I'm reading "Trillion Dollar Coach" by Eric Schmidt about Bill Campbell – a coach to some of the top Silicon Valley executives – including Steve Jobs and Schmidt himself.
This week, Tim Ferriss shared his interview with George Mumford – a person most people don't know. But you know the athletes he coached – including Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant.
If you're a startup founder, reading that these top performers all had coaches should push you to get a coach ASAP if you don't have one already.
But... Are you coachable?
In 10 years as a startup coach, I've met 2000+ startup CEOs & coached hundreds of founders & teams.
I'm always surprised to find that many people just aren't coachable, especially those that could use it most, and I've found that there five (5) traits that make for a coachable person.
1/ Readiness to Learn: Being ready to focus and make the time to do the work.
2/ Honesty & Humility: The willingness to look for gaps & blind spots.
3/ Getting Uncomfortable: It's awkward learning anything new, but it's the only path to growth is getting comfortable being uncomfortable.
4/ Acknowledgement, Acceptance & Action
5/ Implementing = Learning: No progress happens without implementation. That's where the real growth happens.
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If you feel like you’re coachable, and you think you're ready for some help growing yourself and taking your company to new levels, send an email to scottsambucci@salesqualia.com with the word "COACHABLE" in the subject line, and let's talk.
I'm ready. Are you?
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In this episode of the Startup Selling Podcast, I interviewed Amy Volas.
With more than $100MM in revenue sold and named one of Sales Hacker's Most Dynamic Women In Sales, Amy is a sales fanatic turned entrepreneur.
She was bitten by the startup bug many moons ago and couldn't imagine spending her time anywhere else.
Amy created Avenue Talent Partners to help with the tremendous task of growing startups through some of their most valuable assets - sales leaders and enterprise salespeople.
Links & Resources
Amy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amyvolas
(Website) Avenue Talent Partners: www.avenuetalentpartners.com
(Blog) Avenue Talent Partners: avenuetalentpartners.com/blog
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CONSISTENCY is a principle that's made the biggest difference in my ultra-running training and my work.
Consistency means putting in the work. Every. Day. No matter what.
(BTW... If you want a hand with this, send an email to scottsambucci@salesqualia.com with the word *CONSISTENCY* and I'll share how I can help.)
On the trail, I have a mantra – "Relentless Forward Progress."
You might think this only applies to starting up the next 2000' climb, or coercing yourself to the next aid station 12 miles away at 3:30am.
But Relentless Forward Progress is most important when it comes to the CONSISTENCY of effort of EVERY DAY.
It's about doing the work that needs to be done, before there's urgency. Before the next action becomes critical.
Consistency is doing your 20 outreaches every day to fill your #sales funnel.
Consistency is keeping your daily stand-ups & team meetings, even when they're not convenient. Consistency is doing quarterly performance reviews so that your team knows exactly where they're doing well and how they can improve.
Consistency is investing the time every week to learn even if that means telling a prospect that Thursday is already booked. (Don't worry – you can have the meeting on Friday. They'll be fine with it...)
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When it's 3am and you can't sleep, what do you do?
I had a choice – I could lay awake in bed, frustrated that I'm not sleeping and letting all of the thoughts racing through my mind take over, or I could treat it as an opportunity to do something.
On Monday, I woke up at 12:30am, my head spinning with all of the projects we're working on – building sales plans with clients, interviewing teams that want to join our program, upgrading our entire client delivery platform, training our new team member, setting up the next round of live events...
Obstacle or Opportunity?
When you have a team member that's not performing...
Obstacle or Opportunity?
When you have a logjam of deals in the pipeline that are moving...
Obstacle or Opportunity?
When the product release is behind...
Obstacle or Opportunity?
I get it – some obstacles are so big, so gnarly, that it feels impossible to find the opportunity it's offering you.
But it's there if you stay calm, persevere and look for what's good about your situation.
Whatever the obstacle you've got today, or this week, or this month, know that you've got this.
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