DISC – Yellowstone Style
2022-11-07
In honor of the season 5 launch of Yellowstone this week, I thought it would be fun to look at the DISC behavior profile through the lens of this popular series’ characters. Who is a D, I, S or C?
FocalPoint Awards Cam Frazer Award for Coaching Excellence
2022-04-07
FocalPoint Business Coaching has awarded its Campbell Fraser Award for Coaching Excellence to John Jennings, a FocalPoint Business Coach based in Louisville, Kentucky. One of FocalPoint’s marquee awards, the Campbell Fraser Award For Excellence in Business Coaching is awarded to a Business Coach who has received consistently high client feedbackRead More →
7 Keys to Build Resilience in Your Business
2021-03-23
The need for resilience in our businesses is just as important as it is for us as individuals. So I have taken this material and have used it to develop 7 keys to build resilience in your business.
What people are looking for
2020-08-04
What are you looking for? Professionally? Personally? I heard once that there are three things that drive a person to a higher level of performance. These are three things that every person is looking for, whether they are aware of it or not. What are people looking for? The threeRead More →
Listen to be Heard
2020-07-28
Effective communications are critical at this time. That, along with empathy, are identified as the two most important leadership traits needed in a crisis. When it comes to effective communications, sometimes you have to listen to be heard. How’s that? Can you imagine a more stressful role than being theRead More →
Diamond or Dust? What is revealed about your leadership under pressure?
2020-06-30
Pressure. We are all feeling it. We have never been through anything like this. All of us are experiencing global economic, political, cultural, and health issues. And while everyone is feeling the pressure, leaders especially have to withstand even greater amounts as they deal with their own internal problems, inRead More →
Building Resilience in Turbulent Times
2020-04-30
Resilience is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness”. It is fundamentally a system property. It refers to the magnitude of change or disturbance that a system can experience without shifting into an alternate state that has different structural and functional properties. Building resilience is necessary forRead More →
7 Things to Leverage During Tough Times
2020-04-08
These are tough times, no doubt about it. If you aren’t stressed about your business, well, God bless you. Most everyone I am working with is exhibiting some level of stress. Let’s face it, we are in a crisis. And most business owners have been so busy working IN theirRead More →
Top 3 Tasks During A Crisis For Business Owners
2020-03-31
If you are a business owner, you are likely in crisis mode right now. Some are in crisis because their businesses have been shut down. Others are in crisis because they have lost customers due to the shutdown. And still, others are trying to handle the tremendous load of unexpectedRead More →
Do It: The 4th (and Final) Step to Accountability
2020-03-24
This is the final post of a four-part series on accountability. This week, we look at what may seem like the most obvious step of all. We are following the principles from “The Oz Principle“, by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman. The first three steps were “See It“,Read More →