How To Set Goals
1. Specific: The goal must be specific. If the goal is not specific enough it will lack clarity and meaning. Example: “I’d like to move soon.” versus “I will move by Feb 1, 2009 to ________, by doing, ABC.”
2. Measurable: The goal must be measurable and have a well defined outcome. Example: “I want to cut weight.” versus “I will drop 15 lbs by April 10, 2009″ or “Achieve body fat of 5% by June 1, 2009.” (more…)
Many studies, such as Amen Clinics Research, illustrate the importance of a positive mind for physical health, mental health, creativity, productivity, focus, discipline, fulfillment, imagination, and dedication. All of these benefits have a direct impact on living more fulfilling lives and experiencing better results in business.
Brain scans show that a positive mind is much more active than a negative mind, and active in the areas critical for many of the benefits above. My focus here is on how to be more positive and if you are already in a positive state, how to enhance it further.
Picture: Make sure you add one if you don’t have one on your profile yet. Headshot is best.
Personal Tagline: Write one, and update it. Click on the blue text, “What are you working on” Maybe place your elevator pitch here?
Don’t Cut and Paste Your Resume: Describe experience/abilities.
Elevator Pitch: Make sure it is within your introduction section. You have 5 seconds to grab attention.
“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their full potential.” - Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot
“Many of the world’s most admired corporations, from GE to Goldman Sachs, invest in coaching. Annual spending on coaching in the U.S. Is estimated at roughly $1 billion”. - Harvard Business Review
“Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual, group and organization.” – HR Monthly
“A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you see your strengths and weaknesses and uses them to accomplish your goals.” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune (more…)
Sales Interview Questions
I have posted sales interview questions for various sales positions below. These questions will be helpful when interviewing a sales professional or leader of any level.
(If you are a sales professional or sales leader looking for how to answer any question an interviewer could ever throw at you, please visit here!)
Sales Representative, Sales Executive, Account Manager, Account Executive, Sales Manager, District Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Director of Sales, VP of Sales, Executive Vice President of Sales, Chief Sales Officer. (more…)
1. Most people do not enjoy cold calling, but they need to realize it has to be done. It really is a mind-set. You have to set time daily to call, and make it part of your daily behavior/activities.
2. Not everyone will be a fit and that is ok! If they say “No” or “No Thanks!” that is totally fine. You are simply finding out who might be a fit or not. There will be less pressure on you if you keep that mind-set.
How Life & Business May Look Without Accountability
It is essential that when setting up accountability you cover these 3 simple, yet powerful questions:
1. What are you going to accomplish?
Make sure to get very specific. (more…)
As people get busier and busier with their lives, career and work, often the things most important to them, get neglected. The path to a more fulfilling life is to honor your values on a daily basis. But how can you honor your values if they are not crystal clear to you, or if you have not even thought about them in a long time?
Here are a few ways to help clarify your values so you can raise your awareness and start to honor them more in your life, career or business. The faster you start to honor these values more, the more fulfillment you will experience. (more…)
“strong consideration needs to be given to using external coaching programs to enhance internal results.”
“The study also indicates that using internal coaches to coach managers or executives is not correlated with coaching success. It appears that using external coaches for those groups is more effective and perhaps confirms that the higher cost of using an external coach may be well worth it.” (more…)
I appear as a guest on the Cultural Fusion Experience Radio Show to discuss busines, sales, and so much more. Music will play until ‘6:10′ when the interview begins. (You can fast forward)
Many people new to professional coaching wonder how the great majority of it is done on the phone.
In coaching the focus is all on you and here are some reasons why coaching on the telephone is so effective.
1. It helps you really focus hearing yourself.
2. Less distractions, no visual distractions, total concentration.
3. Telephone coaching is much more efficient. You and your coach will get into coaching right away.
Jeremy J. Ulmer | Sales Coach | Business Coach | Life Coach
Interview on Business Burnout & Fatigue: Tips to Achieve Better Results
The following question was posted on linkedin.com: “Work-Life Balance…Any suggestion on how to find symmetry?” Below is my public answer.
Hi, these are very important questions. As a professional coach, both for business, sales and life, I find that these areas area critical for success. I started a linkedin.com group that is fully dedicated to “Balance & Fulfillment for Business Leaders” that you might want to join. We are sharing and helping each other with these exact types of questions.
Remember when you were a little kid? Or maybe you can’t, 
but you may have witnessed kids, who ask question after question, about something new and exciting to them, right? They are genuinely curious to know more! They are filled with wonder, excitement, and a playfulness about their questioning.
This question was asked on linkedin.com. “Motivation! As a sales professional, what motivates you and drives you to achieve success?” Below is my public answer.
This is a great question. I have found that working with 100’s of sales professionals at various levels, that they all have very different internal drivers that motivate them. I believe also that there is no right answer here, however, I challenge my clients to dig deeper, much deeper, to really get to what they truly want, and why achieving certain results is really important to them.
The question of whether a high level of empathy for a sales professional was an advantage or a disadvantage was asked on linkedin.com. Below is my public answer to this question.
This is a great and interesting question! It looks like most people so far are saying that empathy is essential for sales people, and I agree! I will expand on the concept and how to develop it a little further as it may be of help for those who want to enhance it. (more…)
SPIN Selling By Neil Rackham, Huthwaite, Inc. McGraw-Hill © 1988, 197 pages.
This book is a classic sales book and I have provided my own summary below.
Below are the key points from this book – SPIN Selling Summary
“There’s no doubt about it, questions persuade more powerfully than any other form of verbal behavior. And this is not just in selling.”
(I would agree that powerful questions are key, but note that “persuasion” in the traditional sense is out-dated when it comes to selling effectively. Persuasion can put the prospect on the defensive and can make the sales person uncomfortable as well. Learn more about my Sales Coaching Programs) (more…)
Source: WIKI Summaries
In Built to Last, Porras and Collins learned that their prior beliefs were misfires. During a six year research process, they “unlearned” much of what they learned with large corporations’ successes. In place of former beliefs lays a new groundwork for what exemplifies visionary companies. Here are some of the former myths removed with their research: (more…)
Source: WIKI Summaries
The 4-Hour Workweek is divided into four sections, each of which explores one of the components to lifestyle design: (more…)
Jacksonville, Fla.–(Business Wire)–Jan. 4, 2001–Manchester Inc., a supplier of customized executive coaching programs, has released the results of a study that quantifies the business impact of executive coaching. The study includes data on executive behavior change, organizational improvements achieved, and the return on investment (ROI) from customized, comprehensive executive coaching programs. (more…)
Differences
(The follow information is from The Coaches Training Institute manual)
Coaching: Views both parties as naturally creative, resourceful and whole. Does not diagnose or treat.
Therapy: More apt to view the clients from a medical model. Diagnoses and treats.
I appear as a guest on the Cultural Fusion Experience Radio Show to discuss changing your perspective and staying positively focused during challenging times. Music will play until ‘4:50′ when the interview begins. (You can fast forward)
Research by the Chartered Management Institute and Campaign for Learning – “Coaching at Work”. Results issued in a press release dated 16th May 2002:
Top 4 words associated with Coaching (from a given list) were:
Supportive (98%), Empowering (82%), Holistic (80%), Inspirational (77%)
Top 3 words associated with Training (from the same given list) were:
Prescriptive (71%), Rigid (70%), Intimidating (50%) (more…)
