 |
|
A Weekly Letter With Tips and Ideas to Improve How Your Life and Business Work - and Other Interesting Things that Catch my Eye!
|
|
December 16, 2017 - Issue 17-51
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Good afternoon.
My golfing buddy Jeff has led a very interesting life on many levels. He told me a story the other day about two young men who worked for him when he owned a golf course in Iowa in the 1970's.
Jeff bought the
Okoboji View Golf Course, with a little financial help from his father, as a young man in the spring of 1972. In the early days of his ownership, as he was learning the business, he kept the employees that were already on staff, which included two brothers of high school age. They worked at the course during their summer vacation from school.
Jeff took these boys under his wing as they learned about golf and golf course management almost together. Jeff had some golf experience, of course, before he bought the operation. The three of them grew to be good friends. Jeff says the boys would come to work very early in the morning and do typical golf course chores (mowing, raking traps, etc.) and be finished with their work day by mid-afternoon. Often Jeff would have enough of his work done so the three of them could play a round of golf together later in the day.
Curt and Steve Schnell stayed with Jeff through their college years and beyond, during the entire 9 years that Jeff owned
Okoboji View.
It's always great to see young people respond to the sort of mentorship Jeff provided for these guys.
However, the best part of the story is yet to come.
Read on below...and enjoy!
John Stevens at Unity Copywriting
Marketing Support for the Business Coaching Industry
Office and cell phone: 814-590-3854 or 603-835-3215
In Argentina: +54(country code) 9 3868 459586
Skype: johnbstevens1943
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please Help me Spread my Message Where It's Welcome
Please remember to pass this letter along to anyone you think will enjoy and benefit from it, and/or might like to receive my messages every week. Just click the "" link at the bottom of this one, or here. If this message was forwarded to you, and you'd like to join us regularly, please click on the "SIGN UP FOR EMAILS" link below or here. You'll be automatically added to my mailing list, and I guarantee that will not generate promotions from anyone else. Your privacy is of the utmost importance to me.
If you'd rather not receive these messages any more, you're welcome to click the "UNSUBSCRIBE" link here or at the foot of this message. I'll miss you, but I'd rather send these ideas to those who find benefit in them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Solid Beginning Leads to...
In 2005, Curt and Steve Schnell bought the
Okoboji View Golf Course, the very place where they got their start in golf under Jeff's wing. Curt is the teaching and club pro, and Steve sees to the physical maintenance of the golf course and outdoor operations.
...A Lifetime of Golf!
Curt was recently inducted into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame, following a career which included pro tour play and many other golf accomplishments.
Brady Schnell, Curt's 32-year-old son, after distinguishing himself on the scholastic and amateur circuits in the upper midwestern U.S., began a career on the Web.com tour in 2010.
Web.com is the name given to the "development tour" for the Professional Golf Association, or PGA.
Brady has had three top ten finishes on this tour and continues to polish his performance. Of particular interest to us living in Argentina was his month-ago 16-under-par win at the VISA Open of Argentina on the Latinoamérica Tour.
Such stories related to sports often attract lots of attention, deservedly. What sometimes gets missed in the attention given to sports-related mentor situations is the value of mentorship in other pursuits. As with many such partnerships, be it parent-child, teacher-student, or senior employee-junior employee, the value of the relationship is just as strong for the mentor as it is for the mentee.
The satisfaction and yes, pride, shown by my friend Jeff in relating this story was palpable. And justifiably so. Who knows what would have become of the Schnell brothers if they hadn't connected with Jeff in their high school years? Of course they might have had other successes, failures, or what have you. We can't know. What we do know is that the relationship Jeff had with these boys led to good things for everyone involved.
The point of this story, besides just being a nice human interest episode, is that mentoring is a win-win opportunity. Anyone who has had someone with more experience in some pursuit give them mentoring guidance understands the value of that guidance. It can help the mentee move ahead far faster and more effectively than he or she would without it.
Likewise, if you've had the opportunity to help a younger or less experienced colleague in whatever pursuit, you know the feeling of satisfaction you gain from that situation. While the mentee grows intellectually and psychologically
, so does the mentor.
On the other hand, if you haven't had this experience from either perspective, I highly recommend you seek out a mentor and/or a mentee. You'll gain immensely from the experience either way.
Give it a shot!
|
|
Do More of What
You Love Doing -
and What
You Get PAID For!
Do you coach or advise business leaders on ways to improve their businesses? If so, when you're face to face, or on the phone, with your clients, that's the work you signed up for, that you love...AND that you get paid for.
Writing effective promotional, or even just conversational, material to attract new business takes hard, focused work. It's also very important in staying top-of-mind with your prospects and clients. If you're doing that writing yourself, it diverts your time and attention from the clients you're already helping. Your coaching work, also very absorbing, distracts you from your promotional writing. That likely makes your business-building less effective. I can focus on that writing while you put your time and effort toward your most important work.
Call Unity Copywriting today and learn how I can eliminate this distraction for you, and help you stay in touch with your important sources of business. Let me write a regular e-newsletter for you (similar to the one you're reading - these are my specialty) or other pieces to help you build and nurture relationships with your prospects and clients. I'll go to great lengths (not necessary the length of the message, unless you want it that way!) to describe how you serve your clients, and how prospective clients can benefit from working with you.
Note: If you'd like to experience the benefits of my writing in a low-cost sample, call me to discuss what it will take to rewrite and enhance your LinkedIn presence. Depending on the complexity of your LinkedIn pages, I can usually do this for a few hundred dollars.
For many people, this doubles or triples their LinkedIn recognition.
Put My Experience to Work for You...
For several recent years I was a business coach, and before that I worked in various operations management roles during a long and varied career. So I've been practicing and studying leadership and teamwork for over 45 years. With this background, I'm uniquely qualified to explain the benefits you offer to your clients and prospects. I love writing about this work and I'd love to talk with you about how we can work together to promote your business most effectively. Please let me hear from you!
|
|
Have you experienced a mentor relationship, either as the mentor or as the inexperienced one seeking guidance? These are always interesting experiences and I'd love to hear your story about yours. Would you like to discuss something else? Bring it on! Let's talk about whatever's on your mind.
Do the ideas in any of my messages contribute to making your life and business more enjoyable and effective...or, do you have some reservations about them? I very much look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences and learning from them.
If you email or text me whatever's on your mind, please give me a phone number or a Skype address. Or you could send me a Skype contact request (see my Skype address below) and mention that you read my newsletter. It's really important to mention this - with all the spammers, phishermen, etc. out there, I'm very selective about my connections on networking services. If your name is unfamiliar to me, I'll consider your contact request when you tell me the reason you want to connect with me, and...
Conversations are often necessary to discuss complex ideas. Conversations occur only in real-time, two(or more)-way exchanges; hence my request for your call or the information I need to call you. That way we can have a real conversation about your thoughts. Email and other forms of one-way communication are data transfers, and are very useful for many types of communication. However, they are extremely limited in their ability to convey the ideas, emotions, and inflections that characterize conversations. It's estimated that words, which are the total content of an email, convey only about seven percent of the total import of a message. Sure, you can add emoticons, which help marginally, so maybe the percentage becomes 10 or 12 - still very limited. So please call me or tell me how to call you.
Here are all the ways you can reach me.
Help me Spread my Message Where It's Welcome...
If you know someone you think will find value in the ideas I discuss each week, I encourage you to forward this to them, using the "
" link here or at the end of this message. If this was forwarded to you, and you'd like to hear more, please click the "
SIGN UP FOR EMAILS
" link below, or here. You'll be automatically added to my mailing list, which I
never
sell, rent, or even add a name to without permission.
Your privacy is enormously important to me.
On the other hand, if you'd rather stop receiving these messages, simply click the "
UNSUBSCRIBE" link here or at the bottom of this message. I'll promptly remove you from the list...and I promise you won't hurt my feelings. It's my desire to send these ideas only to people who find them valuable.
Join me here again next week for more unique ideas on life and business...and
thanks for reading this week's message.
Have a wonderful week
, and contact me
to discuss how we can partner up to add value to what
you
do. Our investigation as to how we can mutually benefit from working together is totally on me - no obligation or cost will arise from that conversation. You won't pay me a dime until you hire me to write something for you.
Be well, my friends.
John Stevens
Unity Copywriting
Marketing Support for the Business Coaching Industry
Office and cell phone: 814-590-3854 or 603-835-3215
In Argentina: +54(country code) 9 3868 459586
Skype: johnbstevens1943
|
About John
Throughout a career spanning over 45 years my management style has been one of building teams to bring several competent people together to focus on a common objective.
As I transition to life in the Argentine outback, my focus will shift to helping other business coaches and advisers get their message out to their prospective clients. With my first-hand knowledge of the benefits of effective business coaching, I am uniquely qualified to work with business advisers of all stripes convey their message.
Contact Info
John B. Stevens, Freelance Copywriter
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
