Sep 29 2010
Archive for the 'Business Coaching' Category
Business Coaching contains articles on small business strategies, business tools and business planning by Pittsburgh Small Business Coach Tom Volkar.
Feb 09 2010
Authentic Business Building
Apr 28 2009
Choose the Right Tool

My Dad subscribed to the brute force method of fine carpentry. He believed everything could be fixed with a big screwdriver and a hammer. If a door frame wasn’t quite plumb, just loosen it with the screwdriver and give it a couple of whacks.
Business can be like that. If something isn’t quite right we can often force it into place with a few good whacks of hard work and effort. But these quick fixes in business and carpentry often come back to haunt us because we were addressing only symptoms.
Apr 02 2009
Creative Consciousness Strategy
I’ve been observing the various states of being/doing, which we find ourselves in all day long. For small business entrepreneurs, strategic productivity is essential. To improve business productivity raise your state of consciousness.
Mar 19 2009
How To Create and Complete By Using Strategies
A strategy is a plan of action. It’s a method for creating, doing or accomplishing something. We often hear of Marketing strategies, Business strategies, Brand strategies, etc., but the entrepreneurs and businesses owners I work with in my small business coaching practice mostly need Creation and Completion strategies.
Mar 15 2009
How To Play a Bigger Business Game
In my small business coaching, when I come across struggling small businesses, it’s often because they lack the driving focus of a clear business purpose. Is your business purpose clear enough to burn your boat on the shore?
Using the game model of business building provides a committed purpose. Playing the game of business is more focused, effective and fun.
Feb 22 2009
How To Get On The Right Track
Being on track feels flat out exhilarating! I’m talking about those vigorously inspiring times when you know you’re on the right track. That knowing has been gradually building within me and I want to help you find it as well.
Jan 13 2009
Five Mood Enhancers for Business Success

How to Feel Like Doing
What You Say You Want to Do
Anyone who wants to figure it all out before taking action, delays unnecessarily. Read In the Mood, by Seth Godin. He points out that we aren’t lacking information. But we are lacking the proper mood to do what we want to do.
Dec 30 2008
Parlay Your Wisdom
What’s your greatest business or blogging realization of 2008? Let’s give a great gift of wisdom to one another.
To realize means coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
Dec 20 2008
Five Tools to Sharpen Your Authentic Edge
You have an authentic edge that’s based on who you are, where you are in your business development and what you’ve experienced. That edge drives your personal power. It’s your natural positional advantage in the marketplace and you’ll struggle to the degree that you fail to exploit it.
















