Earl R. Smith II's Blog, page 73
November 8, 2014
Improve Your Leadership Skills – Part Two
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Good leadership is always part nature and part nurture. Whether you are aware of it or not, you are continually leading yourself and others. The question is “how good are you at it?” The good news is that, with focus and effort, you can improve your leadership skills [...]
Coaching Breakthrough – Serial Failure
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com As a well established coach with a reputation for getting results, I get approached by all sorts of potential clients. Most of the challenges that the engagements focus on deal with the personal limitations of my client. It’s rare that we focus on the technology underlying an entrepreneurs [...]
Five Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Needs A Business Coach
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Over the years, I have done a lot of work with entrepreneurs. As a six-time entrepreneur, I have had lots of direct experience with setting up and building a business. I do not claim to have a corner on wisdom when it comes to getting a business off [...]
Growth Coaching
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Personal growth coaching is a field that’s seen a huge increase in the last five years. Before that, people were forced to rely on counselors and therapists who really were not qualified to coach someone in personal growth as most counselors and therapists are trained in more traditional [...]
Coaching – Improve Personally and Professionally
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com There are times in life when you stop and think. You take stock and try to get your bearings. You may think that have been doing your best and giving 100% to your job or business or personal relationships, but things do not seem to be working. You [...]
Coaching and Learning How to Delegate
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com I have worked with dozens of CEOs over the years and one of their main complaints is that they never seem to have enough time. Their list of important things to do never gets any smaller. In any company, the CEO’s to do list has the potential to [...]
Coaching Drives Growth
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Many of my CEO coaching clients are founders who have started a business and pulled it through the early stages. The challenges that they now face are very different from those of the early days. The team is bigger, there are clients and customers instead of markets and [...]
Five Ways a Coach Can Help You Out of a Rut
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Much of my coaching work focuses on overcoming inertia. Many clients have found themselves in a rut of some sort and sought me out to help them climb out and begin to move forward again. Ruts are self-manufactured – prisons constructed by and for the inmates. One of [...]
Floundering, Foundering Founders
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Now, there’s a mouthful for you. Try saying it five times fast. This tin tin tabulation of a tongue twister is less a game piece than a door to understanding a fundamental lesson that many entrepreneurs completely skip over – at the peril of their company, customers, employees [...]
Coaching and Self-Knowledge
Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com It was towards the end of a year working with a coaching client when we met for drinks. As we sat and talked, it became clear that he was in a reflective mood and I asked him what he was thinking about. He smiled and said, “Over the [...]
