LEADERSHIP & EXECUTIVE COACHING
Do you want to get better, achieve more, reach your dreams and goals in your business and your life? If you fit these criteria, we should meet and talk. I’m looking for Christian business owners, CEOs, and executives who have a big vision or purpose in life, who want to make a meaningful Kingdom impact, and who would be fun to work with.
Why Do You Need a Coach?
The life of a Business Owner, CEO or President, and a high-level Executive can be challenging, stressful, and demanding. It’s also often a lonely existence and the leader can feel quite isolated. Who can you talk to about your struggles and difficult decisions, your fears and anxieties? If you talk to key customers, they may decide to buy from another company. If you talk to your suppliers, they will likely tighten your credit terms. If you talk to key employees, they may start searching for a new job. You can talk to your spouse or good friend, but they may only be able to sympathize and encourage you. Which is fine, but you still may feel overwhelmed.
Tiger Woods is clearly one of the best golfers in the history of the game. He employs several coaches – swing, putting, strength, nutrition, and mental. Why does Tiger need any coaches? The reasons are that he wants to maintain the highest level of performance and he wants to get even better. And he can’t see what he can’t see. No matter how many times he watches the video replay of his swing, he can’t see what someone with a different perspective can. But an effective coach can see it and suggest a change. It’s still up to Tiger, not the coach, to make the decision to change.
No Program – It’s All about You
Every leader longs for and needs to have an experienced confidant, a person with a track record of success and business performance, someone who has been there and done that and lived to share the experience. And then the effective coach can use his unique abilities to ask the tough, probing questions, listen intently for understanding, ask more powerful questions, and help you think through your options to reach a solid decision.
Have you ever had sleepless nights worried about how to make payroll in two weeks? What about the excruciating pain of deciding to terminate or layoff key employees with families? Have you ever dealt with the news that a product defect might end your company’s future in a few months. What about losing one of your biggest customers or finding out that you didn’t get selected for a big piece of new business you were counting on. Surely, you haven’t put your life and soul into your work and spent countless hours at the office and traveling, only to find out that your wife and kids don’t appreciate you nearly killing yourself for them and are very unhappy about not being a priority in your life. Talk about stress and pressure, you’re getting it from all sides.
Where can you turn? You need someone with firsthand understanding and experience with how you feel. In the examples above and countless other situations, I just couldn’t do it all alone. Maybe there were a few guys I could talk to about my problems, but not really. Throughout the early part of my career, I wish I had known where to find a coach or confidant to walk alongside me to help me live through the challenges.
Now that I understand the imperative for all of us to have a coach, I’m looking for business owners, CEOs, and executives who have a big vision or purpose in life, who want to make a meaningful Kingdom impact, and who would be fun to work with.
What about you? Do you want to get better, achieve more, reach your dreams and goals in your business and your life? If you fit these criteria, we should meet and talk.
What You Need to Do Next, You Asked?
Here are some of the highlights you will want to consider as we start the process.
- The coaching sessions are only about you and your needs, not some canned program to follow.
- Once we determine after our first meeting or conversation if there is a good fit for both of us, we will set a specific meeting time for 1 hour per week or 1 ½ hours every other week.
- “You will get what you intend, not what you hope for.” I’m all about hope in life, but you can’t accomplish anything with just hope. You can’t lose that 20 lbs. just by hoping it will go away, it requires action. You can’t change some behavior or achieve a goal you’ve set by just hoping. You’ve got to make an informed decision and get moving forward.
- You’ll learn the “3 Steps to Making a Decision and Achieving the Results”. Most people only take the first two steps and the third one is absolutely essential.
- Consider These Important Questions – If you don’t already know the answers to these questions, take some serious, undistracted time praying and thinking about them and making some notes. Our initial conversations will address them.
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- What is your Lifetime Purpose? Why are you here on this earth?
- What is your BHAQ (Big Holy Audacious Goal) or Big Dream?
- What impact do you want to have for the Kingdom here on earth?
- What would your ideal lifestyle look like? Family, business, ministry, money, generosity, recreation, time.