Category: Business Coaching

Entrepreneurs Share Their Strategic Coach Results After Year 1

This is probably the easiest blog post we’ve ever written or ever will write! Three open and articulate entrepreneurs talk candidly about joining Strategic Coach — all experiencing initial “leap of faith” fear — and about their Year 1 experience that followed, including their results.
If you’ve been thinking (and thinking and thinking) about The Strategic Coach Program and whether it’s right for you, read every word of this blog and watch the video. We’re trying hard to stay objective, but we admit these three Coach entrepreneurs make it difficult.
Real experiences straight from Program participants.
Hugo, Shawn, and Scott each focus on a different perspective of their Year 1 experience in Strategic Coach, hitting on the three key areas that make Strategic Coach the top coaching program for successful entrepreneurs.
1. Hugo Brooks — One-Of-A-Kind Community
Company: Brand Dynamics Ltd., London, UK
Industry: High Tech/Brand Development
Insight: Hugo knows he already has what it takes to succeed (we call it “batteries included”), but says Strategic Coach gives him the extra clarity and support to accomplish even his biggest goals.

 

In his words:

Strategic Coach is a safe environment with entrepreneurs just like you, trying to accomplish the same thing as you.
Everyone who shows up is willing to participate in something that is going to improve their life.
Comprehensive entrepreneurial tools cover everything you can think of — all your questions will be answered.
The Program is real and relevant to today. I walk away knowing how to interpret everything — tomorrow. I think that’s amazing and powerful.
Your coach is not a teacher, but an experienced entrepreneur like you and me. They’re one of us.
It seemed like a huge commitment to make at first. Looking back after a year, the reward has been exponentially greater than the investment. I can prove that in money terms.

“Being in a room with people who have the same objective, who are also from different backgrounds and places in their journey, is incredibly rewarding, stimulating, and supportive. I don’t get that anywhere else in my life.”
2. Shawn Shepheard — Noteworthy Growth
Company: Shawn Shepheard: Coach, Speaker, And Author, Pickering, ON
Industry: Coaching and Training
Insight: As a coach himself, Scott had an “aha!” moment and asked himself, “How dare I coach people and not seek out coaching for myself?’”

 

In his words:

What’s different now is that I have a structure in place that makes me work on my future every single day.
“What’s different now is that I have a structure in place that makes me work on my future every single day.”Click To Tweet
The workshops actually keep you on track, which leads to new opportunities and growth.
Coach is a brilliant combination of lessons and learning in the workshops, and time in between the quarters to apply what works for you.
The beauty of the experience is that we talk about our real life struggles and can learn from each other and grow.
There’s an immediate connection. There are very honest conversations; nobody holds back. We address the big questions in life. As entrepreneurs, there is nowhere else we can do this.
We’re not spoken to; we work together as a group. You hear about and even see the changes in people — like weight loss for example!
Embarrassingly, it took me nine years to join. I regret waiting so long — this is home for me.

“A lot of people who are really close to me personally and professionally have said, ‘Something’s changed about you, what’s different?’ The answer is Coach. This is ridiculously the best business decision I’ve ever made.”
3. Scott Proposki — Coaching Support Network
Company: Head Shots In A Minute, Lawrence, MA
Industry: Photography
Fun Fact: Scott has worked with National Geographic, Google, and The White House! (He was invited to the White House to photograph former President Barack Obama!)

 

In his words:

Before Strategic Coach, I was on the go all the time. It’s helped me slow down and strategically plan my next moves on my goals and to restructure my life in a way that is more aligned with who I am.
I now find peace in slowing down, which was hard for me to do. The pressure is off, and I have comfort in knowing that I have time to do everything I want to do.
A serendipitous moment: On my way to my first Strategic Coach workshop, I met Ray Bourque, one of the greatest NHL hockey players, at the Boston airport. In answer to Ray’s question, I told him was on my way to see my business coach. He shared his insights about having coaches since he was 12 years old, and how coaching played a huge role in his success. This chance encounter really solidified my decision to join Strategic Coach. I showed up 100% excited and committed.
A 911 call to Coach! I was in the middle of a huge business deal that wasn’t going according to plan. I couldn’t even think straight about what to do. I made what I call my “911 call” to Kory, my Program Advisor. She helped me to slow down and make the strategic decisions that were needed, and I ended up making a lot of money on that deal — with great support from Coach. Gosh! It just makes so much sense to have a coach!

“As I wheel into the peak performance of my life, to have such a supportive structure in place, and with everything I have learned so far, I’m really excited about the next three years of the Program. There is just no turning back.”





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What Is The Ceiling Of Complexity?

All growth happens in stages. And in each stage of growth, people hit a point where they can’t grow any further using their existing set of skills and knowledge. This is what I call The Ceiling of Complexity. And it happens time and time again, in every stage of growth.
As you progress in your growth, you gain experience by solving problems and transacting business. However, this experience often comes at a price: complexity. Each problem you solve, each transaction you make, and each hurdle you overcome adds to this complexity to the point where it holds you back from future growth of capability, performance, and achievement. You become overwhelmed by the messes, “stuff,” complications, conflicts, and contradictions that come from doing things a certain way for a long time.
Work smarter, not harder.
For some, this ceiling becomes a permanent fixture. And this is why many people fail to grow beyond a particular stage of development.
But when you’ve hit this ceiling, there’s a smart way to overcome it. It starts with recognizing that working harder and longer in the existing stage no longer works. You need a new set of concepts and strategies to achieve a new state of simplicity. By developing this simplified way of thinking, communicating, and performing, you’ll break through the ceiling.
All this means that you must leave your current state of complexity behind. When you choose your future over your past, you enter a new stage of growth.
The power of goal setting.
Think of your development in terms of goals. Each stage of individual growth comes from having goals—desiring something in life that is new, better, or different. Setting higher and more demanding goals automatically forces us to develop new relationships, structures, and habits. You can then use these as the tools to take you to the next growth stage.
New relationships can provide you with larger opportunities and better results. New organizational structures can give you the support you need to achieve those larger opportunities and results. New habits will allow you to reach higher levels of performance and achievement that enable you to get there.
It’s a fact of life for everyone, everywhere.
The Ceiling of Complexity isn’t unique to entrepreneurs. Individuals, groups, organizations, industries, and even countries all over the world run into the same type of situations. They reach a plateau they must progress beyond. All current stages of growth in all areas of human activity eventually reach a ceiling. But knowing what it is and what’s needed to take the next step—that’s where true growth and success lie.
Learning how to break through The Ceiling of Complexity is perhaps the most important life skill that anyone can develop. And that’s exactly why I created The Strategic Coach Program—to arm entrepreneurs with the tools, strategies, and resources they need to break through the ceiling in their own entrepreneurial careers.
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How To Be A Game Changer: The Strategic Coach Story

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How To Be A Game Changer: The Strategic Coach Story


What allows people to jump to the next level in their careers? And what enables businesses to take a leap to their next stage of growth?
As I look back to the start of my coaching career, I can see a common trend in how I grew my personal and business capabilities and adapted to the needs of our clients in order to jump to the next level time and time again. And it’s happening again, with my newest level of coaching beginning in April 2018.
The birth of The Strategic Coach Program.
In the very beginning, I was a one-on-one coach, and after seven years of coaching individuals, my partner, Babs Smith, and I began a workshop style of coaching. This was the first of many jumps in my entrepreneurial coaching career.
These types of jumps have happened numerous times since as we’ve added new cities to coach in, new associate coaches, new programs, and new office locations.
Our newest and highest level program, the brand new Game Changer Jump Program, will be made up entirely of individuals who are all doing something to be a game changer in their own industries.
This concept is based on decades of learning and experience, and it feels as natural as any of the other jumps we’ve taken at Strategic Coach.
How to take the next step.
Since the start of Strategic Coach, every one of our workshops has included unique concepts and tools, and these are the building blocks our clients use to take them to higher and higher levels of freedom and success. These tools help them to increase their capability, change their game, and grow their businesses.
Over time, once a sufficient number of people in a workshop group have taken a jump to a new level, I’ll realize that we’re ready to create a higher level of the Program.
So the new programs we introduce aren’t departures from what we were already doing. They’re the furthest stretch of all of the concepts that have made up the Program thus far. We’re always innovating and moving toward that next jump, as our clients are doing the same thing in their businesses.
“When I create something new, I innovate forward and integrate backward.” – Dan SullivanClick To Tweet
How to be a game changer.
Every program we have leads clients to changing how they think about a system, changing the game of that system for them. I’ve realized that in what we do, there’s a constant layering of game changer concepts.
We’ve shown our clients how to take control of their time and how to spend as much time as possible doing what they love doing—just a couple of the game-changing concepts we coach. I implement every one of these changes in my own life before I decide to hold workshops about them. And I’ve watched entrepreneurs use these ideas to take their businesses to new levels, as I have.
From top to bottom, from our beginning to our furthest stretch out, Strategic Coach is a finely tuned, interactive network of game-changing concepts and tools that jump you from one level to the next.





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