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Greetings!

Welcome back to The Source, our bi-monthly newsletter. In this issue, we are focusing on accountability. This is an area of growth that everyone at some time grapples with. We trust that after reading each of the articles below, each of us will grapple less and grow more!

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--The Source Point Training Team

FOR THE RECORD

Our Value for this Month:
Accountability

By Lou Dozier, Co-Founder
& Executive Vice President

As Barbara and I shared in the last issue of Source Points, our time in Greece created many new experiences. We took the time to step-out and reflect on where we were working most effectively at Source Point Training. We also looked rigorously at what was not working, always going back to our purpose, vision and values. While this was not the most comfortable of processes, it was consistent with who we have declared ourselves to be "walking our talk."

We gained insight on how we could be as a team of professionals more consistent in using the accountability model we teach, to create more working results. To do this we needed to stop taking our results personally, beating ourselves up and feeling wrong. We share this because we recognize that this is NOT accountability -- but a sophisticated aspect of BEing victim! We were missing the opportunity to make a new declaration and taking new action on a consistent basis.

BEing accountable MEANS creating a NEUTRAL relationship with all results and using the following steps to identify what is producing the current results as well as create something new:

Stop: Pause. Take a moment. Connect.
Look: Ask yourself, "What are the attitudes, assumptions or beliefs that led to the choices that produced the result?"
Choose: Ask yourself, "Do I want to keep making the same choices or do I want to make new ones based on what I say I'm committed to?"
Declare: Write down what you are NOW up to and tell someone else.
Committed Action: Do something different on a consistent basis until you achieve the result you say you want.

One of the unique and significant aspects of our coach training is that as Performance Coaches people are trained to assist their clients in this fundamental process of accountability, to create the RESULTS that are declared. Real accountability creates ownership and empowerment with a sense of renewed commitment.

Let me just say that human beings want nothing more than to stay in their comfort zone -- and as noted, even a company of "seasoned" coaches can fall back! So, take the time to review your results -- hire a coach if you declare a next level! And become a coach if this way of BEing with people resonates for you regardless of your current career choice.

How to Write So People Will Listen!

By Barbara Fagan, Co-Founder & President

So many times I have found that people wait and wait and wait for the right time to write -- myself included. But when I know that it is time and I have made a promise to provide something, I realize that I do have great training and some useful skills that support me in communicating in writing. Many times people say that I talk too fast and they don't even have time to take notes. Well that is about the way that my brain works and it surely does not work to produce good written materials.

So in learning to write most effectively I thought I would share my tips for success and see if they might assist some of you would be bloggers and writers extraordinaire.

Get organized. Create a clean space with note paper -- not a computer. There is something very kinesthetic about writing an outline on paper first. Easy to draw arrows and make side bar notes that are more difficult once you start the real creation on the computer. A notepad and paper can be taken anywhere to open those creative juices.

Practice using the famous 3 P's. In case you are not familiar with them, here they are:

Purpose - WHY are you writing this piece? For me writing this to you is to assist people in feeling more confident as writers and using some techniques that will support them in confidently contributing in writing.
Product - WHAT are the points you want people to leave with? I suggest keeping this down to no more than three key points for each piece that you will write.
Process - HOW will you lay out your information? Do a quick bullet point outline.

Create a headline that grabs people. Questions are great for a lead-in. It gets people to think and want to read more. Take time to write down headline notes as they occur to you even when you are not on a deadline. Look into your headline file list when it is time. I find headlines come to me early in the morning when my mind is uncluttered and still somewhat in a dream state. Anyway -- write them down and keep them close.

Lay out your key points. This is the "beef" of the matter. Keep your sentences short but relevant. Give details in high value but bite size pieces. Give statistics that support your information "The Coaching profession will be one of the fastest growing service businesses in the next five years."

Learn to tell short stories. Make your points real and easy to relate to. Use famous quotes. This is great when making conclusions and you want to inspire your reader.

Present a strong call to action. No matter what you are writing about, always create some type of a call to action for your reader. This comes right after whatever you might be recommending. "If you have thought about becoming a Performance Coach and what it might require from you, go to www.SourcePointTraining.com and see our Fundamentals of Performance Coaching curriculum today!"

My call to action for each of you reading this today is -- Start Writing -- you have something to say. More and more people are connecting online. Learn to let your fingers do the talking and find out how many people are reading what you have to say!

THE SOURCE INSTITUTE

Performance & Life Coaching:
What Are the Differences?
Tommy

By Tommy Ruff, Director
The Source Institute

Many times when I am out in the world sharing my passion for coaching with others, I am greeted with the question, "What do you coach: swimming? Tennis?" When I respond that I work with people to assist them in creating the results they want in their life, I am immediately greeted with the next question, "So, are you a life coach"

As I certainly coach others around many areas in their personal and professional life, I do not hold myself as a life coach. There are foundational differences between the popular view of a life coach, as compared with a professionally trained Performance Coach. Many of you might ask, as do many of my potential clients, "What are the distinctions of a professional Performance Coach versus a life coach?" Here's what I tell them:

Performance Coaches hold their clients as whole, capable and resourceful. Performance coaches know it is never a lack of resources -- but a lack of resourcefulness -- that keeps clients from reaching their dreams. Performance Coaches know clients can generate anything they are truly committed to and willing to take action to have. They are a consistent resource for the client to look at possibilities, opportunities and resources that the client may not even be aware of, but can discover for themselves with the assistance of their committed coach.
Performance Coaches intervene in "historical" or "circumstantially" driven conversations! Performance Coaches also realize that the 'story' around why clients don't have the life, relationships or results they say they want, are often driven from our past (and the interpretations we make from those events), or current circumstances. The Performance Coach challenges the client to ground in their purpose/vision and have that be the motivator for their clients to take action and live their dreams.
Performance Coaches assist their clients in looking accountably at the results they are creating in all areas of their lives. This is probably the key distinction and most important role the Performance Coach plays for their client.

Performance Coaches know that every individual is the "source" of the results they have in every area of their lives. By questioning the client and engaging them in their ownership and accountability for the results they have, clients are empowered to see that they have choice and how their choices impact results. There are no accidents. Performance Coaches assists their clients in owning their choices, the results they created and in identifying new choices that will create the results they want.

Have this year BE the time of your life to make a difference and become a professional Performance Coach. Go to www.SourcePointTraining.com and register online today to join us for Fundamentals and Mastery of Performance Coaching.

LEADERSHIP SOURCE

Accountability Gets You the Results You Want
By Kelly Mobeck, Director
Leadership Source

I love this cartoon with Dilbert talking to his boss about a raise. How many times in life do we allow all the "excuses" to keep us from having what we want, or avoid coming to common ground with someone we are in relationship and partnership with.

Accountability is all about choices, and it is one of the most powerful tools and skills one can have to navigate through life, learn the lessons we are here to learn, and make choices that support our purpose and vision. Simple, right? Then how come we don't do this? It is natural and normal as human beings to look outside of ourselves to find the answers to what is occurring in our life. We love to be right and safe -- nothing wrong with that right?

Accountability is really all about our choices that we make moment to moment. Look at all the choices that were available to Dilbert and his boss? Would it have changed the outcome? Of course, that is always a possibility.

Being a leader in your life is really about taking ownership for what you have created and what you will create. That's accountability. It is so easy to "go with the flow," stay in the drift of things and maintain the "status quo," if you will. And with that, are you living your life to the fullest? Whether it is at work, home, within your relationships or play, are you living life to the fullest? Are you creating the outcomes you want? What would it take to be creating and owning the life that you love every day of your life?

As a practice, take stock or an inventory within your business, your relationships and your goals. Are you where you want to be? Have you learned from your experiences? What choices will support you moving forward? Own your choices and I promise, you will create powerful shifts moving forward.

Accountability is a fundamental principle we coach and internalize in Leadership Source, and we are excited to end the year in Seattle, Washington, with this life changing training where you will also work with your own professional coach for ten weeks. It is never too late to create what you want and I look forward to seeing yourself there. Click here to learn more today. Or feel free to call me directly at 707- 750-3319 to get started on completing your goals today!

It's your choice, where do you want to be as you look forward to 2011?


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