Pilot Program: Business Coaching Call Series

February 20th, 2014|

You are invited to be among a select group of business professionals to join a 4 week coaching series. The goal is to help increase focus, maximize weekly schedules and explore best practices in relationship selling to build business results. I will be conducting a weekly call Mondays at High Noon for one hour starting

Coaching Testimonial – February 2014

February 20th, 2014|

"I have known Merikay for more than 2 yrs and had a significant opportunity to interact and observe her at a closer level. I was fascinated by her unique personality which highly suites her job. She is very passionate, incredibly personable, has vast knowledge, skills in the area of personal relations which are key in

Coaching Employees to Improve Their Performance

February 20th, 2014|

If you were to rate yourself on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest in your ability to coach your employees, what would your score be? There are four types of employees: (4) Low Engagement-Low Performance, (3) High Engagement-Low Performance, (2) Low Engagement-High Performance, (1) High Engagement-High Performance. Group four needs an attitude

When people don’t listen to you in person or via email, what do you do?

June 13th, 2013|

In person: Make Eye Contact, avoid distractions like cell phone or computers, sit face to face, LOOK like your listening, lean inward toward the person, avoid sleeping (always good to do during boring meetings), use short sentences instead of droning on and on….ask for feedback periodically to make sure they understand, ask questions – let

GMDM-Guilford Medical Dental Managers Luncheon Keynote

March 18th, 2013|

GMDM-Guilford Medical Dental Managers Luncheon Keynote Stepping Stones to Success, February, 2013 Participants learned:  3 secrets of successful teams How to communicate from your client’s perspective Ways to increase your team’s awareness in their role in the customer experience Merikay, your presentation at GMDM was tops!  You really engage an audience and the information was

Professional Business Women’s Retreat

November 12th, 2012|

2013 is just around the corner, are you interested in taking a time out in business and life to work ON business & life? If so, join me and other professional women at Starmount Forest Country Club for a Day with COACH MKay. Seating limited to 16 participants. Agenda: Celebrate Your Professional Strengths & Achievements Business: Identify

Program Highlight -North State Sales Team

November 12th, 2012|

The North State Sales Team met in November for their first ever Sales Mixer and they had a special guest introduce the new President’s Club Award that will be given to 4 top performers next year. Can you guess who this guy is in this cool outfit? During the COACH MKay segment: SHIFT HAPPENS, gotta

NAFA Carolinas Chapter & SGFMA State Conference

October 17th, 2012|

During the program we addressed Coaching Strategies.  In addition to the Oreo Model shared above, we reviewed a Carnegie Coaching Model.  This strategy that I created blends five of Mr. Carnegie’s human relation principles to help coach someone towards a change.  If you are familiar with 360° feedback, then consider this as 360° coaching.  This

OREO Coaching

October 17th, 2012|

Have you ever needed to talk to a team member and give them some corrective coaching?  It's like when the sliding screen door has gotten off track and we are forcing it back and forth and it's just not working too well. Instead of getting frustrated with the door, what if we stepped back, examined

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