Coaching aims at improving performance quality and learning skills.
Coaching represents a powerful method of achieving success and excellence both in your personal and your professional life.
It is also one of the most efficient techniques of optimizing business, especially from the point of view of the cost- benefit balance.
In business time is essential; I believe Henri Ford was the one who said that time is money. For some managers, a job done fast is sometimes more valuable than a job done well, and so they end up building pressure in organizations through numerous deadlines. This type of strategy however, can only make the team lose focus on the quality of its essential objectives, making it focus more on the quantity or how fast these objectives are fulfilled. But which is more important in a successful business: quantity or quality? Recently I’ve heard a story that is related to this kind of strategy:
There was once an old man whose only friend was a rooster he took care of and ...
Have you ever had the feeling you are not being listened to while you’re speaking? In my experience, I have to admit this is a rather common feeling, especially when I work with clients that expect an immediate solution to their problem or certain answers which they want to hear and when they don’t, they impatiently want to finish the coaching session. But if we don’t have patience to deal with our own problems, then how can we expect to deal with other people’s problems?
When I worked with Radu, a manager working for an important retail company, the first thing he asked me during the first meeting was for me to “solve” his problems at work. He said that even ...
Lately I have been working a lot with managers that seek more and more for their team and clients’ trust. They keep investing money and time in trainings for their employees, in marketing consultants, in promotional strategies, but only to discover that none of these make a difference. Richard Bach said that the simplest things are usually the truest; even if trust is so hard to gain and so easy to lose, any manager can build it if he can handle simplicity.
Ron Ashkenas from Harvard Business Review said that there’s a certain trend for managers and companies to “market” simplicity in order to gain people’s credibility. However, the same managers use in their company’s mission and vision vague objectives, full ...
The famous HP brand was conceived in a Palo Alto garage at the end of the Great Depression. The company was initially brought on the market with a 538 $ investment, which soon made it as one of the top competitors on the market, with 100 billion $ in revenue.
Burger King began as a start-up during an economic recession and in 1957 (year marked by a global economic crisis), the company launched the famous Whopper, the burger that had an international success and enchanted clients all over the world.
CNN, one of the news giants was founded during a difficult economic timing, in 1980, when it was known as The Cable Network News and turned into the first television channel that ...
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Albert Einstein)
From the point of view which I bear in mind while writing these ideas, intuition is what makes a difference in the business environment and not only. In order to properly run a business, a team or even a family, you don’t just need a sharp mind, you need to be open and perceptive with yourself and what you feel. But I guess it would be easier if I gave an example.
Last fall I met Maria, who is an entrepreneur. She runs a business in the textile business and was ...
I might be describing a rather common situation: efforts without results, unfinished projects, wasted time and money on training sessions that didn’t change anything. I have worked with professionals who always wanted to achieve certain results in which they highly invested, but without knowing what really matters or what they should be really doing. It’s exactly what the chair of the American Statistical Association said about people’s lack of orientation: Many make the mistake of starting to write questions without spelling out objectives or what Mabel Newcomer would call it: it is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
So then, in business, how can you separate the things ...
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower – Steve Jobs.
Innovation is the key element to developing a business in a XXIst century economy and an efficient way of achieving economic growth, said a National Science Foundation report from USA; which is one of the natural consequences of a modern economy, but which makes the entrepreneurs’ preoccupation for innovation a needed development in their organizations. In the European Union, the country with the biggest innovation inclination is Germany (79.9%), according to EUROSTAT, making it one of the most resistant and productive countries during the economic crisis. However, innovation is still being viewed as an expensive investment which can be avoided and replaced with short term goals. But this is how the performance process ...
During my career as a manager, I was convinced that the core of business success is dedication towards your company. I was therefore, 100% dedicated to one activity and it was important that I did it better and better every day. I couldn’t help but notice the same type of message at other managers as well.
To have a successful strategy means following a single direction, by investing and concentrating on one exclusive career, business or path. In short, having a convergent approach.
However, the true success of several business people shows another approach – the one that follows the concept of success deriving from people’s ability to have a divergent thinking and to open towards more paths.
The well-known venture capitalist, Chuck ...
Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. Baltasar Gracian
A new business means a new opportunity. But for many entrepreneurs, such an opportunity means more personal success, more money, independence etc. Aspects of a business which are without a doubt significant for any business, which lead to the idea of winning more, selling more or getting more. Of course, any entrepreneur needs to aspire to such aspects of a business, however, these are not the ones that define an inspired leadership style.
The paradox of success is that you will never win by trying to help yourself, but by helping others.
Thomas Edison said I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms ...
Try doing something really good, and then keep talking about it, a famous Public Relations specialist once said. Concept which is frequently applied in business, where most leaders are interested in collaborating with famous companies and successful people.
I have always enjoyed coaching entrepreneurs; they have the ambition and energy to establish new records. The term entrepreneur is defined as a person who is willing to build an enterprise, a person with a dynamic character and a leadership style that involves taking risks or new opportunities for development.
Lately, I have been working with numerous entrepreneurs, from different cities and I couldn’t help but notice that most of them are highly influenced by the financial approaches and keep investing a lot ...
The main goal of coaching is to develop authentic leadership. It is the most efficient method of leadership skills development for managers. Whether they hire beginners or senior managers, companies need people who are able to design and implement success, making the most out of their power to influence, inspire, work in a team, organize and, most of all, lead other people. 
