SmallBusinessMasterCoaching

What’s your business issues?

July 7, 2011 36 Comments

Hi again, Coach Cameron here from Leaping Through Life and CEO of Small Business Master Coaching.

You know, what I believe a lot of people should look for in business is actually a good coach who can help them increase revenue, lower costs, improve systems, improve their lead generations and help them with both online and offline marketing.

Personally, if I was looking for a business coach, or someone to help me do those things, I wouldn’t want just someone who has paid a couple of thousand dollars to do a course on maybe say, business marketing or NLP. Sure, all that sort of stuff is really good but do they actually walk the talk? Have they got a runs on the board and have they run their own successful business models already? And if the answer is no, well then you’re just working with someone that’s done the training and might not really understand the day-to-day running of a small to medium business.

So, what I help people do as a business coach is I help managers and business owners identify some issues in their business because I get it. I know what it’s like to be in business. So I sit down with people and I help them identify some of the issues that are in their business currently.

From those issues, we identify or we highlight the top issues and we work with those ones first. From there, we look at the problems of those top issues, what are some of the challenges they face, what are some of the things they have to go through on a daily basis to get stuff right. Once we’ve identified the issues, we go through some of the problems then we look at the outcome, what’s the final result that the business owner wants from the issue? Is it to raise capital? Is it to improve revenue? Is it to create more leads?

Once people know what the outcome is, they can be coached or helped to achieve their goals a lot faster. If you start off coaching someone or when I start off working with someone both on and off a sporting field and on and off the business arena, it’s really hard to work with people that don’t know where they’re going. And that’s why that process is really important.

So I encourage you now. Take five minutes to identify some of the issues in your business you’re currently facing. Look at some of the problems or challenges that are ongoing as part of those issues. And then really get to the nuts and bolts and identify what is the end result that you would like. What should it look like if you could wave a magic wand over your business? What would the end result look like for you that you’d be truly satisfied with and happy with that outcome? Once you can identify those three steps, you’re on your way to improving your profitability, your productivity and your overall health of your business.

Thanks for clicking through. I look forward to seeing you really soon in person at one of my workshops or events, or I hope to get to coach you with one of our excellent membership programs.

Keep Leaping Through Life - warm regards, Coach Cameron Roberts.

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Dealing with Conflict from the Public

July 5, 2011 41 Comments

Hi Coach Cameron Roberts from Leaping Through Life and Small Business Master Coaching.

Thanks for clicking through to our Corporate Coaching and Business Owner Support Programs. Today, I want to talk about business primarily.

I recently learned of a really good professional speaker one of the ways of which you can approach conflict in the marketplace. So when a client has a disagreement with you and they come on really heavily and offer a verbal challenge to you, personally, what I used to do is get really defensive and try and counteract that or solve that problem for them whilst alleviating that frustration.

But this professional speaker actually gave us the tip of focusing internally on your own breathing and on your own state of mind and your own health. And what I find that does is it keeps my mind clear up so I can listen to the person intently and really focus on what it is they are trying to vent out.

What you find is that if you actually let the person who has got that build up frustration or the build up anger or the problem, they actually just get to vent it all out. And once they calm down, then you can ask them, “Well, what can I do to help you? What are some of the solutions do you like me to provide or the business to provide?”

Now, you might not be able to provide them all on the spot, and often, it’s a good opportunity for you to put some margins in place. And you might say things like, “What sort of solutions would you like me to provide for you to fix that problem?” And when I offer you the solutions, then you can create the margin for yourself by saying, “Well look, that’s not a process I can fix immediately right now. But how about if you leave it with me for 24 hours or 48 hours, and I’ll touch base with you on the best options I can come up for you.” And what you’re doing there is creating some time where they can go away and relax and calm down, and it takes the heat out of the situation if you like.

So there are two tips that you can use when confronted with conflict in the marketplace. It’s really helpful if you’re working with the public on a regular basis.

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The Power Of Social Connections

July 3, 2011 8 Comments

Hi again, Coach Cameron Roberts here from Leaping Through Life! Thanks for clicking through to the Leaping Through Life Corporate Coaching and Small Business Master Coaching Programs.

Today, I quickly want to share with you about the importance of connections. Now, I’d like to really share about the importance and the power of social connections. In life, we face a lot of stress and a lot of busyness, and I think it’s really important that we take time out to hang with people who we just do life with. We need to stretch ourselves and invite people over and go to people’s places we might not already know, just to establish some new connections and some new social networks.

I mean, think about your business. You could be at a party and you could actually network with someone you’ve never met before that might have a thousand or $100,000 contract ready for you to take up if you’re a small business contractor or a small business owner.

Business aside, the importance of social networking and connecting with friends and connecting with mates is really important. It’s not about just going out and wrecking yourself and wrecking the town but actually have a really great time together, having some great laughs and sharing some great stories so everyone feels good. And you know what? That’s one of the best ways to deal with stress, is to just get a handful of people together who enjoy doing life together, have some funny jokes and some good laughs together and think about some of the great things that you’ve done in your lifetime.

Often, when you look back at your life, you’re not going to remember the busy-ness of your work or the things you’ve done in the office, but you remember those special moments. You remember those times together with family and friends. You remember those funny times you had with some good mates.

So I want to encourage you as this week kicks on for you, or if it’s the end of your working week, I want to encourage you to create some special moments for yourself. Think about how you can get together and get connected with some people who you know and enjoy and make sure you have some laughs because the laughs will just free you of your stress and they’ll just free you of your busyness. You’ll forget all about everything that’s happened at work for that week and you’ll just be able to enjoy yourself. And for next week, you can go on and push forward and be better than what you were this week at your workplace.

Well I hope that’s helpful. If you want more information about our coaching services, you can always check me up online at leapingthroughlife.com.au and if you leave me your name and your email address in our Contact Us form.

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Thanks for reading on – keep Leaping Through Life, Coach Cameron.

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