How to Incentivize Salespeople: The Right Way to Use Carrots & Sticks

How you pay and incentivize salespeople is crucial in building the right culture in your small business. Salespeople must be motivated to sell to increase to top line of any small business. Organizations that reward sales success and penalize failure use a “carrot and stick” approach. The carrot is the reward, and the stick is the negative consequence.

How a Business Coach Helps You Make Better Decisions

As your business grows, your decisions impact more lives with more money and consequently contain more risk. Many of these decisions will determine whether your business thrives or fails. This post will teach you how a Core Energy Business Coach helps you make better decisions for your small business.

You Have the Answers… So, Why Do You Need a Business Coach?

It's common for people to hire a business coach to teach them business knowledge that they currently lack. Most business coaches do have business expertise and experience. However, this is not the greatest value of a business coach. You will learn why you know more than you think, and the best value of a business coach is not being your business teacher.

Less Is More: How Smart Pruning Fuels Business Success

Like fruit trees, you must prune your business to fuel business success. We can create an unholy mess in our zeal to grow our small business. Learn how to prune your business to increase it to its next level of prosperity.

Christianity & Core Energy Coaching

If you follow me for any time, you’ll realize I write about Core Energy Coaching™ and Christianity. I use both ideas to help small business owners in my coaching practice. While Core Energy Coaching and Christianity live in harmony for me, I sometimes get criticism from those on either side, claiming I’m a heretic. Today’s post attempts to show my followers how these two ideas go together.

Parable of the Talents & Your Business

The Parable of the Talents or the Parable of the Bags of Gold is a story of eternal life, purpose, investment, and business. How does this message apply to you and your business?

Work ON Your Business Instead of IN Your Business

“Work ON your business instead of IN your business.” What does this phrase mean? If you know what it means, you may have difficulty understanding the benefit of working ON instead of IN your business. And, if you see the benefit of working ON instead of IN your business, you may have difficulty accomplishing this feat. This post will answer all three questions.

What is Core Energy?

This post is about Core Energy Coaching™ concepts. I'm a Core Energy Coach™ and will tell you what Core Energy™ is and how it can help you live your lives, grow your business, or accomplish whatever you're trying to do a lot better.

What is Business Mechanics?

All businesses operate like machines. The parts of the business machine include operations, marketing, sales, finance, employees, growth, legacy, and you. These components are called business mechanics. It doesn't matter if you run a restaurant, a fitness gym, a plumbing service, an engineering firm, or a widget manufacturing business.

7-Steps to Successfully Train Your People

You must transfer critical knowledge to new employees to grow your company without working yourself to death. In simple terms, you must get your knowledge out of your head and into the heads of others. Successful training will ensure you create superior and unique value in your industry.