During this episode Karim will talk about the importance of the elevator pitch for the coach, and share a frame to consider when crafting the pitch

During this episode Karim will talk about the importance of being present in social media and use to add value to thousand of people in need of your learning, all over the world.

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What’s up everybody. This is Karim Amri, and welcome to the coaching secrets podcast.

For years before, whenever someone told me , Hey man, you need to be active on Social Media, to let the people know you, and show up on facebook and Instagram, I was totally convinced that this world is not for coaches. It was crystal clear that for coaches this is not needed.

I always said to myself that Coaches get their clients by referral, that’s the best way. Until I had a mind shift, where I started to think that in certain way, being on Social media is an opportunity to add value to the thousands who will not have the chance to be your clients. So this Social media will be a kind of mic to use to add value to others, even when you never meet them or know them.

When starting this journey, it’s important to choose the social media platform that your customers are using the most, to focus on it.

If your customers a mainly using FB, you’ll focus on FB

If your Customers are mainly on LinkedIn, you’ll focus on Linked In

If your customer are on IG, you’ll focus on IG

And so, one for the other SM platforms.

In previous podcasts, we highlighted that we need to identify where the dream customers are congregating, and the use of SM here, will be for:

Understanding well the platform itself.Understand how to promote ads on the platform.Understand the mindset of the Dream Customers (What they like, what they buy, )Join the groups they are part of.Connect with themAdd value to them.

I always refer to the importance of groups whenever we are focusing on our customers congregation, as groups in this SM are, are becoming the best way to know, connect, network and interact with people.

The good thing with SM groups, is unlike the old events and summits, where the number is limited and depend on a geographical area, with social media we can connect, and get in touch with potential customers from all over the globe.

It’s important to stick to one social media platform in the beginning, and publish in it, at least once a day. After mastering this platform, you may spend to other platform, especially with the present of apps and service providers giving the possibility to share the same content simultaneously on different platforms.

Thank you all.

That’s all for today, keep growing and bye for now.

During this episode, Karim will talk about the importance of continuous learning and development. Any coach in any stage of his career, needs to learn new skills that will add lots of value to him as a coach and will be reflected on client success as well.

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As a coach it’s essential to keep learning and developing yourself.

By learning new skills and techniques, you’ll add more value to your customers and increase the efficiency of your sessions. In fact this is also in line with selecting a niche market or creating a niche market where you will be the subject matter expert, when you dig deep in the speciality and keep learning about it.

Learning will expand your coaching tolls, and the same happen by mastering fields like :

NLP: Neuro Linguistic Programming

DISC Personality Assessment

MBTI

Emotional intelligence

Leadership

Team Building

Influence and Persuasion

Habit

Getting things done techniques

Mindset

Growth

Thinking.

Mastering new skills can lead to also to increasing your fees, and open you new doors.

Thank you all.

That’s all for today, keep growing and bye for now.

During this episode, Karim will talk about one of the big mistakes, most of Coaches, and new entrepreneurs fall into. Trying to do do everything in their business, from design, development, to SM, and spending months and years learning to do new the technical things, instead of looking for the right expert to do it, better and faster.

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What’s up everybody. This is Karim Amri, and welcome to the coaching secrets podcast.

One of the biggest mistakes most coaches do is trying to be the one doing everything:

Developing the website or funnel

Developing a marketing strategy

Feeding, adding content, and interacting with customers on all the social media platforms

Designing the brochures

Doing the content for marketing campaigns

Editing videos

….

…. And the list is long

The same can be feasible, but the problem, is instead of reaching your full professionalism and high potential in couple of months, it’s going to take you years to become the coach you want.

You will spend months learning developing on WordPress, or Click funnel ( 8 months as average)

You’ll spend months learning how to edit videos (6 Months Average)

You’ll spend months learning about Marketing, how to build marketing strategy and bring traffic to your website and funnel ( 12 Months average)

You’ll spend months learning how to create your copy, for your media and web presence (2 Years)

You’ll spend months learning sales , (6 Months average)

This is not everything, but we’re already almost 5 years, and you’re focusing on everything but Coaching.

Yes you can make it, but after 5 years,those who are starting same as you today will be in the top of the industry of coaching, while you still figuring out how to be visible in the market.

I’e been there, trying to do everything, and I still falling into the same mistake sometimes now, but it’s important to be pause and ask yourself with each a new task, am I the right person to do it ?

Focus on the WHO , who can do the job, not HOW to do it, if not  you’re just delaying and blocking your growth and success.

Thank you all.

During this episode Karim will talk about the importance of leadership culture within the team. It’s not only the main leader who has to embrace leadership principle, but any member of the team should.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

We always consider one person , as leader, when we’re talking about leadership, but , what about team leadership ? Is it different?

Within a team, members must be able to rely and count on each other when it counts.

For a team, having clear vision is key, this gives the team members confidence and direction. One bad apple, can ruin a whole team.

In any winning team, there’s some players who get things done.

The overall strength a team, can be highly impacted by the weakest link. Teammates are different, and each of them has a specific place where he reaches his top potential and add the most value to the team.

The more the challenge is high, the more is the need for teamwork. There’s always a price to pay by teams, to reach their potential. It’s extremely important for a team to know where they stand, in each of their journey, to know what adjustments to do.

Shared values is a must for the union of a team. Proper communication within a team will lead to better connection and completion of actions. Developing the team and investing in it’s members compounds over time.

When the team is doing great and achieving results, nothing hurts.

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness” – John C Maxwell.

That’s all for today,

Thank you all for listening, keep growing and buy for now.

During this episode Karim will continue exploring the qualities of leaders started last episode, and will talk also about the 25 coach leadership qualities.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

We started yesterday talking about the qualities of a good leader, and we’ll continue talking about the same subject today.

As a coach, leadership is everywhere around us at a 360 level, whether when we are dealing with our clients or when we’re coaching them to become a better leader.

So what are the other qualities a coach should have ?

Achieve good results

Result champion leaders, support and enable their people to become champion too. True leaders know that the real success is the team success and victory, leaders are the catalysts of that success.

It’s easy to be a leader when market is stable and organization is facing no issues. But when challenges and big risks are faced, that’s when leadership will save the organization from crash.

In order to live the great success, leaders maximize all the resources they have for the benefit of their institution. A leader level of achievement is directly proportional to his ability to lead others.

Identifying the best time to act is one of the leader’s strength, as its makes the difference between success and failure.

20% of the people in the company, produce 80% of the results achieved. (Production),

20% of the leaders in the company, make 80% of the decisions. (Leadership)

20% of the time spent at work, produce 80% of the leader’s business goal. (Time)

A true leader knows where he’s going, and is able to persuade others to follow him. When the leader’s vision is accepted and embraced by the team, it creates enthusiasm, and boost the team to grow.

Develop other leaders

“The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point they surpass him or her in knowledge or ability”

_ Fred A.Manske

A mentor-protégé is a 2 ways relationships, when proper matching is needed for both to get benefits. A good leader is someone who walk his talk, as people do, what people see.

Self-development leads to personal success, Team development leads to organization growth, new leaders development leads to organization explosive growth.

The Coach 25 Leadership Qualities:

CommitmentFocusVisionPassionPositive attitudeListeningCourageProblem SolvingInspirationalSupportiveResponsibilityCommunicationCharacterCharismaCompetenceRelationshipsConfidenceHonestySelf- disciplineLearnerTrustworthyProactiveGenerosityFlexibilityDecisivenessThank you all for listening.

That’s all for today. Keep growing and bye for now.

During this episode Karim will start talking about the leaders qualities, that he will explore some of them before digging deep into the same subject in the next episode.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

Some of the most common question we encounter as coaches, by executives, leaders and managers are like :

Is it better to focus on competence or commitment ?

Is it better to develop yourself or invest in your team ?

Which is better to consider, being a good communicator or good listener ?

Is it wiser to show that we are risk taker and bold or that we are secure and stable?

So what are the qualities of a good leader ?

A successful leader has to encompass all the options

As leaders we need to know how to: Influence our team

“The true measure of Leadership is influence, nothing more nothing less” – John C Maxwell.

To embrace new challenges towards greater achievements and move people in new directions you need influence, you need leadership.

To become a great leader, we don’t have to select from management or leadership, but to develop both skills.

Management and leadership are 2 different and distinct bodies of knowledge, and both are necessary to the success of any business.

Question: What’s making developing influence level important for a leader?

Build good connections and relationships “ Build enough of the right kinds of relationships with the right people, and you can become the real leader in an organization” – John C Maxwell

Trust and good relationships are what holds leaders and their organizations together. The more you increase the level of trust with your people, the more your influence level increases. Trust is the base of leadership

As a leader, living with integrity is not a choice. Connecting with our people is how a strong relationship start, connecting start with caring for those who follow us.

That’s all for today, thank you all for listening, tomorrow we’ll continue talking about leadership qualities.

Keep Growing and bye for now.

After talking about the first 3 styles of leaders in the previous episode: the commander style, the Visionary style and the Affiliate style, Karim will talk about the 3 other styles of leadership during this episode, what are they and how we know them ?

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

We talked yesterday about the visionary, the commender and the affiliate styles of leadership, and we explored how different the styles are, today we’ll explore the democrat, the pacesetter and the coach styles.

The Democrat

This leader key word is collaboration. The democrat creates agreements and deals through participation , equipped with his communication skills, sense of collaboration and team leadership.

This leader work best when getting inputs form valuable employees or team members. The Democrat brings a positive impact to his environment and his style can be summarized in one phrase: “What do you think?”

The Pacesetter

This leader set high standards for performance. With his sense of initiative and high drive to achieve, the pacesetter is at his best when working with motivated and competent team toward quick results or short-term goals.

This style can be summarized in one phrase: “Do as I do now” which is bringing a negative impact to his environment.

The Coach

The coach is a people developer. With a high sense of empathy and great self-awareness this leader is expert in helping people discover their potentials and improve their performance. The Coach leader helps employees develop long term Strength.

This leader impact is very positive in his environment, and his style can be summarized in one phrase: “What do you think about this?”

When coaching executives or leaders within an organization it’s highly valuable to identify their leadership style, this information is important not only for the coach, but for the coachee himself and his team and those interacting with him.

This may bring lots of clarification to many behaviors and improve the communication and connection between the executives or managers and their teams.

That’s all for today, thank you all for listening, keep growing and bye for now.

During this episode, Karim will keep exploring the leadership topic, and will talk about some leadership styles. There’s no one size fits all when it comes to leadership, there’s different styles.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

After exploring the different levels of leadership in the previous episodes, today we’ll talk also about leadership, but from a different angle, we’ll explore and talk about the different leadership styles.

Yes, there’s not on fit all style or size when it comes to leadership, there’s different styles and that’s what we’ll talk about today and tomorrow.

The Commander/ Autocrat

This leader demands immediate compliance, equipped with high drive for achievement and with self-control. This leadership style works best during crisis and challenges, it’s also one of the best styles when dealing with problem employees.

The commander style is having an overall negative impact, and can be summarized in one phrase: “Do what I tell you to do”

The Visionary

This leader lays out big – picture concepts and vision and mobilize people towards them, he always thinks long term goals.

Equipped with high self-confidence, as a change catalyst, this leader works best when clear direction is needed as well as during changes time, when new vision is needed.

The visionary is having a very positive impact in his environment and his style can be summarized in one phrase: “Come with me”

The Affiliate

This leader creates harmony and builds emotional bonds. Equipped with high EQ, he’s expert in building relationships and connections.

Whether during stressful times, or team collaboration issues, the affiliate leader is highly needed and work best.

The affiliate is having a positive impact on his environment and his style can be summarized in one phrase: “People come first”

These were the first 3 styles of leadership, during our next episode we’ll explore other 3 styles.

Thank you all for listening, keep growing and buy for now.

After Exploring the position level, permission level and production level of leadership in the first episode of this leadership series. Karim will talk today about the 2 higher level of leadership, the people development level and the pinnacle level.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

During the previous episode we talked about the first 3 levels of leadership, the position level, the permission level and the production level. We’ll explore today the level 4 and 5 , the people development level and Pinnacle level.

Level 4: People Development Level

This level is where leaders creates other leaders. People development leaders are not only doing good in production level, but also, they develop others to be successful in that.

Developing good relationships with others is essential for them, to trust you for their development. Level 4 Leaders, use their position, good relationships and high productivity to invest in the organization biggest asset: people.

By developing other leaders and multiplying themselves, level 4 leaders will create a better teamwork spirit, and highly increase the performance.

Level 5: Pinnacle Level

The pinnacle level is not earned by the leader, but given to him by those he leads

Your team and those who follow you are highly trusting you and believing in all what you do for them and for the organization.

“ Level 5 Leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.

It’s not that the Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest.

Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious, but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.”

– Jim Collins

Level 5 Leaders’ goals is to build and enduring great organization, that will keep doing great when they are not there. Whenever things go well , pinnacle leaders will look for a team member or specific event to give credit to, but not themselves

When things go wrong , pinnacle leaders will take all responsibility and never blame others or bad luck. Pinnacle leaders set standards for long term growth and success

As a Coach:

Always give the credit of achieving goal to the client or the coached team in the organization.

When communicating with the client, if he didn’t get your question or missed it, remember that the only responsible for the meaning of the communication is the sender.

Never blame , take the responsibly to reformulate your request. Keep learning and developing your knowledge about the different leadership levels to increase your understanding of the behavior challenges with your client organization.

The more we know the leadership levels, the more we connect with our clients, whether they are Executives, Managers or teams, the more our partnership will bring success .

When having the appropriate, knowledge, skills and needed certifications (If any) helping organizations develop the coaching skills of their executives, will lead to a better result and long-term growth.

These were the 5 levels of leadership, learning them is essential to know how to deal with your client in a leadership way, and also help a lot when coaching leaders and managers within organizations.

Thank you all for listening this is all for today, keep growing and bye for now.