| What's missing? Let's use a business analogy. | | | | stuff), are important, it's very important to give our kids |
| When working with adults in my business coaching | | | | the tools to put those tools to use most successfully, |
| practice I've discovered that quite frequently they are | | | | to manage those tools, to manage their lives, to show |
| more focused on the "technical" part of their business | | | | them how to plan, set goals, implement those goals, |
| than on managing the overall business. An example: a | | | | measure their progress, and then how to take what |
| restaurant owner that started out as a cook is | | | | they've learned back through the process to keep |
| spending his time making better and better meals, | | | | making it better and better. |
| better steaks (the technical stuff), and he can't | | | | In my business practice about 80% of my business |
| understand why no one is walking through the door. | | | | clients double their business in a matter of weeks and |
| The answer is: He isn't managing "the business," his | | | | it's usually from them learning that missing piece. It took |
| focus is on the details of production, yet there is | | | | me 30+ years to figure out some of these things. And |
| marketing, sales, administrative tasks, and managing all | | | | most of my clients are struggling with life, and with |
| of those pieces to come together profitably. He was | | | | business because they don't have those skills. Just |
| missing the (business management and profitability | | | | think what it would do for our kids if they learned those |
| stuff). | | | | skills as teens. |
| Let's use that analogy for schools. They are teaching | | | | Some schools are starting to get it. When we've |
| reading, writing, and arithmetic to the students, "the | | | | worked with teens in those same schools, helping the |
| technical stuff." They are not teaching students how to | | | | teens develop a vision for their life, develop the map of |
| take the tools and put them together into managing a | | | | how to get there, and how they can track their paths |
| successful life, a successful business, or even how to | | | | and make corrections to get back on path, we've |
| build a successful career. This is a whole lot like | | | | seen graduation rates go up 75%, kids going on to |
| missing the "profitability" piece in a business. | | | | college who never even had that on their radar |
| Although reading, writing, and arithmetic (the technical | | | | screen. |