The Universal Need for Coaching: Get your weekends back

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Look at any sports team in the world, they all have one thing in common. They have a coach! Many of the professional sporting organisations have multiple coaches who have individual specialisation and specific expertise.

Your local under-14 football team even has a coach, and so do the under-12 netballers. A good coach will get the BEST out of the individual, and when those skills and abilities are combined with other individuals, and all work collectively toward a common goal, then you become a TEAM.

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The Real Cost of Business: Why Calculating Your Investment Matters

Let me pose this interesting question to you.

You are in business, this is serious stuff, and you’ve possibly got a lot at stake. I’m thinking; credibility, your reputation, the brand and your wellbeing. Not forgetting the money, and probably lots of it have been invested in this business.

How much money do believe you have invested to date?

If you won’t know off the top and most people won’t. It would really help if you actually took the time to calculate this, so you know exactly what’s at stake. It’s called responsible management a wonderful trait of strong leadership. A topic I’m very passionate about and I’ll highlight in my future blog posts.

Who’s in Your Corner? The Importance of Support When Leading a Team

For those with staff, they rely on you to keep the ship floating, no matter how rough the seas and so do their families, their children do as well. They say an inner circle of around 50 people are attached to each of your employees. That means if they are out of work 50 people will be affected.

To be clear on your scenario, how many employees did you say you have? Now do the math?

With the much-added pressure and total reliance on your team, who is the person coaching and supporting you? I reckon you’ve got more at stake than the under 14’s.

For those that have a coach, well done and congratulations for taking care of yourself and looking after the interests of your employees, and everyone that comes under your influence and responsibility.

For those that don’t…
It’s time to change up the game and ask yourself why you haven’t engaged a coach for you and/or your team?

If you engage with a coach...

For the year ahead, do yourself a favour and hire a coach and advisor, someone who can support you by doing the following:

talk openly, honestly and confidentially about your genuine concerns
share ideas & strategies for growth
develop your people
celebrate the wins
keep you accountable and on-track
who will give you an outsider’s perspective because they not connected and not involved with the personalities or politics of your (every) workplace?

Imagine this…

Just think of the freedom, your relief of being able to share that massive load you are carrying that’s all on your shoulders, you feel alone.

With the right coach… you will be happier at home and not so short-tempered, and your family will love the new you, the old you is back. You’ll have the time and headspace to truly enjoy your family and spend time doing all those things you love and sharing them with those who are important to you.

Ten really cool things might happen:

You make strong decisions after solid discussion and counsel
Activity levels and output increases, they say activity breeds activity
New opportunities come across your desk
Perhaps at 4 pm on Fridays, you’ll leave work
You will be work-free on weekends
You won’t take work home of an evening
You will reconnect and ‘be present’ with those that are important
You feel more positive
You are a happier person. You feel like you have time because things are slowed down, and you feel in control.
People start to see you in a different light. Who is this person they ask?

You are now stepping forward with your coach; support is right in your corner, you will work with someone who has walked in your footsteps before, who’s successfully built businesses and exited with pride, satisfaction and a genuine sense of achievement.

This is what you’ve wanted for a while, someone to share and throw ideas, someone who gets you. Someone, who can walk the talk with you alongside you for the long journey ahead. A trip in which you are no longer alone. Are you feeling the freedom?

I think that you can't afford NOT to engage a business coach.

You’ll work out what’s the actual cost to you, your business and your wellbeing if you don’t hire a coach and that is the reality check you need.

I’ve spent many years engaging with world-class entrepreneurs at different stages of their journeys, and there’s one common theme that exists within all other them. That is the ability to Get Stuff Done.

Those who don’t master the art, usually die off, they run out of energy, resources, money and time. They lose their window of opportunity, and their patience goes with it. They can no longer continue to chase their goal, they can’t keep up.

Here are my Top 7 most common reasons why people do not Get Stuff Done.

How many apply to you?

Overwhelm – You have too much to focus on so you give your attention to whatever yells the loudest.
Overly ambitious – You try to get too much done in an unrealistic time frame. Cannot say NO.
No plan – You want to get a specific task or project done, but you are not in the right mindset to make a plan that will work. Some folks never create plans for anything.
Past problems – Whatever has stopped you from achieving things in the past is still present. Your monkey is still on your back, and you don’t have a plan to deal with it hoping it will go away.
You don’t know where to start.
No big reason – You don’t have a BIG enough reason to get the task or project finished.
Not accountable – You don’t have anyone to hold YOU accountable.

‘Accountability’ is a powerful word.

For most of us, it sends a shiver up our spine because it means we have to step up and be responsible for something, to deliver on a promise or honour a commitment. However, it is gravely essential if you want to get the necessary things done, we need someone who can work with us, with their central role to hold us accountable.

To have someone hold us accountable, we need to respect them, they need to have a proven record of being able to get things done themselves (walk the talk), and they need to be strong enough to manage us.

Does it make sense, so, where do you begin?

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About The Author

Darren Finkelstein, The Accountability Guy®, is the founder of TICK THOSE BOXES, a specialised accountability coaching practice. Darren is a formidable international accountability coach, business advisor, mentor, and author/speaker, fostering development and measurable results in entrepreneurship, leadership, and accountability. Darren’s tale is one of perseverance, self-reinvention, and resilience.

With compelling execution, Darren has empowered high-achieving individuals and teams from Australia and New Zealand to Latin America, Europe, Asia, the UK, and the US to embrace accountability; after all, it is your superpower.

Darren’s one-on-one and group coaching programs are based on his bestselling business book, “The Accountability Advantage – Play your best game” and the latest, release “NO’ – Building a life of choice without obligation”.

Darren has an impressive background in business, having held the role of “Manager of Commercial Markets” at Apple Australia during the Steve Jobs revolution.

He enthusiastically “walks the talk,” having also successfully sold and exited his lifestyle businesses, which served as the impetus for establishing his coaching and mentoring business.

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Read Darren’s full bio here:
https://tickthoseboxes.com.au/about/