Author: Greg Clowminzer

Greg Clowminzer is a pioneering business and leadership coach with over 10,000 hours of real time coaching experience. Greg coaches and consults with CEOs, small business owners and professionals, helping them clarify their vision, create unique strategies for success and developing the necessary skills to be a leader and effectively exercise leadership as their natural self-expression.

March 13, 2015

What Can Business Owners Learn From Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

San Diego Business Coach Greg Clowminzer shares some ideas about what business owners and professionals can learn from Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) when it comes to winning at business and evolving your game.

January 22, 2015

Full Practice Business Coaching FAQ

Develop and Maintain a Full Practice

Full Practice Business Coaching FAQ

Developing and maintaining a full professional practice depends on several key factors. San Diego Business Coach Greg Clowminzer walks you through the initial conversations and the steps it take to having a full practice. Full practice development coaching is for professional service providers such as chiropractors, acupuncturist, Financial planners, accountants, mortgage brokers, Real estate agents, dentist, doctors, and therapist.

October 28, 2014

Feeling Like A Fraud In Your Business?

Are you feeling like a fraud, and hope no one finds you out?

Welcome to the “Fraud Factor”.

It’s when a professional doubts the value they have to offer their clients, customers and audiences. The Fraud Factor generally shows up when someone is new or just starting out in a career or profession. This may be someone who has acquired a tremendous amount of knowledge in an existing field working as an employee for someone else and now they are wanting to offer their services as a self-employed consultant. Read more

September 8, 2014

How You And Your Coach Can Produce Extraordinary Results

Most advanced coaches do not manage their clients, nor do they hold the client accountable. These are both useful tools when used by a manager with staff, and can work in the coaching relationship up to a point. However, the master coach wants to work with clients who want support, guidance, ideas and encouragement – not a manager.

It may seem right to expect your coach to manage you, and make sure you keep your word and get you back on track when you’ve become distracted. And you’d be right up to appoint, I mean it certainly is a part of the coaching relationship to do just that. Read more

September 5, 2014

Design A Breakthrough Project That’s Based on Your Core Values

Goals help us focus, they let us know how were doing. But there are two types of goals — the ones really want and the ones you should do. Losing 10 pounds is a should goal, wearing those size 32 inch swim trunks is a want goal. You see, you want to set goals that excite and inspire. you.

There is a third type goal we will call it a breakthrough project. A breakthrough project is so big or is so cool that your whole life upgrades and shifts as a result of focusing on it. Read more

September 3, 2014

My Top 5 Questions To Ask a Potential Coaching Client

Asking powerful questions for discovery is at the core of good coaching.

Well-placed questions allow you to direct the flow of the coaching interaction in the direction of optimal benefit for the client. The ability to ask questions that move clients forward in a coaching interaction is a key to coaching effectively.

Although there are many types and kinds of questions available to you, they all
share discovery as a foundational intention.

The Initial Coaching Discovery Session

1. What’s the biggest change you’d like to make in your life, assuming you had enough support to do it right?

2. If you hired me as your coach, what’s the first thing we would work on together?

3. What’s the hesitation about getting started?

4. How do you define success for yourself at this stage of your life?

5. What are the 3 biggest challenges you are facing right now in your business?