Coach4aday

Monthly Archive: September 2019

Coaching / Leadership

#Nominate September 30

There is amazing feeling that comes over most people when they realize someone has taken the time to NOMINATE them for an award or recognition. We all can be that person who gets to...

Coaching / Leadership

#Candidate September 29

I recently received a phone call from an excited graduate of UNC Pembroke who went from being a CANDIDATE to being accepted to professional school. Her experience as a CANDIDATE was fabulous and listening...

Coaching / Leadership

#Interested September 28

Jim Collins author of the book “Good to Great” early in his professional life created a personal board of advisors. One of the people he had was John Gardner who was Secretary of Health,...

Coaching

#Opportunity September 27

There is something humbling when a prospective employee, student, church member, volunteer, or friend tells you “All I am looking for is an OPPORTUNITY.”  Before you can see an OPPORTUNITY, you have to be...

Coaching / Learning

#Referral September 26

There is a technique that many sales people don’t use enough. It is asking for REFERRALS. Sales managers often become exasparated with their teams because in spite of the documented success it is not...

Basketball / People

#Remembering September 25

I found out yesterday that Steve Cottrell the former head basketball coach at Western Carolina University had passed away. I was one of his assistant basketball coaches from 1980-85. Those were five great years...

Events / Leadership

#Volunteer September 23

Alfred Einstein was a pretty smart man. Many dub him as the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He made many contributions to mankind. He has a quote that I love. “Not everything...

Events / North Carolina

#Honored September 22

On Wednesday Dick Christy and I got invited to attend a special ceremony in Bladen County (NC) conducted by the NC Dept. of Transportation in honor of our friend Mac Campbell Jr. Ask anyone...

Coaching / Leadership

#Difference September 21

just got thru reading a book I have heard about many times from my friend Mark Gogal. The name of the book is The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn. The book is a true...