Leading from a Distance

The days of going to work and seeing everyone you work with are gone forever. The ways we “see” one another, communicate, build teams, establish trust, collaborate, and achieve results have all changed. Separation brings a whole new set of issues
and problems. And leaders must adapt by bridging the gaps that occur when people
work apart from one another.

Look around – there are signs everywhere of the need to change with changing times
and ways of leading. Increases in mergers, expanding global operations, decreased
travel budgets, and worker demands are propelling many organizations into geographically dispersed environments.
And this means you need to build bridges – and close gaps – to connect people in the
virtual world. The three key bridges you must build are:

• Trust
• Communication
• Performance

The skills to lead virtually are needed for many different situations. Whether you’re responsible for a small team with some or all members remote or you manage a large group with multiple teams operating at various levels of remote work, you’re leading from a distance. In a nutshell, you must now “talk” with people, motivate and coach, provide feedback, and offer support – all without the “comfort zone” of face-to-face communication. Learning how to “connect” with people remotely and get results from a distance is your key to virtual leadership success.

For more information on growing your business and how Business Coaching in South Florida will work for you, contact John at johnlayzell@actioncoach.com or 305-899-9963 for a complimentary coaching session or diagnostic of your business.

Billionaire in Training Seminar

This is your opportunity to listen and learn from one of the world's most renowned business owners and entrepreneurs! The best part is ... this is your chance to attend as our guest – for FREE!

There are a limited number of complimentary tickets to giveaway to the eagerly anticipated Brad Sugars - Billionaire in Training 2007 World Seminar Tour! These tickets are valued at $69.95.

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Personal Growth: How Can We Feel Successful in Our Lives?

Perhaps the most important realization that an individual can make in their quest for personal growth is that there is no single formula that defines the path to personal success. We all have different goals and priorities, which means that different activities and attitudes will make us feel good about ourselves. We also have different natural strengths and weaknesses that are a part of our inherent personality type. How then, as individuals, can we feel successful in our lives?

Understand What is Important to You.

Each personality type has a different idea of what it means to be successful. Self-knowledge is one common goal that will help everyone achieve personal success. We all have important role-models and influencers in our lives that may have basic values that are quite different from our own. Sometimes one does not have the ability to realize their potential personal growth. Perhaps growing up they were protected by parents, siblings, spouses, even peers. Perhaps they would never have the realization. Defining moments in one's life could be the door that opens the realization of personal growth such as marriage, birth of a child, loss of a loved one, loss of employment or gainful employment. All of these events in our life offer personal growth. Pivotal people in our lives is another area that opens the door to personal growth such as mentoring or having a coach in our life that enables us to do the things we want to do, dreamed of doing or helped us overcome fear of doing.

Stepping out of your comfort zone while improving your self-knowledge and realizing your true goals can be very liberating. This is instrumental to opening the door to personal growth.

Strive for Balance

Most people will experience times in their lives during which they are stressed to the point of serious imbalance. As you can see, balance and success are relative and the key to Personal Growth.

So how do we go about realizing what is truly important to us? How do we become balanced? How do we open that magical door that will show us the way to personal growth and success? An awareness and acceptance of the fact that one personality function may be more effective than another function in a given situation will help you to understand the relevance of personal growth to your life. Personal growth is an individuation, which is essentially the conscious realization of your true self, beyond the ego, that is presented by your conscious self. Our efforts to help people develop themselves is essentially the effort to help them to realize that their personal perspectives and conscious ideas are only a small part of who they are and that the more they try to develop and defend this superficial “self”, the further they get away from their true self. This realization helps a psyche in many concrete ways and is also a positive step towards promoting a psyche that is open to the process of individuation.

To learn more about how moving out of your comfort, or familiarity, zone and the impact this will have on your business and life, and how Business Coaching in South Florida will work for you, contact John at johnlayzell@action-international.com or 305-899-9963 for a complimentary coaching session or diagnostic of your business.

John Layzell
Business Coaching in South Florida

Teambuilding - How to Get Your Employees to Do What You Want

So how do they teach Shamu to jump out of the water to the delight of the fans? If you have read Whale Done , by Ken Blanchard et al, you'd know that you can't use a choker collar or negative reinforcement to get a killer whale to do anything. Is that kind of like your TEAM members? The ones that can't get in at the beginning of the day and leave at the stroke of 5 p.m. ?

One of my South Florida business clients had the same experience. No matter how many different office staff she hired, no matter how many sales people she hired, the same thing happened. They came, they underachieved, and either she fired them or they quit.

It quickly became apparent that there was one common denominator, my client. As I observed her, it became apparent that she only interacted with the staff when they did something wrong. The staff dreaded my client. When she was out of town on a trip, things seemed to get done. When she was in the office, there seemed to be constant strife. It seemed that every coaching call started with a complaint about this employee or that employee. Many of the things that concerned my client had nothing to do with the mission of the company. They were petty things.

I started asking my client “so what?” As she heard me constantly asking her “so what?” she got the idea that she was focused on the wrong thing. When she wanted to fire someone I asked her what the cost was, and what was the return on this investment. Slowly it appears that the environment is changing. We are now focused on figuring out what the staff is doing well. Our focus now is on finding the staff doing something well. In addition we ignore the “bad” behavior. If people come in late (a pet peeve of my client) we ignore it. When they come in on time we thank them for being there to give us the best opportunity to have a productive day.

Like whales, people respond to the reinforcement that they get. If they know that the boss will pay attention when they step out of line, they'll step out of line to get attention. Now I can hear you thinking, that's fine for children, but this is my business, I shouldn't have to be the parent at work. As the business owner you have as much responsibility to lead your team as you do to lead your family. The use of positive reinforcement at home, in school, and in business, will make you happier with the results that you get in each environment.

Likes attract. In nature positive energy gravitates to positive energy. If you create positive energy in your business it will be more difficult for your team members to be negative. If you greet team members with a positive message when they start their day it will create positive energy in the office. This will make the workplace both more pleasant and more productive. The next time you get ready to “lower the boom” on someone, ask yourself why? What is the real impact of your negative energy? What will you get back? If you choose to fire them, isn't that a reflection on your ability to hire the right people?

For more pointers on how to improve the effectiveness of your TEAM, and how Business Coaching in South Florida will work for you, contact John at johnlayzell@action-international.com or 305-899-9963 for a complimentary coaching session or diagnostic of your business.

John Layzell
Business Coaching in South Florida


Hire the right people
Motivate people
Create a TEAM environment where Together Everyone Achieves More.

South Florida Business Owners - Save The Date!

Achieve More in 90 Days Than Most Business Teams So in a Year!

Action International, the World’s # 1 Business Coaching Team, invites you to create a 90 Day Business Plan for your business.

You’ll learn how the world’s most successful businesses plan their ongoing success – and then you will build these same principles into your own business (regardless of size) to create your own personalized 90-day Action Plan step-by-step. Then, crucially, you will learn how to implement your new skills and systems on a daily basis to achieve real results. If you are serious about fulfilling your business potential . . .

This is a MUST ATTEND EVENT limited to the first 48 attendees to register!
Friday, January 13, 2006
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
9:00 am Registration
Sheraton Hotel at D.C.O.T.A.
1825 Griffin Road
Dania, FL 33004


At the conclusion of the seminar, you will leave with:
1. Personalized workbook mapping out precise activities for the next 90 Days in key areas of your business.
2. A clear understanding of what has worked in your business and what hasn’t ... and WHY.
3. Specific goals and objectives for your business from July to September 2005... using S.M.A.R.T. strategies to move every key aspect of your business to a higher level.
4. New ways to get your team to take responsibility and ownership of their roles IN the Business.... Leaving you with more free time to work ON your Business.
5. Key Performance Indicators, KPIs, to measure your business improvements throughout the year.
6. Provided with 5 Ways to increase your profits by 61% within the next 12 months!

At $149* per person, this will be your best investment to start 2006. 2nd participant from the same South Florida business just $79
Start planning your future growth now!


Register online or
CALL Sally Rutherford TODAY to reserve your seat

(239) 254-0483

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: December 31, 2005.
$199.00/person and $99 for 2nd participant after December 31
This workshop will be fully booked...so reserve your seats now!


*$149 admits the first representative from any company / $79/person admits additional representatives from the same company
All current Action International Clients admitted for $59/person with early registration and payment

South Florida Business Success Academy

Announcing South Florida’s 2006 Business Success Academy

A few South Florida business owners who read this will go on to plan for the business they’ve always wanted in 2006 ...

Where do you stand … ?

Business Success Academy is the most practical, dynamic, and profitable business, sales and marketing program you’ll ever invest in, and here’s why …
It's not just finding out 'what' you need to do… you will leave this program knowing 'how' to do what you need to do to get ahead. And not only that… you will have done most of it in the program. Invest 8 sessions with Coach John Layzell’s Business Success Academy group workshops, developing and adapting some of the three hundred and twenty eight business building strategies, to use specifically in YOUR business, to boost YOUR profits and free up YOUR time ... right now …

The 8 Sessions Cover:
1. Setting Your Future;
2. Generating Cashflow … Marketing and Building a Marketing Campaign;
3. Streetwise Marketing I… Unique Selling Proposition and Guarantees;
4. Streetwise Marketing II … Developing Customer Loyalty
5. Understanding financials
6. Sales Made Simple;
7. Team Building, Leverage & Leadership;
8. Leverage – The Game of Business;

Take this Business Survey now to check the health of your business today.

The first two sessions are January 17 and 31, 2006, then meeting the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings each month from 6:00 to 9:00 pm (skipping holiday weeks). This course is limited to 8 businesses and two people may attend from each business.

Your investment: $625 per month, or pay $2,230 in advance for a savings of $270. American Express, VISA and MasterCard accepted.

Call 305-899-9963 to register NOW or click here to register on-line

To learn more about how South Florida Business Coaching will work for you, contact John Layzell at johnlayzell@action-international.com or 305-899-9963.

John Layzell
South Florida Business Coaching

Attention South Florida Business Owners!

Here’s how an investment of only $99* will transform your business in the next 3 months...

Action International, the World’s # 1 Business Coaching Team, is bringing its
World Famous 90-Day Business Action Plan Workshop to South Florida, giving you everything you need to make dramatic improvements to your business over the next three months.

You’ll learn how the world’s most successful businesses plan their ongoing success – and then you will build these same principles into your own business (regardless of size) to create your own personalized 90-day Action Plan step-by-step. Then, crucially, you will learn how to implement your new skills and systems on a daily basis to achieve real results. If you are serious about fulfilling your business potential . . .

This is a MUST ATTEND EVENT limited to the first 18 attendees to register!
Saturday, OCTOBER 1, 2005
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
8:30 am Registration
Bonaventure Resort & Spa
250 Racquet Club Road
Weston, FL 33326
www.bonaventureflorida.com

At the conclusion of the seminar, you will leave with:
1. Personalized workbook mapping out precise activities for the next 90 Days in key areas of your business.
2. A clear understanding of what has worked in your business and what hasn’t ... and WHY.
3. Specific goals and objectives for your business from July to September 2005... using S.M.A.R.T. strategies to move every key aspect of your business to a higher level.
4. New ways to get your team to take responsibility and ownership of their roles IN the Business.... Leaving you with more free time to work ON your Business.
5. Key Performance Indicators, KPIs, to measure your business improvements throughout the year.
6. Provided with 5 Ways to increase your profits by 61% within the next 12 months!

At $99* per person, this will be your best investment of this business year.
Start planning your future growth now!


Register online or
CALL Sally Rutherford TODAY to reserve your seat

(239) 254-0483

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: September 27, 2005.
$139.00/person after September 27
This workshop will be fully booked...so reserve your seats now!


*$99 admits the first representative from any company / $49/person admits additional representatives from the same company
All current Action International Clients admitted for $49/person with early registration and payment