I'm rereading the One Minute Millionaire (if you haven't read it, I recommend it - it's got some fluff to be sure but it has a lot of great advice).

One of the chapters deals with finding your "Dream Team" - a group of people whose strengths complement each other's weaknesses so that each team member supports each other in the overall goal.

My personal goal is to develop a coaching and seminar practice that will allow me to impact the lives of millions of people around the world. I've already created momentum by selling my books and "Results Coaching" services, but now is the time to take it to the next level via the power of a "Dream Team" and networking, perhaps to the point of taking my company public in the next five years.

My specific goal that I am looking for Dream Team members for is to take my coaching, writing, and speaking skills and leverage them to take people who are starting/running a small business and to help them create maximum momentum, follow-through and leverage so that they can take their business to full-time status as quickly as possible. I've made this a "set in stone" goal - a MUST - so I know that I will achieve it in due time.

So the question is, who is going to take the ride with me? My personal strength is as a communicator - a presenter, a motivator, a helper to those willing to be helped. That's my strength.

But what I need to attract are people with these strengths:

* Sales / Selling / Marketing
* Media Contacts
* Administration
* Web programming / Support
* Seminar booking experience
* Professional Organization Contacts
* People with their own subscriber base
* Marketing contacts (knowing anyone who is a marketing representative)
* Animal Training Experience (hey, just kidding, seeing if you're still listening)
* Audio / Video Editing Experiencing
* Contract Experience
* Coaching Experience (as a co-presenter with complementary offerings)

As many others have said, and I have experienced, what you focus on, you manifest. So I'm focusing on it. And I will keep focusing on it, every day, until my dream team is assembled, and we are leveraging each other's strengths to the fullest.

If you want to get in for the ride, touch base with me and we'll see if we can help each other. Contact me at dave@davenavarro.com or respond to the thread.

Looking forward to hearing from you and working on a win/win situation.

Let's get moving -

Dave Navarro

My specific goal that I am looking for Dream Team members to take my coaching, writing, and speaking skills and leverage them to take people who are starting/running a small business and to help them create maximum momentum, follow-through and leverage so that they can take their business to full-time status as quickly as possible. I've made this a "set in stone" goal - a MUST - so I know that I will achieve it in due time.

So the question is, who is going to take the ride with me? Aloha Dave!

It's a Great Goal You have in Mind. It's always Good to Dream and Plan BIG! And You ALWAYS seem to Dream BIG!

I see the need to attract all these people to You to help make Your Dream real, but as I read your "invitation," a thought occurs to me, so I've got to ask ......

What's in it for Me?

Theres no disrespect intended when I ask this, but Why would I want to Support YOU in Developing and Writing and Producing and Promoting and doing Admin and Marketing for Your Coaching and Writing and Seminars Company? What would that do for ME?

I get what YOU get from enlisting a buncha people to support Your Dreams and Goals, but a Team to Me is a TEAM. You know, the old adage of
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What is the Payback that all the people you mention get from this Team?
"help them create maximum momentum, follow-through and leverage so that they can take their business to full-time status as quickly as possible" tells what MIGHT happen, but it's still kinda fluffy itself.
I'd invite you to FULLY enVision Your DreamTeam, and define specifically what each of those Seats at Your DreamTeam Table gives to each of the People You see as BEing Vitally Important in Your Business.




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Specificity Spells and Attracts POWER.

I am not trying to be disrespectful here. I have a question about your plan.

You said the goal of your coaching business was to:
"take people who are starting/running a small business and to help them create maximum momentum, follow-through and leverage so that they can take their business to full-time status as quickly as possible"

All of the qualities you listed, for "team members" who will help you carry out your plan, have to do with promoting your specific coaching business. There was nothing listed regarding expertise in specific businesses or business areas in which you would be coaching. Do you already have the experience and expertise to "coach" in all different kinds of businesses and give advise for the various kinds of business problems? Is your business coaching a do-it-yourself system where the client identifies their own problem and then solves it themselves?

Best of luck with executing your plan. Al Z

Hi Dave,

We're exactly in the same boat. I have the same dream as you do. I have been assembling my dream team for about 3-4 months now and I have two members that are on board (a turtle and a squirrel/owl) although part time and a third that is helping me now and then but we're both "hares" so we don't complement each other in ideas but we do in what skill we bring to the table.

I totally love the idea of the dream team and if you don't mind I'll add a bit of my own thoughts and answers to the questions that came up.

What will these team members gain from helping Dave or myself for that matter getting to what we want?

Let's just say that Dave over here who is struggling with his marketing connects with a marketing guru that doesn't have anything to bring to market. Both are in need of each other. Isn't it obvious that once Dave reaches his goal...

My personal goal is to develop a coaching and seminar practice that will allow me to impact the lives of millions of people around the world. (which is pretty darn close to my goal. :D )

That this marketing person will be very well off with an awsome partnership within a great organization. :D

It's happening everywhere. People invest their time in other people that they believe in and once it blooms, everyone wins. :yippee:

I'd love to be on your dream team Dave but I'd be fighting for all your tasks. ;)


Good luck in finding the members. It's a great step ahead I believe.

Eric

Do you already have the experience and expertise to "coach" in all different kinds of businesses and give advise for the various kinds of business problems?

There are 2 types of coaching. There is coaching where you show someone how to do something that you know how to do. I see that more as a trainer or teacher. The other type of coaching does not require the coach to have the vaguest idea about the business of the client. It sounds crazy but I'm the living proof of that. I have a client that I don't really understand what he's doing, but a goal is a goal and how you define this goal is the same no matter what the goal is. This client is an expert in his field. He doesn't need me to tell him what to do. He needs me to question him and provoke him and motivate him to take the next step and find out what is holding him back.

This client of mine was stuck for years spinning around in circles not knowing how to use all his energy to good use.

Here's what he had to say after 3 coaching session. (from a coach who didn't have a clue of what he was working on ;) )

"Eric is both energizing/motivating, helps me get my focus back, provokes me to deal with my real issues, keeps me accountable, and is a mountain of rock solid advice.

In the last 3 weeks I've had more productive hours on the important project than I did in the last year!

I only wish i had discovered this coaching thing 7 years ago!!!!"
V.D. Victoria, BC

The advice he was talking about here had nothing to do with how to do his work but how to choose what was important. How to plan. How to prioritize. Deep down, the client knows what is important. The coach is there to get it out of them.

I hope this adds a bit of clarity.

Eric

By helping enough other people, FIRST, get what THEY want, you can achieve, have and enjoy EVERYTHING you want! The whole-life approach to financial success, on-going positive motivation, personal recognition, relationship building and much more, both in your personal and professional life.

I have read the book - well put together, enjoyed it. I have plenty of web design experience - what do you have in mind? I believe I have figured out a way to make a million the easy way. I've been working at fast food and other odd places since 2000 until I've accumulated my first 5K as of last October. It took me 3 mo. to turn it into 8.5K. I will let you all know as my goal to achieve 10K net worth by next October is reached and it has nothing to do with work-work. :rulz:

Dave,
You should be able to hire most of the team members you're looking for.

Good luck!
gm

A team comprises people.
A good team comprises talented people.
A great team comprises talented people who would work together closely for the common goal.

Is it easy to build a great team? Of course not! It requires a lot of hard work, trust, trial and error, reflection etc. Who should you recruit to be part of your team? I am not sure about you, but I always choose "drivers", instead of "passengers".

If there are no passengers, then how I normally cope with the basic operational administrative, non-strategic, non-essential functions? I outsource and save my time to do the strategic tasks.

There was once my friend asked me why I hired a temp clerk to do data entry and typing when I could type appro 60wpm but the temp clerk could only do it 40wpm. I told him that my time is better spent on other more strategic tasks. So instead of saving a bit man hour in typing, the same amt of time could be spent on more value-added functions.