June 2019 « Confidence Coach

You Need to Acknowledge the Wins

How do you change meetings from being basically the “death of a business” to something that people look forward to? It’s really simple – acknowledge the “wins” that people have in their lives.

Start your meetings with everybody in the group taking 30 seconds and sharing what they’re most excited about in their life right now.

For example, it could be about something at work, or something personal to do with themselves or their family, maybe it’s a recreational activity they are really excited about or something they are doing. Just be sure to give everybody a chance to share. What you’ll find is that by doing this, engagement will increase 10x just because they’re talking about something that they are truly passionate about. There’s energy around this. It will then transfer and carry into the meeting and work-related agenda items you need to speak with them about. They will be in a positive mood and much more ready to be engaged in the meeting items.

If you consistently do this at every meeting, people will come with the anticipation of sharing what they just did. Maybe someone will say, “Oh, I want to share with everyone that I just finished my first half marathon” or, “I just did this…” and they will say what they are excited about. This is how to change meetings from being a thing that people dread and a waste of time to making them productive, exciting and a great experience for everyone.

This also creates a culture that says you really care about your people and what they are doing. It helps your team build relationships as well. You might be surprised at what’s going on in their lives when you get to know them on a more personal level. This creates a new kind of synergy with your team when you acknowledge the wins.

This is one of the things we share with people when we are working with them using The Dream Employee. If you’d like to know more about The Dream Employee and The Employee Maximizer, schedule a free consultation and we can explain in more detail how we can help increase your employee engagement and employee retention by helping your employees achieve their hopes, dreams and aspirations.

by Scott Ballard , June 30, 2019

What’s working well?

I have a different thought for you today which I’d like you to implement on a daily routine. Ask yourself these two questions about your business: “What’s right and what’s working well?”

The question of “what’s working well” can be related to today, this quarter or even this year. Then, what if you carried it a step further and as you are interacting with your employees or department heads ask them the same questions. What’s right in the company? What’s working well? Then LISTEN to what they have to say.

The next step to take this even further would be when you go out to meet some of your customers ask for their opinion too. What’s right? What’s working well?

We all know that customers are really good at telling us what isn’t working well and employees do the same. But, this changes the paradigm to ask how we can build and improve on what we are already doing a good job at.

Ask yourself and your employees how can we scale the company and deliver what’s right and what’s well to our customers in a greater way?

I think you’ll find this will change your company culture, and hopefully yourself. Instead of focusing on the problem, you are expanding on a solution and creating greater value by looking at the positive.

Go ahead and start using these questions today and see what happens. Let us know how it affects your employees and your customers, as well as changing your own thought process about how you view your company.

For more information please schedule a free consultation. I’d love to learn more about your business and the company culture you have.

by Scott Ballard , June 23, 2019

Are you stuck?

What is the biggest obstacle in the way for your business to deliver what you really need it to deliver?

Where are you stuck?

What is that one thing that you’ve been thinking about?

Are you strategizing about it?

Are you trying to turn that obstacle or barrier into something that will propel you forward or are you just stuck there?

Sometimes people like to process and think about their obstacle or barrier. Then again, other people just ignore it and push it back until it becomes a HUGE thing. Which camp are you in?

In our coaching, when a person gets to the point where they don’t want to deal with it, we call this “stuckedness.”

Stuckedness is a place where a lot of people reside for one reason or another.

They come to us and say they’ve been beating their head up against this barrier. For example, maybe it’s a certain level of revenue that’s been the same for the past 1, 2 or 3 years, and they just can’t seem to get past it.

When this happens, the first thing we do is say — let’s bring this obstacle or barrier out of the dark!

Let’s look at it, bring light to it and create a way for you to scale up or to get past that place that you’re stuck in.

If you’d like to have one of these conversations, let us know. There’s no commitment or cost to you — just schedule a free consultation.

We would like to show you how to move forward. Let us help you bring light to the obstacles that are in your way.

by Scott Ballard , June 16, 2019

What’s your limiting belief?

Ask yourself this question today — What’s my limiting belief about my employees?

We’ve discovered that a majority of business owners and CEOs have limiting beliefs about what their employees are capable of doing, being, or creating in their business.

Is this something you struggle with too?

Are You Limiting Your Employees?

Do you have limiting beliefs in any of these areas in regards to your employees?

what they can or can’t do;
what their responsibilities are; or
what they can produce for your business.

If so, then these may be getting in the way of your business experiencing more profit, more growth, and actually more return on your payroll investment.

What do you believe about your employees on an individual basis, as a department or group?

Are you transferring your limiting belief to them?

Are you decreasing their ability to produce, collaborate, and deliver a better product or service to your customers?

If this idea shakes you a little bit, then I’d love to take you through the Engagement Multiplier. This is a process that we have to check where you’re at as far as your beliefs go about your employees.

You Set the Tone

As the leader you set the tone of the company. Along with that tone is a belief about what your employee is capable of doing; what they can accomplish; how good of a job they can do; how they show up to work. In order to set the right tone, you need to check in with yourself and be really honest. Ask yourself whether you have labeled and believed that your employee is only capable of certain things.

If you are limiting them by your beliefs of what you think they can do — you need to change! Stop your limiting beliefs around your employees, so that they can be set free to be more productive and do greater work. This in turn will give you more time and money from your business.

If you find this compelling and want to have an honest exchange about it, reach out to us and schedule a free consultation. Let’s change your limiting beliefs and empower your employees to do their very best.

by Scott Ballard , June 9, 2019

The Dream Employee

Today I want to talk to you about the third step in The Employee Maximizer. It’s a process that we have developed called The Dream Employee which you may recall I’ve talked about in another blog.

The Dream Employee is a great way to find out what motivates your employees. By going through a simple questioning process with each one of your team members at your company on a monthly basis, you can learn how to help, support and encourage them to achieve their own personal goals and dreams.

When you begin to know your employees on a personal level, it helps them to see the connection between their goal or dream and their work that they are doing in your company. It helps create collaboration and makes a connection to their job that helps with retention, motivation and engagement to the company’s vision.

People that are achieving their own personal goals or dreams are internally motivated so you don’t have to do all the motivating every day, every month or every quarter.

All you have to do is help them make the connection between their job and their own personal goals. Your company culture changes once they realize that you really care, and show them that their work is a vehicle that can help them achieve some of their goals and dreams.

Reach out to us and let us know if you’d like to talk about this. We’d love to share the idea with you in more detail.

by Scott Ballard , June 2, 2019