Action COACH Andy Hofmeyr

Yip, the rumour is true.

I turned 60 today 😎.

My overwhelming feeling today is that I am blessed 🙏

I love my work
I have great friends
I love and like my daughters
I have son in laws I'm glad are now family
I've been happily married for 32 years to Lauren ...

As I reflect on my 60 years to date, I thought I would share 60 happy memories.

Some of them are big and significant,
like walking my daughters down the aisle with no regrets,

and some are small,
like taking my socks out of my drawer and knowing they are folded in pairs and not inside out.

Making yourself a Happy Memories list is a worthwhile exercise indeed.

I got I got the idea from the book 'All it takes is a goal' by Jon Acuff.

Why do we teach you to implement a Management System over 12 weeks and not in a two day workshop?

Whilst the learning is the same, your probability of implementing is MUCH higher if we introduce you to one concept a week, and you implement one aspect a week.

After all management is a system and we believe learning about it and implementing it over 12 weeks makes for a more sustainable system.

Our next 12 Week Management MasterClass kicks off at 15:00 on Thursday the 20th June.

12 x 90 minute sessions

The carousel outlines what each session covers.

Each Session is divided into 3 sections

👉 30 min report back on how it is going with implementing the homework from the last session

👉 30 min video with Brad Sugars teaching on the session topic

👉 30 min discussion of the learnings from the video and getting clear on what actions need to be implemented.

Interested and want to find out more?

Register for our 40 minute info session at 15:00 on Thursday 13th June at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsc-2trjkpE9bEAaCmZqYOhi3oVMKdutih

To build a GREAT business you need Strong Leadership

AND

Strong MANAGEMENT.

Leadership is an art : Management is a system.

Leadership is about creating passionate and focused people.

It's about setting the direction of the business and communicating it to everyone in the business so that people know where the business is going and are pulling in the same direction.

There has been a lot of emphasis in the last ten years on creating great leaders,

and that's fantastic

BUT

It has left us with many business owners who are strong in leadership

- they have a workforce that is passionate and happy to come to work,
- but are not all competent and productive
- No-one is holding them accountable.

So how do you create a competent and productive workforce?

The answer is you have a great management system.

Do you have a great management system?

Join our next 12 Week Management MasterClass starts on Thursday the 20th June and learn how to implement a great management system.

There are only three seats still available.

To find out more, comment "Management"



P.S.

And in case you are wondering why we don't offer this as a full day workshop, it's because management is a system - and in 90 minute sessions, over 12 weeks, you will slowly implement the system, with one bit building on the previous bit.

Some great Team related learnings.

At every GrowthClub, my clients look in the rear view mirror and review how the last three months in their business went.

Once they have done this, they write some of their Wins, Challenges and Learnings on Post-it notes and stick it on flip charts.

Fascinating to see how many team related learnings my clients have had this last quarter!

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If you are curious about the better structure for management meetings , COMMENT Team and I’ll share more with you.

🤔 Are you willing to be vulnerable as a leader?

Being vulnerable is NOT a weakness.

In fact it is courage 💪

💪 Courage to show up when there is uncertainty and risk.

💪 Courage to show up when you cannot guarantee or control the outcome.

Is there an area of your business where you don't have full control of the outcome? 🤷‍♂️

Are you as a result avoiding showing up in that area?

What is that costing you?

Theodore Rooseveld said it so well in his 'Man in the arena' speech

"It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
show strives valiantly;
who errs,
who comes short again and again ...
who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly."

IT'S TIME:

to be like my clients
to be courageous
to be vulnerable
to be the leader who shows up in the arena

Your team will thank you.P.S. In my online business bookclub we read 'dare to lead' by Brene Brown - a worthwhile read if you want more depth on this topic.

If you have not done so yet, then check out Brene Brown's TED talk about the power of vulnerability

The power of vulnerability Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

"Fast builds ego, slow builds character"

Heard that at our Action COACH Southern Africa conference yesterday.

I reckon by now I have a lot of character 😜

In late 2018 I bought my ActionCoach Business Coaching franchise,

I thought I would be back to my previous earnings in 6 months,
I never thought it would be so hard to gain traction,
The gains did not come easily for me,
It was tough going for a long time

BUT

I chose to:

Dig hard & stay the course
Have discipline and consistency
Never doubt that I would succeed
Keep believing in myself and my vision
Concentrate on adding value to my clients

And sure enough, in time,

my business grew,

slowly but surely,

to the point where I won the Breakout Coach of the year last year

and

Lauren, my wife resigned as a teacher and joined me in my business in January.

The last 5 and a half years have been a character forming season indeed.

Today I can think of nothing else I would rather be doing. I am operating in my sweet spot and love adding value to my clients and their businesses through business coaching.

I am blessed indeed.

Thank you Pieter Scholtz and Harry Welby-Cooke for bringing ActionCoach to South Africa 17 years ago this month.



I'm an ActionCoach Business Coach who creates thriving families by changing the way business owners think and act in their businesses.

To build and run a successful business, what do you think is more important?

Leadership OR Management?

Or do you think they are equally important?

Let us know why in the comments.

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I'm a Business Coach who is passionate about Business Owners running a successful business AND leading a Thriving Family Life.

I recently heard the phrase

'Your reality is what you allow it to be'

It got me thinking ...

as Business Owners,

if you want the reality of a successful business,

then you need to become someone who takes ACTION.

- If you have a plan, you need to take ACTION and execute on the plan,

- if unexpected events happen, you need to recalibrate and take ACTION.

- If you have gained new knowledge and insights through reading a book, you need to take ACTION and implement at least one thing that you have learned.

One of my favourite quotes from Brad Sugars, the founder of ActionCoach is

"Where you'll be in five years depends on
the books you read
the people you associate with
and the ACTIONS you take!"



I'm an ActionCoach Business Coach who believes it is possible to run a successful business and lead a thriving family life.

You may have heard variations of "Most people overestimate what they can do/achieve in one year, and underestimate what they can do/achieve in ten years"

🤔 I'm curious - do you think this is true or not?

And why?

Let us know in the comments below 👇

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We are told to 'niche down', but

Just for today let's buck that good advice 😮

So,

What's are one of your lesser know offerings i.e. ones that you don't talk about much on social media?

I'm known on FAceBook and LinkedIn as a Business Coach who is passionate about creating thriving families by changing the way business owners think and act in their businesses.

I guess most of my LinkedIn connections know I run an online Business BookClub and do Business Coaching of individuals or groups of 2 or 3 Business Owners.

BUT

Did you know that I also offer ...

👉 A 12 Week Management MasterClass Programme.

Management is about creating competent and productive people. This programme teaches managers how to do just this. Conducted in house or an open programme.

👉 DISC Behavioural Profiles and DISC team workshops.

Many people feel that at work they are 'Surrounded by Idiots'. DISC teaches you to understand how you and the people you work with are wired, and how best to communicate with them so that together you achieve more.

Now it is your turn

👇👇👇👇 In the comments below 👇👇👇👇
share one of your lesser know offerings.

What say you Ilanie Kriel. Winifred Harms Arno Walters Brenda Theunissen Coskey

This week I'll be preparing my Father of the Bride speech.

It's round 2 for me.

My eldest daughter Kayla is getting married this Saturday.

What one piece of advice would you give Kayla and Alex?

TIA

You don't have a lead problem

you have an activity problem!

I’ve seen this in companies of R1 mil, R10 mil and R100 mil turnover.

😬 When you are running your own company, no matter what size your turnover is, it is too easy to be driven by the endless operational demands you face.

😬 Too easy to get sucked into working long hours IN the business.

In order to correctly prioritise for your team,

you need to take yourself out of the frenzy of operational activity.

You need to step back, and with the perspective that provides,

prioritise, set the most important goals and activities for your company to focus on.

Hats off to my clients who have the discipline to do exactly that.

On Wed 21st Feb they will be taking a full day out of their business to review the last quarter, set 3 goals for the next quarter and develop a 90 day Actiopn Plan to reach their goals.

When last did you step out of the operational frenzy of your business and prioritise?

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BTW the page is a page from Extreme Ownership, our current BookClub book.

Time to mow the lawn 😎😅

An ideal opportunity to start my new Audible book listen.

So often I hear the following excuse from business owners.

“I don’t have time to read”

❌ Sorry, but I don’t buy that.

Listening to a book on the likes of Audible costs no additional time.

Here are some of the opportunities you can utilise

👉 mowing the lawn
👉 driving
👉 walking the dog
👉 washing the dishes

How does that saying go?

If you really want to do something,
You will find a way.

If you don’t,
You will find an excuse!

I had a moment at the start of one of my coaching session last week...

I always start my coaching sessions with my client and myself doing a WIFLE.

What's a WIFLE?

It stands for ...

👉 What
👉 I
👉 Feel
👉 Like
👉 Expressing

We don't plan what to say, the emphasis is on how we feel at that moment.

It helps both of us ground ourselves and get some insight into how the other person has arrived at the coaching session.

Anyway when it was my turn I found myself saying I had had an awesome ten day holiday in Mozambique with great friends (ten day friends, not ten hours or ten minute friends 😎). It was a great relaxing time and I was feeling recharged.

And

I was feeling very excited about being back at work!

And I thought

WOW!!!

Isn't that awesome!

I'm in a really great spot.

Being able to go on holiday with great friends, and relax without stressing about my work,

and come back excited to get stuck in to my work.

I am blessed!

Chapter 2 - Choices

I'm busy reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.

In chapter 2 he hits hard by saying

"You alone are responsible for what you do or don't do, or how you respond to what's done to you."

Ouch!

It's too easy as a business owner if things are not working out how you want them to, to make excuses e.g. I'm so busy, there is so much to do, or blame the economy, the government, customers ...

My challenge to you today ...

What are you NOT doing consistently in your business that you know will make a difference if you did it?

Time to take extreme ownership!

Make the choice to take that action today.

Just start.

You won't regret it.

As Darren says "... you make your choices, and then your choices make you. Every decision, no matter how slight, alters the trajectory of your life ..."



I'm a Business Coach who is passionate about Business Owners leading Thrivng Family lives AND building Successful Businesses.

P.S. If you are a reader and would like to find out more about my Online Business BookClub, then comment "Choices' me and I'll gladly fill you in.

In fact, you are welcome to attend our next one free of charge to see what the fuss is about. We are discussing The Compound Effect at our Online Business BookClub meeting at 19:30 on Tuesday the 12th Dec.

I’m relaxing at Barra In Mozambique 😎.

What a great start to December after a very busy last 6 weeks on the work and home front which included:

👉Attending the ActionCoach SA Conference in the Drakensberg

👉 Adopting a puppy from Kitty and Puppy Haven

👉Lauren, my wife, wrapping up 16 years of teaching at Hatfield Christian School (Can’t wait for her to start working with me in January)

👉 Attending the BNI Tshwane Regional Team breakaway weekend

👉 Tamsyn my youngest daughter writing Matric Finals AND getting her drivers licence

👉 Prepping and running my 90 Day Action Plan GrowthClub with 20 of my clients

A very busy, productive and satisfying month and a half!!!

Why Mozambique in the first week of Dec?

Well Tamsyn and some of her friends are here on matric vacation.

A few of us parents needed to drive them here and thought …

Why should they have all the fun?

So we are here chilling for the next ten days.

And thanks to Zoom I’m able to do some of my coaching from here.

Very chuffed to have received the Breakout Coach of the year award at our recent Action COACH Southern Africa conference

The award is for the coach whose coaching business grew the most the last 12 months compared to the previous 12 months.

Mine grew 48% which is great as it means I am impacting increasingly more business owners, their teams and families.

My vision is to create thriving families by changing the way business owners think and act in their business.

I'm pleased to share that as a result of the growth, my wife Lauren Hofmeyr is joining my business in January as Membership Coordinator to provide admin and logistics support, allowing me to focus my time on coaching my clients and adding value to my network.

I can't wait for this next season!!!

Onwards and upwards!!!

Today one year ago I walked my daughter Erin down the aisle to marry Fabio De Gouveia.

One of the most emotional and proudest days of my life.

Blessed to walk Erin down the aisle with no regrets about spending too much time on my business and not enough time with her.

Blessed to be happily married for 31 years to the love of my life, Lauren.

Blessed to have a Thriving Family.

Do you one day want to walk your daughter down the aisle with no regrets?

Creating a Thriving Family requires you to be INTENTIONAL in your thoughts, words and actions.

Building a successful business also requires you to be INTENTIONAL in your thoughts, words and actions.

What are you going to do this week to intentionally build a thriving family and a successful business?

Need some help?

Let’s chat.

🤦‍♂️ Have you ever slipped up and disappointed someone?

I did this last week 😬

And it left a horrible feeling in my stomach.

I have high standards when it comes to relationships, and on this instance I dropped the ball.

OUCH!

Am I disappointed with myself for slipping up.

Absolutely!

But, there are no if's in history,

Beating myself up about where I slipped up is not going to do anything for myself or the other person.

Thanks goodness at 59 I'm a lot more mature than I was when I was at 19.

My younger self would have dived into

- making excuses
- denying that it was a problem
- looking to blame the other person, looking for something they had done wrong.

The problem with this approach is that it means you are powerless to make the situation better.

So what did I do?

- Immediately took responsibility for my slipup
- Apologised
- Communicated that the relationship was important to me
- Committed to step up
- Got busy with doing what I had committed to

Whilst this is not a situation that I wanted to happen, it's provided me with the following:

- An opportunity to learn - look at the circumstances and put things in place to minimise the chances of it happening again.
- it's keeping me humble.
- On the plus side our relationship was important enough to the other person that they had the courage to call me out.

Open and honest communication is so important in any relationship, no matter the context.

None of use are perfect, but how we respond when we slip up can make or break a relationship, whether that is with a life partner, friend, client, coworker, supplier ...

(explanation in the comments)

After a particularly hectic but great week, which included our ActionCoach South Africa conference, cataract surgery and recovery, coaching sessions, meeting with prospects, networking at BNI, and facilitating a full day team Alignment workshop,

I’m chilling today 😎

Relaxing and catching up on my BookClub reading for our meeting on Tuesday evening, whilst chilling with the latest addition to our family - Rocco, whom we collected yesterday from Kitty and Puppy Haven.

How are you chilling today?

Time to mow the lawn.

Which in my life means time it’s Audible time too.

I’ve just queued up this listen.

🤷‍♂️ I don’t know know much about this book, but

❓❓❓questions are a key tool in a business coach’s toolkit,

so I’m sure I’ll learn something!

Time to ‘sharpen my saw’ whilst I’m mowing the lawn 😜

What’s your current Audible listen?

🎶 I can see clearly now

My cataracts are gone 🎶

Well I hope to be singing that soon.

I’m off for cataract surgery on my right eye today and in two weeks, my left eye.

I’m really looking forward to this 😎

So if I’m slower to respond to WhatsApps the next couple of days, you know why.

Sometimes the small things make a difference 😎.
Got myself an extra legroom seat for my flight back to Jhb from Durban.

Time to make some progress on my BookClub book.