Welcome to the Resource Library. The documents below are available for you to download and use to improve your business.
Inspire Results Business Coaching’s Delegation Optimizer Tool
Helps key leaders, even the business owner, know what to delegate and what to keep to create a role they love (and that the business will love it too)!
Inspire Results Business Coaching’s SERVANT Whole-Business Model
Our SERVANT Whole-Business Model breaks up your business into 7 necessary areas and their different stages, culminating into the 49 things you need to get right to maintain balance, develop a roadmap of your priorities, and ensure continued profit growth and success for your small business.
Inspire Results Business Coaching’s Newsletter Archive
Take a look at our past newsletters and eblasts in our Newsletter Archive. Our monthly newsletters are chock-full of good advice for small business owners.
Books and Whitepapers
7 Habits of Highly Successful Business Owners
Providing business coaching to Indiana business owners has taught us that there are simple yet powerful strategies that these successful business owners employ. We’ve boiled these down and compiled the results into an eBook called “The 7 Habits of Successful Business Owners.” It gives you the secrets that will transform your business into that profit-making machine you always knew it could be.
How to Hire Great People
A Step-by-Step Compilation of Best Hiring Practices for Busy Business Owners and Executives. There are a lot of a lot of great people out there that would be great assets for your company. You just have to find them. We’ve researched, compiled, and compressed the best hiring practices into this short, easy-to-follow guide that will take you through each step.
The 7 Strategies of Successful Indy500 Teams That Smart Business Owners Use to Win Big
When you’re looking for strategies that you can use to systemize your business and build processes, looking at the strategies of an Indy500 team is a good place to start. These 7 strategies help countless racing teams win big, but they can also be used to build precise, powerful, and peerless business processes.
Conducting Brainstorming Meetings That Yield Great Ideas
The goal of brainstorming is to use creative thinking to generate as many ideas as possible for an issue or problem. These methods will help you host brainstorming meetings that are productive, effective, and foster great ideas.
Tools
The Weighted Sales Activity Plan
A 1-page tool that captures both sales activities and sales results and then lets you track against them on a daily, weekly, monthly, and even annual basis… all on the same 1-page Excel spreadsheet. The formulas are built right in, so all you have to do is decide what activities you want to track and plug in your goal numbers.
Inspire Results Business Coaching’s Finding Your WHY Tool
The Finding Your WHY and Personal Values Ranking Tool are key to gaining genuine alignment in your business. When you discover your “why” and clarify your values and their priority, real progress can begin to happen. Use the Finding Your WHY combined with the Personal Values Ranking Tool.
The Single Sheet Business Plan (SSBP)
The Single Sheet Business Plan is a simple yet powerful tool that helps you edit your vision and strategy down to a single, action-oriented page. It is the focus of four critical business decisions (People, Strategy, Execution, Cash) that companies must get right. The Single Sheet Business Plan will help you and your management team get aligned, focused, and accountable.
The Quarterly Action Plan (QAP)
It’s time to implement the power of quarterly planning in your business. The Quarterly Action Plan is a proven streamlined tool for clarifying your quarterly objectives and staying on track and accountable for achieving results in your business.
The All-in-One Planning Workbook: the SSBP and QAPs for the Whole Year
Keep your Single Sheet Business Plan and Quarterly Action Plan together in one place for the whole year. Also includes a parking lot where you can capture ideas that don’t quite make it to the SSBP or QAP. And in case you don’t know what to put on your SSBP, the last page contains the SERVANT model—49 elements that any business needs to execute well.
Personal Vision Creator Tool
The goal isn’t just to build a business. The goal is to make sure that the business you are building is actually going to help you achieve your desired personal outcomes. This tool will guide you through getting the alignment of your personal and business vision, so that the starting point, strategies, goals, and actions become obvious and line up with your ultimate desired outcome.
Eat The Frog Daily Task Planner
This 1-page daily task planner starts with your frog. Every day there’s that one task that you don’t want to do… your frog. Take control and get it done so it doesn’t hang like a dark cloud over your day. Eat that frog first thing and you’ll start your day with a great sense of accomplishment and your mind freed up to focus on other important tasks for the rest of the day
Good-to-Great Diagnostic Tool
Good companies are the enemy of Great companies. Understanding where your company is on the path to building a great company is the key to building the business you’ve always dreamt was possible. The first step to building a great company is to get clear on where you are now and what steps need to be taken.
Profit Growth Formula
The Profit Growth Formula is the key to understanding exactly where you need to focus your efforts to increase profit performance in your business. By implementing targeted changes in your business you can create a significant improvement in your total business results.
Inspire Results Business Coaching’s Personal Values Ranking Tool
The Personal Values Ranking Tool is key to gaining genuine alignment in your business. Use the Personal Values Ranking Tool combined with the Finding Your WHY Tool. When you discover your “why” and clarify your values and their priority, real progress can begin to happen.
Small Business Meeting Rhythm
A rhythm of meetings—a schedule of regular meetings each with a prescribed audience, agenda, and meeting frequency—is not really about meetings; it’s about driving profitability.
Inspire Results Business Coaching’s In-the-Moment Mistake Recovery Process
How you react in the moment you discover you’ve made a mistake sends a message to everyone in your company about how we deal with mistakes in this company. This simple 6-step process takes the power away from the fear of failure.