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We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. 

The amount of work is the same.
 - Carlos Casteneda

 

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Hotline Coaching

You are welcome to call in for a free 10-15 minute private coaching session during my coaching hotline hour.  Come prepared with your issue or problem: first come, first served. If you reach my voice mail, I am on the phone with another participant.  Call back in a few minutes to see if the line is clear. If you can't get through you may leave a message. I will call you back.

Hours: The first and third Tuesdays of the month, 12:00 - 1:00 PM Eastern Time (11:00 AM Central, 9:00 AM Pacific)

Call: (228) 863-0006

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Assessments:

Self-assessments to work on with a coach:

Strengths Program™

Click here to take this free self-assessment. You will quickly find out which areas of your life represent your greatest strengths and which are holding you back from business and personal success.

Clean Sweep™

Contact me to receive this free assessment which you can use to strengthen the essential areas of your life and support your business goals with a stronger personal foundation. This quiz takes about 10 minutes to complete and months to achieve. It is a very practical, hands-on tool. If there is any one place to start with a coaching program designed to strengthen you and move you forward, this is it.

Biz Wiz Success Program

Rate 10 key areas of consistent business success and profitabilty. This is a terrific assessment tool and program for new business owners and businesses aiming to boost their profits or grow significantly. Contact me to receive this free asssessement. You will find it helpful in designing or redesigning your business to that it doesn't run you - it serves you.

Use this assessment to build and maintain a full, rewarding and profitable professional practice.  There are 10 distinct areas to focus on in designing a professional practice that fills well, runs well and leaves you free to practice your profession. Contact me to receive this free assessment.

Staff Excellence Program™

This free quiz looks at 100 key skills, behaviors and style points of the highly effective manager in today's business environment. Contact me and I will email the assessment to you. This program is helpful in the following ways:
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To strengthen management skills and effectiveness

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To shift the company culture

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To get everyone on the same track

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As a blueprint for staff training

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As a way to foster & develop teams

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To strengthen interpersonal skills

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To accelerate career path

 

Professionally administered assessments for personal and team development:

MBTI

The  Meyers Briggs Type Indicator assessment is the highly validated indicator of personality preferences used worldwide to support leadership, personal and team development. The tool identifies preferences in the areas of extraversion and introversion, as well as other areas related to decision styles, personal interactions and the ways you prefer to receive information.

Contact me for more information on low-cost assessments for individuals as well as programs to support team building and leadership development programs.

DISC

The popular DISC assessment is a behavior profile that describes and predicts how we tend to behave naturally and when under stress. It is a useful tool for helping us understand our own behaviors and those of the people around us, and to relate to each other more flexibly and with less frustration.

Contact me for more information on assessments for groups or individuals.

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Newsletters:

Useful newsletters from other sources:

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For Small Business:

Get Clients Now from C.J. Hayden

More Clients: The Online Marketing Newsletter for Independent Professionals
from Action Plan Marketing and Robert Middleton

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For Corporations

The Coaching Manager from Performance-AM (Scotland)

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For All

The Daily Distinction from CoachU

 

Articles:

Check here for articles that support business success, management effectiveness, healthy work styles and coaching skills.

Reprints and original articles coming soon.

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Recommended Reading:

First, Break All the Rules:  What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, PhD

Good to Great, by Jim Collins

The Character of a Corporation, by Rob Gaffee

Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers and Nexters in Your Worklplace, by Ron Zemke, Claire Raines and Bob Filipczak

The E Myth Revisited, by Michael E. Gerber

Guerrilla Marketing, by Jay Conrad Levinson

Building Your Ideal Private Practice, by Lynn Grodzki

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live, by Martha Beck

Living Your Best Life: Balance / Work / Destiny / Home, by Laura Berman Fortrang

Take Yourself to the Top- The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach, by Laura Berman Fortgang

The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success, by Thomas J. Leonard

Coach Yourself to Success, by Talane Meidaner

Write it Down, Make it Happen: Knowing What You Want and Getting It, by Henriette Anne Klauser

Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead- But Gutsy Girls Do, by Kate White

How We Choose to Be Happy, by Rick Foster & Greg Hicks

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"Coaching relationships...are helping small-business owners improve their business skills, recalibrate their approaches to management, and, often, totally reboot and rebalance themselves as leaders on the job and in the home and community."  NATION'S BUSINESS

 

 

 

 

 

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