Looking For a Survey
or Two That You Can Take To Clarify The Things That You Want To Work
On With Your Coach ?
- Questions To Ask Yourself
- How Do You Know You Are On The Right Path?
- The Entrepreneurs Reality Checklist
- Client Coachability Index
- Are You Ready For A Coach?
Questions To Ask Yourself
Vision
- How much is it costing you because you do not have a detailed written Vision?
- Are this year's results and challenges similar to what you have been creating over the past 5 years?
- Are you too busy with what is urgent to create the time to create the vision and business of your dreams?
- Are day to day challenges eliminating your excitement for the future?
Planning
- If your results stay at this level, will you achieve your goals?
- Do you think things will change over the next twelve months?
Financial
- Are you sure that you are creating the future or retirement that you hope for?
Communication
- How often are you experiencing conflict with your staff, clients or family?
- If we polled your staff, clients or family, what would they say?
Hiring
- Do you enjoy the hiring process because you have a hiring system that attracts the kind of team members that excite you about coming to work?
Marketing
- Are you clear on your niche market?
- Do you have a low cost marketing engine?
Sales
- Are you spread too thin with unqualified clients, offering too many types of products that are unprofitable for you?
- Which client or product group takes the most time and provides the lowest return?
Customer Service
- Are you delivering "wow" customer service?
- Do you have a plan to delver "wow" customer service?
Professional Development
- How long do you think that you can carry the stress that is in your business and personal life?
- Are you excited about your business and personal life?
- Do you feel fulfilled at the end of the day, week, month?
Is It Time For A Change?
- Do you have an unbiased person to talk to, one who is interested in you as a person, one that does not have a hidden agenda?
- Is it time to hire a coach that will help you to be clear and direct to meet and exceed your expectations?
How Do You Know You Are On The Right Path?
You are what they call a "self made person". Over the years, through business and personal trial, error and hard work you have built the successful business that you have today. You have developed a reputation, clientele, and experienced growth, added and in some cases, removed associates and employees, upgraded your premises and all of this takes time.
You have found that you are an expert (you have the inherent Values and Behaviors) for some parts of your business and in a few cases you find that you are experiencing the same kinds of challenges that you experienced 5 and even 10 years ago:
- No Vision For The Future
- Expectations Are Set Too Low
- Lack Of Direction
- Micro Managing
- Too Many Balls In The Air
- High Stress, Too Many Surprises
- Trying To Fix The Wrong Problem
- You Can't Keep Pace
- The Team Is In Conflict
- Too Many Demanding & Unprofitable Clients
- Missing New Opportunities
- Wasted Energy & Time
- Burnout
What would happen if you had the opportunity to work with someone that is a specialist in listening and making recommendations for a new course of action that will build a sustainable plan and foundation that will eliminate the above noted challenges?
What would your results be if you worked with someone that has experienced every kind of business and personal challenge imaginable, and who has an array of documented and sustainable systems that will create measurable results in the short and long term?
Are you ready to go to the next level? What direction and actions are you going to take?
If you have read this far, we want to acknowledge you because it is a sign that you are taking the steps to make a change.
The Entrepreneurs Reality Check List
What's going on with you and your business? Take this quiz to find out.
Instructions: Circle the number of the statements that are true. If more than 5 statements are true, then working with a coach specializing in entrepreneurs may be the perfect solution.
- I am uncertain about the sustainability of my revenue streams.
- I have business debt that is more than 20% of my annual revenues.
- Given the effort I'm putting in, my net income is nowhere near high enough.
- If I wasn't here, the place would fall apart within a month.
- I can't seem to attract - or keep - the right staff.
- I'm doing tasks that I do not like or am not very good at.
- I am working more than 10 hours a day.
- I am working far too much in my business instead of on my business.
- Sometimes I wonder if I'm both the arsonist and the fireman.
- We're not as focused on our customers as we need to be.
- There's more chaos in this company than the employees prefer.
- I want to spend more time with my family or in other interests.
- I don't feel free and that's where I want to be.
- I want to improve the focus and direction of where the business is heading.
- I have ideas for significant revenue streams that I just cannot seem to make time for.
- Profitability isn't where it could be.
- I want to delegate more so I can have the time to discover new opportunities.
- The joy of owning a business is being replaced by the stress of running a business.
- It would be valuable to develop a 12 to18-month growth plan.
- I need to find a way to better motivate the staff.
_______ TOTAL SCORE (add up all circles)
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Client Coachability Index
How Coachable Are You?
Instructions: Circle the number which comes closest to representing how true the statement is for you right now. Then, score yourself, using the key at the bottom of the page. Your coach needs for you to be at the place in life where you are coachable. This test helps him/her - and you - discover how coachable you are, right now.
LESS TRUE 1 2 3 4 5 MORE TRUE
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I can be relied upon to be on time for all calls and appointments. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | This is the right time for me to accept coaching. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I am fully willing to do the work and let the coach do the coaching. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I keep my word without struggling or sabotaging. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I'll give the coach the benefit of the doubt and "try on" new concepts or different ways of doing things. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I will speak straight (tell what's really true) to the coach. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | If I feel that I am not getting what I need or expect from the coach, I will share this as soon as I sense it and ask that I get what I want and need from the relationship. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I am willing to eliminate or modify the self-defeating behaviors which limit my success. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I have adequate funds to pay for coaching and will not regret or suffer about the fee. I see coaching as a worthwhile investment in my life. |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | I am someone who can share the credit for my success with the coach. |
_____TOTAL SCORE (add up all numbers)
SCORING KEY
10 - 20 Not coachable right now.
21 - 30 Coachable, but make sure ground rules are honored!
31 - 40 Coachable.
41 - 50 Very coachable; ask the coach to ask a lot from
you!
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