As you gain experience with the Votta Exercise and see it start to produce positive results in your own life and career, you may wish to share it with others, whether it be family, friends, or members of your team. If you want stuff to deal with all the time, then work with family. As I mentioned earlier, I work with my husband.

The next step in the Votta Exercise is to pause and notice if there is anything that might hold you back from your new view. If, when you state your new view, any yeah-buts come to mind, then it’s time to look back.

As you gain experience with the Votta Exercise and see it start to produce positive results in your own life and career, you may wish to share it with others, whether it be family, friends, or members of your team. Whether you’ve recently left corporate America to start your own business, or you have always worked as anentrepreneur, it’s easy to assume other people see things the same way you see them. I do that all the time.

If you have discussed your goal with others in your life, chances are you have heard everyone else’s “best ideas” on how to approach your goal and make it a reality. However, all that matters is that you create a plan that works for you, looking ahead and moving forward.

As you gain experience with the Votta Exercise and see it start to produce positive results in your own life and career, you may wish to share it with others, whether it be family, friends, or members of your team. Another issue that often comes up is the issue of boundaries and limits.

When picking your goal, you may have a lot of clarity—you know exactly what the goal is and the result you want. But maybe you are still figuring out what goal to choose. Perhaps you are at a crossroads in your career; you aren’t exactly sure what the next best step is, or what new service you want to create for your business.

As you gain experience with the Votta Exercise and see it start to produce positive results in your own life and career, you may wish to share it with others, whether it be family, friends, or members of your team.

The purpose of this step is to determine what is witnessable by others versus what could be going on only in your head—the latter is the part we can control, and therefore it can lead us to achieve our goals.

With regard to the goal or issue you are taking on, take a look at the current state of affairs.

As you gain experience with the Votta Exercise and see it start to produce positive results in your own life and career, you may wish to share it with others, whether it be family, friends, or members of your team. It’s true—the Votta Exercise is about creating actions and structures that work for you or the person you are coaching—and I just told you not to give advice. However, there are times when one-on-one clients have asked to have coaching calls only when they need me, instead of holding weekly calls.

Gabriel attended my three-hour leadership webinar and realized he was indeed holding onto the common view that people can’t make money during a recession. He did the Votta Exercise, and then he was off and running in a different direction.

During this “unprecedented” time, many of us are taking the time to re-evaluate what’s important for our careers and our organizations right now. In these uncharted waters, many of us need a reminder about “those other people” with whom we are interacting.

Among the ironies in my life, I had the opportunity to include the first person who hired me in one of my leadership workshops. It’s difficult to express how meaningful it was that the great trainer and manager who hired me 20+ years ago would want to attend one of my workshops.

Many of you may know that I like connecting with people on social media, and I do a lot of “connecting” with unscripted videos. If you’ve watched any of The Votta Group videos on YouTube or Facebook or Instagram, you may have intuited that we are regularly “putting ourselves out there.”

The only thing constant in life is change. Our ability to change and adapt is a true measure of our health and resilience. Change is challenging, and you don’t have to go it alone. One possible goal of coaching is to help you take the next step. This step may be a difficult one that you need some structure, support, and accountability to accomplish.

The Votta Exercise is a six-step method I use with my coaching clients—leaders from as large as Fortune 10 companies, entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives, and more—to achieve new results. I started my business, Votta Coaching and Consulting in 2018, but I have been coaching leaders and facilitating seminars for over sixteen years.

At times there is a stigma around asking for help, especially as a leader or entrepreneur. But I have found over the years that leaders truly those that can benefit from coaching just like anyone else. Coaching counts because it provides accountability, inspiration, and results.

Happy New Year! The Holidays are a great time for self-reflection. We took a brief pause and found ourselves missing the connection we have with our clients. What our clients bring to us is truly a gift, and I wanted to say, “THANK YOU!”

As challenging as 2020 was, we learned a lot. Things didn’t go as planned for any of us, but in addition to disappointments; we recognized the need to “pivot” as a Company. Since the beginning of The Votta Group, we have been providing on-site workshops (in person), and 2020 was the year when we decided to provide free, virtual workshops.

At The Votta Group, we highly value our clients and the trust they place with us when they enter a coaching relationship. We want them to feel safe telling us the good, the bad, and the ugly: no holding back. We believe that productive coaching is an alliance and collaboration of effort between client and coach.

We were incredibly excited to have been invited to serve as the facilitator for the TEDx Westshore Salon event on March 8, 2020. If you're not familiar with TEDx salons, they are smaller scale than regular TEDx events. The salons are created so that attendees will have a greater opportunity to interact and exchange information on the given topic. Some networking naturally occurs, and new relationships organically evolve.