zimmerman
CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame
 
In the movie, “A League of Their Own,” the baseball coach talked to his dispirited team, saying, “Of course it’s hard.  If it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it!”

That’s the way it is with success.  It can be hard.  But there are four sure-fire ways to achieve success at almost anything every time without failure.

4 Ways to Achieve Your Goals & Succeed Every Time Without Failure

1.  Work hard.

There’s no substitute for hard work.  Simply put, there “ain’t no free lunch.”

When I look at highly successful people, I think, “It’s no wonder they’re doing so well.  Look at everything they’re doing.”

Could the same thing be said about you?  If someone were to follow you around for a week and painstakingly record everything you did to advance your career, would that person walk away with a long list of all the things you’re doing to get ahead?  Or would that person have a long list of the excuses you gave and the time you wasted?

Sometimes people fool themselves into thinking they’re putting out a 100% effort … when in reality, they’re not.  For example, many people are out of work these days, and I’ve often heard them say, “I sent out 100 resumes, and I didn’t get any response.  I did everything I could.” 

One hundred percent effort means that you’ve exhausted every possible opportunity for reaching your goal.  If you’re looking for a job, 100 percent effort would include researching individual companies you want to work for, sending these companies personalized letters, calling to follow up, calling other people in the industry, and networking.

One hundred percent effort means telling a potential boss, “I’m sure you’ve got a lot of applicants here.  But I believe so strongly in my ability to meet your needs, I’ll work for you for 30 days with no pay.  Let me prove to you my ability.  In 30 days, evaluate my performance.  If it’s not up to par, let me go.  But when I prove myself to you, I expect to be given the job and paid for the 30 days of work.”

Now that’s putting in 100% effort!  And that’s what you need to do to succeed in any area of life … because success is more often the result of hard work than the result of talent. 

2.  Practice endurance. 

To many people, “endurance” is a nasty word.  They would like to come by success the “easy” way.  They want it to fall into their laps. 

But that’s an extremely rare occurrence.  99.99% of the time, success comes AFTER you “endure” awhile.  And all the greats in every field of endeavor have learned how to “endure.”

As professional tennis player Bjorn Borg noted, “My greatest point is my persistence.  I never give up in a match.  However down I am, I fight until the last ball.  My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”

Could the same be said of you? 

Or do people … secretly behind your back … say you bail out when things get a little tough?  Do they say you give up way too easily or throw in the towel too quickly?  Do they point out the fact that you seldom finish what you start?

If you answer “yes” to any of these latter questions, remember the words of John Quincy Adams.  He noted, “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”  In other words, there’s power in perseverance.

3.  Keep on believing.

Believe in yourself.  Believe in a power bigger than yourself.  Believe in success.  And believe you can be successful.

That’s what Lee Iacocca, the former chairman of the Chrysler Corporation did.  When the world told him to let his debt-ridden company die, Iacocca refused.  He didn’t wait for the economy to change or for a government bailout to rescue him. 

Iacocca kept believing in himself, in his company, in his products, and in his workers.  He pronounced, “So what do we do?  Anything — something.  So long as we don’t just sit there.  If we screw it up, start over.  Try something else.  If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

4.  Stay committed.    

Everything else being equal, commitment wins every time.  So fight back any feelings of discouragement that might get in your way.  Don’t allow yourself to hang it up when things get rough.

If you’re going to be successful, you’ve got to remember the letters M.I.H. It stands for… Make It Happen.

As you pursue your goals, as you strive towards excellence and success, follow these four points and you’re sure to win.  After all, most people don’t fail.  They just give up.

Dr. Alan Zimmerman has taught the 12 keys to peak performance and incredible success to more than one million people.   Now you can get a FREE guided tour of the 12 keys in his life-changing “JOURNEY TO THE EXTRAORDINARY” program simply by visiting: http://www.journey-to-the-extraordinary.com

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How often do you not say or do something because you’re worried about how it’ll be perceived?  For most of us, myself included, this happens more often then we’d like to admit.
 
We live in a culture that is starving for authenticity.  We want our leaders, our co-workers, our family members, our friends, and everyone else we interact with to tell us the truth and to be themselves. 

Most important, we want to have the personal freedom and confidence to say, do, and be who we really are, without worrying so much about how we appear to others and what they might think or say about us. 
 
Sadly, however, even though we may say we want to live in a way that is true to our deepest passions, beliefs, and desires; most of us don’t and it’s not that easy. 

We’ve been taught by our parents, teachers, spouses, friends, co-workers, politicians, the media, and others, that it’s more important to be liked and to fit in than it is to be who we truly are.  In addition, many of us assume that who we are is not good enough and therefore we’re constantly trying to fix ourselves, or to act like others who we think are better than us. 
 
However, as the famous 19th century author and poet Oscar Wilde so brilliantly stated, “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” 
 
What It Really Means to Be Authentic
 
Authenticity is about enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who we really are–ourselves, natural and without a mask in our relationships, our work, and our life.  It takes courage, commitment, and depth to:
 
- Look within ourselves
- Tell the whole truth (even when we don’t want to)
- Be vulnerable
- Admit, own, and share our true thoughts, feelings, desires, insecurities, passions, embarrassment, dreams, and more. 
 
However, being open and real about all of these things (and more) is what it means to be authentic in life. 
 
Five Principles for Being Your Authentic Self
 
In order to utilize the power of authenticity in your life as a way to enhance your relationships, increase your fulfillment, and empower yourself, here are five key principles:
 
1) Know Yourself - Make a commitment to your own personal growth.  Discover more of who you are.  And, seek out and allow the support, honest feedback, and guidance of others.
 
2) Transform Your Fear - There’s nothing wrong with having fear, it’s the resistance and denial of fear that is the real problem.  When you admit, own, feel, and express your fear, you have the ability to move through it, transform it, and utilize its power in a positive way.  Taking action in the face of fear is courageous and empowering. 
 
3) Express Yourself - Have the courage to speak your truth boldly.  Deal with conflicts directly.  Express your emotions fully.  Be vulnerable and real about what you think and how you feel.  While on the surface you may worry that this will be seen as “weak,” in actuality expressing yourself completely gives you access to real freedom and power.
 
4) Be Bold - Live, speak, and act with courage, passion, and truth – even if it’s difficult or scary.  Go for what you want in your work and in your life. And get back up when you fall down, which you will.  
 
5) Celebrate Who You Are - Appreciate and honor who you are, what you do, and the gifts and talents that you have.  Celebrating yourself is not about being arrogant.  It’s an awareness of your own power and it’s the key to self-confidence, fulfillment, and authenticity.
 
Being your authentic self is not for the faint of heart, but once you’re willing to truly engage and do the work to become more real - your life, your work, and your relationships will be more exciting, meaningful, and fulfilling!

Mike Robbins is a best-selling author and personal growth expert who empowers people just like you with more freedom and confidence in their work, in their relationships and in life. Now you can get a FREE Sneak Preview to his NEW book:  Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken (Hardcover, Wiley) and learn how to transform your life with the power of authenticity at: http://www.beyourselfbook.com/about-book.htm

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This is a sample of The Art of Coaching in Business video. Learn how to coach successfully from seven extraordinary individuals who understand the coaching process inside and out:
Herb Kelleher, Chairman & CEO of Southwest Airlines
Jack Nicklaus, One of the greatest golfers of all time
Mercedes Ellington, acclaimed choreographer
Keith Lockhart, Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
Lenny Wilkens, “Winningest” coach in the history of the NBA
Jim Flick, Coach to Jack Nicklaus
Sarah Nash, Managing Director of J.P. Morgan
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http://www.internetbusinesssteps.com Formula Five Business Coaching Program bringing your business marketing to life with formula for success

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Brad Sugars, author of “The Business Coach” provides information to create synergy for your company by understanding how all the pieces of a company should come together.http://www.bradsugars.com/

ActionCOACH CEO Brad Sugars focuses on advertising, team building, profit, sales and cash flow in explaining how each area is vital in building a successful company. Learn more by visiting ActionCOACH.com.

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