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Business Keys To Success: When To Make Decisions

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Very often we make decisions without even thinking about the context in which we are making them.  This can lead to some bad consequences.  Are things going well?  Are they going badly?  Are you under a lot of stress?  Remember there is Read More

Business Keys To Success: Discernment

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“Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.  Discernment is an indispensable quality for any leader who desires to maximize effectiveness.”—John Maxwell In “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader” Maxwell goes onto talk about the value of practicing Read More

Business Keys To Success: Turn Up Your Passion

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Passion certainly makes things you more interested in whatever you are involved in at the moment. When you are displaying passion in response to a person, situation or event you are definitely Read More

Business Keys To Success: Being Approachable

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Being approachable over my career has brought me opportunities and contacts I could never have imagined.  I attribute much of the success I have experienced and continue to experience to being approachable.  Obviously there are other important factors.  But being approachable and having the ability to connect are in the top five. Opportunity for a Read More

Business Keys To Success: Add Value To People

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Your attitude determines what you value.  And when it comes to people it is no different.  Human relations expert Les Giblin remarked, “You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.”  Isn’t that true?  I think you would agree that you find it difficult Read More

The Law Of The Team

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At this time in my life, virtually everything I do is a team effort.  In my personal business coaching, public speaking and career coaching I have a team to support me.  But, when I was younger, Read More

Business Keys To Success: You Are Responsible For Your Attitudes

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Life is full of surprises, and the adjustment of our attitudes is a lifelong project.  Think about your destiny in business and life.  It will never be determined by our complaining spirits or high expectations.  In my business coaching practice and in my own life I had to come face to face with my attitudes. Read More

Business Keys To Success-Building A Team

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Building a team is one of the quickest paths to business success.  Whether you are running a small business, starting your own business or in a corporate environment the value of having a good team is critical to any success. Yet, very often in my business coaching practice, whether it be with self-employed business owners, Read More

From The Business Coaching Chronicles-A Little Extra Change

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Most people are resistant to change.  They desire improvement but they resist changing their everyday routine.  That’s a problem because, as leadership expert Max DePree says, “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”  To sharpen your Read More

From The Business Coaching Chronicles: Confrontation Is A Good Thing

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One of the things most self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs and solo professionals dislike is confrontation.  What I have seen time and again in my personal business coaching practice is that avoiding confrontation very often causes problems to fester, grow bigger and explode. Confrontation The Wrong Way I had a client with seven employees.  One employee Read More