Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia: Recent Episodes
Luis Vicente Garcia
As a Business Performance Coach I am constantly looking for new ways to help business owners and entrepreneurs. My desire has been to reach out to people who are eager to listen to a message of positive attitude and motivation in today’s busy and changing world mixed with new business ideas and insights to reach higher levels of performance.brbr When we combine the enthusiasm we all have with the business skills and abilities a person needs to grow, learn, prosper, they become better people and better professionals; and in the way, they are transformed into better managers and leaders.brbr My goal is to be able to inspire and motivate those who want to learn new managerial skills, increase their level of performance, and have a message of optimism and possibilities to motivate their teams to achieve their goals faster, leading the path to a successful journey.
“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman”. With this quote W. Clement Stone indicated that to be successful in sales -as in any other managerial field- you need to learn, improve your skills and have the correct attitude to do it.
Sales are the basis for the growth of every business and every company, which means that when we understand the basis for selling and learn the different skills that are required we will start on an improvement program that will allow us and our team to grow.
There are critical skills for you to know, from prospecting to identifying needs to getting referrals. As you improve you will abilities you will know why the top sales people will always grow.
Marketing will lead you to sales which will allow your company to grow. Join me in this show 'The Art of Selling' as we learn the skills to improve our sales performance!
In this path of understanding how to apply Martial Arts principles into our business leaves, we need to know what engagement is and how to bring it into our companies and team members.
Engagement can take many forms and as we advance in our deepest knowledge of what we do, we have to learn how to focus, how to make it happen, how to create an engagement environment and above all, how to inspire creativity from our people.
This is the third part of what Winston Price and I have called 'the Martial Arts of Business Series'. From the concept of intent to mind-shift we now come to learning how to be and become engaged. In other words, we will learn how to create an engaged organization.
It is very important to anticipate and understand the market place and our businesses: as a result, we need to change our attitude, our vision and our Mind. Thus engaging better we can change our mindset and improve our performance.
Join me as we learn to engage in a better way!
We already know that creating an excellent team requires dedication, training, commitment and a shared vision. We also need to engage our team members and align them with what we, as managers or business owners, want to achieve in our companies.
We need to learn how to engage our employees so they become team members; how we change their mindset so they work on improving on a continuous basis and how to include a new level of thinking and creativity into what they do. At the end, we have an engaged team that delivers better products and services. This is what we all need to achieve.
Engagement is an integral part of the Martial Arts which are systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons which are related to our level of performance.
Join Winston Price and Luis Vicente Garcia in this second part of the “The MAGIC of Martial Arts of Business Series”, as we explore how ENGAGEMENT will be a crucial part of your growth and success.
The 2016 Summer Olympics is finally here. Athletes from all over the world have been preparing for over the past four years to compete at the highest possible level. Training, discipline, persistence, patience and focus have all now been part of the routine.
When athletes compete their team backs them up and they have their countries following their activities, successes and why not, setbacks and difficulties along the way. Only a few gold medals will be awarded. Are your team members and corporate athletes ready for the Olympics?
We all need to develop our teams, create stronger goals and align them with our vision if we want our companies to compete at an international level. How we perform on a daily basis will determine how creative and innovative we are in the business world.
Learning how to be an Olympic corporate Athlete will determine in part how successful you and your companies will be in the next few years. Design a training program in your company to succeed!
We live in challenging and fast changing times in which the evolution of technology, the digital times and the knowledge era have transformed the way we behave, we do business, learn and communicate. This is why it is very important to understand what today has been called the 'Communications Era'.
This is part of the important issues we deal with today: but it requires that we learn, adapt and understand. The communications era is only a small part and fraction of what has been called the era of knowledge or today, the fourth industrial revolution. How do we create energy, ideas and develop the potential of our societies? How do we improve our education systems in order to grow in different and better ways?
This is the subject of this interesting show: join me as I embark in this knowledge and learning based conversation with Professor Gonzalo Aguerrevere.
As we continue to understand how to unite the Martial Arts principles with Business and Enterprises, I take on the second part of the Martial Arts of Business Series and start talking about MIND-SHIFT in our organizations.
It is very important to anticipate and understand the market place and be a Change Factor. How? By changing your attitude, your vision and your Mind. As a result you change your mindset. When we continue to learn and then implement the knowledge we have accumulated and the abilities we have developed, we need to understand that how we do one thing is how we will do everything we do. At the end, it is all about performance.
Understanding how your mind works you can start focusing on developing yourself, your life, your work and future. Learn how to focus, how to generate a strong mindset by creating a mind-shift that will allow you to improve and start seeing what really happens to you from now on and get ready to develop your Mind.
How do you develop a powerful Mind-shift process? In this second part of the Martial Arts of Business Series Winston Price and I explore your Mindset. How does it work? How does it function? How do you create a progressive yet powerful Mind-shift?
Understanding how your mind works you can start focusing on developing yourself, your life, your work and future. Your mind is your most powerful tool but we seldom use it to our fullest potential. In this show we will teach you how to focus, how to generate a strong mindset by creating a mind-shift that will allow you to improve and start seeing what really happens to you from now on and will give you some tools and exercises that will help you achieve a greater lever in your mind and create a mind-shift evolution. This is why for us it is extremely important you start developing your Mind.
And we will be doing all of this focusing on performance, empowerment, motivation and a defining mindset; join us and create your Mind-Shift.
A critical factor for success as we all know is your ability to master public speaking and to create a strong personal brand. Every skill you can acquire in order to improve and do it better will prove beneficial to you, your career and company. You will create, sell, manage and lead in different positions and having a strong personal brand while developing your speaking skills will allow you to position your message much better.
Public speaking is an art in itself, and I am truly honored to invite back Ms. Joan Detz (@joandetz) as my guest for the second time in our show. Joan is an amazing speaker and an expert coach, trainer and author who has already shared with us some tips to boots your career. Now she will share with us five newer tools to improve your public speaking, self-marketing and branding.
Join us to learn from Speaking Coach Joan Detz new tools that will allow your Public Speaking to have a positive impact in your personal life and in your and profession.
Why are some people saying this is the best time in history to be on business? Do they know something we don’t? If this is true, we all need to start taking action today. This is why I invite you to listen to my interview with world business performance coach, Mr. Dan Creed.
Focusing on ROI, business success and strategy, Dan helps and guides entrepreneurs, business owners, managers and executives in ways that will also have a great impact on you and your company. From setting up your goals and plans, to implementing small improvements in several key areas, to proven time management techniques, he coaches and trains businesses from start-ups to small/mid-size companies to large corporations. These companies focus on success, which allows you to determine your best strategy and start your performance oriented business growth.
Follow Dan’s advice, and understand how you will be able to grow in ways you have not seen yet. Join us on a powerful performance conversation.
Why are some people saying this is the best time in history to be on business? Do they know something we don’t? If this is true, we all need to start taking action today. This is why I invite you to listen to my interview with world business performance coach, Mr. Dan Creed.
Focusing on ROI, business success and strategy, Dan helps and guides entrepreneurs, business owners, managers and executives in ways that will also have a great impact on you and your company. From setting up your goals and plans, to implementing small improvements in several key areas, to proven time management techniques, he coaches and trains businesses from start-ups to small/mid-size companies to large corporations. These companies focus on success, which allows you to determine your best strategy and start your performance oriented business growth.
Follow Dan’s advice, and understand how you will be able to grow in ways you have not seen yet. Join us on a powerful performance conversation.
The Global Compact is an incredible alliance created by the United Nations in 2000 which is a call to all companies to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. By doing this, the private sector and institutions in all countries can take and generate actions that will advance societal goals.
One of the ideas of the Global Compact is that ‘Business as a force for good’. With this in mind, companies commit to world sustainability; here is where business takes a shared responsibility for achieving a better world.
I will be in New York city attending the UN’s Global Compact’s LEADER SUMMIT, on behalf of the Venezuelan Chamber of Franchises (PROFRANQUICIAS). At the Summit, Leaders will convene to translate the Sustainable Development Goals into business action and innovation everywhere.
Join me as we learn how to make global goals our local business.
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! br Join me as we celebrate a full year with our radio show ‘Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia’. br 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, Dom Rubino, John Whitt, Hans Trupp, Michelle Poler, you name it. br We talked about business ideas; fear; emotional intelligence; franchises; business expertise; purpose and vision; and we talked about the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 issued by the United Nations. br We focused on improving and changing your mindset in order to increase your performance. And we had an amazing audience from six continents: all over the world. br Join me in this one hour show as we review our first year on Performance and Mindset.
When we go out to work, we must decide how we are going to do it. When we continue to learn and then implement the knowledge we have accumulated and the abilities we have developed, we need to understand that how we do one thing is how we will do everything we do. At the end, it is all about performance. br Over the years we acquire new knowledge that we must apply; have experiences that we learn from; meet people whom we influence and who we learn from. These factors all combine into allowing us to be who we are today, at a personal and professional level. br It is here where Training, Performance and Focus intersect and define how we do all that we do, simple or complex. It determines our ability to perform in an excellent manner, consistently. Now we must apply the learning and experiences we get from life, and the keys we obtain from sports and martial arts. br Join me as we take the Training Intent of Martial Arts and give it an entrepreneurial and business meaning.
How do you combine the key areas and principles of Martial Arts and Success and bring them together? In other words, how do you create MAGIC in your company? This is what Winston Price and Luis Vicente Garcia will be creating for you as we develop The MAGIC of Martial Arts of Business. br As we know, Martial Arts are systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development. br Business and Entrepreneurship, on the other side, are a combination of creative activities that bring out innovation, competition and practices that generate the new ideas and concepts that bring us the best products and services into the market place. br Combining them will require discipline, persistence, skills and a creative artist view. And Winston and I will be focusing on performance, empowerment, motivation and a defining mindset. Join us!
We know that we are the ones who decide to live the kind and quality of life we want and we aspire. And it means we have to create our plan, goals and strategies that will allow us to be successful in our lives. We know that ‘Practice makes Perfect’; but how do we practice Success? br When I met Rachel O'Brien Eddy almost three years ago she was on the path of discovering how she could help thousands of people all over the world find their purpose and their mission and as a result, she created an incredible system built on trust, and self-belief: it is called the Infinite Success System. br Based on a culture of self-belief, empowerment and commitment, we can all be part of this new understanding of success and how to achieve higher levels of fulfillment. br Join me in this incredible interview with Rachel as we start a journey of personal transformation and help you discover how to be successful in your personal and professional lives.
Leadership is a key factor for success in today’s business world which we learn from our 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. br Leadership is an art: leaders need to inspire, empower and motivate constantly. br 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. This is what leaders do every single day and 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. br 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
A critical factor for success as we all know is your ability to master public speaking and to create a strong personal brand. Every skill you can acquire in order to improve and do it better will prove beneficial to you, your career and company. You will create, sell, manage and lead in different positions and having a strong personal brand while developing your speaking skills will allow you to position your message much better. br Public speaking is an art in itself, and I am truly honored to invite back Ms. Joan Detz (@joandetz) as my guest for the second time in our show. Joan is an amazing speaker and an expert coach, trainer and author who has already shared with us some tips to boots your career. Now she will share with us five newer tools to improve your public speaking, self-marketing and branding. br Join us to learn from Speaking Coach Joan Detz new tools that will allow your Public Speaking to have a positive impact in your personal life and in your and profession.
When we talk about Business or entrepreneurial success, we might not be 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, take more time and seem more difficult than what you originally thought. br What you need to do is to understand what makes you apart, what is important for your company and how can you start redirecting some of the approaches you have been using. br Companies need to realize the need to adapt, 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 and thinking about your entrepreneurial success. br Join us as we discuss some ideas that will allow you to understand and start implementing the Key Elements to Entrepreneurial Success.
There are a few concepts in management and leadership that will constantly make an important difference in your company. They are teamwork, strategy and vision. Companies as we know are formed by groups of people with complimentary knowledge and abilities who interconnect daily. br As leaders and managers we strive to make our teams better, to be creative, to improve performance and to reach excellence. And in many cases it comes as a result of high level engagement. br Engagement is an emotional connection between the employee and the organization. It comes from trust, better communications, abilities, contributions and a series of high key elements that combine together and will help every organization improve, adapt and change with flexibility. br Join me on this interesting program as I interview business coach and corporate trainer Hans Trupp, as we discover the 5-keys to better engagement.
The United Nations launched an incredible set of GOALS in 2015 called the Sustainable Development Goals or SDG’s. They are a set of world changing goals on very important areas for humanity that include, promotion, knowledge of important issues and a series of activities that will make the world a better place. br These goals are set to take action in different areas such as conservation, natural resources, economic growth, entrepreneurship, inequality and many other crucial areas for every country and region in the world. br Knowing these goals and understanding them is crucial; but for me, it is more important to know what we as individuals, companies and institutions can do to promote and help achieve these important goals. As a result, it all begins here, learning the SDG’s and understanding what we need to do in order to work together towards achieving them by the set date of 2030. br Start learning about the SDG’s with us here on the radio show ‘Performing at Your Best’
Baseball season is just starting. Coaches, players, fans and staff have a renewed hope to be in the play offs and then winning the World Series. br And here are a series of important elements that will help you make it but one, above all else, is the number one #1 Key to success: Is Your TEAM Ready to win the World Series? brbr It really means asking you the following questions: br - do you have the best players, strategies and coaches? br - Can they work together and at the same time improve their individual abilities? br - How is your farming system and are you constantly training them to reach new levels of performance? brbr 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. br Join us on this interesting show as we discuss the importance of TEAMS to achieve our goals and develop their Performance!
Can you improve your business on 30 minutes intervals? This is what Coach John Whitt does with his clients and he will share his concepts, tips and ideas with us this Tuesday April 05, 2016. br I cannot think of a better way to start the second quarter of 2016 to focus on. br When you review where you are today you can focus on what you accomplished in Q1 and what you learned so now as a new quarter comes by you can do small increments on many areas in order to improve continuously. This is what business improvement does and this is what we, as business performance caches, do constantly to improve the lives and business of our clients all over the world. br Understand where you are today, where you want to go, how you can improve constantly, what products and services you have and most importantly ask yourself why you do what you do. br Join me in this interesting episode as John and I guide you on how to get Better Business Results in 30 minute intervals, every week!
What is the importance behind a story? And if it is your story, how valuable is it? br As successful people and professionals we have had an incredible ride, one with its ups and downs; peaks and valleys which result in many lessons learned along the way. br A story, YOUR STORY matters to you and to all. And this is what today show’s guest Viki Winterton has done over the years: helping many people sharing their stories. br Viki is the founder of Expert Insights Publishing and she has helped thousands of people become best-selling authors but more importantly, sharing their personal stories in a way that not only matters but also influences and motivates many others. br This is why your story and your book can skyrocket you for success. br Join me in this very interesting program as you find out how to share your amazing story while becoming a best-selling author along the way.
Business is an art that requires discipline, persistence and skills. One of the main ideas we need to learn is that we constantly have to achieve our goals and increase our motivation in order to achieve peak performance.
Martial arts are systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development.
Combine the art of business with martial arts and you get incredible combination.
In our next show I will be interviewing Winston Price, not only a master martial artist and personal trainer but also the Executive Producer of my radio show at VoiceAmerica.
Winston brings together the intense discipline he has learned through Martial Arts with the skills he has learned in business where he inspires, motivates and helps maximize the opportunities of the people he coaches.
Join us as you will discover the 'Martial Art of Business'.
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? Either one is 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 learn how to “Smile your War to Success!”
When you decide to start an important quest, there will certainly be many questions on your head. Could I do it? Will I fail? Will I succeed? How?
When I met Michelle Poler she had already embarked on what became her life project: Facing her Fears. And it has been transformational.
How many fears do you have? Some may be fear of failing, being rejected or not achieving. And if you think that way, you will never do.
If you are determined to finish strong you really have to get rid of your fears, even the simpler ones. This is what Michelle has taught us: you can Escape from Your Fears. As many have found, you can be afraid even of starting and taking action.
Performance is about Action, decisiveness, being fearless. This is what we will cover in this fearless show. Join me as I interview Michelle Poler as she talks to us about her 100 days of Fear, her new ideas and how she decided to take Action!
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.
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 has developed positive and successful habits and in doing so, you can change your mindset and attitude. It is the concept of performance related to understanding how you and your team can generate positive results.
Join me in this very interesting live conversation with coach Sheena Walker all the way from Scotland as we define the key elements to top performance
As we learn about how to improve our Performance we need to understand that learning about CHANGE is a critical and key ingredient for Success. We know that change happens when we alter the form or nature of something; I will include of someone as well. Change is always present in everything we do, whether it is in or personal or professional lives. It affects our society, our families and the companies we work and interact with.
George Bernard Shaw said “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” This is why understanding that change can have positive and everlasting implications of growth, evolution and transformation is extremely important in today’s world.
Join me in this episode as we see the concepts of performance and mindset from the perspective of becoming a change leader.
When we combine the definitions of ‘Attitude’ and ‘Performance’, we find a really interesting combination: one that allows us to focus, set our goals and particularly define how we want our mindset to work.
Attitude has been defined as the “manner or disposition with regards to a person or a thing”. However, when we look at its meaning from a performance point of view, it defines how we behave and what we feel towards a person, thing, company or market. This is why then the concept of Performance Attitude is a key ingredient of what you can do, how you behave and what you will be able to accomplish.
Join us on this episode of ‘Performance at Your Best’ as we explore how to combine the positive aspects of Performance and Attitude.
When I decided to work on my own to help business owners and managers, I understood the importance of Business Coaching which is focused on Performance. This is what FocalPoint Coaching – powered by Brian Tracy -does for our clients. br We focus them on working and achieving their goals, developing their teams and improving their performance. We guide you from understanding the clarity (identifying where you are and where you want to go), to selling more, growing your businesses and developing 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. br And in this show I will be interviewing Dominic Rubino who is the EVP for FocalPoint Coaching and Training. Join us as we discuss how business performance coaching will allow to grow and perform better.
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”. br 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. br As Coach Pat Railey once said: “a champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” I would add, we all need motivation above all. br Join me as we start understanding the importance of motivation for today’s challenges and opportunities.
When you visit StarShine Academy in one of the hardest hit areas in Phoenix, AZ you immediately understand that it has been a process to transform the future through education! br A K-12 school focused 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 meaningful. br When I met Trish McCarty over three years ago 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 (walls are painted in Disney ® Blue!) and I had the incredible chance to talk to many amazing students. In Trish’s words: “Our non-profit charter school has given us a live, testing model for cutting-edge practices, tools, educational methodologies and technologies. br 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!
Business is an art that requires discipline, persistence and skills. One of the main ideas we need to learn is that we constantly have to achieve our goals and increase our motivation in order to achieve peak performance.
Martial arts are systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development.
Combine the art of business with martial arts and you get incredible combination.
In our next show I will be interviewing Winston Price, not only a master martial artist and personal trainer but also the Executive Producer of my radio show at VoiceAmerica.
Winston brings together the intense discipline he has learned through Martial Arts with the skills he has learned in business where he inspires, motivates and helps maximize the opportunities of the people he coaches.
Join us as you will discover the 'Martial Art of Business'.
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.
Do you know how do you, your team and your company use your resources? The main resources we all have are time, people and funds. In other words 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. Yes of products, services, ideas, projects and all that you and your company do. And of course they all relate to our main theme: PERFORMANCE.
Join us on this interesting episode as we talk on the very important subject of Productivity.
Welcome to 2016! br It can be a magnificent year, it can be an incredible year where you can write 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, and our companies. br A new year is a blank page; that of 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. br We all have our resources: time, team, money and our strategies. How we take action and how we can implement all we need to do will require effort, dedication and determination. br A new concept for me in management is that of Dynamic Management. It will allow you to create your new plan, work on your new positive habits and design your new blueprint for a magnificent and a memorable 2016! br Listen to our show, learn to improve your performance levels and achieve your imminent success in 2016.
As we enter the final week of the year, it is extremely important that we all see where we are and what we have achieved. 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 at FocalPoint Coaching which allows us to review where we are with a particular client, particularly after finishing a very important task. For you, as we end this 2015, it will require evaluating what you did this year, your goals, your plans and all the actions you implemented. Then you can review where you are at in every single item of your plan and whether or not you achieved your goals.
Join us on this interesting program as we discuss how you can evaluate your performance this year.
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. Last week they launched the second series The American Owner-builder, which has already become a best seller. Join me for this episode of ‘Performing at Your Best’ as I interview Leeza Sipek and we learn about this chanign way of building your own house.
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 regions he has visited; and he achieves it through understanding the importance of empathy.
Travelling 13 countries in 3 months and now 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.
The year has been a transformational one for many people I have talked in the many places. For me, 2015 started with the trip that a group of people did the first week of January to Oaxaca, Mexico, with the International Entrepreneur Foundation and the National Association of Experts, Writers and Speakers. br 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!”. br This past weekend on Dec. 05 the whole ARMONIA Documentary Team gathered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl., as the documentary has been nominated for an EMMY Award, which 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. br You can watch the documentary and help ARMONIA on the following link: http://www.armoniamovie.com/
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.
As we continue our conversations about improving our Performance, join me on this program as we have a very exciting conversation with Dr. Andreas Boettcher about how to ‘Amplify Your TALK’. br Amplifying your talk means how to be successful every time you speak to potential prospects and convert them into your customers and clients. You need to know how purposefully use your skills to be able to influence people, to talk successfully to every audience, create a consistent framework for your growth and develop your new potentials. br It is as Dr. Andreas tells it, ‘convert your Passion into Profits’. br Important ideas will be covered in our interview that will allow you to 'Amplify Your Talk' to grow your business, significantly increase your impact and create your own trademark Talk.
We all need to focus on creating ideas and product or service innovation. Creating an idea is one thing, generating a business idea that creates a trend is another one. br Business ideas come from many areas, places and may have many forms. And there are entrepreneurs, managers, business owners who are constantly creating new ideas. The products and services we use today are just that: the result of an idea well executed ad implemented in order to generate the new products and services the market place requires.
Join me take a look into business ideas and business trends.
We all have the same amount of time. Some use it wisely, some invest it, and some waste it. brbr For any professional that truly wants to stand out, to make a difference, you need to ‘Manage your Time Effectively’. brbr Time is one of the few precious resources we have in a limited basis. The better we use it, 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. brbr The end result? Also increase your potential! It implies we need to better manage our time. brbr “Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”. Bil Keane brbr 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.
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 us to do it better, constantly. 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 on this episode of ‘Performing at Your Best’ as we discuss how Engaging, Empowering and Encouraging your team members will be one of the key factors for your success.
Customer satisfaction is one of the Key elements to run a successful business.
Every time a customer buys from you, you need to deliver an excellent level of service that will allow you to satisfy your client, make them a recurring client and allowing them to speak so good about your company that he/she will bring new customers into your company.
A big part of this success is not only based on what you do and create, but also in the way you deliver your products and services. This is why training you team members to deliver an exceptional customer service is a key ingredient to increase your performance.
Customer Satisfaction will then lead to Customer Loyalty. This is why it is so important to put in place a complete process to understand where you are and where your company is, in the level of services that you provide, and then design the program of where you want to position yourself.
Learn how to improve the way you treat your client and you will help your company grow!
Creating Magic: 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.
Join me on this show as we talk about new ways to create magic in your companies.
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 Ogunussi in this Empowering interview!
Are you a Go-Giver? A Go-getter? Or are you those who are simply a go-taker?
It is my privilege to interview best-selling author Mr. Bob Burg. He is the co-author of ‘The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea’; and we will be talking of the new updated and expanded edition of the book which is being launched today Oct 06, 2015.
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.
Join us for an incredible conversation on becoming a Go-Giver!
Ever since Emotional Intelligence came into existence as a field, we have been able to better understand how to mix our knowledge with our emotions. This means that now we know how to use the knowledge of our team members and put them to work for their benefit as well to increase the performance of our companies.
Emotional Intelligence has been described as the ability to recognize one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. It can be understood as an array of skills and characteristics that drive leadership performance, as proposed by Daniel Goleman.
Join me on this new episode of ‘Performing at your Best’ as Margarita Pasos and I talk about the importance of Emotional Intelligence and how to use it in your company to improve many aspects of your business from the performance of your teams to the designing of your new future.
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 show ‘Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution’ as we discuss this interesting subject.
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.
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. In doing so, many of us have switched careers to finance, marketing and other areas. Few then work for and create multinational companies, which in LATAM are called multi-latin companies.
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.
How we define our vision and future determines where we will go; however, by deciding how we will be performing will show us how we will get there. Life is full of decisions and when we decide to combine our attitude with our motivation, to be focused, to define our goals and to perform in an excellent way, we will achieve much more than we were prepared for.
Learning is one of the best, more beautiful and more powerful activities we can do. Combine the learning process with the idea generating process it creates and you can make incredible combinations. Now, mix in your adventures while traveling and 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 learning, travelling and generating new and incredible ideas.
How do we combine entrepreneurship and education? The reality is that one is integral part of the other. Entrepreneurship is creativity, ideas and innovation put together with the skills and knowledge combined with the action taking initiatives to pursue your dreams. Education then, whether formal or informal, in class or through our experience, helps build the entrepreneurial spirit.
Join me on this new episode as Adriana Gonzalez, president of the Cámara de Empresarios Latinos de Houston and I talk about the importance of these topics and how being a member of your chamber (commercial, educational or entrepreneurial) can do wonders to you and your business.
SALES is everything, for us, for our company or for anything we do. We need to always be selling and we do it consciously or unconsciously. There is a saying which indicates that we need to ‘Always be Closing’, and it refers to closing the sale.
We need to know who our target is; who our audience is; and then have a plan and a strategy for our marketing and our sales processes. As we do this, we need to understand 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. 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.
Brian Tracy once said: ‘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 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.
We will 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!
Executives, managers and business owners need to understand how motivation, emotional knowledge and behavioral styles are the key factors that drive your business performance. We have to apply emotional and behavioral intelligence to become more effective leaders, which will lead us to identify the most productive and valuable use of time; develop the most efficient and cost-effective operations; and increase profitability.
Business Excellence is a term that is been used in today’s business environment but at the same time, Margaret and I have come up with the term ‘Business Magic’, a very simple yet extremely changing method of understanding five important concepts:
M-motivation (workplace motivators) A-acumen (EQ) G-getting feedback (360's) I-intelligence (SSI) C-communication style (DISC)
Learning these tools will allow you to get ahead of your competition and improve the performance of yourself, your teams and your companies.
Public Speaking has become one of the best skills every professional needs to acquire in order to succeed in any art, business or venture. Leaders from all sorts of life and professions are now relying on improving their public speaking abilities in order to communicate better while influencing and impacting others in a better way. Public speaking is an art in itself, as we all need to improve and learn effective ways to communicate orally with any audience.
We will be having a wonderful conversation with renowned coach, author, and international speaker Joan Detz. Joan is the author of four successful books on public speaking, including “How to Write & Give a Speech”, which the Washington Post praised as “a how-to classic”, and which is now in its 30th anniversary edition. Since 1984, Joan has run her own speaker services coaching leaders worldwide.
Many books have been written about public speaking and in this episode you will learn tips, insights and ideas.
Strategy has been and is an integral part of how companies operate, create new products and services and prepare for their future. Having a sound strategy, aligned with your Vision and Mission is key to your success.
Any company, big or small, that wants to grow needs to prepare in advance and in the process, having a long term strategy can make the difference.
In today’s show we will be talking with Ramon Palmero, strategy consultant with whom we will be talking on the methodology he uses to bring universal concepts to your strategic planning process. He will talk to us about the importance of understanding where you are headed to - the Vision and Mission - with what winning looks like for you, how you describe success, what values and operating principles guide your company and decisions.
Our guest Ramon Palmero, President and Founder of STEFERI (www.STEFERI.com), is a highly accomplished leader with 25 years broad-scoped in depth experience in the fields of Finance
We all know we cannot do things alone or at least is more difficult. This is why Team Work has been transformed into an art by itself. Leaders who get their teams to work together and effectively, oriented and focused to the same Vision and Goals will achieve more.
In this episode of Performing at Your Best we will be talking about teams, and how to improve and motivate them.
How we define our vision and future determines where we will go; however, by deciding how we will be performing will show us how we will get there. Life is full of decisions and when we decide to combine our attitude with our motivation, to be focused, to define our goals and to perform in an excellent way, we will achieve much more than we were prepared for.
Franchising has been since the 50’s and 60’s one of the fastest ways of growing any business in any industry. Worldwide brands use franchising as their growing formula.
We will go from understanding the basics of franchising, what it is and how it works, to understanding what is required to be a successful franchisor and franchisee.
Our guest is Abel Calvo, Executive President of PROFRANQUICIAS, the Venezuelan Franchise Chamber and we will be talking about franchising in general, the role of a Franchise Chamber, the current situation of the Franchising development in Venezuelan and other Latin American countries.
Other topics will include the stages in franchising that go from the early beginnings when foreign companies enter a local market, to the development of local companies which use franchising as their expansion business format until the final stage when local franchises enter the international arena.
How do we define a new “Entrepreneur”? For me Entrepreneurship is a way of Business Life. Entrepreneurs give energy to any economy, creating new goods and services and generating more employment opportunities.
So understanding what entrepreneurs do to any economy is crucial for our growth and our future. We will also cover some issues about the benefits of being clear on what you want to Achieve; understanding where you are today and where you want to go; and identifying how you need to work on your VISION and MISSION statements and implementing them in your organizational Culture.
As we start entering into what business is, today’s show will be about the enterprise, that organization which is involved in the trade of goods and services to our consumers.
There are several types of businesses which work and operate in many different industries. However, regardless of your type and size of business or the industry you work in, you need to understand the basic concept of “Performance”. And in doing so, you need to identify and use the measurements; information and metrics that come from your daily operations.
Reporting figures and metrics in the right way will allow you, the manager and business owner to take the best steps and take the right decisions for your company’s future.
I have now understood the power of telling our stories, and more importantly, if we are business owners and entrepreneurs.
As the first show in my new Radio program - Performing at Your Best: Mindset Evolution with Luis Vicente Garcia - this will be an overview of who Luis Vicente Garcia is. Here I share with you my journeys and adventures, both as a person and professional; my values and beliefs in business, life and continuing education; the dedication we all need to succeed in every job you do, as a professional and as an entrepreneurship; and how I changed and evolved to become a Business Performance Coach, a best-selling author and an international Speaker.