About
In this course, you will learn about the pain flag indicators in business and entrepreneurship and what each of those flags means. You can expect to take away valuable information about the four types of pain, what they mean to an entrepreneur, and how to overcome or manage these pain hurdles.
This course will be available Spring of 2023.
We will be offering multiple levels for this course.
Level one will include details within the lessons and questions to help you analyze your entrepreneurial path.
Level two will include details within the lessons, questions to help you analyze your entrepreneurial path, as well as video coaching.
Level three will include the same aspects of level one and two, but will offer one-on-one coaching with Steven Adjei - Founding partner at BlueCloud Health, The Emerald Group and author of the #1 bestselling book Pay The Price and Catherine Hutchins - BACP Registered Integrative Counsellor, tutor and life coach.
Here is a brief overview of the topics that will be covered and what you will learn during the course.
Red flag pain: The pain of self-sabotage
Behaviour is said to be self-sabotaging when it creates problems in daily life and interferes with long-standing goals.
What is self-sabotage?
Why do all humans get caught up in self-sabotaging behaviour cycles?
What are the ways in which we self-sabotage? Beginning with the idea of a negative self-concept and how this increases a desire to build a personal repertoire of poor decisions and habits.
How to begin to break the self-sabotaging cycle.
White flag pain: The unfairness of life.
Human beings have an innate belief system about life, this belief is what helps us to go out and live our everyday lives and hopefully grow and prosper, but what happens 'when life feels unfair' and we feel thwarted in our seeking for happiness and fulfilment?
What it is to be human, our assumptions and beliefs about life.
What happens when our beliefs and assumptions are challenged and sometimes shattered.
Getting past the unfairness of life with acceptance and assimilation of the 'new normal.'
Green flag pain: The pain of the observer
The occurrence of "feeling average." Always the watcher, never the main player.
Finding your purpose
Being afraid of change, even positive change
Fear of failure
The human need for external validation
Supporting and involving your cheerleaders (mind your focus)
Amber flag pain: Welcome to pain caused by the market, or rather timing of the market.
This is an in-depth look at the business through the 'Flipping the Coin' framework:
What is the business focused on: - Values, Mission, Purpose, Strategy
What are the priorities of the business for the next year, 5 years, 10 years?
What are causing the bottlenecks in the business?
How long has the business been in 'survival mode'?
We'll also take an in-depth look at the "Personal Capacity' of the entrepreneur/business founder:
Character
Courage
Compassion
Ability
Resources
Stewardship
And discuss the main BUSINESS obstacles you are facing in launching or scaling your business.
Do you have a good business fit? Do your skills, passion, and purpose align with the market you are working in now?
What are your strengths and weaknesses, and are your strengths being used in the proper framework?
Do you have a partner? Are they supportive? Complimentary?
What is your style in confrontation, and how is this affecting your business?
What are your plans to scale, and are you successful according to the terms of when you founded the business?
Do you need to pivot? Etc.
