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A Business Coach Can Quickly Build Your Success & Wealth
By Kris Koonar
The services provided by a business coach are quite similar to that of a sports coach, the only difference is that business coaching is undertaken for the benefit of an organization. Business coaching not only aims at improving individual performance but also concentrates on improving team performance.
Helps in unlocking hidden potential:
Just as a sports coach helps in unlocking the real potential of players, a business coach helps the employees to improve their working skills. Most successful business coaches know that every employee has the potential to perform above expectations. The only thing required is proper guidance and the confidence that he can achieve the set goal and objective. The aligning of personal and professional goals of the employees with organizational goals and objectives enables the business coach to increase productivity and maximizing profitability. This helps in the increase of profitability and success in a very short time.
Offers more than a standalone business consultant:
People often confuse business coaching with business consulting. Both are very different from each other and are undertaken for achieving different set of goals and objectives. In business consulting, the consultant offers you solutions to your queries, based on his knowledge, experience and technical qualifications. Business consulting is more like gambling in which you win some and lose some. The advice provided by the consultant may or may not work in solving your problems. In comparison, business coaching allows the employees to explore and
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Sentences handed down in Memorial Healthcare bribery caseFour people who were convicted of defrauding the Memorial Healthcare System in a bribery scheme were sentenced to prison by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra on Friday.
Thomas Kennedy, of Davie, was sentenced to 42 months in prison. Richard Cohen, of Wellington, and Paul Chaiet, a CPA, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison. Thomas Pacchioli was sentenced to three years of probation and 180 days of home confinement. All must pay restitution for the $15 million scheme, in which vendors paid kickbacks...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>SouthBank hit with regulatory enforcement actionFederal regulators hit Palm Beach Gardens-based SouthBank with an enforcement action that raises its capital requirements and criticizes its loan quality.
The consent order from the Comptroller of the Currency issued on March 28 and made public on Friday replaces a 2010 cease and desist order from the bank?s former regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision. Most importantly, it immediately raises the Tier 1 leverage capital ratio requirement for SouthBank to 9 percent, from 8 percent in the...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>UM gets $7M award for AIDS researchResearchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine were awarded a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct AIDS research.
The five-year grant recognizes the medical school as Florida?s first and only Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Only 20 programs around the country hold such a designation.
?The grant recognizes that the work we are doing at the Miller School and across the University is contributing significantly to understanding how the virus creates...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Swire releases more detailed Brickell CitiCentre rendering<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/SFBJ-BrickellCitiCentre-B&W*100.jpg?v=1'>Brickell CitiCentre developer Swire Properties has released a detailed, black-and-white rendering of its $1.05 billion project, which is slated to begin construction next month in Miami.
The rendering identifies all of the buildings on the 9.1-acre property, and what each contains in square footage. The project will include a mix of offices, residences, retail and hotel space.
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</div>Golden Sands Canyon Ranch project faces foreclosure<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/sfbj%20foreclosure%20Golden%20Sho*100.jpg?v=1'>Foreclosure Roundup is hitting the beach this week, first with two hotels and a stalled condo project in Miami Beach, and then to a retail strip in coastal Pompano Beach.
An affiliate of Lehman Brothers wants to seize the site where WSG Development Co. hoped to build the Golden Sands Canyon Ranch hotel in Miami Beach.
Miami Beach-based WSG, led by Eric Sheppard, lost the main Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa to Lehman Brothers in 2009 in a deed in lieu of foreclosure.
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</div>Miami's Camillus House completes first phase of new facility<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/sfbj%20Camillus%20building%201*100.jpg?v=1'>Miami homeless outreach program Camillus House on Friday celebrated the end of construction on the first phase of its new $84 million campus.
The Norwegian Cruise Line Campus at 1603 NW Seventh Ave. has finalized construction on three buildings, which will offer long and short-term housing, mental health care services, retail space, a kennel and parking.
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</div>Costa Concordia wreck removal plan presentedCosta Crociere S.p.A officials and the company tasked with the removal of the wreck of the Costa Concordia from the coast of Giglio Island presented their plan for the work Friday in Rome.
Officials of Costa Cruises, which is owned by Miami-based Carnival Corp. & PLC (NYSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), and the Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi, the winner of the contract to perform the work, gave details of the project, along with Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner Franco Gabrielli.
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</div>Greenberg Traurig chair Alvarez apologizes to court<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/picking_up_the_pieces/Donna%20Evans*100.jpg?v=1'>Ex-Greenberg Traurig attorney Donna Evans is expected to testify Friday afternoon in one of the strangest courtroom dramas in recent South Florida history.
Evans is expected to explain her role in producing documents for a landmark trial that ended in a $67 million verdict in January against TD Bank. Friday?s contempt hearing is a continuation of a seven-hour hearing that began Thursday morning.
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</div>NIH awards $350,000 to UM for cocaine studyThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted $350,000 to a professor at the University of Miami (UM) School of Business Administration for a study aimed at uncovering cocaine abuse patterns to lead to more effective treatments.
Yongtao Guan, a professor of management science at the UM School of Business, will use statistical methods to interpret and categorize data of cocaine users, specifically their patterns of use before, during and following drug rehabilitation, to better understand...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Florida's jobless rate drops to lowest since early 2009<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/Rick-Scott-Photo-small*100.gif?v=1'>Florida?s unemployment rate continued its decline, dropping to 8.7 in April ? the lowest since January 2009.
The April rate was 1.9 percentage points lower than the April 2011 rate of 10.6 percent, according to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO).
Broward County made particularly impressive progress, as its April unemployment figure of 7.2 percent was the lowest since December 2008, when it was 6.7 percent. This rate was 1.6 percentage points lower than the region?s year-ago...<div class="feedflare">
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find the solutions for themselves. It just provides the right guidance, which may not seem much help, but is very essential when it comes to unlocking the true potential of an individual. It takes a great amount of skill and patience to be able to connect with the employees, which can only be made possible with the help of a business coach. The coach provides the necessary guidance to the employee or team members. This helps them to overcome common organizational problems. Helps employees to do a SWOT analysis: A business coach will help your employees to identify their weaknesses and strengths. The coach will also provide guidance to enable them to overcome their weaknesses, not by any special methods or techniques, but just by motivating them to concentrate on the core areas. These areas being those in which they feel they can excel and produce the desired results. Just like a sports coach, a business coach helps to develop the right attitude and confidence, which is necessary for enhancing team spirit and reducing the reluctance to work. Employees get empowered and feel more confident to take work-related decisions, which in turn will help in improving organizational efficiency. A business coach enables the employees to understand the aims and objectives of the company. This helps them to contribute to the overall success of the organization. Employees learn the techniques to improve interpersonal relations with their peers as well as with their subordinates, resulting in increased cooperation between associate team members. This helps in increasing organizational efficiency, necessary for increasing productivity and improving quality. Article Source: http://www.articleblender.com Become A Business Coach. According to a Harvard study employers are willing to pay Business Coaches from $1500-$1500 per day. The average client of www.businesscoach.com brings in over $40,000.00 in client fees. To learn the secrets of Business Coach Training please click here.
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Glendale looks to avoid Cardinals parking lawsuit
The Glendale City Council will vote on a plan Tuesday to solve a parking dispute with the Arizona Cardinals and avoid a $67 million lawsuit threatened by the National Football League team.
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AZTechBeat starts coverage for Arizona software industry
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/print-edition/Shojaee_Hamid*100.JPG?v=1'>Hamid Shojaee is adding publisher to a bio that includes tech entrepreneur, software CEO and incubator developer.
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Hostess Brands bankruptcy could mean 130 Arizona job cuts
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/HostessTwinkies*100.jpg?v=1'>If Hostess Brands Inc. ? the maker of Twinkies, Wonder bread and Ding Dongs ? can?t solve its financial trouble via Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company could liquidate.
That would result in 130 job cuts in Arizona and Hostess closing 16 locations statewide.
The company has already reported the possible cuts and closures to the state of Arizona. Five locations in the Phoenix area would be impacted.
Hostess is trying to reorganize and work out debt and financial troubles via bankruptcy proceedings,...<div class="feedflare">
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A rundown of the AZBio Expo from A to Z
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/azbio%201%20Barb%20breakfast*100.jpg?v=1'>More than 250 people attended the Arizona BioIndustry Association?s Expo on May 17, providing a wealth of panel discussions and networking opportunities.
Click the image to the right for a slide show and rundown of activities at the conference.
At the event, BioAccel CEO MaryAnn Guerra announced that biotech startups can apply for up to $300,000 in seed funding and have an opportunity to take free space at the Bioinspire incubator in Peoria.
?This level of investment is a game changer for...<div class="feedflare">
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Whisenhunt among Top 10 highest paid coaches in pro sports
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/andy%20reid*100.jpg?v=1'>Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt ranks as the eighth highest paid coach in professional sports with a $5.75 million per season salary.
That is according to Forbes magazine?s list of the Top 10 highest paid coaches in North American professional sports.
Whisenhunt ties for 8th place with Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. Whisenhunt, 50, has a 43-41 record with the Cardinals over five seasons.
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Ken Bennett comments stir up Obama 'birther' buzz
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/business/ken%20bennett*100.png?v=1'>Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is generating plenty of national political buzz today for telling KFYI-AM 550 this morning he could keep President Barack Obama off the November ballot unless he receives some more information from the state of Hawaii confirming the president?s birthplace.
Bennett?s comments come after a report from Breitbart.com that old Obama literary biographies said he was born in Kenya. A literary agent is now saying that Kenyan birth entry was a mistake.
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Wave of NFL concussion lawsuits could flow down to teams, doctors, other sports
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/Leach,-Travis*100.jpg?v=1'>The wave of concussion-related lawsuits against the National Football League could reverberate down to individual teams, their executives, coaches and team doctors. Attorneys also warn there also could be similar suits filed against college and even high school football programs as well as other sports like hockey and lacrosse.
Most of the current cases have been brought by former players against the NFL, a $9 billion a year business and potential cash cow for plaintiffs and their attorneys. Travis...<div class="feedflare">
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BBB announces Arizona Ethics Award winners
The Better Business Bureau of Central, Northern and Western Arizona has named five Arizona winners of its 11th annual Business Ethics Awards.
The winners were announced May 17. They were:
Convertabath Inc. of TempeIntegrity Tree Service Inc. of ScottsdaleArizona Fire and Water Restoration Inc. of PhoenixSchumacher European Ltd. of ScottsdaleBlackstone Security Services Inc. of Phoenix
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Fuego CityScape set for downtown Phoenix debut
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/prime_cuts/Moloznik_Jeff*100.png?v=1'>The Fuego Restaurant Group will open its fourth Phoenix-area location this summer with Fuego CityScape in downtown Phoenix.
The restaurant, which will serve modern Mexican cuisine, is set to open the first week of June at the downtown mixed-use development.
?The atmosphere will be intimate, romantic and elegant,? said owner Jeff Ward.
Other local Fuego brands include Fuego Bistro, Fuego Tacos and Fuego Cantina.
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Peoria offering $1.2M in seed funding for biotech startups
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/business/Guerra_MaryAnn*100.JPG?v=1'>MaryAnn Guerra, the CEO of BioAccel, announced Thursday at the Arizona BioIndustry Association?s Expo that applications are now being accepted for $1.2 million in seed funding for biotech startups.
Companies and entrepreneurs selected will be eligible for free or reduced lab and office space at Bioinspire, an incubator at 13660 N. 94th Drive in Peoria. The incubator is a partnership between BioAccel, The Plaza Cos. and the city of Peoria. The money is coming from the city?s budget.
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