December 2017 « Confidence Coach

Service & Success Are Married

Here’s a thought for you: Business and marriage aren’t really all that different. There’s one common success principle in both scenarios: The more we think about serving others, the more successful our business and marriage becomes. The Bible says the greatest among you will be the one who serves the most people, which makes me think of today’s fastest growing companies: places like Airbnb, Facebook, Google, and Uber. They find ways to serve millions of people, in often the most basic ways, and that service is getting them results. I think of the best long-term marriages I know, and they all have one thing in common: They’re thinking about serving their spouse every day, for a lifetime.

Service and success are married — and service is the key to the results that you want.

by Scott Ballard , December 31, 2017

Steps For Transformation: You Decide

If you’re like most CEO’s or entrepreneurs, you always have the next steps planned — and you’re pretty confident about what the results will be. That’s fine and all, but don’t you think it’s playing it just a little too safe? In our coaching we call this “arranging.” This type of planning or prep does not bring the great result or the huge transformation that we’re always hoping to see. In our coaching we ask a different question: What would transform your entire business? This is a total paradigm shift, because this is now about ideas and strategies that are total game changers.

Are you thinking in a transformational way? Or is something in the way in your mind? Are you blocking yourself from becoming all you can be? Let’s talk about it.

by Scott Ballard , December 24, 2017

Who Needs A Coach?

Who needs a coach? Only the business owner or CEO who dares to be held to a higher accountability for a bigger future. If we think of all the people we know who are successful in life, what is one thing they all have in common? They all have a coach, a mentor, a consultant, somebody that they’re learning from, being guided by, somebody who’s asking them the hard questions. Somebody who is holding the belief that they could be more, somebody who’s reminding them of it until they actually get there. Someone who believes in your hopes, your dreams, and your aspirations, and supports you as you go through the process of achieving them.

What about you? Do you need a coach?

Schedule a free session with me today.

by Scott Ballard , December 17, 2017

Why We All Need To Play The Long Game

This is seriously counterintuitive thinking in today’s instant gratification world, but here it is: we need to think of our business, our employees, and our customers in the sense of a lifetime. We all need to play the long game. So here’s my question to you: What’s the long game for your business? Where do you want to be ten years from now?

What’s the long game for your employees? Why will they be positively contributing ten years from now?

What’s the long game for your customers? How will their needs change ten years from now?

Focusing on this brings in a bit of double vision: Having a successful business today is important, of course, but it has to be coupled with your plans for a successful business ten years from now. The long game is what all successful long-term businesses do well. So what is your long game?

Schedule a free coaching session here if you want help figuring it out.

by Scott Ballard , December 10, 2017

Do You Have a Blind Spot?

Recently, we were working with a client who was struggling in their business. They invited us in to do some team coaching and see if we could help them out — and it didn’t take long for us to spot the problem. After spending a morning with their team, at lunch I pulled the owner aside and told him, “You’ve hired 20 of yourself. These people all think like you, have the same skills you have, have the same perspectives you have, and see the business in the same way you do. You have a Perspective Gap in your company. By not having another perspective, you’re missing out on discovering what the customer’s experience is and how the product is being used. What other opportunities could you be missing out on? Is there a better, faster way to do this? What does the future look like?” I stopped to check in on him, and he had the look of a deer in the headlights.

“I never saw it that way,” he said, “but it’s true. That’s a pretty big blind spot.” We put together a plan for him, and are now helping him get some other perspectives; he’s erasing his blind spot as we speak.

What about you? Do you have a blind spot in your business? Do you have varied perspectives on your team? Contact us today for a free coaching session if you want some outside eyes to help you out. It’s what we do.

by Scott Ballard , December 3, 2017