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December 15, 2022 No Comments

4 Simple Steps to Recruiting Quality Candidates


Do you find it difficult to attract the right kind of employees? The fact is most businesses don’t do enough to attract the right people. In a market like this, when potential employees can have their pick of multiple job offers – you need to... Read More

December 8, 2022 No Comments

How Well Do You Know Your People?


  If you struggle to keep your staff motivated, effective, and engaged, there is a powerful solution to your problem. When you take an honest inventory of the state of your staff and determine how well you’re doing.  What were your result... Read More

December 1, 2022 No Comments

Six Characteristics of Healthy Teams


When it comes to your employees…do they work as a cohesive unit — or are there factions, backbiting, slacking off, and complaining? There is an important principle a Business Owner MUST understand if you want to create a work environment ... Read More

November 24, 2022 No Comments

How To Run An Effective Annual Planning Session


As we near the end of another challenging year, it’s a good time to be developing your plan for the upcoming 12 months so that you hit the ground running in the new year. However, as the old saying goes, “Plans are worthless, but planning is ever... Read More

November 17, 2022 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

November 10, 2022 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 be developing 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... Read More

November 3, 2022 No Comments

The Four Critical Questions Your Business Plan Must Answer


If you or your business seems to be running without direction or purpose, then right now would be a good time to get some clarity. As the year draws to a close and we get ready to ring in the new year, it’s a very good time to be developing your An... Read More

October 27, 2022 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 3 things right and you’... Read More

October 20, 2022 No Comments

Is It Time To Hire A Business Coach?


In current circumstances, when revenue is down and business owners are looking to trim expenses it might seem inappropriate to consider increasing expenditures by hiring a business coach. However, if you invested £15k in coaching and that produced a... Read More

October 13, 2022 No Comments

Delegate, Delegate, Delegate


Do you find yourself spending a lot of your time doing menial tasks that don’t help your business move forward? The management consultant and author Peter Drucker once remarked that, when it comes to a company’s overall performance, the â... Read More