John Ficken Launches New Business Venture

April 16, 2009 - PRLog -- How often do you hear a leader speaking excitedly about the numerous opportunities emerging in this tumultuous economy? Not often, right? That's because these days most leaders are in crisis mode, doing everything they can just to keep their organizations afloat until things return to “normal.”
“And that's a concern, because leaders are simply blind to opportunities when they are stressed, overloaded, and stuck in ‘do mode,’” said John Ficken, PhD. “That's why we launched The Quotidian Group, a new executive coaching venture to help busy executives see and seize more opportunities for themselves and their organizations when stress pulls them in the opposite direction.”
“From the moment they wake up, our clients feel like they're sucked into a powerful Current of going from thing to thing to thing,“ John said.”Ask anyone in an organization these days and they will tell you they don't have nearly enough time to think, plan, and learn. And this reactive, frenetic activity encouraged by the Current can kill an organization. It happens every day.”
The ultimate goal of The Quotidian Group is to help leaders at all levels of an organization step back from the Current to devise a better way to work and live. “This sounds a lot easier than it is,” John said. “The Current relentlessly pulls people back to the status quo and what has worked for them in the past, even if they know at some level it's not really working.”
When asked how Quotidian’s methods are better able to overcome the Current than other executive coaching strategies, John was quite candid. “Other programs don’t stop and ask you the difficult questions that need to be asked. If they teach you anything it's how to play the Current game better. We help you change the rules. We take you out of the Current and give you a progressing, self-sustaining set of practices that can transform the way you work and live.”

His strategy is to begin with relatively simple practices that help people immediately if they are practiced every day. In fact, that is how he named his company: Quotidian, means “every day” in Latin.

But that's just the beginning. Because of John’s unique training in both psychology and business, he can help leaders in ways that others understandably avoid. “After we establish momentum building with immediately-helpful practices, we help leaders go below the water line to understand the underlying beliefs and needs that move them toward or away from any change. Addressing the belief system is what distinguishes a temporary quick fix from a successful, sustained transformation.”

Leaders who have participated in the Quotidian programs have benefited by becoming far more impassioned, focused, fulfilled, and successful. Obviously there's a huge cascade effect. If the top leaders are more focused, poised, and passionate, everyone in the organization benefits. And, importantly, the benefits aren't just felt at work, they're felt at home.

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The Quotidian Group specializes in helping talented Leaders get more of what is truly important to themselves, their Teams and their Organization. They offer One-on-one coaching for senior executives and team coaching for leadership teams that need to unlock more of their group's potential. Their focus to help senior executives identify their native talents and passions while systematically reducing the barriers that get in their way.