Dr. Earl R. Smith II

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

The challenge of encouraging employees to do their best at work is a major part of many of my coaching engagements. Here are three ways that CEO’s routinely sabotage themselves and accomplish the opposite: Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

Business Coaches always advise their executive clients to take a hard look at their current business plan to see how they can improve on it for the following year. This also gives them a chance to see if they had reached the goals that they had set. Each New Year brings new opportunities for every corporate business. Having a revised business plan will make those opportunities easier to reach. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

Over the years, I have done a lot of work with entrepreneurs. As a six-time entrepreneur, I have had lots of direct experience with setting up and building a business. I do not claim to have a corner on wisdom when it comes to getting a business off the ground and shepherding it through those very tough initial years but I have been able to help others navigate the shallows better then I did. There is no substitute for an experienced guide and there is real value in seeking one out before you set foot on the entrepreneurial path. Read the rest of this entry »

Personal growth coaching is a field that’s seen a huge increase in the last five years. Before that, people were forced to rely on counselors and therapists who really were not qualified to coach someone in personal growth as most counselors and therapists are trained in more traditional approaches to growth. And those approaches tend to be centered on the past rather than the now which isn’t always necessary to explore for personal growth. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

There are times in life when you stop and think. You take stock and try to get your bearings. You may think that have been doing your best and giving 100% to your job or business or personal relationships, but things do not seem to be working. You are not getting the results you expected. When this happens to you, it is a good idea not to go it alone. This is the time to look for a life coach. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

I have worked with dozens of CEOs over the years and one of their main complaints is that they never seem to have enough time. Their list of important things to do never gets any smaller. In any company, the CEO’s to do list has the potential to grow infinitely. However, that it will is not a certainty. It depends on your ability to delegate and to choose the right people to delegate to. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

Many of my CEO coaching clients are founders who have started a business and pulled it through the early stages. The challenges that they now face are very different from those of the early days. The team is bigger, there are clients and customers instead of markets and things are far more complex than they used to be. One of their pressure points is the need for their own personal and professional growth to keep up with the needs for the company. They come to me as an executive and leadership coach in search of the best ways to ensure personal peak performance and overall organizational development. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

Much of my coaching work focuses on overcoming inertia. Many clients have found themselves in a rut of some sort and sought me out to help them climb out and begin to move forward again. Ruts are self-manufactured - prisons constructed by and for the inmates. One of their most insidious aspects is that they who have built them are powerless to tear them down. The habits that went into the construction of the walls and doors - the locks and bars - prevent the prisoners from dissolving them into the fictions that they always were. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

It was towards the end of a year working with a coaching client when we met for drinks. As we sat and talked, it became clear that he was in a reflective mood and I asked him what he was thinking about. He smiled and said, “Over the last year, I have gotten to know and trust you and that has been very helpful. Our work together has given me a lot of confidence in your judgment and recommendations. However, I have recently come to realize that I know somebody else much better as a result. I know myself better and that has been one of the greatest gains. Thank you for that.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com

Coaching has become an important success factor for companies that are extending their business - both domestically and into the international market. The challenges to companies seeking to do business in foreign countries are particularly acute and often daunting. I have worked with companies - and institutes representing them - from a dozen different countries. These have ranged across the globe - including Asian cultures, Western European companies and Central European associations. The experiences have been different in superficial ways but very similar at their foundations. Attempts to do business across cultural lines seem to bring the same experiences independent of which cultures are involved. Read the rest of this entry »