Business Coaching in Boston, Michael Snedeker: Free Seminar | 6 Steps to Building a Better Busine...

Business Coaching in Boston, Michael Snedeker: Free Seminar | 6 Steps to Building a Better Busine...: 6 Steps to Building a Better Business   Building a Winning Business    Friday, October 30, 2015 10:30-1:00  Waltham Public ...

Free Seminar | 6 Steps to Building a Better Business by Coach Michael Snedeker

6 Steps to Building a Better Business

 

Building a Winning Business 

 

Friday, October 30, 2015

10:30-1:00

 Waltham Public Library

735 Main St, Waltham, MA 02451
 

 

What You’ll Learn at 6 Steps to a Great Business:

How to work ON your business instead of IN your business.
 How to take immediate control of the time you spend at your business.
 How to turn your advertising and marketing into an investment instead of an expense.
 How to get back thousands of dollars in lost profits.
 How to recruit, motivate, educate, and retain exceptional employees.
 How to leverage your time to maximize efficiency and profits.
 How to systematize your business to provide consistent, exceptional customer service.
 How to get the quality of life that you started your business for in the first place!

  

The workshop is complimentary,

However seating is limited.

  

RSVP BY October 21st

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Business Coaching in Boston, Michael Snedeker: Leadership is a facet of management:

Business Coaching in Boston, Michael Snedeker: Leadership is a facet of management:: I had lunch last week with a past peer in one of my corporate positions, and we had a discussion how one of our superiors had tried to “man...

Leadership is a facet of management:

I had lunch last week with a past peer in one of my corporate positions, and we had a discussion how one of our superiors had tried to “manage” a billion dollar company through a particularly difficult situation, when he should have used “leadership” instead.

Leadership is a facet of management:Leadership is just one of the many assets a successful manager must possess. Care must be taken in distinguishing between the two concepts. The main aim of a manager is to maximize the output of the organization through administrative implementation. To achieve this, managers must undertake the following functions:

 * organization

 * planning

 * staffing

 * directing

 * controlling

 

Leadership is just one important component of the directing function.  

A manager cannot just be a leader; he also needs formal authority to be effective. "For any quality initiative to take hold, senior management must be involved and act as a role model. This involvement cannot be delegated."

In some circumstances, leadership is not required. For example, self-motivated groups may not require a single leader and may find leaders dominating. The fact that a leader is not always required proves that leadership is...

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Coach Michael Snedeker on How to Build a Successful TEAM…

How to Build a Successful TEAM…

Selecting the right people is just the beginning of building a successful team for your business. However, you cannot simply expect that your team alone will transform your business and take it to its next level of performance.

It is equally important to have the following six elements in place:

1. Strong Leadership:

Tom Landry, the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys, said "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."

Strong leadership requires creating a working environment that encourages the cooperation of your team members. By encouraging and inspiring them, they in turn, will inspire and encourage the customers.

The goal of strong leadership is to maximize the "discretionary effort" that team members provide to meet team or company goals. That's the extra effort people provide, if they want to. Too often employees will do just what they have to do in order to get by.

In his best-selling business book Good to Great, author Jim Collins identifies common leadership elements that top performing organizations have in place to allow them to tap into this wealth of discretionary effort.

The most important element is what Collins calls "Level 5 Leadership." While these leaders have the ability to motivate their teams to pursue a clear and compelling vision and generate higher performance, they also demonstrate a unique blend of personal humility and professional will as they lead from the front to create the discretionary effort from all team members.

Another important element is the "the window and the mirror" concept to both protect and energize the leader's team. When things are going well, “Level 5” leaders look out the "window" and credit their team for the success; when things are going poorly they look in the "mirror" and take the responsibility for poor performance.

2. Common Goals:

Teams need to understand what their common 

business goals are and those goals need to supersede all individual goals. Sports teams provide an excellent example of this concept.

If the team understands that a common goal is to win the championship, then it will be easier for all team members to focus and concentrate on the team goal. If one or more team members are focused on individual goals, such as winning the scoring title, the performance of the entire team can be negatively affected.

Business is similar in this respect. If the salesperson is just focused on bringing in orders regardless of the cost to produce and ship that order, the common goal of maximizing profit will be at risk.

As people do what they are recognized and rewarded for, it is critical that the recognition and reward structure for individuals and for teams is consistent with the company's common goals.

Setting common goals for the business always starts with the owner's vision. This must be regarded as the central aim and leaders must enlist the support of all team members to inspire them to do the things that they have to do.

3. Rules of the Game:   

Employees also need to understand the rules that govern the way the owner conducts the business. The rules must be written down and made available to them.

If the owner doesn't provide employees with the "rules of the game" they will go outside the boundaries.



The process of setting the rules of the game will include specifying company culture and values as well as ensuring that individual roles and responsibilities are defined with positional contracts, and operations and procedures manuals.

Without providing defined rules including the company's culture, the owner or manager will need to rely on policing to run the business. Also, if the owner doesn't establish the culture, the employees will create a de facto culture that may not be to the owner's liking or in the best interests of the company.

4. Action Plan:

A key element for a winning team is a strong action plan that is spelled out in clear and unambiguous terms to all members of the team. While the common goals referred to above, help identify what the owner and the business want to do, the action plan identifies how the goals will be achieved. A good action plan will assign ownership of tasks, identify what resources are required, set timelines for when tasks should be completed, and provide measurement details of the current status of the tasks over the defined time-periods.



5. Support Risk-Taking:

Business is all about risk and reward. To make the business grow, a leader must be willing to support prudent risk-taking by the team. If the owner doesn't allow risk-taking, the business will lag behind market leaders. The level of risk-taking is usually related to the company's culture.

6. 100 percent Inclusion and Involvement:

The art of inclusion is driven by communication to all members of the team. By providing 100 percent inclusion, the owner can then require 100 percent involvement as an expectation of the organization's culture.

This will lead to trust and a comfort level by the owner to delegate responsibilities.

Boston Business Coach, Michael Snedeker: Stop procrastinate. The time is now.

Boston Business Coach, Michael Snedeker: Stop procrastinate. The time is now.: Let me guess. You should be doing something else rather than reading this article. But due to some unknown force of nature, you decided to ...

Stop procrastinate. The time is now.

Let me guess.You should be doing something else rather than reading this article. But due to some unknown force of nature, you decided to procrastinate by reading an article about how to hack procrastination. You deserve a pat on the back.Fortunately, procrastination is not a disease. It’s just a mindset that can be changed, however, here are some reminders you need to consider for these hacks to really work.First, you need to acknowledge that procrastinating is an unhealthy habit. Not only you’re prioritizing unimportant things, basically, nothing gets done.

Second, your commitment to change is very important. You should be physically, emotionally, and mentally determined to change this habit. If not, then you’ll just succumb to the tempting lure of doing other things rather than your tasks or chores.Here are some tips to improve productivity and keep yourself from procrastinating at work:When we are productive, we efficiently finish various tasks and achieve better results. However, there are many bad habits that are killing our productivity, yet we don’t recognize them at all. In order to improve your productivity, you have to give up these bad habits.

After a busy working day, everyone tends to sit in front of the TV, then move to the bedroom and continue watching TV. Many people think it relaxes them. However, it just makes them more tired. Sometimes, you don’t even realize how much time has passed when watching TV shows, and you end up falling asleep very late at night instead of falling asleep immediately. Get the TV out of your bedroom and soon you’ll notice that you sleep better and longer, and you feel fresh when you wake up. Moreover, being positive and fresh in the morning will certainly boost your productivity at work. Instead of watching TV shows, use the time before you fall asleep to evaluate your day and have intimate conversation with your partner. You can also focus on self-improvement by signing up to an online college where you can improve yourself and learn how to become more productive and efficient in your field of work. Turn off TV, bring education and intimacy in your home.

Social networks are great for staying in touch with family and friends. However, when chatting, posting, sharing, and looking at various funny photos, we lose the sense of time and waste hours just scrolling through pages. Usually, before we fall asleep, we decide to check if there is something new in the news feed and end up falling asleep very late at night. You then feel tired in the morning and incapable of doing anything that demands focus and hard work.Also, while working, we get interrupted all the time by the notifications that someone posted something or commented on our status update. You look at the notification and, instead of working, you get lost in the world of social networks. You become less focused on work and less productive. When at work, turn off the notifications and don’t log in. Instead of spending your free time on social networks, if you have something to share and want to do something productive you can learn how you can create a blog and escape your daily routine, while providing entertainment and information to others at the same time.People neglect physical activity because of their busy schedules, but let’s face it – we all have 20 minutes per day to spend working out. Before you go to work or when you get back, you can go hiking or jogging for 20 minutes. It is not much, but your body and mind will definitely benefit from it. If there is no place for jogging around your home, you can do simple exercises in your living room. If you have more time, you can take some yoga classes, which will help you not only to be physically active and fit, but also to become more productive and focused. When working out, you won’t feel any back pain caused by stress and sitting all day. You will definitely feel better and healthier, which will contribute to being more productive during the whole day

We are all proud when we say that we are multitasking, and some even consider it a necessary skill of successful people. However, it is not a virtue and is slowly killing your productivity. When you multitask, you may be concentrated and focused, but that doesn’t mean that you are focused on every task equally. Moreover, not every task will be finished on time, and the results won’t be so good.Getting fully focused on one task at a time will certainly bring you better results, because you will be able to perform them without distractions. If you are used to multitasking, try organizing yourself and doing one task at a time, and then compare the results. You might be surprised.

A person who is dedicated to their work always strives for perfection. However, some people are never satisfied with their work, which leaves them with unfinished work and a lot of stress. When striving for perfection, you may start over-analyzing things and focusing on tiny details. Being detail-oriented is a virtue, but if you are paying attention to every little detail, you are losing a lot of time on unimportant little tasks. In this way, your productivity decreases and you become exhausted. Put effort into the task and be detail-oriented, but don’t waste time, talent, and effort on the things that don’t affect the outcome of the task.

Spontaneity should be present in our lives and not everything should be predictable. But when it comes to work management, we should organize our time well. When you are going with the flow, the work just keeps piling up. A chaotic schedule can lead only to decreased productivity, which usually results in failure.Learn how to organize your time and make a good working plan in order to improve productivity and the chances of success. Moreover, the key to success and being productive is to determine both short-term and long-term goals.It is impossible to be productive and focused all day. The times when someone will be productive depend on the individual. Some people are productive in the morning, some in the afternoon and some are night owls.  Find out when you are most productive and organize your schedule accordingly

.Many people think that they can save a lot of money by doing everything themselves, but they are wrong. They are losing money and time: instead of working on demanding tasks, they get lost in doing unimportant things that only waste their time. Smaller tasks should be outsourced, since there is no need for you to put effort into completing them. Outsourcing will pay off, and you will be able to finish important tasks successfully and on time.

Since we all want to complete some tasks successfully, we tend to postpone finishing them, because we need some time to think about how to get the best results. This always leads to procrastination, which leads to decreased productivity. If you want to be productive, you should trust your instincts, talent, and knowledge, and don’t question your success. Don’t let your virtue, to achieve the best possible results, destroy you.

Learn how to deal with stressful situations, because they are negatively affecting your health, mood, and productivity. Negative feelings evoke the unwillingness to perform certain tasks, and you end up doing them unsuccessfully. The recipe is simple – just be happy. Avoid stressful situations and learn how to cope with them. Find a way to get rid of negative emotions and stress and gain some positive energy. When you are happy, you can do everything with little effort. You will notice that 

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Michael Snedeker | Where is your business heading

Why do successful athletes and business folks need a coach?

To get that extra split second faster or just that little bit of a business edge in a highly competitive market. You need to work with someone who can make you better and stop you from hurting yourself. Someone that can give you practical advice on doing things that will get you the results you desire.

So what does getting a Business Coach mean?

It means YOU are committed to YOUR business and personal success! It means your personal pride or ego is not getting in the way of your business needs. It means you are ready for an experienced professional to take a fresh look at your business. It means taking YOUR business to the next level.

Do you know the two main warning signs that tell you when you should be working with a Business Coach?

1.     Nothing is happening in your business, or even worse, you are going backwards.

2.    Everything is happening at once. Big growth, if you are not prepared or experienced with how to handle it, can be a huge challenge)

So, lets talk about item number one. Nothing is happening in your business. You are stuck in neutral and don’t know whether to shift into reverse, first or overdrive. Or, you feel your service is good, you have good systems in place, you are marketing well, but you are not seeing growth. There is no increase in profits, or worse yet you start losing money, and your sales are stagnant.

What are you to do?

First, don’t give up. Find an experienced Business Coach who is familiar with your business and can give you some help. Don’t beat yourself up as you will just get more frustrated. The answer may simply be a shift in perspective, realigning your goals with the reality of your marketplace. Business is fluid. Customers change. Competitors change. We change. Often these changes are very difficult to identify on your own. An outside perspective to challenge your thinking can be a huge help.

We have all heard the expression “you are too close to the forest to see the trees”. Often others can help you see areas for growth that you can’t. Sometimes you are just too close, and that is when you know you need some business coaching!

Now lets talk about item number two.

Everything is happening at once, big growth in revenue and profits, big growth in equipment and employees. Everything is firing on all cylinders. So why do you feel so out of control? The fact that you have read this far tells me you are not so full of pride that you don’t realize you have problems. That is a huge first step in addressing real issues to make your business more fun and enjoyable.

So let’s start with a few questions. 

·          Is your business growing the way you want?  Or do you feel out of control?

·          Do you have the infrastructure to support the growth you have recently experienced?

·          Is the growth long term or just because of a regional catastrophic loss in your town?

·          How can you best capitalize on this growth?

·          Which areas of your business should you expand?

·          Which areas of your business should you contract?

Please, do me and yourself a huge favor! Don’t get so lost in the busyness of running your business that you ignore the vital questions above.  Too many restoration and remediation businesses fail because they are not properly set up to grow. I know it sounds crazy but it is true.

So let me warn you, if you start to feel successful and invincible, get a Business Coach on your team to help you navigate and help you set the proper course for your business.

Working with a Business Coach at start up time

This can be the best time to start working with a business coach. Soon after you have started your Disaster Restoration or Environmental Remediation business there is a lot of work to be done, such as:

·         Setting up systems and procedures for growth

·         Planning and implementing marketing initiatives

·         Setting guidelines for training and staff development

·         Systematically delivering outstanding customer service

Establishing a great working relationship with Your Restoration Coach from the get-go will help you tremendously to build a business on a solid foundation. Let your Business Coach help you avoid common mistakes.

Isn’t it much better for you to have good systems in place from the start to prepare you for growth and give you and your business the best possible chance for success?

Your business is strong and you are ready to take it to the next level

Once you have successfully gotten out of the starting gates there is still a lot of work to be done in your disaster restoration or environmental remediation business.

Finding and working with a business coach who has “been there – done that”, in the insurance property damage restoration, repair and remediation business can be a huge help.  How? By helping you avoid common mistakes, preparing you for sustainable growth, giving you and your business the best possible chance for long term success, all the while ensuring you are building on a firm foundation.

Having a Business Coach will help you remember the original inspiration for your business. It will help you see new areas for growth. A good business coach may help you get a new perspective on your business or the realities of your current marketplace so that you see new opportunities.

Its all about growth and development at this stage.  Working with an experienced Business Coach will help you not only expand your vision but increase your sales and profits. A good Business Coach should not be looked as an expense but rather as an investment in your business. In fact a healthy ROI should be achieved on a yearly basis.

“Hey Coach Michael, its lonely here at the top!”

Absolutely. Winners can scare off or overpower a lot of people.

Having a Business Coach is perfect for the highly successful business owner.  You have achieved amazing results. You know your business inside out. Others come to you for advice and guidance.

So, where do you turn to be challenged and inspired?

The more successful you are, the more likely you are to drive and challenge yourself to grow and learn. Working with a Business Coach can extend your personal skills and the overall scope of your business by showing you creative ways and paths to success you had not thought of.

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So let me ask you, where are YOU right now?

Are you just starting out? Feeling stuck? Overwhelmed with activity and making every decision in your business? Are you strong but stuck in the same spot? Or are you ready to fly and go to the next level?

All of these are the right time to call Your Restoration Coach.

Contact Coach Michael Snedeker at coachsned@gmail.com and chat about how his powerful business coaching can get you out of a rut, over a hurtle, and soaring ahead with sales, profits, staff development, and real growth.

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Michael Snedeker | Over come procrastination

 Over come procrastination 

                              

Do you have a problem with procrastination?

It’s so easy to do it later…or tomorrow…or next week.

It’s so much easier to stay in my comfort zone than to create that new project and create that new test.

In fact, even though I’ve accomplished quite a bit online, I still find myself facing the procrastination monster from time to time.

Here are 7 quick tips to help you overcome procrastination.

1. Make Action Notes

Create action notes when you’re studying any type of information product, listening to a teleconference, or attending a seminar.

It’s easy to simply make notes on all the great information you hear, but that won’t do your business any good. The only part of the information that does you good is the part you USE to build your business.

So create a list of action points. I do this when reading an ebook or any other form of information. If I write down just one action point, the product has been worthwhile. If I have an empty page when finished, it wasn’t worth my time or money.

What you have to be careful about is to make sure you don’t write dozens and dozens of “action points.” Those are notes. You’re going to be hard pressed to really pull out more than 3 action points at any time.

2. Get Rid of Fear

Part of the reason we procrastinate is because we’re afraid of what’s going to happen when we step out.

Some of us are afraid of failure…while others are actually afraid of success (their mind is blocking them).

For me, I’ve simply changed my attitude about “failure.” If a project doesn’t work, it isn’t a failure. It’s a test. Well I tested that and it didn’t work. Now I’ll test something else.

That way you’re not personalizing the “failure” to yourself. All marketing is simply a test that we keep learning and growing from.

Growing experiences aren’t always fun, but they happen.

3. Turn Off Distractions

You know you have to write that article, produce that video, or create that website. It’s so much easier though to live in a state of distraction where you’re constantly checking your email, answering the phone, or visiting your favorite forum.

Turn off all those distractions. Focus on the task at hand. When it’s time to write, sit down and write. Don’t edit. That comes later. Simply start typing whether it’s good or crap. It doesn’t matter. It’s taking the action.

4. Daily Plan

At the end of each day I spend about 3 to 5 minutes writing a quick schedule for tomorrow. When I slack on this, I end up wasting at least an hour trying to figure out what to do.

Don’t ask me why that is. I don’t know. Five minutes to write a schedule for tomorrow…an hour of wasted time if I try it in the morning.

What’s the primary goal tomorrow? How will I grow my business tomorrow? What’s a rough schedule for each hour tomorrow?

Real simple…and written on normal paper in a desktop calendar. I don’t even use any software for this basic planning.

5. Do the Most Profitable Activities First

What is the most profitable activity in your business? Do it first. It might be creating that new product, writing sales copy, or contacting potential partners for your upcoming project.

One activity that should come in every day is a marketing activity designed to generate new business (even when you’re busy). It could be as small as adding five new keyword phrases to your Adwords account, running one ezine ad, or submitting your post to social sites.

Which activity you take isn’t what I’m focusing on here. All I’m looking at is making sure you’re doing something to generate new business and/or buying visitors everyday.

6. Reward Yourself

Set milestones and reward yourself. Maybe your goal today is to write 10 articles. Your reward could be that you’re done for the day even if it only takes you 2 and a half hours.

Maybe it’s that item you wanted to buy if you finish the project by Wednesday. Maybe you get a 4 day weekend if you get done on Thursday.

Reward yourself with something when you reach your daily and weekly goals…even if it’s just a small item.

7. Accountability

Make yourself accountable to someone for what you want to accomplish. This could be a coach you work with or it could simply be a business friend. They tell you their weekly goals and you tell them yours.

Now you know you’re going to asked about how you did.

Have you ever tried working out alone compared to a workout partner? You’ll find yourself exercising even when you might have slipped because you can’t let your buddy down. Having someone who is relying on you in business can produce the same results.

For example, if you want to really make sure your project is done on time, make a commitment to others. Let those affiliates know when the new product is releasing. Tell your customers what is coming.
In other words, assign your own public accountability.

Michael Snedeker is a Certified Business Coach. With almost two decades of experience in high level positions in the banking and investment industry, and nearly a decade of experience as a small business owner himself, Michael has thorough experience building teams with businesses and entrepreneurs that are focused on advancement. A prolific public speaker, he has a passion for helping businesses grow and become profitable so that business owners and executives can enjoy the lifestyle they desire. Michael works with his clients to set clear, achievable goals by proposing specific management tools that can be implemented immediately into any business plan or model. Depending on a client’s needs and situation, he offers a number of one-on-one and group coaching programs to help them grow their businesses, engage their teams, and excel in their various fields. A member of a multitude of local and national professional associations, Michael enjoys following college and professional football, motorcycle riding, and fishing in his free time.