Jackie has a well-rounded professional background including management roles, financial positions and opening a highly successful retail store in Brookfield, WI in 2008 and became an ActionCOACH client in 2009. While many retailers were forced to close during the economic collapse, Jackie’s store thrived –a testament to her ability to own and operate a successful business. She sold her store in 2018 after a successful 10-year run. Loving what her coach helped her achieve, she wanted to help other business owners do the same.
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By Jackie Zach
Responding to Surprises
Lots of things happen that are interesting, surprising or unexpected. Sometimes there are good surprises and sometimes there are bad surprises. You have a choice in how you respond. Learn how to take control over your thoughts and create a response that will help move yourself forward. Do you have lots of surprises in your business and struggle to respond
The Five Deadly Words in Business
The 5 Deadly Words are “I’m happy where we’re at”. If you find yourself just getting through the day or growing is too much work, this is the podcast for you. Grow or die, it is a natural law; if you’re not growing, you’re dying. If you decide everything is ok, you cannot have more than you have today. Mike and Jackie
Management Systems
People are your biggest asset, so what do you have in place to help them grow or become leaders? Do you have a system for your managers to follow that allows you to train your upcoming managers? It is all about managing consistently. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the management system they use and teach. Need better management and a better management system?
We’re All Playing a Bigger Game
When you’re playing a bigger game, you’re also moving out of the day to day. You’re growing managers and leaders instead of doing all the work yourself. Are you evolving the size of your customer base or keeping everything as it is? How do you and your business need to change as you play a bigger game? Want to play
What Do You Want Your Business to Do for You?
In the case of your business, what do you want the asset to do for you? Have you ever given it some thought? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss, taking some time to consider why you’re building your business and what you want it to do for you. Know what you want your business to do for you but need
Year End Planning
There is no literature in the world that says that you should run your business or your life without a plan. The majority of businesses and lives, for that matter, don’t have a plan. The biggest reason is that people don’t really know how to create a plan or how to set goals. However, it’s easy if you have an
The Long Arc of Time
The long arc of time is the concept that it feels like time goes slowly even though time is happening at the same pace it always has been. The arc of time can be bent in your favor by doing things consistently and looking at the data. Data has no emotion or feeling, which can make things seem very slow
One Person Can Sink the Whole Ship
Would you allow an employee to choose not to get better? If you have one person who doesn’t want to grow through training/learning/coaching and you let them stay, there is a clear message to your team that you don’t believe in growth. Do you have people on your team who are choosing to resist where the company is going? Take
When Employees Feel Like You Don’t Care
Do your employees feel like you care about them as people? What difference would it make to your company if your company really felt like you cared about your individual employees? Listen as Mike and Jackie explore this very important aspect of your business. Want to know if your employees feel valued? If yes, take advantage of a complimentary business
Surprise!
Something comes up that you weren’t expecting, which comes as a total surprise. Surprise… there’s a pandemic. Surprise… interest rates are up to 8%. Surprise… your employees are all quitting. When you experience something that you weren’t expecting, you have choices about how to react and how it affects you. The idea is not to allow but to move forward