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Kensi Gounden - How To Become A Small Business Coach

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Kensi Gounden Says Becoming a life AND business coach is a niche that is both rewarding and lucrative. When it gets down issues such as planning, recruitment, marketing, succession or systems the coaching can tip over into mentoring and consulting so you need to have the skills and experience to honestly serve the client. As a coach for a business owner you will facilitate client in their confidence and ability to run the operation and cope with the day to day challenges and business relationships and maybe even family issues and work life balance. As a mentor you may drawn on your own business experience to assess and advice on what needs to be done with the business itself and as a consultant you may even give specific advice and help with implementation. So if you are offering coaching for small business you need to make sure both you and the client understand the parameters and boundaries and have a written agreement on what you can and will deliver. According to Kensi Gounden , H

Kensi Gounden - Ten Vintage Ideas to Spark Innovation in Your Classroom

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Kensi Gounden says, Vintage innovation happens when we use old ideas and tools to transform the present. Think of it as a mash-up. It’s not a rejection of new tools or new ideas. Instead, it’s a reminder that sometimes the best way to move forward is to look backward. Like all innovation, vintage innovation is disruptive. But it’s disruptive by pulling us out of present tense and into something more timeless. This isn’t meant to be nostalgic. There are certainly horrible things in the past that we don’t want to repeat. However, in the ed tech drive toward collective novelty, we often miss out on the classic and the vintage. According to kensi gounden , here are ten ways you can embrace the vintage in your classroom. Sketch-Noting Commonplace Books Prototyping with Duct Tape and Cardboard Apprenticeships The Natural World Play Socratic Seminars Games and Simulations Experiments Manipulatives A garden is valuable but students can videochat with an expert at a greenhouse. It’s powerful t

Kensi Gounden - Five Keys To Athletic Self-Motivation

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Kensi Gounden says, Highly self-motivated players are willing to do everything they can to become the best that they can be and are not dependent on others for rewards. This drive must be directed into physical conditioning, technical training, mental preparation, and general lifestyle including diet, sleep, school, family and social relationships. A simple progression helps illustrate the importance of motivation to performance: High Motivation + Total Preparation = Maximum Performance! What is Motivation? Simply put, motivation is the ability to initiate and persist at a task. This desire to participate in an activity comes from the belief that it provides some type of intrinsic (e.g., satisfaction, joy) or extrinsic (e.g., validation from others, wealth) rewards. At a practical level, it is these rewards that enable players to keep working hard in the face of boredom, fatigue, physical pain, and the desire to do other things. Though intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can both be ef

Kensi Gounden - 7 Tips For Adopting An Innovation Mindset At Your Business

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How can your business become more innovative? One of the first things you need to consider is investing in your capacity to innovate. In other words, you should invest in things that enable you to constantly improve your products and services, and how you produce them. An investment in information and communication technology is a good place to start. Innovation can also mean, for example, improving your operational efficiency to cut costs and using that money to buy a new piece of equipment. Or you might try a new marketing idea. According to Kensi Gounden , here are the ways to develop innovation mindset to boost your business 1> Develop an innovation strategy—With your team’s help, develop an innovation strategy detailing how you will improve your products or services, your processes, your marketing strategy, your business model and your supply chain. Then keep it up to date. 2> Tap the creativity of your employees—They have intimate knowledge of your business and industry and