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How To Hire A Business Coach
By AJ Silvers
A great Business Coach can help a business owner or manager make significant advances in their business in a relatively short period of time. However, not every Business Coach is great or right for your business or organisation. This article will highlight a few key questions that you should ask your prospective coach before your hire them!
A Coach Is A Coach Is A Coach...
Not all coaches are created equally. The first and most obvious assessment of a Business Coach should be a close examination of their coaching credentials. While there are many great business people who can be great advisors and mentors they are not to be confused with those who have trained, studied and have been certified as a qualified coach.
In my experience there are two key categories of Business Coaches. Those that have invested in a Coaching Franchise, and have been certified as a coach by there franchising organisation, and those that have trained as coaches and then applied their training to business issues and business clients.
The former typically have an short 'intensive' coaching training process, typically as short as 10 days in a plush resort while the latter group will have studied for many weeks, possibly many months before they graduate as a coach.
Given only this criteria, which coach would you trust the future success of your company to? Someone who has paid to be certified by someone who has sold them a franchise or someone who has paid to learn to be a coach?
Now I am a fan of many of the Business Franchise organisations on the market. For
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More Americans expected to hit the road for Memorial Day<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/highway%20congestion%202*100.JPG?v=1'>More Americans are expected to be traveling this Memorial Day, though they won?t be going as far.
AAA said it expects about 34.8 million Americans to travel at least 50 miles over the holiday weekend. That?s an extra 500,000 drivers expected on the road between May 24 and May 28, up 1.2 percent over last year.
While there should be more travelers to contend with on the highways, they also are projected to travel a shorter distance. AAA expects the average traveling distance to drop significantly,...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Heart Association recognizes Memphis employee wellness programs<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/webTopoLargestEmplMethodist*100.jpg?v=1'>Healthy employees are happy employees ? at least, that?s the position the American Heart Association?s Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Program maintains.
The national organization today announced it has added three Memphis-area companies to the ranks of its Fit-Friendly Companies, naming Memphis Light, Gas & Water and Methodist Fayette Hospital as Gold level members. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare joined as a Platinum level member.
The pair of companies joins existing Gold members City of...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>MBJ presents Small Business Award finalists<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/SBAlogo32small*100.jpg?v=1'>The Small Business Awards have served as a way for Memphis Business Journal to recognize and reward some of the most successful small businesses in the Memphis area for more than three decades.
MBJ presented its 32nd annual Small Business Awards finalists in this week's print edition. The winners in each category ? 1 to 20 Employees, 21 to 75 Employees, 76 to 350 Employees and Executive of the Year ? will be revealed at an event May 24.
See the 2012 Small Business Awards finalists
Through...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Top of the List: Physician Practices<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/TopoftheListLogoPhysicianPractices*100.jpg?v=1'>Memphis Business Journal's emphasis in this week's print edition is on Health Care and we're giving web readers the top five from our Physician Practices list.
The list ranks the practices by local, full-time equivalent employees excluding physicians.
See the top five physician practices in Memphis
Research director Jason Bolton writes that acquisitions by Memphis' two largest hospital systems ? Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare ? have changed the complexion...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Behind the List: Physician Practices<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/TopoftheListLogoPhysicianPractices*100.jpg?v=1'>Acquisitions by Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare have changed the complexion of local physician practice ownership.
In a flurry of deals in 2011, Baptist added The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation, Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation PLC and Family Cancer Center Foundation, which are all among the top 25 physician practices in the Memphis area. Baptist Minor Medical Centers is also an annual fixture on the list. In February 2012, Stern made an acquisition of its...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>First-quarter housing affordability at record high<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/housing_affordability_price_550*100.jpg?v=1'>Though it?s been said many times before, consumers in the market for a new or existing home have the upper hand.
According to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index, housing affordability hit an all-time high for the second consecutive quarter during the period ending March 31, 2012. Still, a familiar foe stands in the way of prospective home buyers.
?Homes in this year?s first quarter were more affordable than they have been at any time in more than...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Fitch downgrades Memphis airport<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Fitch Ratings downgraded Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority's bond rating, but revised the rating outlook to Stable from Negative.
The airport's $415.5 million worth of bonds were downgraded to "A" from "A+" mostly due to Delta Air Lines Inc.'s service decline at Memphis International Airport. Local passenger traffic is projected to drop below 4 million, which translates into a more than 30 percent enplanement loss from the peak levels in 2008, according to Fitch.
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</div>5 Memphis restaurants make Urbanspoon's high-end list<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Memphis is well represented on Urbanspoon's list of "America?s most popular high-end restaurants" as five local restaurants are among 250 across the nation.
The Memphis restaurants named by the popular restaurant recommendation app Urbanspoon are: Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar, Acre, Houston's, Texas de Brazil and Restaurant Iris.
The list was compiled using millions of reviews from professional food critics, the Urbanspoon community and diners. More than "600,000 restaurants, millions of reviews,...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Commissioner Ritz says suburban Memphis schools will cost much more than advertised<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz says suburban Memphis residents are being lied to about how much creating independent school districts could cost, WMC-TV reports.
Ritz questions the math on feasibility studies conducted for the various suburbs and says it could be off by as much as $1 million. Southern Educational Strategies, a school consulting firm, conducted all the surveys for six different municipalities around Memphis.
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</div>Big Star member, Memphis financial planner Steve Rhea dies<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Steve Rhea, a rock 'n roll drummer who went on to a successful career as a Memphis banker and financial planner, died Wednesday, The Commercial Appeal reports. He was 62 and had been diagnosed with cancer last year.
Rhea was a drummer in the legendary Memphis band Big Star, as well as several of the group's precursor bands. He also worked for Ardent Records before leaving the scene in 1970 to pursue a degree at Southern Methodist University. He was replaced in Big Star by drummer Jody Stephens.
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many would-be business owners, investing in a franchise is a smart move, especially if the potential franchisee does not have a strong business acumen. Now here’s the rub. Do you want to put your business in the hands of a coach who does not have a strong business acumen? One who does not have the resources or ability to build their own business? As a Business Coach, I am frequently asked 'If you know so much about business why don’t you run your own?' In truth my Business Coaching practice is a business, it’s surprising how many people miss this obvious fact, and aside from that I run a couple of small online companies. This leads on to, in my personal opinion, the most important qualification of a Business Coach. Ask how many businesses they have run, how many of those have been successful and how many have failed. It is my experience that almost every franchise Business Coach has never run a business before. Let’s face it, if they really knew how to build a business why buy an expensive franchise? Where as the Independent Business Coach will have run one or more companies previously. This is their greatest qualification. When looking at this business track record do not be put off by an apparent business failure. Typically people learn far more from their mistakes than they do from their successes. Obviously you do not want to hire a Coach with a track record of failures! A Business Coach with several successes and one key failure is probably the ideal advisor, as they will have been through thick and thin times and should have plenty of cautionary tales about what can go wrong and how, from their personal experience, the challenges can be met and overcome. Article Directory: http://www.articlecube.com AJ Silvers is a former Fortune 500 Global Manager and now owns Nexus Coaching: a successful Coaching Company in the UK with an excellent track record and client base of SME companies across a range of industries. This article was prepared by Attraction Marketing UK.
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UMSL to acquire Quincy Public Radio Station
The University of Missouri?St. Louis is acquiring Quincy University?s public radio station WQUB 90.3 FM in Quincy, Ill., St. Louis Public Radio officials said today.
The sale of WQUB is expected to be completed in the next three to four months, at which point, St. Louis Public Radio, 90.7 KWMU, will handle operations and programming of the station. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Peabody Energy leases 402 million tons of coal in Wyoming
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/tampabay/CoalTrainPromo*100.jpg?v=1'>Peabody Energy Corp. announced today the lease of 402 million tons of ultra low sulfur coal reserves adjacent to its North Antelope Rochelle Mine (NARM) in the Southern Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
The company bid $1.11 per mineable ton for control of the South Porcupine reserve area. The bid was conducted through a sealed bid auction process.
Peabody plans to incorporate the 5 square-mile block into its mine plan, following a permitting process. The South Porcupine tract adjacent to NARM was...<div class="feedflare">
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Antitrust review ends for Viasystems? acquisition of DDi
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/Sindelar,DavidPromo2011*100.jpg?v=1'>Officials from Viasystems Group Inc. and DDi Corp. said today that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 relating to the previously announced acquisition of DDi by Viasystems has expired without a request for more information by the U.S. Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission.
The transaction still requires approval by DDi?s stockholders, and the companies expect the transaction to close by May 31.
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Gateway Classic Cars to open Chicago location June 1
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/GoldMustangWeb*100.jpg?v=1'>Officials from Fairmont City, Ill.-based Gateway Classic Cars said today that the company is opening a location in the Chicago market.
The company has operated a showroom in Fairmont City since 1999. It opened a location in Louisville, Ky., in August, and it will be opening a 45,000 square-foot facility Tinley Park, Ill., next month and hiring two new employees for that location this year.
The company, which had $5.5 million in revenue last year, is investing $209,000 in start-up costs for the...<div class="feedflare">
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OUTTAKES: May 18
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/MatejkaCheryl*100.jpg?v=1'>Who knew hanging out with CFOs could be so much fun and so interesting!
That?s Business Journal Brian Cassidy?s takeaway this week. Cassidy got some great shots of our CFO Award winners and finalists and along the way discovered he lives in CFO Award winner Steve Appelbaum?s old house in Kirkwood. It?s a small world, indeed.
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Miriam Foundation establishes Cornelsen Diagnostic Center
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/MiriamFoundationJoeZapf_Web*100.jpg?v=1'>A $100,000 grant by the Cornelsen Family Charitable Foundation has established the Cornelsen Diagnostic Center, which will be part of the Miriam Learning Center, Miriam Foundation officials said today.
The diagnostic center will provide free and reduced-cost assessment services for children who do not qualify for testing in the school setting and have limited resources to access private assessment services.
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Barnes-Jewish to refund $725,185 to Wisconsin Physician Services
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/print-edition/Liekweg,Richard--Prime__web*100.jpg?v=1'>Barnes-Jewish Hospital overbilled Medicare for 58 claims between 2008 and 2011, resulting in an overpayment of $725,185, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The hospital is refunding the amount of the overpayment to the Medicare contractor involved, Wisconsin Physician Services, as recommended by the HHS report.
The HHS? Office of the Inspector General conducted an audit of Medicare payments made to Barnes-Jewish in 2009 and 2010, specifically looking at $5.6...<div class="feedflare">
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MC Industrial opens office in Indiana
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/indianalr*100.jpg?v=1'>St. Louis-based MC Industrial, a national construction firm, has opened a 4,300-square-foot office in Portage, Ind. in the northwest region of the state.
MC Industrial will focus on serving metals, petrochemical, power, steel and other industrial markets and clients in the region.
?Northwest Indiana is a thriving industrial construction hub,? MC Industrial President Tom Felton said in a statement. ?The time is right for us to establish a solid, more permanent presence in the region, both...<div class="feedflare">
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Brown Shoe Q1 profit drops 54 percent
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/stlouis/sullivan,dianePromo2012*100.jpg?v=1'>Brown Shoe Co. Inc. today reported net earnings of $1.7 million for the quarter ended April 28, down 54 percent from $3.7 million during the same quarter in 2011.
The drop in profit was primarily due to higher markdowns at both the wholesale and retail level, the company said in a statement.
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Monsanto commits $50 million to African agricultural growth
Monsanto Co. said today the company is committing $50 million over the next 10 years to support sustained Africa agricultural development and growth. The company is supporting the New Vision for Agriculture Initiative, the Grow Africa Partnership and the G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Creve Coeur-based seed company Monsanto (NYSE: MON), led by Chairman, President and CEO Hugh Grant, reported a $1.6 billion profit on sales of $11.8 billion in fiscal 2011.<div class="feedflare">
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