What Helped Make Us Successful Family Business Consultants

Presented by
Jim and Ann Marie Kwaiser
C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E.S.® inc.

Jim and Ann Marie Kwaiser are a husband and wife coaching/consulting team working exclusively with families in business. They are recognized experts in their field and have a coaching/consulting business that is based on 100% referrals. They make as much money as they want to.

The Kwaisers will share with you essential insights such as:

• Our New Year's Resolution for 2007
• How we define "success"
• Our step-by-step plan for a successful coaching business
• What we would have done differently
• And more

Offered by Donna Billings, PCC

Book: Get Unstuck & Get Going... On the stuff that matters by Michael Bungay Steiner

Feeling stuck? In this book there are 125,000 ways to get going on the stuff that matters! Use this book to:

• Powerfully define challenges you are facing
• Generate 125,000 possible combinations of creativity and wisdom to inspire new solutions
• Create an action plan
• Overcome roadblocks
• Move to action and get things going

Coaching simply speeds up a process of change that would most likely occur anyway if an individual had enough time. Without a coaching program that forces a client to focus and make time, people sometimes miss the real issues they need to focus on.

The Ivy Business Journal, September-October 2000

Each newsletter we will feature one of our GPCA coach members. This month's featured coach is: Bob Groman, DCSW

Many of us struggle with multiple great ideas about our work and personal lives, but have trouble getting "traction" in meeting goals. If you are interested in gaining clarity about your priorities, developing professionally based upon your strengths and values, and achieving a fulfilling and balanced lifestyle, perhaps coaching is for you.

Bob's Ideal Clients are:

• Professional adults with "attention deficit" tendencies who know they have more potential, and want to actualize it;
• Married couples at mid-life who want to blend their priorities for the 'second half';
• Organizational leaders who want to inspire their staff and optimize working relationships;
• Clients who want to savor their improvements and have a lot of fun along the way!

Not to be missed, the June member meeting - the last member meeting until September, features three great speakers!

Chris Posti Tice, fresh from the invitation-only "A Conversation Among Masters" coaching conference will share insights gained at that conference.

Bill Weil will share tips and tools for creating an online presence including websites, email newsletters and affordable, highly targeted pay-per-click advertising you can implement yourself!

Sales guru Russ Davis will coach you in constructing your "30 Second Commercial."

Our "30 second commercial" or "elevator speech" is one of the fundamental tools that we have to help us communicate our service to our prospects and other interested people. Often we wait until the last minute to develop a concise message that explains a very complicated and sophisticated service that we offer. This is unfair to our business and to our prospects.

Symptoms of a poorly crafted message include:

• I sound like my competition and they sound like me.
• I don't listen to other's commercial because I am thinking about what I am going to say.
• I sound like a typical "salesperson" when I tell people what I do.