Success Stories
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I signed up for Dan's first cohort of TAM NOVA, not because I needed help but because my wife was interested and I wanted to help a friend. The continued client business success at my firm effectively "masked" problems and allowed me to bury myself in what was going well, so I could ignore what was not. Participating in TAM NOVA enabled me to see how many issues and opportunities I was ignoring. Coaching allowed me to confront these issues by recognizing their importance, removing mental blocks that prevented me from trying, and developing strategies to address them one by one. I learned to overcome fear of failure by seeing the value of failure. To paraphrase Michael Jordan, it is because I have failed, that I succeed.
Here are some of my results so far from the program:
Short term sprint goals achieved — $250,000 firm profit to distribute to employees.
New procedures that project to earn $1 million by the end of next year.
More time for family, community and God; satisfaction and pride; a functional firm with the foundation to last.
I’m excited to continue building on these results and to explore what else I might be capable of as a participant in the [next] cohort of TAM NOVA.
Ray Tittman
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For all of last semester I had regular coaching sessions with Dan Selmenczy twice a month to increase productivity in both my personal life and in my work as a resident director. It was an excellent experience. Dan gave clarity to my goals, and he pushed me to carry through on commitments from session to session. The most defining characteristic of Dan’s coaching was that he helped me to have a positive and motivated approach to my work, and as a result substantially increased my creativity and helped me come up with better and better ways to lead the team of prefects under my charge. It had fantastic results. Through the weekly routine that Dan helped me form for the prefect team, I was able to lead them to have more initiative in student life and carry through with projects. To give a few examples, members of the team started a weekly planned parenthood praying group, a student art group, organized regular tutor and tutor wife dorm talks, and overall had a significant increase in positive interactions with the student body. One of my favorite results from Dan’s coaching sessions was the idea to have a semester long team project. For this past semester’s project the prefects, together with several other students, organized the first ever maple sap collecting season. That’s something which I’m sure will become a regular tradition at the Northfield campus, and the goal will be to have a similar group project for the prefect team every semester from here on out.
This semester we were fortunate enough to have Dan come out and give an all-day workshop for the prefect team. (The idea for him to come out actually came out of one of our individual coaching sessions.) It was an eye-opening experience for the whole team. Dan helped each one of us identity ways in which our attitude to our work was helpful and where it was detrimental, and he gave all of us tools to have better conversations with students, better rule interactions, and better community involvement. Dan also showed us ways to work as a more complete team. I can say, especially from what I saw in the men’s dorm, that immediately after the workshop the vibrancy of community life increased through the leadership of the prefects. It was actually quite remarkable how quick the results were.
Overall, I can safely say that this year has been the best year I have ever witnessed for a prefect team at TAC. And that is in no small part due to Dan. Through the community involvement and initiative that Dan helped create, the prefects have garnered the respect and love of the rest of the student body and that has enabled them to carry out the rest of their duties excellently.
Isaac Cross
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Tam Nova has helped me in all areas of my life. Not only has it given me a career path that I am excited about every day, but what I've learned from Tam Nova has helped me to be a better wife, mother, and friend. Most importantly, it has helped me recognize spiritual obstacles that had kept me from growing in my relationship with Christ. My spiritual life has taken on a new depth that I've been longing for a long time, and it's thanks to God's grace and great coaching.
Nicole Tittman
