How do you become an employer of choice to retain and attract great people to your business? The following is a list of things that the Wiegers Financial & Benefits team and I learned to do from my coaching program and from other business owners to help...
Building Your Team is Important to Building Your Business
It is important for you as an employer to understand what motivates or is valued by your employees. It's not always about the money. Some of your people may value a flexible work schedule, e.g. the single parent who juggles after school activities for his or her...
How to Attract and Retain Top Talent
The real value of any business lies in the team, the people who come to work and execute on the business to the best of their abilities. Their objective is to create a great customer experience so the brand and reputation of the business remains intact. The question...
My Takeaways From Business Coaching: Part 4
Early in my coaching years, we delved into the concept of habits. Everyone is disciplined 100% to their existing habits. The problem is that some habits are good while some are bad. The difference between people who achieve success and those who do not usually boils...
My Takeaways From Business Coaching – Part 3
The coaching program I’ve been participating in for decades now has a system that classifies each of your days into one of three types: Focus days Foundation days Free days Focus days are spent on your business with 80% of your time spent working in your unique...
My Takeaways From Business Coaching – Part 2
My quarterly Coach meeting is an opportunity to get the 40,000 foot view on my life personally and professionally. I can do this most effectively when I take a time away from my business and workplace so there are no distractions. Each quarterly session, I start by...
Do You Know Just How Much an Employee Benefits Plan Can Do to Take Care of Employees and Their Families?
Do You Know Just How Much an Employee Benefits Plan Can Do to Take Care of Employees and Their Families? When employees think about their benefits plan, the benefits that most often come to mind are for prescription drugs, massages, and maybe a dental check-up every...
My Takeaways From Business Coaching: Part 1
We left off a couple of weeks ago with an introduction to the coaching program I’ve participated in for the last 30 years, and how it has positively impacted my professional and personal life. Today I will cover some of what I have learned in the hope that you might...
Service and Purpose
My Intentional Success blog last week spoke to the value of life and business coaching and having a better life, personally and professionally. I am going to speak in this week’s Intentional Success about something that is a little off-course but no less important....
Business and Life Coaching: What It Is and Why You Should Consider It
In 1990 I attended a conference in Quebec City where one of the speakers was a business and life coach. I saved his card and thought what he had to say would help me professionally in my business. Long story short, I signed up for his program. I paid approximately...