Inside Strategic Coach: Connecting Entrepreneurs With What Really Matters Entrepreneurs Grow Stronger With Community Over Isolation
Sep 30, 2025
Feeling isolated as an entrepreneur? Dive into the power of community! Learn how a shared language enhances growth and collaboration. Discover how thinking tools can help clarify your ideal role and build your entrepreneurial vision. Hear about the dangers of competitive coaching environments and how they can intensify feelings of loneliness. Uncover strategies to identify your unique abilities and celebrate wins without rivalry, making progress a collective journey. Redefine your experiences with effective frameworks!
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Competition Undermines Entrepreneurial Community
- Strategic Coach rejects competitive workshop dynamics and instead builds community value among participants.
- Dan Sullivan argues competitive rooms make entrepreneurs lonelier, more anxious, and less creative.
Build A Strategy Circle With VOTA
- Use the Strategy Circle: define five measurable three-year results, list present obstacles, and convert each obstacle into decisions, communications, and actions.
- Apply teamwork to transform obstacles into the three-year outcomes using the VOTA formula.
Strategy Circle Sparked Significant Growth
- Dan built the Strategy Circle in 1982 and used it to create workshops where participants shared a common tool and language.
- That approach grew his personal income tenfold over seven years and became widely adopted.
