A Year on Performance and Mindset Evolution

What do you think if you hear about a year on Performance and Mindset? For me it has been a celebration of both Entrepreneurial Magic and Personal Success!

Join me as we celebrate a full year with or radio show ‘Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia’. We had an incredible year filled with amazing concepts, new themes, inspiring notes and fabulous interviews: Joan Detz, Margaret Maclay, Steve Olds, Marc Koehler, Bob Burg, Hans Trupp, Michelle Poler, you name it. We talked about business ideas and fear; emotional intelligence and franchises; business expertise alongside purpose and vision; and we talked about the Sustainable Development Goals issued by the United Nations. We focused on improving and changing your mindset in order to increase your performance.

Join me in this one hour show as we review our first year on Performance and Mindset. Click HERE to LISTEN!

When we talk about Business or entrepreneurial success, we might not be really sure what it is or how to define it; and this will prove to be critical. You need to know where you are today and where you are going; then, figure out your plan to get there.

Whether you have been in business for years or you are a start-up, things look harder and more difficult than what you originally thought, take more time and might have a bigger cost than planned. Your three main resources: time, team and money will be tested over and over again. What you need to do here is to understand what makes you apart, what is important for you and your company and how can you start redirecting some of the approaches and ideas you have been using in the past.

This actually is the number one critical issue for all people and companies that do need to change: adapt and be flexible. This implies realizing the need to adapt to the changing business environments, looking at the trends in the market and your industry, while improving some of the important areas (if not all) in your company.

When you do it, something starts to happen and suddenly there is a better flow of energy, new ideas start to flourish, a more dynamic team takes action, goals are reached and visions are aligned. In all, you, your staff, team members and your company start talking about success and what it would mean to be successful (and yes we know we all measure Success in a different way).

Over the course of the year from June 2015 to May 2016 we had an incredible team that helped us reach thousands of listeners form all over the world; we invited amazing guests, talked about important business issues and development tools. And most importantly, we talked about you, your teams, your companies and how you can improve your performance while changing your mindset.

In this hour-long show we will review the best highlights from an amazing year so please join us as we review our first year on Performance and Mindset!

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The Keys to Entrepreneurial Success!

When we talk about Business or entrepreneurial success, we might not be real sure what it is or how to define it. Whether you have been in business for years or you are a start-up, things look harder and more difficult than what you originally thought. 

What you need to do is to understand what makes you apart, what is important for you and your company and see how you start redirecting some of the approaches you have been using.

This actually is the number one critical issue for all people and companies that do change: realizing the need to adapt to the changing business environments, looking at the trends and doing the things you need to do to improve all areas in your company. When you do it, something starts to happen and suddenly there is a better flow, new ideas start to flourish, a more dynamic team takes action, goals are reached and visions are aligned. In all, you start talking about success.

There are many definitions on business success and in this program we discussed some ideas that may allow you to understand some of the Key Elements to Entrepreneurial Success. If you want to listen to our show Click HERE!

Think of strategic words in your business: Keys to Success, entrepreneurial success, vision, goals, performance, teamwork, change, strategy, trends, continuous learning.

And again, when you, your staff, team members and your company start talking about success and what it would mean to be successful (and yes we know we all measure Success in a different way) things start to change!.

How do you define Success? There are many definitions on business success and in this program we will be discussing some ideas that will allow you to understand some of the Key Elements to Entrepreneurial Success.

Decide to learn more about your success; Click HERE!

For more information please visit my web pages: Luis Vicente Garcia ; Coach Luis V Garcia & read my articles on Entrepreneur Performance

And as always, keep improving your Success!

Luis Vicente

Is your TEAM ready to win the World Series?

Baseball season starts on April every year. Coaches, players, fans and staff have a renewed hope to be in the playoffs and then winning the World Series. 

Many teams are competing for it, many more aspiring to achieve it. However, only one will win the #WorldSeries.

You have a series of important elements that will help you make it but one, above all else, is the number one #1 Key to success: TEAM Work. It has been said that the Best Teams achieve Greatness. How do your team will do it? AND AGAIN, Is Your TEAM Ready to win the World Series? 

It really means asking you the following questions:

-       do you have the best players, strategies and coaches?

-       Can they work together and at the same time improve their individual abilities?

-       How is your farming system and are you constantly training them to reach new levels of performance?

There are many important questions that every leader and manager need to answer in order to achieve your organization’s goals and many of them are related to TEAM PERFORMANCE. 

As a leader, you need to understand the importance of creating a team that is aligned, works to achieve excellence and that is committed to achieving the results you have created for your company. This happens at sports teams at every level; it happens with companies all over the world. 

Whether in your country you play baseball or not, you know the importance of being in a world class tournament and thus the question here is: Is Your Team Ready?

Join us on this interesting show as we discuss the importance of TEAMS to achieve our goals; to listen: Click HERE!

And keep performing at your Best!

Luis Vicente Garcia

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SMILE you way to Success!

SMILE your way to Success. Probably too many ideas came to mind when I wrote the name for this radio show. Change Your Smile and Change your Life? From Smiling to Success? Smile for Success? 

Every one of them was very appropriate as it is all in our Mindset, our Positive Attitude.

I met Dr. Tomas Seif over 30 years ago. Yes he is a dentist and also an entrepreneur. How do you go from learning one skill at the university to leading an entire organization of professionals and having success along the way? By doing what you are passionate about. 

Understanding that your attitude is a key determinant of your entire life and eventually your personal and professional success will affect everything you do, and even hanging your smile.

This is what Tomas does for his patients and he has a really incredible approach to do it. Join us in this exciting program with Dr. Tomas Seif DDS and SMILE your way to Success! Listen HERE.

About Tomas Seif, DDS

Dr. Seif obtained his DDS degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1989 and his Master of Science degree in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Michigan School of dentistry, USA in 1992. He is founder and former president of the “Venezuelan Academy of Esthetic Dentistry” and an active member of the “International Federation of Esthetic Dentistry”.

As an entrepreneur he founded and is the director of the “Venezuelan Institute for dental updating” and later found “Noronquesmas” a dental service for treating snoring and sleep apnea.

Dr. Seif lectures extensively both nationally and internationally having presented lectures in the main programs of the most important dental academies around the globe. He is regularly invited as professor in Venezuelan dental schools. He has edited and co-authored several textbooks in dentistry, some of which are used as textbooks at different universities.

His Private practice is dedicated exclusively to restorative dentistry and esthetics in Caracas, Venezuela. Visit: Tomas Seif Facebook Page

‘Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution’: Celebrating Show #50

"Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly 

wait to get at it again." 

-- Whit Hobbs

With this beautiful quote I received this morning from a dear friend, I wake up to what will be an amazing day (as most are and should be). Today we are celebrating an incredible day as my radio show Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution on VoiceAmerica Business is reaching its first big milestone: I will be LIVE at 6 pm EDT this afternoon to celebrate our show #50.

It has been an incredible journey as I had never been a radio host before and one that I have truly enjoyed; particularly learning about new subjects on performance and mindset, and learning how to interview amazing people - my guests - who have been an integral part of our success. We are now listened to in 6 continents and over 70 countries, which shows all of us that our messages are needed and welcome and as such I would like to give a huge thanks to all of my listeners who week after week join us live or on demand to find out new ideas and insights that will allow them to grow and learn.

'Performing at Your Best Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia' Radio Show on VoiceAmerica Business

So to all of you, my incredible guests, the listeners all over the world and to the amazing VA Team, my most sincere thanks of appreciation for having shared with me and our audience your incredible thoughts, ideas, tips, suggestions and most of all your knowledge, which has been and will be the source of their new ideas, rides and journeys.

To all of you, my dear friends, my most sincere thanks and appreciation as I invite you to join us in this wonderful month long celebration of mindset and performance celebration.

Luis Vicente  

Become a Corporate Athlete; a conversation with Sheena Walker and Luis Vicente Garcia

What are the key habits of top athletes and performers? 

When you identify the key elements that define successful people and teams we need to relate our corporate world to sports. Athletes work on developing a plan and a strategy that will take them to become champions, to see themselves on the podium. 
They work on "Peak Performance".

This is what we also need to do in our organizations. From HR to IT to Finance or sales we all want a winning team with top performers. In many cases we need to help them grow into what Sheena Walker calls ‘The Corporate Athlete’. A person who is successful and who  has developed positive and successful habits and in doing so, changed their mindset and attitude. This is the concept of performance related to understanding how you and your team can generate positive results.

Join me in this very interesting conversation with coach Sheena Walker, from Scotland, as we define the key elements to become a Top Performers and an excellent Corporate Athlete: Click here to LISTEN!

Sheena Walker, the Champion Maker

Sheena Walker is a globally renowned performance consultant who takes Olympic winning strategies and helps you to apply them to your career, business, and your life. She’s a highly respected “Business-Development Professional, and an International Speech Coach, who speaks on Performance Management & Performance Coaching, Public Speaking Training, Leadership HR and personal success related topics.

Sheena is passionate about helping new and established firms break their performance boundaries by using her seasoned performance-development techniques, which will help accelerate one’s success. Her passion, focus, and enthusiasm for Super Performance Solutions will address your business challenges and champion individual and team performance.

She has a rare and unique background as an athlete and as a performance coach in sport, while she has and continues to be mentored by the world’s leading figures and pioneers in the realm of Business and Public Speaking.

Here is to your increased Performance.

Luis Vicente Garcia

For more information on these and other programs please contact us at coachluis@luisvicentegarcia.com
  

Business Coaching for Greater Performance!

When I decided to work on my own to help business owners and managers, I understood the importance of Business Coaching with a focus on Performance. 

This is what for me is FocalPoint Coaching – a company powered by Brian Tracy. This is what we do every single day for our clients.

We focus them on working and achieving their goals, developing their teams and improving their performance. We guide you from understanding the clarity you require (identifying where you are and where you want to go), to learn how to sell better, improve the quality of your teams, and guide you to grow your businesses and developing the leaders in your organization. 

And it goes alongside with an incredible program for training your team members in areas from sales to peak performance. As a FocalPoint coach I get to help teams and companies grow day in and day out; this is what our fellow coaches do all over the world and in different languages.

In this incredible show on Business Coaching for greater Performance I interviewed Dominic Rubino, EVP for FocalPoint Coaching who along side the FocalPoint Home Office and the S.T.A.G. Committee create the guidelines and programs we use with all of our clients. Join us on this very interesting conversation as we discuss how business performance coaching will allow you, your company and your teams to grow and perform better: Click Here

If you want to  learn how a FocalPoint Business Coach can help you and your company grow, contact us at www.coachluisgarcia.com and our email  lgarcia@focalpointcoaching.com

And keep Improving your Performance

Luis Vicente Garcia

Guest Bio: Dominic Rubino

Dominic’s passion is educating others to reach their own maximum potential. Having found his passion in coaching, Dominic joined into a partnership with Brian Tracy and SteveThompson to grow FocalPoint into the world’s leading coaching brand.

FocalPoint Business Coaching, powered by Brian Tracy is a global franchise that fulfills Dominic’s passion. At FocalPoint, Dominic is responsible for Coach training, support and development, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the company.

“We focus on 2 things – Coach Success and Client Success. As long as we stick to that, everything else will keep falling into place” says Dominic Rubino. Even during his corporate life, Dominic was a serial entrepreneur. It was only after leaving “big business” that he was able to concentrate fully on developing his own business interests. Dominic began his entrepreneurial career during university. He started a number of ventures, including a Student Painters Franchise.

After completing his B.A., Dominic moved into telecommunications sales for Sprint. 5 years later, Dominic’s entrepreneurial and sales skills were put to the test as Agency Sales Manager – finding, recruiting, training and supporting independent phone companies to add Sprint services to their product offerings.

Uplift Your Motivation

Motivation has been defined as the “act or instance of motivating or providing a reason to act in a certain way or to accomplish something”. 

So as a verb, it activates “action”.

Motivation is a key ingredient for success and we must understand that everything we do and dare to do, allow us to move forward no matter what happens to us, to fight adversity and to continue building and working to create our better future.

Being motivated is already a challenge by itself. This for you means: stay motivated every day to motivate and inspire others does matter.

As Coach Pat Railey once said: “a champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.”

I would add, we all need motivation above all.

Join me as we start understanding the importance of motivation for today’s challenges and opportunities.

Always use words such as: Motivation, Optimism, Positive Attitude, Performance, Luis Vicente Garcia, Success, opportunities, future

If you want to uplift your MOTIVATION: Click HERE!

And keep improving your success

Luis Vicente

Ideas on Productivity!

Productivity is a key topic in today’s business world. 

It mixes what you do with how you do it and why you do it. 

Doing it right is not enough. You also need to do it effectively and efficiently and with the help and contribution of a committed and engaged TEAM.

Do you know how do you, your team and your company use your resources more effectively and efficiently? What key resources do you have? The main resources we all have are time, people and funds to invest in our company and our team. How do you develop them? 

In short: we need to use them wisely.

Productivity has been defined as “a measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.” So it is actually the best and most efficient use of the resources we have in order to obtain a better and bigger output. 

And yes it includes all of our products, services, ideas, projects, team and all the resources you have combined with all that you and your company do. And of course they all relate to one of the main themes we cover in this Radio Show: PERFORMANCE.

Listen HERE and join us on this interesting episode as we talk on the very important subject of Productivity.

And keep improving your Performance.

Luis Vicente Garcia

Reassessing your Performance on 2015!

When O had the chance to my live show only three days before the new year, I decided to help everyone do a review of the year as it came to an end. In our FocalPoint Coaching term we call it: Stop and Reassess.

So we entered the final week of the year and as always, it was extremely important that we all see where we were and what we achieved during the year, understand what worked and what can be improved. And best of all, to start with more strength and energy the new year.

If we evaluate what we did we can be assured we can continuously improve. By doing this, we can understand everything we did to get us to the particular point in which we are today.

 

Stop and reassess is a very interesting concept that we use in our FocalPoint Coaching practice and it which allows us to review where we all are, something particularly important at the end of a year or after finishing a very important task. 

For all of us, as we ended 2015, it required evaluating what you we did, if we achieved our gals and our plans, and all the actions we implemented. Once we do this, we have a new and more clear focus of where we want to go.

Join us on this interesting program as we discuss how you can evaluate your performance this year. To listen just Click HERE!

If you want to find out how we can help, visit us at www.coachluisgarcia.com and www.luisvicentegarcia.com

To your Increased Performance!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Learning the Owner-Builder side of building

There are different ways you can change into the future; one of them is having a better home.

Today, being an owner-builder has become a very interesting way of learning how to build a better home/place for you and your family while reducing the investment needed to do so. And that savings could go to having a bigger home, new furniture or having new plans.

Leeza and Matt Sipek have become specialists in the owner builder arena and back in 2012 Leeza and co-author Hazel Foote launched the first series of their book the Owner-Builder in Australia. In December 2015 they launched their second book in the series The American Owner-builder, which has already become a best seller.

Join me for this episode of ‘Performing at Your Best’ as we learn about this changing way of building your own house. Click HERE!

 About Leeza Sipek

Leeza shares her experience working as a State Sales Manager, Sales Consultant and Owner Builder x3 in the residential project building industry for over 10 years. With her husband Matthew and two children they have saved thousands of dollars in owner building their homes. Leeza alongside Hazel Foote, co-wrote their first book The Owner Builder in Australia in 2012 and early December their first book in the US called the  American Owner Builder , which has become a best-selling book.

Increase your Performance through Time Management!

We all have the same amount of time.

Some use it wisely, some invest it, and some waste or spend it.

For any person or professional that truly wants to stand out, to make a difference, to improve your performance, you need to ‘Manage your Time Effectively’.

Time is one of the few precious resources we have in a limited basis.

The better we learn to use it - and as we improve constantly - the more we can achieve. And as you start implementing new tips and ideas to better use your time, you can increase your performance, your results and have a more balanced life.

The end result? Also increase your potential!

“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. 

That's why it's called the present.”

Bil Keane

And a simple and very useful tip: start using your agenda.

Click HERE to Listen and join me on this program as we define time management from the view of the business owner or the executive who wants to understand how to achieve more.

And as always, PERFORM AT YOUR BEST!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Finding your Purpose to LEAD; a conversation with Marc Koehler and Luis Vicente Garcia

As we talk about improving our Performance, Empowering our people and building a strong culture within our companies, there is a single key-element that will allow doing it better. This key ingredient is finding the “Purpose” to what we do.
We all have to run our businesses, train our employees and get them engaged in what they do. This is what LEAD WITH PURPOSE does by ‘Helping People Lead a More Purposeful Life’. Finding your Purpose is an integral part of what we need to be working on. The Lead with Purpose program gives every small business owner the access to a set of affordable and simple to use tools and best practices to help get everyone on the same page, passionate about what they are doing, and focused on what matters most. The end result, generating more and better leaders!

Join us for this episode of ‘Performing at Your Best’ as we discuss how Engaging, Empowering and Encouraging your team members will be one of the best factors for your success.

To listen to my interview with Marc and learn to "Lead with Purpose", Click HERE 

About Marc Koehler:

Marc Koehler is the President of Lead With Purpose, a team that is passionate about helping others lead more purposeful and inspiring lives. 

Marc spent nearly 10 years as a small business turnaround CEO. He recognized that the management tools and leadership approach he learned from his combined 15+ years as a US Navy Submarine Officer and large company manager would need to be adjusted to fit the small businesses he was brought in to help rescue. Marc decided to launch Lead With Purpose when he saw how many leaders were able to use the tools to become better leaders and produce sustainable business results.

Marc lives in San Diego, CA with his wife and three daughters. He has four-year degrees in both Physics and Mechanical Engineering and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He served his country in the US Navy Submarine force from 1988 to 1993.

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Keep Performing at Your Best!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Leadership and Management!

Leaders and Managers alike are confronted with similar issues; one of the biggest differences is how they anticipate, react and implement their decisions. 

What you know and how to use it is an integral part of doing a great job. 

Being a manager or a leader is not an easy task: when you have to be both: it is a much harder and more interesting job. This is what business owners and entrepreneurs do day in and day out.

Want to find out what the best practices you can use? Join us on our Episode #17 of the radio show ‘Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution’ as we discuss this interesting subject where we relate the importance of Leadership and Management!.

To your increased Performance,

Luis Vicente Garcia

Entrepreneurship in a Changing Environment!

Entrepreneurship is crucial for the future growth and development of any country or society. But, how do you embark on an entrepreneurial initiative when and where not all conditions allow you to do it? 

It requires preparation, planning, dedication, determination, vision, creativity and many more innovative ideas. How do you do that? Looking for the opportunities you have and creating many more. 

As you become an entrepreneur, you need to identify your market, create your products and services, train your team, and be very flexible. As a professional we all learn the value of hard work. And in doing so, many of us have switched careers to finance, marketing and other areas or decided to become entrepreneurs. 

Join me as I interview Felipe Lemmo, CEO of TuSeguro.com who for the past six years has worked on creating a new web based insurance platform that will serve the Latin American market.

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Felipe Lemmo is an experienced professional with a strong background in Marketing and a sound experience as General Manager, managing businesses in different countries of Latin America. 

He was in charge of the successful introduction of Gatorade in Latin America and currently is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tuseguro.com a multi-latin initiative that today is present in Venezuela and Colombia.

And keep improving your Performance!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Let’s talk about SALES!

SALES is everything: for us, our products, for our company or for anything we do. 

We need to always be selling and we do it consciously and unconsciously. Do you know your ABC's? There is a saying which indicates that we need to ‘Always be Closing’, and it refers to closing the sale. This is why you always need to be learning your ABC's.

We need to know who our target is; who our audience is; and then have a plan and a strategy for our marketing program and our sales processes. As we do this, we need to understand our customers, what the market needs and the value our products and services provide. This is a key element of business success!

And we need constant training on sales, whether we are experienced salesperson or we are just starting. 

As we learn and improve our marketing, we will be creating new campaigns, work on our brands, do continuous sales training, implement a better marketing plan, learn and develop the sales strategies that work and a develop a customer loyalty program based on all our growth.

Join us in this new episode of ‘Performing at Your Best’ as we talk on the importance is having a sales strategy and program for our business. Click on the following link to listen: A Conversation on SALES: Click HERE!

To your increased performance!

Luis Vicente Garcia

  

A Year of Performing at Your Best!

As we come to the end of the year, I have to thank so many people that have made my radio show a Success! 

When we started to think about it, Winston and Jeff from the Voice America Radio Network helped me create many incredible parts, such as the banners, the links, setting up the page, coming up with the Bio and creating the show’s name and page. And it has been an amazing year. You can hear all of the shows on the Voice America Business Channel at Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia

Our first show was on June 2^nd so as we close the year we have already done 32 shows. And the audio and technical people at VoiceAmerica have been incredible. Many thanks to all.

I have done several shows on my own and I have had the most amazing guests. I interviewed my dear friends Margaret Maclay and Joan Detz; I interviewed incredible authors as Bob Burg and business colleagues as Ramon Palmero, Abel Calvo, Margarita Pasos, Tosin Ogunussi, Marc Kohler, and Dr. Andreas Boettcher. All are great friends, and they have shared with us and the incredible listeners that week after week join us from several parts in the world, amazing tips, new business ideas and they always give us this new perspective that we need to have in order to succeed in this fast changing world.

It has an incredible year of new and wonderful experiences. And as my final post of the year in this blog I wanted to share my top-5 shows as reviewed by our listeners:

1. How to Boost Your Career and Building Your Business Through Public Speaking, with Joan Detz and Luis Vicente Garcia

2. Creating Magic in your Company

3. Conversations on Franchising with Abel Calvo and Luis Vicente Garcia

4. Grow by Empowering your Staff and Your TEAMs, with Tosin Ogunusi and Luis Vicente Garcia

5. Communication and Motivation - key factors for Business Success, with Margaret Maclay and Luis Vicente Garcia

All of the shows and interviews were incredible. Thank you so much to my incredible guests; and most of all thank you to the VoiceAmerica TEAM who have been so wonderful through out the year and to the listeners who are the ones that make this happen.

To all, my best wishes for a wonderful 2016 filled with joy, happiness, new opportunities and many learning experiences.

And have a wonderful and a very successful year!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Let's talk about GOALS

There is a famous quote that says:

"Success equals GOALS; everything else is commentary.”

 

Goals have been the subject of study for many years and they have been used since ancient times. Today everyone must have a goal, from students, to managers, to sports coaches, to business owners. 

This is why understanding what GOALS are, how to use and implement them is critical to the Success of any organization. From non-for-profit hospitals, to universities, small and medium business and large corporations the use of GOALS to understand where we are going is critical.

In this program we learn some ideas on goals and how to set them, realizing that goals have to be S.M.A.R.T and positive. Remember that ‘Goals in writing are dream with deadlines’

Join us as we discover the interesting world of possibilities and opportunities that will come from your GOALS! To listen to our show Click HERE to Learn about GOALS!

And keep Performing at Your Best!

Luis Vicente Garcia