Carole Hodges

BUSINESS COACHING - EXECUTIVE COACHING - SUCCESS COACHING

Three-Month Minimum Required for Measurable Results Coaching

Individual-Session Options by Phone
            Two 30-minute calls
            Three 30-minute calls
            Three 50-minute calls

On-Site Team or Leader Coaching by Special Arrangement

Program-Level Coaching Services

Accountability
Achieving Goals
Budgeting
Computing Strategies
Delegation Strategy
Developing Relationships
Document Review for Marketing, Niche, Intention
Employee Productivity Training *
Employee Retention
Exit Strategy
Gender Communication
Hiring Strategy
Integrated Alignment Method ™
Internet Strategy
Leadership Coaching
Marketing Strategy
Mini support calls
Organization *
Partnership Coaching
Personal Impact
Personal Motivation
Personality Profiling
Positive Suggestion
Pricing Strategy
Product/Service Development
Role Profiling *
Sales Script Development *
Sales Strategy Development *
Speaking Skills *
Speech Development *
Wealth Building

* These services are also available on a stand-alone basis; please query for individual pricing.

 

Accountability

People perform to a higher standard when accountable to someone other than themselves.  By choosing The YES Connection as your accountability partner, you will find yourself achieving the important milestones in your life through a process simplified by your success coach.  You only commit to the important and achievable actions that take you toward your goals.

Achieving Goals

Most people overestimate what can be done in a day—and underestimate what can be done in a year.  Business coaching helps you set exciting short-term and long-term goals, and keeps you on track to achieve them.  Executive coaching also teaches you to set goals for your team, and provides you reliable methods to track progress.  Success coaching helps you keep the balance in your life as you achieve more than ever before.

Budgeting

For the business owner, budgeting is essential in order to allocate funds to both grow the business AND to enjoy life.  Your business coach will work with you to create a structure for tracking your income and expenses.  This is the first step in creating and maintaining wealth.

Computing Strategies

The computer is an essential business tool.  Using it effectively can increase your success in both business and personal life.  In the coaching process, we study ways to accelerate your progress through improved use of software and hardware.  We evaluate contact management, financial software, email management and planning software.  If you need help with online file management, we can assist you with your organizational requirements and help you maximize flexibility and utility.  

Delegation Strategy

Learning to delegate is essential to grow wealth and eliminate being overwhelmed by the little things.  With your business coach, you will determine the high-payoff areas that require your expert attention, and those tasks you can delegate.  This strategy has allowed companies to rapidly accelerate income. 

Developing Relationships

The YES Connection business coaches are experts in understanding how communication develops and fosters quality relationships.  Beginning with your own personality profile, you will recognize the major observable personality styles.  Using this understanding, you can tailor communication to the style of your clients, employees, even family.  Improved communication makes a bottom-line impact on your business and your life.

Document Review for Marketing, Niche, Intention

The YES Connection provides document review for your important web pages, brochures, marketing, training or client communication.  Your business coach will review your communications based upon your intended outcome, personality styles, representational systems, hypnotic language and keywords.  Proofreading, revision and rewriting services are available for an additional charge.

Employee Productivity Training

Business and executive coaching can improve employee productivity by increasing clarity of communication, defining clear outcomes, and by ensuring that you are using the talents of employees in the right jobs.  We can provide team and leadership development with specific reports to define the strengths and weaknesses of your existing teams.  On-site productivity analysis is available through the YES Connection’s organization specialists.  

Employee Retention

Hiring and retaining top talent is essential to business success.  The YES Connection’s business coaches provide individual profiles based upon proven behavior models.  We can assist a business owner or executive in identifying upcoming leaders, and communicating effectively with, and within, existing teams.  Using a role profile specifically developed for your company will enable you to attract and identify the candidates best suited to your culture and expectations.

Exit Strategy
 
There is asset value in a profitable business.  Planning for an eventual sale to another owner, whether an individual or a larger corporation, or for a transfer to family members, is an essential aspect of structuring your business.  Business owners and entrepreneurs are asked to identify or develop their exit strategy.  Your business coach can provide direction in researching your options to benefit you in both the near and long term.

Gender Communication

Based upon scientific research, masculine and feminine communication has its differences.  It is essential to recognize these differences in personal relationships, and they may also affect business relationships.  Understanding gender communication is essential when husbands and wives or committed copreneur partners work together.  Your YES Connection executive or business coach can provide guidance and clarity to create harmonious relationships both at work and at home.

Hiring Strategy

Identifying the candidate best suited for your business is critical.  Mis-hires are expensive: they waste time and money during training and can lower productivity throughout your business.  The YES Connection provides a guided process for Role Profiling (see below), which minimizes the potential for a mismatch between the applicant’s skills and the position’s duties and responsibilities.  The profile results are used in both the job description and the training of the new employee.

Integrated Alignment Method™

The Integrated Alignment Method is a system of individual success coaching that allows you to accelerate your success by appreciating your natural strengths as well as your perceived weaknesses.  Using a proven personality profiling system, you will identify your typical behaviors, core fears and motivations.  With this conscious understanding, you can choose behavior which is more in alignment with your personal goals and fulfillment.  This method is a core segment of The YES Connection coaching process. 

Internet Strategy

Virtually every business can benefit from a web presence.  Your strategy will vary based upon the reach of your service, your revenue goals, your breadth of products and services, and your budget.  We can help you maximize your return from your website, regardless of budget.  We provide instruction in keyword strategy, building a list, and marketing affiliate products.  Basic understanding and direction is included as part of our business coaching service. Through our affiliations with top search engine optimization strategists, we can provide specialized services to meet your needs at competitive rates, with proven results.

Leadership Coaching

To lead others, you need to expand yourself.  We help business owners and executives craft and communicate clear vision, values and expectations for themselves and their organizations.  Our personality profiling systems allow you to better understand individual and group motivation, as well as the particular communication and leadership style required in a specific situation.  We help you expand your understanding of the forces underlying human behavior to become an inspirational and motivational leader. 

Marketing Strategy

Together, you and your business coach identify your ideal client.  Your coach reviews your current marketing strategies for effectiveness and helps you pinpoint additional approaches to marketing and PR that fit your current budget.  Strategy may include networking, advertising, brochures, email, websites, sponsorships, speaking, calling campaigns, direct mail and other creative approaches.  Marketing is a key to accelerating revenue…often quickly!

Mini-support calls

To support clients who are growing aggressively, The YES Connection offers mini-support calls.   These impromptu calls, between your regularly scheduled coaching calls, provide immediate feedback and support.  The advantage of mini-calls is that you can get the perspective of your coach when making critical decisions in an urgent situation.  Having a coach only a phone call away can give you the confidence to address even difficult situations without hesitation—one of the characteristics of a leader. Mini-calls are included in our Gold, Emerald and Platinum coaching packages.   Additional charges may apply to Bronze and Silver clients. 

Organization

To create growth and efficiently leverage your time, organization is essential in your home, office and processes.  Your coach will assist you in identifying the annoyances and tolerations that limit your success.  Together, you will create a strategy with specific goals and timelines to eliminate clutter.  We enhance our basic coaching services with the skills of organization specialists who can design detailed systems for workable organization.  On-site assistance is available in the Los Angeles area at an additional charge.

Partnership Coaching

If you are in business with your spouse or intimate partner, you are a copreneur.  The dual relationship of being partners in both business and life can create additional communication challenges.  Copreneur and partnership coaching provides partners with a success coach to guide them through the maze of decisions that will either make or break their business and partnership.  Solid business process with clear objectives, organizational integrity and acceptance of each other’s strengths and weaknesses provides a foundation for success.  This specialty coaching is designed for healthy relationships.  It provides entrepreneurial couples a support system for deeper communication in both their personal and business relationships. 

Personal Impact

When you grow as a business professional, you may find that you must adjust your image and skills to meet new responsibilities.  Success coaching provides personalized support so you can find your authentic voice.  Whether you need assistance with speaking, vocal tonality, written communication, grooming or wardrobe, we can provide guidance.  We want you to feel confident as you take on new responsibilities.  We can meet on the phone or in person, depending upon your requirements.  Premium services are available in the areas of image consultation, and speech development and coaching.

Personal Motivation

Even successful people have times when their enthusiasm or motivation may lag.  Your YES Connection coach is sensitive to the fact that personal motivation is related to your alignment with your goals.  Together, we find the source of your motivation.  Sometimes a change in direction is required.  Or we may use techniques to eliminate procrastination at an unconscious level.  You can be assured that your coach holds your achievement of a fulfilling life as the ultimate goal.  We won’t let you stop short.

Personality Profiling

Personality profiling can assist a business or executive coaching client to reach an understanding of their habitual approaches to problems, people, organization, facts or authority.  The YES Connection never “pigeon-holes” people.  Rather, we realize that individuals can change their approaches, sometimes significantly, when they are motivated.  Personality profiling supplies insight into communication and leadership styles.  It is useful in considering the benefits of including a variety of personality styles in a well-functioning organization.  It is also essential to creating an effective sales process which appeals to a wide variety of potential clients.

Positive Suggestion

The success coaching process uses positive language to motivate and inspire clients.  We also teach executives and business owners how to use language in their own organizations for the greatest positive impact.  We review documents to ensure that language intentionally moves the reader toward the desired outcome, and teach the client the process for future use.

Pricing Strategy

Pricing and packaging have an impact on the acceptance of your products and services.  We review your current strategy and consider ways to increase your net revenue through adjusting your pricing models.  We look for ways to grow your business that provide more effective service and products for your clients.  Changes in pricing and packaging can generate additional income without additional expense.
 
Product/Service Development

Your current clients can be the best source of business growth.  Because you already have a relationship, they are open to new offerings.  Coaching can help the business owner, entrepreneur or executive identify an additional need of current clients and fill it with a valuable new product or service.  We like to consider every way that you can expand while still giving great service and gaining, and retaining, the admiration and respect of your current clients.

Role Profiling

Role profiling is a facilitated process that enables a company to identify HOW an employee should perform a specific job.  Every company has a culture; it may be casual or rigorous, pressured or low-key.  When hiring a new employee, it is not enough to know that the individual has experience in doing a specific job, it is important that the new hire be a good fit for the culture and HOW a job should be done.

In practice, managers and key personnel who interact with a specific job offer their ideas on how the job should be handled.   From their input, a single profile is created.  Applicants complete a personal profile as part of the employment process. Comparing the role profile and applicant profiles gives very specific information to aid in the selection process, as well as the training and management processes.  Role Profiling is offered independently of other coaching services.

Sales Script Development

Telephone sales, one-call closes, long-term relationship sales, large-ticket sales, financial offerings and retail sales all have distinct objectives for each interaction.  The YES Connection can provide assistance to develop an effective approach for creating a win-win sales strategy.  We help our clients build rapport, and move each interaction toward a sale with integrity and personal alignment.  This service is available independently for individuals, companies and teams.

Sales Strategy Development

As part of the business coaching process, we inspect your current sales strategy.  Whether you are cold-calling, selling from the stage, using samples or developing a long-term relationship prior to the sale, we look for the most effective use of time to reach your outcome.  On-site assistance is available in the Los Angeles area at an additional charge.

Speaking Skills

Presentations and speaking can take many forms.  We offer Advanced Learning Techniques, Transformational Speaking Process and Experiential Learning in addition to traditional speech organization and delivery.  Speaking for sales presentations includes training in speaking to specific personality styles.  The use of humor, stories, stage anchoring, body language and tonality is integral to the coaching process for business owners and entrepreneurs.  We can also assist in the development of training modules. Individual coaching and private group classes are available.  This offering is customized to your needs and may include a team of specialized speaking trainers.

Speech Development

A great speech is organized based upon the result you want to create.  We assist in clarifying your intention, creating a logical flow and maintaining interest.  The success coaching process will help you identify the needs of your audience and engage them throughout your presentation.  We have a saying, borrowed from a mentor of ours: “Stage Time Is Wealth Time.”  We will help you make the most of it!

Wealth Building

Wealth building for business owners and entrepreneurs includes setting a foundation through budgeting and creating a strategy which meets your long-term objectives.  The coaching process motivates you to build for an engaging future.  We review the basics of wealth creation.  You will establish long-term goals worth achieving.  Creating wealth becomes a personal challenge and game worth playing.  When you are engaged in the process for personal growth, your old boundaries melt away.  Our clients find themselves creating business goals they could not have imagined prior to coaching.

 

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