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Chip Scholz
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Chip Scholz is Head Coach of Scholz and Associates, Inc. He is a nationally recognized executive coach, public speaker and author. He is a Certified Business Coach and works with CEO’s, business owners and sales professionals across North America.
Chip has written for a number of business and trade publications. 2009 saw the release of his first book project, “Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses.” His second book, with co-authors Sue Nielsen and Tracy Lunquist, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” was published in 2011. His next book "Clear Conduct" is due in 2013.Do Eagles Just Wing It?
Buy a copy of Do Eagles Just Wing It? here!
Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses
Buy a copy of Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses here!
Monthly Archives: November 2012
The Customer Experience:
Not What It Used to Be
Leaders seem to forget that their human assets make or break a customer’s experience. “Interpersonal interaction, though sometimes not the top reason for making a purchase, is almost always the reason for not repurchasing.” ~ Marshall Goldsmith, Don Brown and Bill Hawkins, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There in Sales!: How Successful Salespeople […]
How an Executive Coach Helps:
4 Steps to Avoid Self-Sabotage Thinking
When faced with a challenge, you may be tempted to dwell on the barriers that stand in your way and use them as an excuse to defer action. But self-handicapping will prevent you from reaching your career goals. Working with an executive coach is one of the best ways to avoid self-sabotaging. In an October […]
10 Ways to Self-Sabotage Your Success
In my previous post, I mentioned that self-sabotage was one of the main ways executives lose personal power and influence. And yet, many don’t see themselves doing it because it can be so extremely subtle. We’re very poor at making self-examinations. There are many ways we unintentionally lose power and confidence and stay stuck in […]
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How to Sabotage Your Success
As an executive coach, I am privy to clients’ stories of success and failure. I’ve noticed over the years that they commonly share one highly destructive behavior: self-sabotage. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ~ George Herman “Babe” Ruth Few of us realize how frequently self-sabotaging beliefs creep into our […]
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Working for a Genius-Maker:
5 Ways to Inspire Best Work
You recognize it when you’re working for a great boss: you’ll go the extra mile and come up with your best work. There’s a story about how a famous statesman used his influence to bring out the best in people, sometimes causing them to stretch beyond their usual efforts. Henry Kissinger, who served as Secretary […]
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Is Your Boss a Know-It-All?
5 Ways to Diminish Others
Does your boss inspire? …Or crunsh desire? Maybe your boss doesn’t mean to, maybe he’s just asserting himself, reinforcing his credibility…trying to remind himself that’s he’s the smartest person in the room. It seldom works, does it? Worse, it back fires because it doesn’t inspire anyone to bring out their best. In the book Multipliers: […]
Customer Communications
and the Empathy Deficit