Strategic Leadership Lessons: From an F-15 Eagle to your Small Business

Leadership is a key factor for success in today’s business world. And Leadership is that kind of soft skill that we learn from practice, from inspiring others and also with our own perspectives and experiences.

As a Leader, you need to develop abilities while having a clear vision. Your team will follow your ideas and thus leaders lead by example.

This is why Leadership is an art; leaders need to inspire, empower and motivate constantly. In our lives we encounter obstacles and challenges and we are the ones that need to be determined in order to make an impact and achieve the change we aspire to happen; and this is what leaders do every single day.

Former Air Force F-15 Pilot Steve Olds is now applying to small business the leadership and endurance skills he learned and developed over the years. In this fast paced and thought provoking conversation we explore what it means to lead from an F-15 Eagle and down to your very own business. To be a leader in the business world today, Steve draws form his own personal experiences to define leadership in a different way, focusing on small and mid-sized businesses and international teams. Join us on this episode on "Strategic Leadership"

About Steve Olds

Steve Olds was a combat decorated F15 Eagle fighter pilot. Since moving into the private sector, he has served at every level of small business operations including creating and funding new ventures, building large international sales teams, product development and strategic consulting.

Steve is now leveraging more than two decades of entrepreneurial experience as a visionary, leader and communicator to execute his current role as Chief Executive Officer of PATRIOT MISSION which is a US based leadership Development Company. Their mission is to Rebuild America through The POWER of Small Business™.

This is why I invite you to listen to my interview with Steve Olds: Click HERE!

To your continued improved Performance!

Luis Vicente 

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.

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

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