Learning to Persuade and Be Effective

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You’re not going to get very far as a coach if you can’t first persuade people to hire you. Then, once you do get people to hire you, you have to persuade them to take action even when they couldn’t before.

Some people seem to be more persuasive than others. What’s their secret? The first “secret” is that you can fairly easily become more persuasive— both to convince people to hire you in the first place and convince them to take action after they hire you.

Many of your clients will be very familiar with the coaching process already. Some of them will have hired coaches in the past with varying results. Your goal, of course, is to stand out as the best of the best. That means being able to motivate and persuade people to take action in new and exciting ways.

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3 Ways to Defeat Time Draining Distractions

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Everyone has distractions.  Phone calls.  Alerts.  Doorbells.  Email chimes.  People.  They come in every shape and size.  They come often.  And they usually come right when we really don’t need them to do so.

Yet, some people seem to be able to thrive in spite of things that might otherwise lead them away from a focused activity.  What’s the secret?

The productive person knows how to defeat distractions.

It’s not that productive people don’t face distractions, it’s that they know how to properly deal with them so their productivity isn’t significantly affected.

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The 4-Step System for Reaching Your Potential

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Years ago I played one-on-one basketball with a youth pastor at the church I attended.  We usually played 3 or 4 times each week.  Each game went to 20 points; first one to win four games was that day’s winner.

When I moved to another city and our games stopped, I was a perfect 27-0 against him.  It’s not that I was that much better than Danny, because I wasn’t.  We were very evenly matched.  Our series’ usually went the distance with me winning 4-3.

The difference was this:  as much as he wanted to win, I wanted it just a bit more.

Now, here’s the purpose of telling you about our games.  I have this expression that I inevitably say to Danny on each of our afternoon battles out on the court.

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