Dropping Expectations and Creating Agreements – Effective Delegation Part II

By Action Coach Dave Beam

One of the most powerful distinctions that will help you effectively delegate is the distinction between expectations and agreements.  I am indebted to business coach Steve Chandler for teaching me this powerful concept.

Business owners and managers are often frustrated because the team often falls short of their expectations.  You expect them to show up on time.  You expect them to follow through.  You expect them to go that extra mile and bring some new ideas to the meeting.  I am certain that if I interviewed your team members, they would have their own expectations as well. 

Unmet expectations produce disappointment.

Facing Your Fears Concerning Delegation - Effective Delegation Part I

By Action Coach Dave Beam

A common challenge that I hear from business owners and managers is their lack of success in effective delegation.  I hope that you agree that learning how to effectively delegate is a key to your freedom.  Without effective delegation, face it, you have to do it YOURSELF!

The Quality of Life

By Action Coach Dave Beam

Would you like to improve the quality of your life?  To bake a better cake, you need better ingredients.  To create a better LIFE, you must choose better LIFE ingredients.  Today, I would like to help you understand those ingredients by sharing one of my favorite Action Coach flip charts, the QUALITY OF LIFE.

Don’t Read This If You Want To Have a Great New Year

(Our blog articles are archived articles from our weekly newsletter which is about 6-months ahead. Usually this is irrelevant, however this particular article was written for the New Year's season so it may seem a bit out of place but the information is still great! -Editor)

By Action Coach Dave Beam

Brad Sugars, founder and CEO of ActionCOACH, talks about people who live a Xerox life.  Xerox is the brand that is associated with copy machines.  What Brad means is that you could photocopy the experiences of many people for one year, and that will be the experience for each and every year – the same, the same, the same, over and over.  Call it a rut, which is just a grave with the ends knocked out!