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April 8, 2021 No Comments
5 Things To Expect From Your Business Coach
Professional business coaching has exploded over the last couple of decades. There are a lot of different styles of coaching and a lot of people out there promoting themselves as business coaches. But what should you a business owner expect from a bu... Read More
April 1, 2021 No Comments
The Challenges That Drive Owners To Business Coaching
As a long-time business coach and leader of businesses I’ve seen a lot of different challenges in business. But what are the challenges that drive most business owners to seek the help of a business coach? Sometimes I like to send my prospects a lo... Read More
March 18, 2021 No Comments
Are You in Control of the Financial Side of your Business?
Most people who are driven to start a business get satisfaction from that business because they have a distinct passion or talent for their craft. But how often are small business owners sitting down and diving into the financial side of their busine... Read More
March 11, 2021 No Comments
Why Does It Take 10 Years To Be An Overnight Success?
It’s come up a couple of times for me recently with some of the entrepreneur clients I work with and it reminds me of the story that Steve Martin tells. That it took him 10 years to become an overnight success after which he spent the next four yea... Read More
February 25, 2021 No Comments
10 Key Steps To Defining Your Business Processes
Small companies don’t need much structure, but as a business grows chaos can quickly ensue. Good process design can help. Standardizing processes is important for a growing business, but few people know exactly how to do this. Most times, what ... Read More
January 28, 2021 No Comments
The Business Hierarchy Of Needs
The biggest problem business owners have is that they don’t know what their biggest problem is. Trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, unhappy customers, and now throw in the issues associated with a pandemic and recession, what do you f... Read More
November 26, 2020 No Comments
Team Building For Competitive Advantage
Highly effective teams can become one of the strongest competitive advantages that an organization can build. If you can get the teams in your organization past all the drama, politics and waste of energy, that’s a tremendous competitive advantage.... Read More
November 12, 2020 No Comments
How To Run An Effective Annual Strategy Planning Session
As we near the end of an unbelievable year, it’s the perfect time to look ahead and plan your company’s growth strategy for 2021. You may have thrown out this year’s strategic plan at the start of the pandemic and been executing crisis manageme... Read More
November 5, 2020 No Comments
The Organisation’s Heartbeat – Your Meeting Rhythm
Embedding the communication tools, processes and routines required to create clarity and align everyone in the organization is the key to consistently driving execution and results. And when it comes to communication and alignment, one activity, more... Read More
October 29, 2020 No Comments
The Two Types Of People Issues Facing Business Owners
In his classic book, Good to Great, Jim Collins refers to the importance of getting the “right people on the bus” and then getting them all in the “right seats.” This is key because who we attract and hire to our organization takes precedence... Read More
