Why Everyone Needs a Coach

If you look around at the top performers today in any field - sports, sales, or even coaching itself - you'll find that almost all of these top performers have at least one thing in common. They all had a coach at one time or another in their professional careers.

Future Leadership in Wholesale Distribution

Succession planning should be a critical core initiative in your strategic planning process for every key management position within your company. I have written numerous articles in the past on coaching and mentoring skills. These are very definitive skills that are a must for successful leadership. But, coaching and mentoring by you and your managers even if they have been trained, and the majorities aren’t, may not be enough.

The Winds of Change

Most people shiver when the winds of change blow their way. They are blinded by the strong winds hitting their face and making their eyes water and sting, knowing that things are shifting, it just can't be good! The comfort zone is going to be invaded and it won't be pretty! They can't see that the winds of change also bring along with them new opportunity, chances to grow, to heal, to face challenges. Yes, these things can be scary but what a gift they are!

Boss, I Want a Coach

If you want to achieve a big, complex goal in your professional life, it's very likely that a professional coach can be a great help in getting there. If it's important enough to you, you can simply hire a coach yourself, but many companies are willing to underwrite all or part of the cost of coaching if you can show that it's in their interest as well as yours.

Think to Win

Everyone likes to win, but everyone cannot win every time especially in games of competition where one party is pitted against another. Human beings seem to like competitive events and they seem to draw the most competitive people.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Do you have someone that you look up to? Is this someone that you would like to emulate? Someone that you feel has achieved the type of success that you would one day like to achieve? What if that person wanted to take you by the hand and show you the ropes, the steps that he/she took to get where they are?

A Team Without a Coach

Living your life without a personal coach is like playing a basketball game without a coach: destined for failure.

Building a Legacy: It's Only Too Late If You Never Start!

By discovering your unique strengths, determining your core values, and directing your future with ambitious lifetime goals, you can achieve amazing success. But be warned-if you don't like change, you will like irrelevance even less. So far, Steve Jobs has made a fairly sizable ding. He has achieved success (to the tune of over a billion dollars) through continuous innovation and sticking to his unique talents. Whether your are about to start your career or already working your way up the ranks, you want to give yourself every possible advantage. You have a lot of decisions before you, no matter where you are in life. It is up to you to determine which path in life you will take - but how can you avoid walking down the wrong paths over and over again until you find the best one? What are your unique strengths? If you don't determine the where, how, when, and why of what makes you truly unique, making that ding in the universe won't happen.

Positive Affirmations - Killing Negative Thinking

There is an epidemic today of junk food thinking! You know the saying - garbage in garbage out. Now is the time to become more healthy in our what of thinking.

Coaching for Success

I would like to talk to you about how coaching can benefit you, and the superb training I have received with Rivas Palmer in the UK. Initially I first received coaching in 1994, whilst working in the Financial Services sector, and coaching enabled me to prioritise my goals, as well as boost my self-esteem and increasing my confidence levels.

Are There Unconscious Beliefs Sabotaging Your Results?

Release sabotage with self development strategies and coaching

How Long is Your Shoestring?

This article looks at the importance of investing time, money and effort into growing your coaching practice.

Lessons Out of Africa - The Importance of Mentoring

The use of a mentor/coach is one of the keys to success. Statistics show that only 5% of people achieve any level of financial/business success, proving more of us need assistance from those who have walked the path before us. Even elephants need guidance.