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Written by Adrian Caruso, CEO/Master Business Coach of TA Fastrack

Could you please dig out your personal and travel business improvement plan for me?

What do you mean you don't have one!?

Come on, dust it off and let's get on with it.....

It's what? At the bottom of your drawer gathering dust?

"What personal improvement plan?" you ask!

Why are you focusing on everyone else's development apart from your own?

All of the most effective owners and senior managers that I have come across all have a support structure in place to ensure their own success.

These include:

• Recruiting the best staff to work for you
  
• Hiring a coach
  
• Having a large network of other professionals
  
• Having a mentor
  
• Having the very best lawyers, accountants and advisers
  
• Having a right hand man/woman
  
• Reading self help books
  
• Learning new skills to stay ahead
  
• Personal Training and development

What support structure have you got in place fro you and your travel business?

Where can you go to get a different point of view on the issues that you are facing?

Who can you turn to, to act as a sounding board for your ideas?

Don't do this alone!

Just because you are a manager does not mean you know it all. Having said that I have a met quite a number of owners and managers who thought that they did! Needless to say, they didn't last very long!

I'd like you to write out below the top 3 weaknesses that you have got.

1.

2.

3.

These can be skills, knowledge - you name it!

Any area of your working or personal life (if it is affecting your time at work) where you feel "inadequate" or "unfulfilled".These weaknesses are in your skills and the things that you are not so good at. Ask yourself - "If I improved these areas/skills I would have a lot more chance of success in all that I do? Some of them could be - Communication skills, marketing, networking, leadership etc What I want you to do now is to focus in on what you need to do in order to improve each area.

• What will you need to do?
• Who can help you?
• What resources do you need?
• When will you start?

Write these out.

For each improvement I would also like you to write out:

• How each improvement would increase your confidence?
• How it will make you feel?
• What do you need to do to make it happen?
• Who can help you?
• When will you start?

Even though I am regarded as one of the most successful Travel business coaches around, I still have a coach whom I have regular sessions with each month.

Why?

Because, even though I am at the top of my profession I want to get better and better and better.

It's as simple as that.

Have you got a coach or a mentor?

If you have, I am sure you will agree with me that it is one of the most enlightening and rewarding experiences you can ever go through.

If you haven't, isn't it about time that you started?

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adrian@tafastrack.com, 07 3630 1298, http://www.tafastrack.com