The Coach Advantage

"How did coaching benefit me? I was looking for ways to improve my business. Coaching helped me take things to a higher level by holding me accountable. Thanks Smokie!" Martin Miller

A passion to help people succeed in their careers and to have thriving, successful businesses and lives is the force behind Smokie Sizemore & Company, a professional corporation coaching CEOs, senior executives and business owners.

Smokie Sizemore & Company coaches business leaders to make positive changes and sound decisions for the good of their company and those it serves. It is the partner to executives in creating their corporations' future and increasing profits while maintaining focus on the present, taking control of their time, breaking the isolation of their position, having an unbiased sounding board as their leadership improves and making positive behavioral changes.

Responsibility, accountability and major decisions are required of those leaders that run corporations and provide for their employees. This is a weighty place and can be a very lonely job. With few internal sources to rely upon for advice, trust, and confidentiality, the objectivity from an external coach is necessary, valuable and beneficial.

In addition to coaching executives, custom designed workshops, facilitation, seminars and retreats are available to fulfill your corporate goals.

What can a coach do for me?

What can coaching do for my corporation?

Who works with a coach?

Is coaching for me?

What can a coach do for me?

• Hold you accountable.
• Increase your profitability.
• Be an objective unbiased sounding board.
• Provide a safe place for confidential discussions of high level proprietary information.
• Provide training for creative leadership.
• Help you figure out what needs to change and how to change it.
• Tell you the truth.
• Know your strengths and how to work from them.
• Uncover your true motivators.
• Define and clarify your goals.
• Teach you how to prioritize and manage your time well.
• Know the steps to achieve your goals and measure the results.
• Break through self-imposed and other essentially non-existent limits.
• Unleash your creativity.
• Help you respond to change, especially with corporate cultures.
• Believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.
• Show you how to celebrate your victories.
• Encourage you through challenges and hard times.

What can coaching do for my corporation?

Coaching benefits companies that are:

• Experiencing downsizing due to layoffs and retirements, leaving fewer employees to do more work.
• Experiencing rapid growth, with the addition of new employees.
• Merging with another company whose corporate culture seems incompatible.
• Striving to retain quality employees in a competitive, low-unemployment environment in industries with high burnout rates.
• Planning for executive succession.

Who works with a coach?

Typical candidates for coaching include people who:

• Know that the wrong decision could take the company down.
• Are overwhelmed.
• Need to crystallize their strategy to reach their goals.
• Are managing a new company or operations.
• Are growing a company rapidly.
• Are new in their positions.
• Are peak performers.
• Are at the top and don't have anyone else to talk to about sensitive issues.
• Are tired of the status quo and want to make career progress.
• Know they require objectivity and need an objective sounding board.
• Are buried in details that have skewed the direction of their career path, as a result of company growth or just poor organizational habits.
• Have lost focus and are stuck.
• Manage time poorly.

Is coaching for me?

Have you ever said ...

• I don't have enough time ...
• I'm overwhelmed...
• I spend all my time putting out fires...
• Business isn't going the way I want it to...
• Employees aren't earning their paychecks. I'm doing their job...
• I'm busy but not accomplishing anything...
• Meetings go on forever and nothing ever happens...
• There's this project that I'm dying to get to but everything gets in the way...
• I just got promoted and I'm scared...
• I'm juggling too many balls and know one of them will hit me soon...
• This situation is intolerable. Someone has to do something...

Is your present situation directly related to intentional actions you've taken? Do you have a system that helps you make consistent steps and maintain focus so you are progressing toward your goals and their accomplishment? Do you have specific goals and/or financial objectives to meet?

If you answered "yes" to most or all of these questions, you may consider working with a coach. Please read on.

Where do you see yourself this time next year?
What would you like to change about you/your business?
Who do you talk to about sensitive matters without judgment?
What project is on the back burner that if it was moved to the front burner, should make a huge difference to you and your business?
What would happen if you could have a block of uninterrupted time?
What happened last year that you want to happen this year?
Who consistently encourages you through the challenges and hard times?

If you didn't have clear answers to these questions, you are a candidate for coaching!

Why put off getting what you want?
There is no need for delay.
Contact us right now!

Phone: 804-359-1139
Email: success@smokiesizemore.com

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