The 11 Most Important Things You Should Know About:
Richard Munson; Executive & Business Coach
1. His NUMBER ONE goal is coaching you to achieve YOUR goals.
2. He is passionate about coaching Business Owners and Business Executives to massive personal breakthroughs and to achieve amazing results.
3. He has over 26 years of business leadership and development experience in various businesses and industries.
4. Expert at strategic, competitive, business planning and putting strategic plans into ACTION plans for all levels of the organization. Also, expert in various aspects of business management including: team development, sales and marketing, finance and accounting, and operations.
5. Expert at business turnarounds. As a business executive, he has lead turnarounds in business units over $200 million. As a business coach he has lead several business turnarounds.
6. Experienced with turning around difficult working environments, including proactively working with labor unions. Implemented strategies to improve the team atmosphere and team performance at all levels via strong leadership and an emphasis on teamwork.
7. As General Manager, led a turnaround to a 64% increase in productivity, achieved almost 2 years injury free, and led introduction of 4 new products that were patented and grew to over 50% of sales. Also, an expert at developing cost reduction and profit improvement strategies.
8. MBA, Professional Engineer, BSME. Master’s Business Administration – University of Louisiana, Licensed Professional Engineer, BS Mechanical Engineering – Purdue University.
9. As a Community Leader, Richard has a strong record of leadership in many community organizations including youth sports, Little League, YMCA, and Rotary International.
10. As a Boy Scout Leader, Richard enjoys spending time helping young men develop into future adult leaders of our community.
11. Richard enjoys many outdoor activities including hiking, camping, bicycling, and fishing.
Business, Executive & Leadership Coaching has become one of the most effective & profitable business investments globally, enabling a higher quality of leadership.
Through weekly coaching sessions, each participant learns (or re-learns) how to:
* Move your business from "good" to "great"
* How to bring the entreprenuership spirit back to the corporation
* Reduce turnover and enhance succession
* Enhance leadership and overall communication skills
* Work more ON your business than working IN the business
* Handle conflict & confrontation more effectively
* Become a more effective leader and mentor
* Retain top performing employees and keep them motivated
* How to inspire teams to provide top performance
* Increase sales & profit within your business or your corporation;
* Create customers who "rave" about you, your team and your business, thus allowing for a never ending stream of referrals
* Run a successful business
* Apply proven business foundational principles, systems & strategies used by top professionals & executives around the world.
In the end, Business/Executive Leadership Coaching will help you to create, enable & sustain:
* Stronger relationships;
* Recruitment strategies to attract and retain the very best team
* Greater levels of dedication from people around you
* Increased profitability in your business
* Critical communication, decision making and problem solving skills
* Stronger leadership, management and supervisory skills and abilities
* Strong succession plan
The fact is, you are probably already good at your job. If you had to think back on your executive track record, you would probably remember the many accomplishments that you have had over your career.
However, you may also remember the times that you, an employee, or part of your executive team could have done better, if only you had more knowledge to make better decision. Or, the challenges you faced from other members of the organization. Or from projects and time management.
Or even the challenges that you faced from yourself.
Helping meet and overcome these challenges is what an Executive Coach provides. Not only does an Executive Coach help an executive excel by providing additional insight, an Executives Coach provides guidance to accelerate the performance, while allowing executives to conduct their own research, gather their own conclusions, and ultimately set their own paths.
Just as most athletes have a Coach to enhance their performance, executives hire an Executive Coach to accelerate their career and analyze how they can become a top performer.
What are the top two reasons executives hire an Executive Coach?
• To get significant results, solve a pressing problem, and/or take advantage of a major opportunity.
• To rely on a trusted advisor who is credible, engaging and has a depth of business and executive knowledge.
Executive Coaches Provide Answers to Questions such as:
• How do I get my people to think like owners and go the extra mile?
• How do I get my team to move in the same direction?
• How can I get my team to agree on the right strategy?
• How can I get my boss to value my results, give me the support I need, and understand the challenges I’m facing?
• My boss tells me I need to improve results fast, or else.
• Why aren’t my people accountable for results?
• We have a huge market opportunity, but how do we build the organizational capacity to take advantage of it?
• How do I position my company to beat the competition?
• How can I recruit, retain, and develop top talent?
• How can I stop the high employee turnover we are facing?
• How do I make a quick transition in my new role?
• How can I correct some serious blind spots that some of my top performers have?
• How can I spend less time on fires and more time setting direction for the company?
• How can this organization react to the rapid changes in the market?
• How do we develop a “bench” filled with potential leaders to continue to build and run this organization?
• How can we focus in on the few things that we need to do to be successful, when there are so many potential priorities?
• How do I kill some of the sacred cows in this organization?
• It is lonely at the top and I need someone I trust to bounce ideas around?
Richard is the owner and entreprenuerial force behind ActionCOACH of NEPA. Formed 3 years ago, ActionCOACH of NEPA has steadily grown by helping business leaders achieve massive results, especially in this challenging economic climate.
ActionCOACH of NEPA has recently recieved two prestigous Bizzy Awards (2007 & 2008) from the Greater Poconos Chamber of Commerce. These were awarded for the best business in class.
Individually, Richard has achieved the award of TOP 100 COACHES WORLDWIDE withinActionCOACH. He has recieved this award several times in the past year.
Richard is very involved in the local community. He is a member of the Greater Pocono Chamber of Commerce, Scranton Chamber of Commerce, Hazleton Chamber of Commerce, Carbon County Chamber of Commerce, Slate Belt Chamber of Commerce, Jacob Stroud Corporation, on the board of directors of Rotary International of the Stroudsburgs, and a Boy Scout Leader.