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6 steps to effective re-organisation – communication as a foundation

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

How often have you gone through a re-organisation and it’s only achieved some of its objectives, how often does a re-structure take place and the benefits are not evident? How often has change been implemented but not sustained?
Seasoned and newly appointed management teams and executives often see that a way to improve a business is to re-structure, change or re-organise. Often for the newly appointed this is implemented quickly as they see the need to make an early impression.
However with so much evidence that the benefits are not always realised is there a better way? What needs to be considered for any change to be effective?
Key steps that need to be considered before any reorganisation, change or restructure are

Information gathering
Evaluation
Decision making
Planning
Execution
Leadership

(More on these 6 key steps in the following posts)

The foundation to all of these is communication, its a crucial skill although along with many of the steps its often overlooked in an eagerness to make an early impression or quick change. So what can seasoned or newly appointed management teams or executives do to get the best out of communication.

Key steps to to communication include

Considering carefully your sources and methods of communication. Is it better static/written e.g. Blogs, websites, memos, news or is it better dynamic e.g.video, meetings, conferences, workshops, face to face or would a combination work best?

Considering your methods and approach e.g.
Asking the right questions
Actively listening to the responses
Being receptive
Being aware of the non verbal signals (what you see/hear/sense and also what you give out)
Minimising opinion, assumptions and judgement
Analysing what you get

There is so much to be considered that to get the best value out of your time and effort a communication plan can be developed. As communication is normally a long term requirement and also a foundation for effective change then a communication plan can ensure a consistent quality approach giving real benefit and delivering long term real value.

Effective communication is an area that coaching can provide real value, contact me for a free coaching strategy session.

Alternatively add your contact details in the form on the left and I’ll send you an update on this blog and/or answer questions if you have any. I can even arrange a call back if that would suit you.

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Goal setting step by step and the rocking horse test

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Divide your goals into 4 main groups:
Ongoing goals needjng daily input* short-term goals to achieve within a week to a month, medium-term goals that may take between a month and a year* Iong-term goals that may take longer than a year.
Step 7 For each of the goals on the Iist, expand your why’. Explain to yourself fully why you want to have this goal and what it will mean to you. Write this down.Step 8 Take each goal in turn and make 2 ‘Iists for each to show’ what you are prepared to do to achieve it and what you will need to do to achieve it.Step 9 Make a Iist of the people you need to work with or the people who can hejp you, the skills you might need to develop, the actions you need to take, what you need to learn, what you need to understand.
Step 1 Do the rocking-chair test. Take yourself out into the future at age 95. Imagine the wonderful life you have designed for yourself. Visualise it. Fully associate with it.Write down the story of yotlr incredible life, the amazing things you’ve done,fantastic things you’ve seen, the people you have touched and the changes youhave made in your own Iife.Place your goals with their action points, within a time-frame. Put a start and finish date on them. Remember a goal is a dream with a date.

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Make 2012 your best year yet

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Whatever it is you can achieve better results with a coach. Someone to support, assist, question, cajole, motivate and shout at you if wanted.

Whatever it is we can help, call now for a free confidential discussion on how you can get the 2012 you deserve.

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Free DiSC profile – work out your strengths

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Do you know what you behavioural style and preferences are? Do you find some people you get on fantastically well with and others drive you mad? With DiSC profiling you can find out how best to work with your own and your colleagues/friends/contacts behavioural styles to create better, more understanding, more successful relationships.

Due to the benefit of knowing your DiSC profile, I am now offering a free DiSC profile with any coaching package. It could be Classic DiSC, DiSC for Management, DiSC for Sales let me know which you prefer. Have a look at www.youcanachieveit.co.uk and make contact to discuss how you can be more successful.

We also offer 363 for leadership a 360 profile that goes further than the standard – contact me to see how this can help you in your development.

Tags: Behaviour, coaching, leadership, profiling
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Put Them in a Trance

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

TITLE: Put Them in a Trance
We’re going to go through the 5 essential keys to a successful and reusable marketing campaign launch. Once you have these basics down, you can use them over and over again.
The 5 essential keys are:
• Define your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
• Put an effective sales offer to work
• Avoid the marketing pitfalls
• Use a world-class marketing perspective
• Get results!

We’ll go through each one of these, so you can see exactly how to use them and how they all affect the overall outcome of your marketing campaign.
Define your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
Take the time to ask yourself some questions from the prospective of the customers/clients. What would it take to get your attention? What needs do you have that need to be met? What are the promises you want fulfilled?
Once you know the answers to these questions you can start putting together a plan to meet these needs. Then take a look at what USP your competitors are using to help you develop your own USP. Your USP is what you are “promising” your customers/clients. This is what’s going to set you apart from your competition.

Put an effective sales offer to work
To develop an effective sales plan, you need to:
1. Put together a headline that gets immediate attention.
2. Share benefits of your products/services speaking from the customers’ perspective.
3. Identify the specific needs met by your products/services.
4. Make it easy to do business with you by offer guarantees.
5. Share your specific sales proposition.
6. Walk your customers/clients through how they should respond and act.
7. Motivate with a call to action.
What this all means is, you need to put together what makes your products/services special and compel customers to buy. If they don’t feel like they NEED your product, they won’t buy. You need to answer a question, solve a problem or feed an obsession.
You need to provide them with all the information they need to make an informed and confident decision. Buyer’s remorse is one of the worst things that can happen.

Avoid the marketing pitfalls
There are 5 major marketing pitfalls many businesses fall into and you should avoid:
• Ignore market testing and push on with an inaccurate plan.
• Offer an incomplete case, or reasons, throughout their marketing plan.
• Fail to notice the needs of their prospective customers/clients.
• Fail to diversify their marketing options.
• Fail to get market opinions on their offers.
These are all areas to avoid. If you’ve been working through these lessons, avoiding these pitfalls should be easy and natural.

Use a world-class marketing perspective
World-Class marketing perspective is important, especially if you want to attract customers/clients from all over the world. You can do this a number of different techniques and activities:
1. Keep a marketing journal and scribble down anything innovate you see.
2. Keep encouraging your marketing department, or yourself, to try new things and dump the ones that aren’t working.
3. Order from your own company under a different name and analyze the process of ordering, shipping, online store, customer service and the product itself. This will show you where the areas for improvement in the customer experience.
4. Read every quality ad you can find and keep a file for future ideas to consider.
5. When out in public, watch how consumers behave in different situations and how they consider their purchases.
6. Step down a notch or two and work on the front lines with your sales and customer service staff.
7. Continuously acknowledge your staff, vendors and customers. Everyone works and shops better when they feel appreciated.
8. Always listen to feedback from employees and customers.
9. Continuously test markets, ads, and marketing techniques. This is the only way to stay successful and know what’s working and, more importantly, what’s not.
10. Offer more information in your marketing than anyone else. The more information you offer, the more products/services you’ll sell.
11. A great marketing plan can only get better. Continue to fine tune and refine your marketing plan based on testing results and feedback.
12. Be classy in your marketing. Make sure your marketing and advertising fits your company image, products/service and quality.
13. Improve your best marketing areas and drop those that aren’t working.
14. Focus on what you say, not how you say it. The best marketing ideas turn into the best marketing naturally.
15. Develop all your ads, campaigns and sales materials with an attention to compelling and factual information.
By using these techniques you can put your name out there to the world and become one of the top brands in your industry.

Get results!
The last area we are going to talk about is the best-satisfied customers. If your customers aren’t satisfied, you’ve wasted all your marketing resources and all chance of positive word-of-mouth advertising. You can satisfy your customers by:
• Providing quality products/services
• Providing high quality customer service
• Providing a low-pressure, highly informative sales experience
• Taking all the risk away with a great guarantee

To generate more business there are a couple of simple techniques that work every time:
• Build your database with a contest.
• Do regular mailings with sales, discounts, or other incentives.
• Find other creative ways to keep your current customers coming back for more.

“As long as the reward is directly related to your product or service, you can’t lose. Why not get started today? It’s so simple, it’s so seldom done, and it’s so profitable. And that’s the bottom line.” Jay Abraham
It is so simple! So, why aren’t you starting today? We can help you put together a great marketing plan that will get you results. Try our FREE test drive and find the tools and resources you need built by some of the biggest names in the marketing world.

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Make it Pop!

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

There are 5 major components to good advertising copy: (The order of these is essential to success)

  • Command Attention
  • Showcase Benefits of Products/Services
  • Prove the Benefits
  • Persuade People to Embrace the Benefits
  • Call to Action

Advertising is sales in print. So, you need to think about the unique benefits your products/services offer and showcase that in a persuasive way. You need to emphasize results, not features.

Let’s take a minute to talk about each of these components:

  1. Command Attention: This is usually accomplished with the headline. You need an attention-getter that makes people want to know more about your products/services. The best headlines give a vivid portrayal of the benefits or show how a problem can be avoided with your products/services. The headline is the advertisement for the advertisement.
  2. Showcase Benefits: You have to showcase the benefits of your products and services and, more importantly, show how they will solve or prevent a problem. They need to know what’s in it for them. Include useful, factual and clear information to show precisely what the benefits are and how they are going to help the customer.
  3. Offer Proof: This is where you prove what the advertisement is offering. You need to establish you have a method to deliver. Consider information that establishes credibility and past performance.
  4. Persuade: You need to add compelling reasons for your potential customers to purchase your products/services. Use a hard sell approach and create scarcity. This will enact your potential customers to feel like they have to act now. Which leads into the last component.
  5. Call to Action: You need to compel your potential customers to DO something. They need to check out your site, sign up for your newsletter, purchase your products, contact you about services…something. Offer a freebie-a booklet, sample, product, bonus, demo, consult, limited time price…the list goes on. There are lots of ways to get potential customers excited about ordering and help them feel like they are getting an amazing deal.

Good advertisements include all of these components and are not complete without any of them. You can sit down and think through any one of these components, then figure out how to best place them together for the most effectiveness. We can help you with this too. Try our FREE test drive to learn how to put together great advertisements from some of the best in the business.

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Lessons I Learned from Paris Hilton

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Today I’m going to chat about shameless self-promotion. That’s right, I said it! Shameless! After all, we are learning from Paris Hilton here.

It’s all about self-promotion! Self-promotion comes in many forms and you can use different tactics to get your name out there. Look at politicians! Talk about self-promotion and in some not so discreet ways, at that. But, seriously, consider some of the major superstars we all know. Madonna, Donald Trump, Howard Stern and Bill Clinton, just to name a few.

We all self promote. Did you raise your hand in class to show the teacher you knew the answer? Of course! That’s self-promotion. This is the kind of self-promotion we are talking about. With dignity, class and the knowledge to back it up. If you self-promote only to prove you don’t really know what you’re talking about, you’re going to lose business.

Natural self-promoters are the former and I want to tell you about the three major traits they have and use to build themselves and their businesses.

1. The first is position. You need to position yourself around people who can make a difference in your life. You need to do this frequently. You need to wake up every morning and ask yourself “Who can I meet today who will make a difference in my success?” In fact, go a step further, write it in big, bold letters and tape it on your bathroom mirror.

Also consider:

Who can help me meet my goals?

Is it a prospective customer/client? A colleague with contacts? An association with key members who may become prospects?

Don’t settle into interacting with the people who are the easiest to access. You need to reach outside your comfort zone and there you will find a wealth of new connections that will bring you great success.

2. Now, let’s talk about Style. No, this doesn’t mean you need an Armani suit to bring in more business (though, let’s be honest-it wouldn’t hurt) J What this really means is how are you different from your competitors and others in your industry. What makes you memorable with customers?

If you are meeting a lot of people and they don’t remember you once you leave the room, you have a serious problem! This means you have an opportunity to present yourself in a more memorable way.

There are lots of little subtle changes you can make. Reassess your:

  • Business cards
  • Company message
  • Your picture
  • Your wording

Maybe even, your hairstyle (of course, now we’re back to the expensive suit, but it really works!)

You get the idea. There are lots of little ways you can work on making your image and business more successful. Also, consider how you sound on the phone and how you greet people at meetings or other events. Think about your 30-sec elevator speech.

3. The third trait of natural promoters is repetition. You can’t say it once and leave it at that. Successful self-promoters say it as many times as they need until they get a response. Would you remember a commercial for Coca-Cola if you only saw it once, no! You see it over and over and eventually you head out to the store.

You, also, have to make multiple impressions on those you are networking with in order to build brand awareness. Repetition is in direct connection with positioning. Once you find people to network with, reach out and find hundreds more who can help in your success as well.

Check he most dynamic and powerful client attraction program ever created at www.marketing250.com

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Working all hours, work life balance all wrong?

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Spend 5 minutes watching this movie, then come back and contact me to see how we can change things for your good.

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Get your life back, work on your business not in your business

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Is your business currently struggling financially, not growing as fast as you had hoped, stuck and you are finding it difficult to get unstuck, or you find it difficult just to pay the bills day to day?

Are you frustrated with the marketing that costs a fortune but generates few if any leads or the failure of your website to make your business money?

Are you also finding out that however many hours you put in every day you don’t seem to be achieving enough

At TFT Coaching we can help you turn from working in your business to working on your business

  • Get more returns with less work
  • Make more profit
  • Develop yourself and your team
  • Get control of your time, finance and team
  • Turn conflict into positive motivation.
  • Develop and implement your strategy.
  • Carry out Behaviour profiling and 360 leadership assessments

Contact me now to arrange your Confidential Free Strategy Consultation

Call John O’Flynn on 00 44 (0) 79 76 86 76 71
or Email at john@oflynn.me.uk

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Communication and Relationships – Free personalised DiSC ® Behavioural Profile worth £180

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Get your free personalised DiSC ® Behavioural Profile, a 20 plus page report to help you understand and create better connection, communication and relationships. All you need to do is contact me for a coaching strategy discussion and if you feel that you can benefit from being coached and sign up for coaching I will include a Free Disc ® profile and feedback session into the coaching programme worth £180. Email me john@oflynn.me.uk or Call me 079 76 86 76 71 now and improve your business.

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