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The Essence of Business Success |
Focusing in the areas
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Business Growth, Strategic Planning, Goal Setting, Team Leadership,
Work / Life Balance & Interpersonal Effectiveness |
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Issue# 07 |
Superb Coaching Newsletter
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June
2005 |
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Recently I made mention
of some new exciting developments at Superb Coaching...
At last I now tell you that we have become a network partner of the
Corprat Coaching Network.
As such we are able to incorporate their products into the delivery of
our coaching services as well as being able to provide you with access
to their range of business products. There is not enough space here to
tell you here just how wonderful an opportunity this is for our
clients but we can say that through this association you can only
benefit. More complete details are available from our home page.
Corprat
publish,
consult and train in "step-by-step" profit improvement programs. They
have a range of self help software, videos and resources that are
designed for businesses. In fact if you read below you will find out
about one of their key products "Business Coach" a 1-page business
planner product that will deliver true performance reporting
capability to your business.
I hope you enjoy this issue and that you too can receive something
positive from what I share with you in the articles I include. I
welcome you sharing this email with your friends and associates and
encourage you to do so. You can make use of the "Share with a friend"
link at the end of this email.
If you would like to contact me personally about my
business coaching services please do so. Full details can be found at
www.superbcoaching.com.au |
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Business plans don't fail. People fail! The greatest problem
businesses have with their business plan is that they spend so much
time and effort putting it together they fail to follow through on the
actions required to make it all happen. Worse still - people fail to
have a business plan, even in its most simple form.
For too long preparation of a business plan has been seen as being
an arduous task that is on the list of things to do but just now we
don't have time. It is seen as being too hard, too involved or just
not needed. The problem is that business plans are too often not
geared to their audience. If you are a small business producing an
in-depth 60 page report it is of little significance to you unless you
can directly relate to it, understand it, be involved in its
production and most importantly can work from it. Listed below are
some commonly held views about business plans:
1. I don't need a business plan--it's just me!
2. I have to buy business plan software before I
can start.
3. I need to hire a consultant to write my
business plan.
4. The business plan templates I’ve seen have all
these complex-sounding sections to them—I guess I need all those?
5. My business plan needs to be perfect before I
can start my business.
6. I have to do everything I say I’m going to do
in my business plan, or I’m a failure.
7. A good business plan has a nice cover, is at
least 40 pages long, must be typed and double-spaced…
8. I don’t need a loan—so I don’t need a business
plan.
9. My business plan is in my head—that’s good
enough.
10. Friends and family are the best sources of
feedback and advice on my business plan.
Don't fall prey to these common misconceptions. You
should have a business plan because this is the blue print for your
business, it defines the vision you hold and the strategies that will
enable you to achieve that vision. Most importantly it contains the
details of those actions you must take to achieve your success.
This then raises a problem for many businesses. How do
you measure your results? Unless you are fortunate enough to have
sophisticated management reporting facilities linked to powerful
presentation tools and the skills to drive all of this, it is all too
hard for most. The power of you achieving your success is your ability
to measure your performance. You will probably have heard about KPI's
- Key Performance Indicators. You need the means to simply report on a
weekly or monthly basis how you are performing in relation to these
KPI's and be able to view your results in a form that is easy to
understand.
We are now able to offer our clients such a tool
through our Business Coach product that
enables you to simply capture your KPI's and report on your progress
all in one single page. Visit our web site and find out how you can
access this tool yourself. |
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When things go
wrong - whether in your personal or professional life - chances are
you resort to quick-fix plans, strategies and techniques for altering
and improving your environment. Often, the problem is caused by a
misalignment of your actions and decisions with the correct
principles. To solve it, you need to alter not the external
circumstances but your perspective. Best-selling author Stephen
Covey introduces a new management paradigm that can help you
transform, not only your organization, but your personal relationships
as well. He reveals how you can achieve effective personal and
organizational leadership by centring your actions and decisions on a
set of time-tested principles.
Part One: Placing
Principles at Your Centre
Do most of the
following apply to your organization?
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Interdepartmental
rivalries
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Subgroups polarized around
key philosophical issues
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Back-talking and
bad-mouthing
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Cosmetic niceties on the
surface exchanges
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Unionized; with people
working on two cylinders
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Deep, entrenched interests
between departments
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Special contests and
promotions constantly going on to make sales quotas
These are signs of
imbalance or misalignment. They indicate that you are using the wrong
paradigm in your organization, that you are centred not on solid
principles but on distorted values and beliefs.
If you would like to read the full book summary
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By Brian Tracy
In his book Frames of Mind, Dr. Howard Gardner made the revolutionary
statement that individuals possess several forms of intelligence. He
concluded that we are all intelligent in a variety of different ways,
and even if we didn't receive great grades in school, we can still be
extremely intelligent in other areas. Two of these areas are
intra-personal intelligence and inter-personal intelligence.
Intra-personal intelligence is defined as how well you get along with
yourself. If is how well you know yourself, understand yourself, and are
clear about your strengths and weaknesses, your values, opinions, goals,
and dreams. People with high levels of intra-personal intelligence are
extremely aware of who they are, and who they are not. This enables them
to be honest and objective with themselves, and as a result, they are
more honest and objective with others.
Intra-personal intelligence is the foundation upon which another
intelligence, inter-personal intelligence, is built. Inter-personal
intelligence is an ability to communicate, negotiate, interact,
persuade, and influence other people. People who are successful in all
businesses requiring active interaction with other people, such as
salespeople, managers, counsellors, consultants, and lawyers all have a
high degree of inter-personal intelligence.
You can increase your intelligence in any area by learning and
practicing in that area. And perhaps the most important intelligence you
can consciously and purposefully develop is your inter-personal
intelligence. That's because forming and maintaining relationships is
vital to both your professional success and your self-image-your
intra-personal intelligence.
Our personalities are largely shaped by the way people react to us. Our
only indication as to who we are at a young age is the way people treat
us. If people treat us with kindness, respect, and good humor, we
eventually conclude that we are pretty good people who deserve kindness,
respect, and proper treatment.
Psychologists have identified three basic social needs that we all have:
inclusion, control, and affection.
The first, inclusion, is the need to feel that we belong, that we are
included in families, work groups, social groups, business
organizations, and professional associations. We need to feel wanted,
accepted, and important.
The second social need we have is the desire for control. Psychologists
have concluded that the basis for a positive mental attitude is a sense
of control. We are happy to the degree to which we feel we have a
certain amount of control over our life. We are unhappy to the degree to
which we feel out of control. Most stress is caused by being out of
control of some part of our life that is important to us.
The third social need we all have is the desire for affection. It is
hard to live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
Sometimes, just knowing that even one single person, somewhere, cares
about us is enough to give meaning to our entire lives.
In publishing circles, there is an expression: a work in progress. This
is a book that has been scheduled for publication but which is not yet
complete; the author is still working on it, at one stage or another.
Each of us is a work in progress. Each of us is born and grows up
immature and inexperienced in the ways of the world. Over time, and with
a lot of hard knocks, we develop a greater depth of character and
personality. And all of our lessons are learned in the crucible of human
contact.
There are certain parts of your personality that will remain completely
untouched and undeveloped unless and until you enter into deep,
meaningful, intimate, emotional relationships with people you love and
who love you in return. It is only then that you develop the depth of
personality that makes you a more interesting and complete individual.
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enterprises by assisting present and future leaders to grow and
develop in supportive environments, to achieve personal goals and
organisational outcomes.
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