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Coach Chris Cotton

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Keep Learning to Keep Leading!

How will you grow?

1. Invest in Yourself First

2. Be a Continual Learner

3. Create a Growth Environment for the People You Lead

The People Difference.

"Leadership & Learning are indispensable of each other."

John F. Kennedy

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Don't Manage Your Time, manage Your Life!

Time for a change in perspective!

Good Leaders Cannot Be Bad Self-Managers

People who manage themselves poorly are often guilty of the following 3 things:

1. They undervalue their uniqueness doing what others want them to do.

2. They ryin their effectiveness by doing un-important things.

3. They reduce their potential by doing things without coaching or training.

Application Exercises:

1. Are you squandering your time?

2. Are you getting help where you need it?

3. How do you decide to spend your time?

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Please take 7 minutes out of your busy schedule to listen to this one!

This is my gift to you on MY birthday: Are you counting your marbles?

Coach Chris Cotton

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It’s time to reflect on how this past year went; what did you accomplish? What fell through the cracks and why.

After you’ve done that, It’s time to think about what you want to accomplish in 2023 and set things in motion to ensure you achieve those things.

Also, time to think about year-end evaluations for all staff members.

Are there people that don’t need to be on your staff? If so, don't carry those people into the new year. Also, don’t be afraid to let those people go now. It’s not ok to keep them on the payroll just because you feel bad about letting them go “during the holidays”

Also, when was the last time you did a labor rate analysis? When was the last time you raised your labor rate and adjusted it and your parts matrix for inflation?

Also, time to evaluate Job Descriptions/Employee Handbooks/Training Programs etc….

Tax Planning---Have you been talking with your accountant all year and or been making quarterly payments on your taxes? If not, do you have money set aside to pay your taxes?

Next, let’s talk about Compliance and give you a checklist of things to do for your business at the end of the year.

Coach Chris Cotton

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Mentorship programs are a highly effective method of employee development. When done well, promoting mentorship within organizations can have a real positive impact. In fact, 88% of mentors and mentees agree that their productivity increased due to their mentoring experience.

Let’s look at what makes mentorship programs successful and how you can set up a great mentoring program at your organization.

Mentorship programs are structured learning relationships set up within an organization. They aim to provide employees with guidance from other employees with specific skills and knowledge.

Types of mentorship programs

Why mentorship programs are so important

How to create a successful mentorship program

Coach Chris Cotton

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What exactly does the term ownership really say to us when we see it describe a house that's currently on the market and being sold? Well, to me, it means that the individuals living there had been proud to have been home owners and once you see the house, you'll realize how proud they really were.

So, when someone says that a house shows "pride in ownership," we know that the homeowner has taken great care to maintain their house. Such as making sure that things are fixed as soon as they break, as opposed to years later when everything has begun to fall apart.

1. Satisfaction And Engagement

2. Satisfaction With Leaders:

3. A General Sense Of Fairness In The Organization

4. The Organization Is A Good Corporate Citizen:

5. Career Success, Growth And Development:

Having a strong sense of pride in the organization you work for may seem trivial, but it can do much to impact bottom-line results. Proud employees are less likely to quit, more likely to recommend the organization as a good place to work, and often do an excellent job of marketing company products to others. You’ll also be hearing a lot less of the infamous and telling statement, “It’s not in my job description.”

Coach Chris Cotton

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1. Admit Your Own Mistakes and Weaknesses.

2. Accept Mistakes as the Price of Progress.

3. Insist on Learning from Your Mistakes.

4. Ask Yourself and Others, What Are We Missing?

5. Give the People Around You Permission to Push Back.

Application Exercises

Mentoring Moment

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80/20 Principle!

Finding The Main Thing

1. I Determined Not to Know Everything

2. I Determined Not to Know Everything First

3. I Determined to Let Someone Represent Me

4. I am Determined to Stay with My strengths and Not Work on my Weaknesses.

5. I Determined to Take Charge of What Took My Time and Attention

"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple"

Application Exercises

Mentoring Moment

Coach Chris Cotton

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