Saturday, July 24, 2004

Extraordinary Coach

Be Personally Trained by Terri Levine

This is a golden opportunity to get your Certified Coach Training with one of the world's leading Master Certified Coaches, Terri Levine MS, CCC-SLP, PCC, MCC, CEO of Coaching Instruction.com.

Terri is conducting a six month intensive training program, commencing in August 2004, to teach you everything you need to know to become a skilled and masterful Certified Comprehensive Coach. Existing coaches who desire to achieve a master skill level are also welcome.

This program will be delivered by teleseminar consisting of 12 hours of teleclasses and 6 hours of coaching labs, and includes email support with Terri direct. It is offered to you for only $850 dollars, or one payment of $400 and 3 payments of $200. The value of Terri's time, her expertise, and her teaching you directly is worth over $10,000!

Tele-Classes will be held at 1:00 PM Eastern for 2 hours each on the following dates:

(Wednesdays)
August 11, 25
September 8, 22
October 6, 20
November 17 (Lab)
December 15 (Lab)
January 12 (Lab)

This is an amazing and rare opportunity to be taught personally by Terri and learn everything that is necessary to know to be an extraordinary coach, to become certified with Terri as a Comprehensive Coach, and learn her personal step-by-step methods for developing a coaching business with speed and ease.

No one knows more about being a successful coach and earning a six or seven figure income as a coach, than Terri, who is famous for knowing how to have your cake and eat it too (with a silver spoon!) If you've ever dreamed you'd like to learn from the master herself, learn the techniques she uses that makes her stand out in the crowd and have a waiting list of clients, and you want to be successful fast, this is your chance. (The last time she offered this personal training program a few years ago, it booked out within the week!)

If you are thinking of becoming a Coach, you can become "A Coach" with many different schools (including our own CCU)… but if you want to stand out in the crowd and be one of "The" coaches, you will need to sign up with the "Wisdom Wizard" herself, Terri Levine, very soon. This is not a program you can afford to put off and think about for too long. Spaces are limited.

Read the full details at http://terrilevine.com/training.html







Low carb diet talk

Let's get real. Atkin's didn't work in the 70's and we got fatter and created more heart disease. Get back to basics that work!

Get off the fad of low carb. Why miss out eating pasta and pizza and cookies? Life is short and may be shorter than you think - you want to leave planet Earth without eating the good food? Heck, not me!

If you deprive yourself of foods like carbs, you feel like you are missing out.

Be sensible and fight the marketing messages.

I did it with http://www.createyouridealbody.com while eating cookies and ice cream and have kept it off over 7 years... you can too! Stand up and live!
















Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Employees Can Enjoy Work

There are five important things you must know to make your employees happy and productive so they can help your business thrive and prosper.

To set this up you have to first understand that today's worker is actively disengaged. They also call out sick more. One million workers call in sick every day in America.

In addition, two months of the average worker's year is wasted. Job stress is up 70% and stress related disease has skyrocketed.

Studies show that if you give worker's a voice they will be more productive and loyal. This can make your company wealthier.

It has been shown that proper employee motivation works and coaching increases company profits by 40% and increases employee retention 20%.

The leading edge companies train 90% of their employees yearly with an outside firm.

85% of your company success depends on your people skills.

A conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from coaching, according to Fortune Magazine, is that managers describe an average rate of more than $100,000 or about six times what coaching cost their company.

What is happening in the workplace?

I already said worker's are disengaged, now add to that the fact employees are less loyal and more mobile. Workplace violence continues to soar as well.

Change iniatives have been shown to waste money with only 30% of them producing a bottom line result, according to the Harvard Business School.

Workers feel work isn't fun and that they are aren't treated with respect and compassion on the job.

Here are the five costly mistakes companies make when trying to improve the situation above by hiring a training company:

1. Hiring a training company to give a seminar.

seminars aren't the answer
participants forget 80% of what they learn in 72 hours

2. Hiring a training company that doesn't include corporate and organizational coaching as part of the package.

Coaching gets results. According to Fortune Magazine, recipents value their coaching at 6 times the cost.

77% report improved working relationships with their direct reports, 71% with their supervisors and 63% with their peers.

There is also a noted increase in job satisfaction, up 61%, and organizational commitment improves 44%.

3. Hiring a training company whose trainers are not properly trained or certified.

Effective training requires intense knowlege of organizational development, coaching, training and consulting. Lack of this can increase employee disengagement.

4. Hiring a company that doesn't provide a year or more of follow-on coaching.

Training without coaching doesn't stick. You won't get outcomes or ROI. Training without coaching results in 20-25% increase in productivity. Training WITH coaching gives an 80% increase in productivity!

5. Hiring a training company without a track record.

Would you hire a CEO without a solid track record??

What to Look for In A Training Company:

1. Certified, experienced coaches/trainers
2. Certified Coaches
3. A proven track record/lots of experience

The productivity and profitability of your company can be greatly impacted by your choice of a training company. Training combined with coaching can increase employee productivity by over 80%. Training and coaching together, can result in over 50% higher net sales per employee, and 40% higher gross profit per employee.

Not all training companies are the same. An uncertified, inexperienced training company can cost you employee productivity, employee profitability and take money away from your business and YOU!

If you want to know if your employee morale can be improved, you can get a complimentary Employee Morale assessment at no charge by emailing president@coachinginstruction.com or calling toll free in the US: 877-401-6165.

Saturday, July 17, 2004