Let’s get back to basics! Clients are often surprised, and sometimes a bit resistant when I suggest this during our coaching sessions. But like much in life when you think you’ve hit a brick wall, it’s worth going back to the beginning and having a…
The power of feedforward for performance reviews Running and growing your own business successfully depends a lot on your ability to keep yourself motivated and focused on the end goal. When things don’t go according to plan, it’s your resilience that keeps you going. Your…
Every leader is different, so are your employees Of the seven keys to building high performance teams, the first key is leadership. For a very good reason. You can’t expect your team to transform your business by themselves, after all, can you? Your team…
The challenge is time, I get it. You know you should be spending more time on your marketing activities but can’t seem to free up the hours to do so. But if you want to keep those leads coming in then you need to take…
When Times are Tough, Service Matters Most…More Than Ever… There seems to be a constant stream of bad news at the moment. In the course of a few short months, we lost our respected and much-loved Queen, we’ve had two new PMs, the Pound took…
Finding your superpower? Priceless Priceless because once you have defined what is your business’s superpower, price won’t factor into customer buying decisions. People will buy from you, regardless of price, because the benefits of doing business with you are so amazing that price becomes irrelevant.…
Not all marketing is digital. It’s so easy in this digital age to focus too much of our marketing attention on our online activities. Social media, websites, google ads. The list goes on. But if your online marketing activities are not delivering the results, then…
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” – Bill Gates Now, obviously, as a business coach, I think every business owner can benefit from one of our coaching programmes, whether one-on-one or as…
Together, strong teams deliver better From the earliest days of civilisation, the hunters and gatherers demonstrated effectively how working in groups brought greater abundance into their lives. Now, in the business sense, it is a fact that organisations of all sizes experience greater tangible payoffs…
Never have enough marketing budget? Marketing takes money. So it’s important to make sure you max your marketing budget. Which for many small business owners just never seems enough. Here are some hints for making the most of your marketing budget: ● Test and measure…
Some people plan to be business owners; others come into it via circumstance, maybe because of a redundancy or a need for more flexibility around family responsibilities. However they turn to it, it is usually with the idea of relying on their industry expertise to…
Everyone dreams of success, so why do so few realise it? Everyone dreams of success. What that success looks like will differ from person to person and from business to business. But I can guarantee you, everyone dreams of success. Sadly though, a large percentage…
