The Next Level FAQ's


Questions

 1.  What do you find most challenging in your business?
 2.  Can you really mix business with pleasure?
 3.  What are the most common traits of an entrepreneur (good or bad)?
 4.  Who are your business heroes?
 5.  If you hadn't become a business coach, what would you be?
 6.  What do you want to do when you grow up?


Answers

1. What do you find most challenging in your business?

To help my clients understand that the business side of their business is not as difficult to manage as they think. It is the people side that creates the challenge for business owners and managers and drains their energy. With this in mind, the next step is to reduce what a client sees as "complex business matters" down to the real issues, not the symptoms, and address these with the basic fundamentals of business.

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2. Can you really mix business with pleasure?

Whoever said that business was not supposed to be fun? When you spend the majority of your time in a work environment and it is not a fun place to be, then you are likely working in a crisis environment and putting out too many fires. Mixing business with pleasure should be essential in any well-managed business that wants to create a positive attitude for all stakeholders.

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3. What are the most common traits of an entrepreneur (good or bad)?

Often our strengths can become our weaknesses. Entrepreneurs are "drivers who know what they want and want it yesterday". In most cases this is their genius, yet at the same time it impedes their progress. "Ready-Fire-Aim" can describe the psychology of many entrepreneurs. Accepting challenges and wanting to be pioneers to accomplish new goals "drives" the business and can "drive" the other employees up the wall. Managing the ability to make things happen with the counterbalance of letting things happen (being patient) is a mark of an effective entrepreneur.

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4. Who are your business heroes?

While in graduate school at Georgia Tech I was introduced to Peter Drucker; considered by many to be the "guru" of business management. If his first books were read today, the concepts would be just as valid. I believe that his modern day counterparts would concede this point as well. Dealing with people is ageless. Treating individuals with dignity and respect is timeless.

Phil Hahn, a principal of one of the largest diamond companies in the world was my personal business hero. He taught me that at all times be respectful to others and know and understand your business better than anyone else. When you sit down to transact business, be prepared to take the chair opposite and be equally pleased with the transaction when completed. In other words, both sides win!

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5. If you hadn't become a business coach, what would you be?

Easy. I would be a professor in higher education, an author and involved in any way to help others. In truth, that is how I spend my time when I am not coaching businesses. I have the best of all worlds.

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6. What do you want to do when you grow up?

I don't want to grow up. We all have a child within us to protect and nurture. That is how we maintain our innocence. Though the body matures, the mind should be playful to keep its creativity. The most creative and honest people I know are children. It's all about mixing and matching our maturity with our inner child.

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a journey with mac by Al Katz


 

 

"We have tried several techniques to help our business grow, but nothing ever really worked until we listened to the master of business coaches, Al Katz. He can see what you can't, and if you will implement what he says, your revenues will only increase"

– Albert Clayton Gaulden, Director, The Sedona Intensive.




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