"I ain't normal"
I'm not just another typical "Business Coach." Not an MBA / Business Coach Franchisee / Former large-corporation-executive-turned-Business-Coach / career consultant / career trainer / career academic / PhD.
I am a highly experienced business manager who's learned AND PRACTICED very effective business techniques.
I've been frontline labor, frontline supervision, Department Manager, Facility Manager, and Director. And I've been CEO of businesses I started from scratch.
Then you add the dozens of management teams I've worked with as a Business Coach.
I've had a career in the trenches, fighting the same business battles you fight.
Formal Education: Mechanical Engineer with a Minor in Psychology
Informal Education: A lifetime passion for learning through self-study sources. Key areas include human behavior, Organization Effectiveness (not "efficiency"), how things work (especially processes and people), Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Finance, Business Planning, Selling and Sales Management, Employee Coaching, interpreting employee behavior, and several more.
Business Process Guru: Every activity in a business is a process. That's not just an engineer's point of view. It was legitimized in the year 2000 by the International Organization for Standardization. I learned the skills of process development from the founding fathers of the process field. And then I refined those skills with four decades of applying them to every process imaginable. Even administrative, planning, meetings, cash-flow-management, people-management, and leadership processes. I'll say it again: every activity in a business is a process. In fact, an entire business is a big process composed of sub-processes that together, convert money spent into money spent + profits. If you focus on creating effective processes, you'll get greater profits.
If you are familiar with Brain Dominance (most people are either Right-brain dominant or Left-brain dominant), I have dual dominance: I have the analytical / mathematical / technical traits of left-brain dominance, and I have the sociability / empathy / expressive / sensitivity-to-others'-emotions-and-needs / creativity traits of right-brain dominance.
My Adaptability aptitude was measured to be in the top 2% of the population.
My Strategy and Planning aptitude is also in the top 2%.
This is what I'm made of. I am not a normal Business Coach.
How I add value for you
Coaching: I first ask a lot of questions and actively listen. I coach, advise, suggest, inform, and hands-on implement. One-on-one with executives and with people at all other levels as required.
Innovative workshops: Actually, Group Coaching. My workshops are more like receiving coaching as a group.
Turnkey Projects:
Need growth? I've grown my businesses at surprisingly rapid growth rates and helped my clients do the same.
Need more throughput? I've improved productivity many times.
You need your company to get it right the first time more often? It's common and I've improved reliability many times.
And I help clients develop and implement things like business strategies, process cycle-time reduction, pay structures, performance appraisals, quality management systems, and many more competitive advantages.
I am functional, fluent, and effective at all major business processes.
What about your business skills? I've helped hundreds of professionals upgrade their business skills.
Managing your time, i.e. managing yourself
Developing highly effective reliable systems, processes, and procedures
Coaching employees
Building high levels of employee commitment
Leading Change
Pursuing financing
Building a Business Plan
Form Marketing Strategy and Tactics
Things you wish for, even if you currently think they are impossible. Tell me your business "Pains & Wishes."
I will work directly with you and with the people in your business who can contribute to the effort.
- It might be one project, like launching a new product.
- It might be a problem employee you want to improve.
- It might include training sessions with a group.
- It will likely include work with you and your management team.
- It might be improvement of your business's overall performance.
- It will likely include one-on-one work with you.
Every client has their unique circumstances, resources, limitations, obstacles, challenges, and opportunities. I don't walk in with one-size-fits-all solutions.
How to dominate competitors: Build a positive effective company culture.
- All Executives and managers have business pains. Things they would change if they could.
- Many keep doing what they've always done. And the pains don't go away.
- There are some universal techniques "all" managers learn. These techniques are supposed to create a positive effective company culture. Managers mostly learn these techniques from techniques they've experienced from their bosses. Ever notice the things taught in classes and workshops aren’t practiced by your bosses? This is "everywhere." You don’t fit in if you use the workshop way.
- Those techniques are a Natural-management cow path. We follow this cow path because, "everybody knows that's how management works." These techniques work, but they don't work well. You’ve likely experienced this. It's "everywhere." It’s a path to mediocrity, not excellence!
- What do you step in when you follow the herd?
- I follow Smart Path Management techniques that are innovative and proven to deliver excellence.
- I have personally practiced and taught these techniques for decades. My clients are loving them too.
- Smart Path Management techniques build positive effective company cultures, growth, and profits.
Example Smart Path Management techniques:
- Building employee commitment. When employees' jobs feed their self-esteems, they’re committed
- Building a positive effective company culture.
- True leadership doesn't come from authority.
- The science and importance of influencing people.
- Natural-management cow path meetings are wasteful.
- Employee coaching that actually results in change.
- The power of Internal Customer Practices.
- People crave OBJECTIVE feedback on results. Give it!
- The science and talent of drawing boundaries.
- Effective delegating. More than assigning.
- Adapting to different personality styles.
- The power of focusing on General Conditions vs. focusing on Specific Issues.
- Power of giving priority to the Vital Few first. Weave the 80/20 Rule into your life.
- AND MUCH MORE.
Put innovative business techniques to work for you.