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

Baseball, TEAM, World Series, Performance, Luis Vicente Garcia, Formula for Success, Strategies, Empowerment

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.

Transforming Dreams into Education for the Future!

When you visit StarShine Academy in one of the hardest hit areas in Phoenix, AZ you immediately understand that it is a place in which you live an amazing process of transformation, one that is about helping change the single most important element for our future: Children's Education! 

StarShine is a K-12 school that started in Phoenix, AZ and focuses on the principles and values that kids and children need to learn for today’s world, which of course will include how they dedicate their lives for something very meaningful, their integrated lives.

When I met Trish McCarthy in 2013, she talked so passionately about the kids and teenagers they were teaching at StarShine that when I had the opportunity I went for a visit (by the way, walls are painted in Disney® Blue as I was told when I asked) and I had the incredible chance to talk to the seniors and juniors who amazingly were from different countries and were not going through the best of times; but that all changed in StarShine. 

In Trish’s words: “Our non-profit charter school prototype, StarShine Academy, has given us a live, testing model for cutting-edge practices, tools, educational methodologies and technologies.”

Since then, Trish and so many incredible individuals have gathered at the Vatican in Rome to design the curriculum for the new way of teaching for the future.

To listen to this incredible interview with Trish, Click HERE! 

And keep improving your PERFORMANCE!

Luis Vicente Garcia

About Trish McCarthy

Trish McCarty believes sustainability is determined by what we teach children as humane leaders.  She is a former banker and international consultant, entrepreneur, who formed Education Resources as a government contracting firm in 1999. In 2002 she opened a K-12 charter school, StarShine Academy as a real-time pilot model for what all children deserve to learn about success with academics.

Her inspirational books emphasize her spiritually combined success, with accountability and have been used as the basis for schools and training centers throughout the world. She has been featured on every major network including the Christian channel Trinity Broadcast. Today Trish is best known for establishing StarShine Network, a social network bridging the best people, products and companies to further inspire K-12 education. A multiple Amazon Best Seller, and most recent, The Soul of Success was a compilation book, with several noteworthy authors including Jack Canfield.

Trish lives what she teaches, traveling internationally speaking on life, dreams, kids, relationships and happiness. http://www.trishmccarty.com

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

Welcome to a Memorable 2016!

Welcome to 2016!

This new year can be a magnificent year, it can be an incredible year where you can start writing your own stories, prepare a new plan and work on your goals in order to achieve them. 

A new year is a wonderful opportunity to create everything we want for ourselves, our teams, our companies. And as I have heard Brian Tracy saying so many times, this is a wonderful moment to be alive and be in business.

A new year is a blank page for you to fill out; the new pages of brand a new book in your life, in the history of your company. 

As we start this New Year, let’s imagine the impossible, let’s imagine what we can achieve everything our minds can conceive. We all have our resources: time, team, financial and our strategies. How we take action and how we can implement all we need to do will require effort, dedication and determination.

A new concept for me in management is one that I call Dynamic Management. It will allow you to create your new plan, your new positive habits and design your new blueprint for a magnificent and a memorable 2016! If you want to learn how to start implementing the new aero.dynamic Management in your lifa and your company please write to me at coachluis@luisvicentegarcia.com

And Listen HERE to start creating a Memorable 2016 as you increase your performance levels and start on the path to your imminent success in 2016.

Cheers!

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

Let’s talk about Social Good! a conversation with Alex Cequea and Luis Vicente Garcia

Experience the social reality of our world through different eyes. Alex Cequea has travelled the world and seen it from a different perspective, that which allows you to feel as if you were living in the different regions he visited, and he achieves it through understanding the importance of empathy.

Through animated video production and participatory missions, Alex has been able to show us how the world‘s issues are seeing and understood. And all of it has important implications to our lives. At the end, it is very important that all businesses - in every corner of the world - need to understand a new vision of the social realities in our current environment.


Join me as I interview Alex Cequea and we embark in an interesting social context conversation. Listen HERE!

About Alex Cequea:
Alex Cequea is the CEO and founder of Social Good Now, a company dedicated to the creation of web series that highlights today’s problems and solutions through short animated videos and participatory missions. He is also currently a Marketing Exec at Cisco responsible for the internal marketing strategy behind one of Cisco's innovation teams. Originally from Venezuela, he was previously Editor in Chief of iPhone Life magazine and Android Life magazine. Alex has been quoted or featured on TEDx Houston, CNN, Time.com, ABC News, CBS, Univision, Fast Company, and the Houston Chronicle. You can visit Alex’s work at www.socialgoodnow.com/

An ARMONIA-EMMY Experience, on how to transform Poverty!

The year 2015 was a transformational year for many people and I had the opportunity to talk, meet and be with many different people in many different places, one of them being Oaxaca, Mexico. 

For me, 2015 started with the trip that a group of entrepreneurs during the first week of January to the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, with the International Entrepreneur Foundation and the National Association of Experts, Writers and Speakers. Our Mission was to teach ‘entrepreneurship’ to the teens at ARMONIA while helping them build an Entrepreneurial Center. 

Not only did we have a learning experience on our own; it led to the making of a wonderful documentary “ARMONIA: Together Transforming Poverty into LIFE!”.

The weekend of Dec. 05 the whole ARMONIA Documentary team gathered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl., as the documentary was nominated for an EMMY Award. It, of course, leads to new and even greater opportunities for so many people around the world who live in poverty and can have a better future. It is a new approach to end Poverty, as the late Dr. Saul Cruz explained.

If you want to see the documentary and help the ARMONIA proyect you can watch it on the following link: ARMONIA The Movie! The film was directed by Emmy Award wining Director Nick Nanton and produced by incredible people. I am very glad to be part of that team of talented individuals.

Join me on this important show as we learn what we together do in order to transform Poverty into LIFE while creating a more harmonious world Listen HERE!

And keep improving your PERFORMANCE!

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.

Marc Koehler and Luis Vicente Garcia

Keep Performing at Your Best!

Luis Vicente Garcia

Creating Magic in Your Company!

MAGIC: What an incredible word!

Creating Magic means creating an illusion of some sort; bringing it into reality requires dedication, effort and Action.

This is what business owners, executives and managers have to do on a daily basis.

Whether you are in manufacturing, finance, HR, IT or any other area in your organization, you need to become a source of inspiration and motivation to your co-workers and team members. 

The company as a whole relies on us to guide it; give purpose and meaning. As we do, we start implementing new ideas and concepts that will allow the company and our team to grow. You need to generate ideas and new thoughts; create new concepts and develop new leaders. Being an entrepreneur allows you to discover your talents, skills and your potential. And it allows you to discover the talents and skills of your Team Members as well.

During the course of the show 'Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution' we have touched upon many different elements that combines, create MAGIC in our Companies!

Join me as we Create MAGIC! - Click HERE

To your increased Performance,

Luis Vicente Garcia

Empowering your TEAMs for Success!

EMPOWERMENT! A word many use but few people approach in the right way. Empowering your people means to enable, to permit. When used in the context of your Teams, it means giving them the ability to grow, decide, and act. By empowering you influence, guide, help, mentor and allow creativity and innovation in many ways.

Your most important asset is your staff – but here is a question for you: are you using their full potential? Could your business benefit from a better, stronger, more inspired team?

You need to create an environment where you and your company are passionate about people development. This is what MPOWERMENT LTD. creates through unique and memorable team building events designed to motivate and empower your staff.

Join me as I interview Tosin: Listen HERE

Tosin brings over 14+ years experience in Personal Development, Sales and Leadership within a range of organizations.

Tosin's experience and passion lies in helping individuals and organizations improve their performance through staff awareness, motivation and communication. Tosin has a passion and energy, which inspires and encourages employees to believe in themselves and understand that anything is possible with the right mindset and dedication. He works as a skillful NLP Trainer, Facilitator and Coach.

Tosin now heads up Mpowerment Ltd conducting Performance Improvement Trainings for corporate clients along with running Empowerment Activities (Board Breaking, Bar Bending, Arrow Breaking Fire-walking and Glass walking) Instructor Trainings and 1-1 Coaching.

A Go-Giver conversation with Bob Burg!

Are you a Go-Giver? A Go-getter? Or are you those who are simply a go-taker?

In this radio show it was my real pleasure to interview an amazing person and author Mr. Bob Burg. 

Mr. Burg and John David Mann wrote an incredible Parable which they called ‘The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea’; and during the interview we had a very nice conversation on the same the date in which the book's new expanded edition was launched in the market, on Oct 06, 2015.

It is how you see your business, how you give without expecting, how you see others, how you learn to be a better person and professional in every sense. In summary, how you give and add value!

In the authors’ words:

“Shifting your focus from getting to giving, that is, to focus on constantly and consistently providing value to other people’s lives, is not only a nice way to live life but a financially profitable way, as well.

You might already be doing that. If that is the case, no need to change your game. More often than not, however, it seems that giving comes with an agenda. The true spirit of giving (yes, even in business) is to give without attachment to receiving. 

This does not mean giving without expecting to receive… You give because you truly enjoy giving. You give because it’s who you are, and because it’s who you are, it’s what you do. When you do that, great and magnificent results will begin to occur.”

Join us on this incredible radio show on 'Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution' and Listen HERE as I interview author Bob Burg on this incredible occasion.

To your Increased Performance!

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

An initial conversation on LEADERSHIP!

Leadership has been defined as "the ability to guide, direct or lead a group of people."

Of course this definition does not even tell us all that we need to know about Leadership but the importance issue and idea is that it relates to people, to our teams. 

When we talk about Leaders many incredible people come to mind and we start to think about the companies that are doing amazing things. 

Thus, Leadership is a critical element that helps any person become someone who empowers, guides and inspires their team. A Leader is a person who has already decided to be a change factor, to be a change agent. Combining these two elements will differentiate you as a motivational individual.

Join me as we start to describe the importance of Leadership to our personal and professional lives. To listen Click HERE.

And design your excellent Leadership Style while performing at Your Best.

Luis Vicente Garcia

Learn from your travels! on 'Performing at Your Best'

Learning is one of the best, more beautiful and more powerful activities we can do. 

Travelling is another great and beautiful activity we can all do.

Now, combine the following ingredients:

1. a learning process, and

2. the idea generating process it creates, with 

3. travelling

You can make incredible combinations out of these three different activities. 

When you mix all of them with your adventures and experiences, you can create MAGIC in many fronts: what you see, hear, read; the people you meet; the local flavors and tastes; the conversations you engage; the ideas you generate and the dreams that start to follow.

Join me as we talk about the Magic of Travelling as we learn and generate new and incredible ideas!

To your increased performance,

Luis Vicente