Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo

I use Twitter to share brief messages, not more than two per day. You can have them delivered to your cell phone by text message (SMS) or view them when you visit your free Twitter web page. Create a Twitter account and “follow” TonyMayo.

Here are my recent tweets (messages):

You can’t control the wind so learn to control your sails.

When a thing is new people say, “It is not true.” When a thing seems to be true people say, “It is not new.” William James

I’ve done things on Monday and Tuesday, made progress on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I have completed tasks on Saturday and Sunday, but I’ve never accomplished anything on “someday.” See Goal Setting on this blog.

Failure lies not in needing help but in failing to accept help when needed. Tony Mayo

Prior tweets are here, at Twitter Logs.

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I have been posting fewer and fewer tweets because they have been producing fewer and fewer responses. Has Twitter jumped the shark?

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One of the most popular posts on this blog is my commentary on the 2008 Conference Board survey of worldwide top executive coaching rates and budgets. The Conference Board has recently released its 2010 update and revision to that report. Unfortunately, the report no longer contains information on the amount organizations are paying for executive coaching per hour or by engagement.

The most interesting tidbit is that most organizations are compensating executive coaches for travel time.

You can visit the Conference Board site and purchase the report by clicking here.

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New York Times columnist David Brooks, alumnus of my college and our off-campus newspaper, explains beautifully some of the reasons I advise my executive coaching clients to put away popular business books and get into great novels.

Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you will have a huge advantage if you can read a paragraph and discern its meaning (a rarer talent than you might suppose). You will have enormous power if you are the person in the office who can write a clear and concise memo.

Studying the humanities will give you a familiarity with the language of emotion. … Branding involves the location and arousal of affection, and you can’t do it unless you are conversant in the language of romance.

Studying the humanities will give you a wealth of analogies. … If you go through college without reading Thucydides, Herodotus and Gibbon, you’ll have been cheated out of a great repertoire of comparisons.

–David Brooks
History for Dollars
NYTimes.com.

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I felt more productive.

I was seeing results.

I realized how important it was to connect with your spirit in doing the things you do. Life is not just all details and logistics. You have to know why you’re doing things and understand that there are other people involved. You can’t get it from just going through the motions everyday. There’s the whole spiritual thing that some of the V.S.O.P. exercises made me realize, along with some of the things that Tony says. He doesn’t talk about it a lot, but that was one of the many things I took away.

It’s really amazing that such a short period of time could do so much and be so positive.

–Ann Lohmann
High Tech Executive on
Tony Mayo’s executive coaching program
Genuine Success: V.S.O.P. in 1997

 

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making me happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and, as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

–George Bernard Shaw

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Much too often, business owners and salespeople eagerly run off to complete assignments given to us by employees, prospects, or clients. We are asked for something, we feel like we should know how to provide it, and we eagerly set to work trying to figure out what will satisfy them.

My experience is that it pays big dividends to slow things down by asking some clarifying questions. Exactly what information will satisfy a prospect who is looking for a reference? Or comparable experience? Or assurance of financial stability? How much ownership or participation in an eventual sale will satisfy a key employee? What commission, recognition, or work/life adjustment will motivate our best salesperson?

My CEO executive coaching group members have learned that Read the rest of this entry »

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