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In Other News Quote of the month: "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." *Football Coach - John Wooden* ________________________ Here's a great website for business owners - It offers FREE career help, business training, organizational development - inspirational, innovative ideas, materials, exercises, tools, and work templates. Click the following link to visit www.businessballs.com/ ________________________ If we haven't worked together and you are curious about how Business Coaching works, we would like to invite you to attend one of our FREE BUSINESS SEMINAR'S This is for business owners only who wish to surround themselves with knowledgeable people and contribute to collective learning. This is a very manageable approach to networking and business education. Register now by calling our office at 250-860-0466 or by emailing clint@kbdkelowna.com to receive more information and become part of our initial group. ______________________ "Complimentary" Coaching Session. This is a, no-obligation conversation about your goals. There is no charge for this 45 minute session. Call Clint Best today at 250-860-0466 or email clint@kbdkelowna.com
______________________ "Business Coaching is a method of serving and supporting a person or group of people, with the aim to achieve some goal or develop specific skills."
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But...We've Always Done it that Way! 
Summer is over and it’s back to business. The world has changed a lot over the past 12 months and we have to change along with it if we are to thrive in this new economy. The way we’ve “always done things” may not work anymore, and certainly won’t work the same as they have in the past. There are undoubtedly some things we are doing right and those can continuously improve. The principles remain the same, you still have to know what you want, but how you get there will be different. There has never been a more important time to innovate and try new things, yet in spite of how simple this sounds it’s easy to get in our own way of actually doing it. Understanding how we learn as an individual or an organization helps us with the patience and persistence we need to become proficient at something new before we give up or jump to the next thing. There are four stages to learning: 1. Unconscious Incompetence – this is the “we don’t know what we don’t know stage”. A person is not aware of the existence or relevance of a new skill area, or deficiency. Willingness to keep an open mind, to new possibilities is critical at this stage. 2. Conscious Incompetence – the person becomes more aware of the existence and relevance of the skill. This could be the “aha moment stage”, when they have yet to realize how to do it but, are aware of their deficiency, the value in making an improvement, and are willing to commit to learning and practicing. 3. Conscious Competence – the person achieves this level in a skill when they can perform it reliably at will. It still requires a lot of thought and concentration, but they can perform without assistance. The skill is not yet second nature. Practice and not giving up is the key to reaching this level. 4. Unconscious Competence – the skill becomes so practiced that it enters the unconscious part of the brain and becomes “second nature”. Common examples are driving, sports activities, manual dexterity tasks, listening and communicating. Business examples might involve your sales process, understanding your financials, self management, diversification options, and your value proposition. This arguably gives rise to the need for long standing conscious competence to be checked periodically against new standards. Put another way, from time to time we need to check our auto pilot to make sure the playing field hasn’t changed so much that our results are drifting off course, and look for the new and better ways of making our bottom line. To read more articles on "Continuous Improvement" in your business, click the following link kbdkelowna.com/ to visit our website. "Continuous Improvement" with Clint Best 
Hi everyone – it’s good to be back with you again. I wrote this article because it’s a particularly relevant issue in these times. Regular strategizing and planning helps us to anticipate changes. Make time to think about what you want, and keep stride with a steady gradual pace of newness. Finish what you start and keep your eyes on the bottom line. Pay particular attention to your feelings, as they will tell you when something is not working. Pick your spots and give yourself a chance to make the mistakes that must be made to get to success. Hope you enjoyed this month’s newsletter. As always, pass this along to someone who might need it, and let me know if I can serve or support you in any way. If you would like to contact Clint please feel free to email him at clint@kbdkelowna.com
"Good to Great" by Jim Collins Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies — how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies. Having invested over a decade of research into the topic, Jim has authored or co-authored four books, including the classic BUILT TO LAST, which has been a fixture on the Business Week best seller list for more than six years, and has been translated into 29 languages. His work has been featured in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company. Jim’s book, GOOD TO GREAT: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... And Others Don’t, attained long-running positions on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week best seller lists, has sold 3 million hardcover copies since publication and has been translated into 35 languages, including such languages as Latvian, Mongolian and Vietnamese. Buy it today....it is another great tool to help you build strategies for success! Click the following link to visit amazon.ca www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_ss |
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