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12/12/2024 No Comments

The Big Picture Challenges Faced by Small Business Owners


Running a small business is like juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle—you need focus, resilience, and a solid strategy to stay balanced. While the journey can be incredibly rewarding, the challenges small business owners face are often ... Read More

05/12/2024 No Comments

5 Steps to Develop an Inspired Annual Plan


As this year draws to a close and we get ready to ring in the new year, it’s a very good time to develop your plan for the upcoming 12 months so that you hit the ground running in the new year. The purpose of your Annual Plan is to align your team ... Read More

28/11/2024 No Comments

7 Steps to Building a Self-Managing Business


Running a small or medium-sized business is exhilarating—but also exhausting. As a business owner, you’ve likely worn every hat: CEO, sales rep, marketer, bookkeeper and even cleaner. But what if you could step back from the day-to-day grind and ... Read More

21/11/2024 No Comments

How a Business Coach Can Help You Move to the Next Level


If you’re a business owner considering hiring a business coach to help you get to the next level then it’s really important you do your research to find the right match. There are a lot of different styles of coaching and a lot of people out ther... Read More

14/11/2024 No Comments

Annual Plans Are Useless, But Annual Planning Is Essential


These days, as we move from one crisis to the next, it might seem that any effort to plan is a waste of time. Many business owners this year have had to change tack again and again as the world adjusted to inflationary pressures, interest rate rises,... Read More

07/11/2024 No Comments

The Three A’s to Sales Success


There are three key parts to sales success (and probably business and life in general), and they all start with the letter A. Attitude, Activity and Acumen. Any of these three areas can sabotage the sales effort, but get these three things right, and... Read More

31/10/2024 No Comments

How To Become A Better Business Owner


So why is learning how to become a better business owner even important? Well, many people are driven to open their own small businesses because of a specific passion. Not from the desire to actually “do business.” This means that very often, yo... Read More

24/10/2024 No Comments

Journalling for High Performance


What you focus on expands! Have you heard that before? There are many examples of this in our daily lives. For example, if you wake up feeling sad and down, the day usually serves up many events to make you feel even worse. Not good for boosting perf... Read More

17/10/2024 No Comments

Change Your Habits. Change Your Results.


Over the years, as a business coach, I’ve developed a fascination with business owners’ and entrepreneurs’ personal performance and how habit change can dramatically help you achieve the results you want. It started when I noticed I cou... Read More