You're the Coach: The Transformational Power of Business Coaching: Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

If you are an owner of a professional practice or a service-oriented small business, you know many of the trials and tribulations you face each day can be traced back to the need to develop stronger people skills and communication skills both with your customers/clients and your support team.

It is not only possible to teach all the people in your business to work together, it’s essential to your long term success. Dr. W. Bradford Swift, a small business owner and entrepreneur for over thirty years, and a long time contributor to Veterinary Economics magazine, brings over twenty years of life and business coaching experience to show you the way to true teamwork, efficiency, and productivity.

You’re the Coach provides proven strategies for inspiring peak performance, leading your team with a strong vision, designing a top-notch staff training program, and bonding clients to your practice. Other topics include:

• How defining your business mission clarifies your commitment to your team, your clients, and the community.
• How to identify myths about clients, employees, and finances that can paralyze your business.
• Learn how to convert your inevitable business problems and troubles into triumphs, even breakthroughs.
• How to build a business with heart and soul, and how having fun at work can do wonders for productivity.
• How to encourage clients to accept your recommendations by turning complicated jargon into easy-to-grasp conversations.
• Learn how staff and client or customer complaints can be a rich resource for improving your business.
• Discover how “moments of truth” can bond clients and customers for life—or send them running out the door. Learn how to create a positive impression, and much more!

Included in You’re the Coach are simple and effective exercises to help you integrate the lessons you’ll learn into your business and professional practice. You’ll learn how the power of coaching can transform, not only your business, but your entire life.

For over two decades W. Bradford Swift has been conducting an experiment: “Is it possible to create a new context for life that is true to my deepest values, my sense of what’s possible, and true to my soul and spirit? If it is possible, what will be the results? Will it enhance my life? Will I experience a true sense of purpose and meaning? Will I know at the end of the experiment that my life has mattered?” Becoming a writer of visionary fiction and non-fiction has been an integral part of this experiment, as was co-founding Life On Purpose Institute with his wife in 1996, being a life coach to assist others to create their own life on purpose, and training other Life On Purpose Coaches. Since selling his veterinary practice in the late 80’s to pursue a career as a writer and life coach, Dr. Swift has published over 350 magazine articles in dozens of national publication. Many of these have been part of a pet writing project: Project Purpose: to write and publish articles about people whose lives are dedicated to a bold and inspiring purpose or vision. He is also the author of visionary nonfiction including: Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life, Spiral of Fulfillment: Living an Inspired Life of Service, Simplicity and Spiritual Serenity, and From Spark to Flame: Fanning Your Passion & Ideas into Money-making Magazine Articles that Make a Difference. Dr. Swift attended Clarion West in Seattle to further hone his skill and passion for writing fantasy and science fiction. These two genres are forms of visionary fiction – fiction that first and foremost entertains while also enlightening and encouraging the reader to embrace greater possibilities in their own lives. Giving back to future generations of young adults and adults through visionary fiction and non-fiction is an integral part Dr. Swift’s legacy of a life on purpose.