Who is asking you the tough questions?

Gain clarity. Sharpen your focus. Make better decisions.

Experience the power of coaching.

 

"Many people have the right aims in life — they just never get around to 'pulling the trigger.' When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it."
                                                                             --- John Mason, nationally recognized author and speaker

 

Imagine...having a person who you can have a private, one-on-one conversation — in strict confidence. A person who can ask you the questions that no one else is asking, who provides insight and guidance, ideas and options that are not apparent to you, who shares perspectives that help you overcome your roadblocks and obstacles, and who ensures that you celebrate your successes. For most, this person is...an executive coach.


Coaching is about asking self reflecting questions, it is about guiding, informing, and expanding your knowledge and awareness to achieve results, modify behaviors, and enabling you to draw upon the resources within you. This self empowerment turns problems and obstacles into opportunities enabling you to realize your full potential and to pursue your personal best. You leverage your assets, seize opportunities, expand your comfort zone, and overcome your obstacles. Coaching is about self improving your leadership, your professional career, and your personal life. Be your authentic self.

 

A coaching session is really a fantastic opportunity:

Why Coaching?

In today's competitive business environment a business coach is not a luxury. It's a necessity. In a radically changing world new work habits are required. Even if you have a good reputation today, that does not guarantee continued success tomorrow. You need to constantly motivate, improve, and refresh your work style and behavior.

 

The common coaching objective is to raise performance, in other words, to help you enhance the good qualities you have and help you acquire other important qualities you may be lacking. A coach will guide you through self exploration, to better understand others, to achieve team goals, and to reach organizational objectives.

 

You will learn the questions you need to ask yourself and others, the tools and techniques to effectively teach and influence, the strategies to go forward, and for establishing a decision making process to achieve success faster and easier.

Whether you want more from your business, to enhance your career, or want more out of life, coaching is a powerful relationship to encourage and foster life long continuous learning. With coaching, you tap into your passion and find your own success and fulfillment.

 

Now, what are you going to do differently today...tomorrow?

 

For CEOs and Business Owners:

CEOs with the 'right stuff' are increasingly seen as having superior general management and leadership abilities, not specialized industry knowledge. While their passion for their technical skills got them into business and their sales skills advanced their business, they are now challenged to move their businesses to the next level.

 

Whether challenged with getting employees to live the values that established their business, to align them with the corporate vision, or to act like owners, as CEOs grow their businesses they find themselves relying more and more on their key executives and employees. For the CEO, knowledge and influence are becoming more important than the product or service that got them into their business.

 

Why is coaching important for the business leader and their team? Simple, coaching increases revenues, saves money, and increases morale. With coaching, business owners can expect:

Whatever you do well (or poorly) tends to be passed on to the people around you. There are a million reasons to start coaching. There is only one that truly matters, the people that mean the most to you...your family, your customers, your vendors, and your employees.

 

The end result of good coaching is increased service to the customer, improved business performance for the individuals and teams, and greater personal satisfaction and fulfillment. For you, it's about being a better leader, a better parent, a better spouse, a better person.

 

Who is asking you the tough questions?

 

For Executives and Managers:

Your formal schooling is long since completed. You don't have the time to attend a workshop or seminar every week. So how do you learn the necessary new thing? From an executive coach.

 

The bottom line is: If others are thinking about coaching and you aren't - you're at a competitive disadvantage.

 

A coach will work with you privately to provide objective, professional direction to increase your performance by helping you enhance what you have and acquire what you need.

 

Not sure what is next? Are you finding yourself in a new role, or aspiring to greater heights? With coaching you can expect:

Coaching is the realization and awareness that how you do your job is as important as the job you do.

 

Today, it's not just what you know; it's about standing out with the soft skills. Standing out, being memorable, impressive, credible, genuine, trusted, and liked are the outcomes of good coaching. Coaching is a critical managerial skill. It's about increasing your influence. It separates the managers from the leaders.

 

When people move beyond technical skills into management, it's the soft skills that dominate everything they do. You should want to have so much value to your organization that something very important would be missing if you left. Soft skills are the differentiator. Having a coach improves your performance, your career, and your life. It increases your self worth and value to others.

 

How will you grow and learn?


Where do you learn what you don't know?

 

Learn business teachings and thought leadership.
Share expertise and experience.
Solve your toughest challenges.

 

Join the Peer Leadership Exchange.

I do not know anyone who is not busy and looking for their next customer or client. There remains uncertainty about how the marketplace will respond to the "new" economy. You are uncertain about what your clients will do. Your vendors and employees are uncertain about what you will do.

 

You have made the tough decisions to control costs. Everyone is working hard. You have stabilized the bottom line, and you're looking at that top line that has shrunk 40 to 60%.

 

You're working hard, your employees are working hard, and you feel stuck in the uncertainty about the decision your potential customers/clients will make and what this economy will do.

 

How do we engage our customers, expand our markets, grow our businesses and practices, and achieve the level of success and fulfillment we seek for our families and ourselves?

 

The purpose of the Peer Leadership Exchange is to provide the education and knowledge, tools and techniques, inspiration and motivation for business owners to succeed. Success depends on performance, leadership, and growth.

 

Performance. Leadership. Growth.

LEARNING: the business teachings and thought leadership to manage your business operations more effectively and to enhance your leadership skills.

 

SHARING: the expertise and experience of your peers around their best business practices.

 

SOLVING: the toughest challenges and biggest problems you face.

The result...

Business Builders Group
Building Business Equity — Creating Personal Wealth

Business builders is an exchange of business knowledge and thought leadership, strengthened by the expertise and experience of business owners, who share ideas and perspectives that you would not get otherwise. The result...a wiser CEO/business owner who operates at a more efficient level, who leads more effectively, and who builds business equity and personal wealth.

 

For small and mid-size business owners with annual revenues between $1.0 and $20.0 million, this business builders group is focused on:

Working in groups of 12, the members establish financial benchmarks and monitor each other for performance accountability. They learn business teaching and thought leadership through professional facilitation, resource speakers, and rich discussion. Sharing their personal expertise and business experience they offer each other best practices to incorporate into their own businesses. Acting as an advisory board or think tank, they help solve each others toughest challenges and leverage their greatest opportunities.

 

The focus of the group members is on:

 

Management: Raise your management competency to increase operational performance

 

Leadership: Strengthen your character to become a better leader

 

Ownership: Grow the equity in your business to create personal wealth for you and your employees

 

A Business Builders Group is now forming.

 

I have been asked to form a unique and committed group of 12 CEO/business owners of companies with $1.0 to $15.0 million in annual revenue. The CEOs I am seeking are successful and experienced owners who recognize that they have operational and leadership skills to enhance, a willingness to share their expertise and experiences with others, and are want to utilize the mastermind/think tank benefit of other business owners.

 

I am dedicated to sharing with you how you can better increase your personal wealth by driving your business beyond its current performance.

 

Other groups forming in 2010 are:

 

How effective are your leaders?

Enhance self-perception. Increase team performance. Align your organization.

Learn how to be an effective leader.

 

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He [She] does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his [her] actions and the integrity of his [her] intent."

At BEYOND the BENCHMARK we believe leadership comes from within ourselves. With guidance and openness to self-exploration, the mastering of a few tools and models, and continuous personal and professional learning, you can master being a leader.

 

Leadership is about understanding and developing character. Through our leadership class you will examine your actions and behaviors, and learn how to align them with your intentions. You will learn how your behaviors become your habits, and how your habits determine your values. Character is defined by your values and integrity. Your values and integrity determine your destiny.

 

By empowering your character with the useful tools we provide, you will learn to better understand yourself and others, build effective teams, and provide the vision and direction to lead teams, groups, and organizations to success. Together we will discover the uniqueness of each other, and use our differences to create greatness.

 

Success and fulfillment come from the passion within us.

"The Leadership Class has been an enormously positive experience for me. It has given me tools with which to work throughout each day and the encouragement and inspiration to go the extra mile in communication and positive interaction."

 

"I needed something to give me a little 'boost' and this class made me enthusiastic about our organization and other things in life. Learned a lot about myself."

 

"Thank you for all your time and effort in everything that you have done. You've helped me grow and gain a new perspective on work and personal life through the leadership class."

 

THE CLASS

BEYOND the BENCHMARK offers a comprehensive and intense leadership development class that will change your perspective and life. Through lecture, open dialogue, reading, composition, art, and group exercises, we will coach and guide you through a challenging and enlightening process.

 

You will receive 50 hours of classroom learning experience, compose papers, create collages, and read top selling leadership and/or business books. You will receive specific feedback on your strengths and weaknesses, and be provided the guidance for continuing your growth beyond the class. Most importantly, you will learn from and share with the other members of the class.

 

Leadership development is for everyone. Whether top executive, manager, team member, technician, spouse, or parent, the leadership development class offered by BEYOND the BENCHMARK is a life learning experience. This is your invitation to join us.

 

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