Why Coaching Works

Why does nearly every professional athletic have a coach? Some have more than one coach and each has a specific role: marketing, finance, contracts, tactics, public relations, etc.

Why do most larger companies have a board of directors. The role of the board is to hold the management team accountable for executing strategy, clearing out obstacles, provide feedback on critical issues, mentoring and providing business coaching to the president and other critical management team members.

Some coaches excel at helping you  improve people skills. Other are more experienced at  building an effective team. Still others are more effective at  growing sales.

Study after study have shown the effectiveness of  business coaching and  business coaching programs to help you and your company is useful, if you are open to being coached. It is impossible for you to be an expert in all areas of business.

SCORE states that 70% of all businesses that fail do so because they do not know when to ask for help or ignore problems when they happen.

Do not be one of the 70%. If nothing else a good  business coach will provide feedback and accountability to move you forward. And the good news is if they do not perform you can fire them.

Find someone to help you.If you have a business coach and they are not helping fire them.

Ron Finklestein
Ohio Business Coach
330-990-0788
RON@AKRIS.NET

Building an effective Team

Building an effective Team

To build an effective team you need to consider all the members of the team and the behavioral styles of each member.

When you are building an effective team you need to consider how people learn, who will be the leader and the style of the leader, and the nature of the project.

Effective teams need four styles:

Directors – the get it done folks

Socializers – the conceptual thinkers and influencers

Relaters – the people who are concerning about others and getting others involved

Thinker – the people who have a strong need to be right and are brilliant critical thinkers

When you all four styles on your team, when managed correctly, the team will produce outstanding results.

To Your Success,

Ron Finklestein

Small Business coach

330-990-0788

ron@akris.net

17 Actions Small Business Owners can do to Improve Business Performance

17 action small business owners can do to Improve Business Performance:

1.     Improve people skills. We call all get better in this area.  

2.     Improve your people/leadership skills

3.     Develop the people skills of your managers  

4.     Hire a personal executive coach to get an outside perspective and to hold you accountable

5.     Create effective communication training so everyone in the organization knows the rules for communicating

6.     Manage people and their performance  

7.     Teach people to support performance management

8.     Perform activities that support building an effective team

9.     Understand workplace team building and its impact on your business

10.  Create a team building challenge

11.  Attend management negotiating skills training to create win/win opportunity 

12.  Provide negotiation skills seminar for your team so they can create win/win opportunities

13.  Learn presentation skills tips to improve your effectiveness when delivering your message  

14.  Implement a business coaching program to receive ideas on implementing these 17 actions

15.  Attend a business advisory board to gain feedback from your peers

16.  Take time to communicate & coach communication skills you want in the organization

17.  Celebrate your small business success stories. This keep morale strong. 

This is a long list but the good news is you do not have to do them all at the same time. Pick any three and get started.

Ron Finklestein

Small Business Coaching

330-990-0788

ron@akris.net