Donna Stone is a business coach with three decades of experience. She grew her own business from a garage to be a multi-award winning operation that spanned five locations nationally. For almost a decade she has been sharing this knowledge and expertise with clients to guide them in their own success. Donna works with business owners and other business coaches, consultants and trainers to help them build their own success. Her Coach the Coach ™ program has proved exceedingly popular, as has her life coaching services. Donna is a prolific writer with hundreds of articles written and seven books published.
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To succeed in business you do require self-discipline. To me, discipline is not a bad thing. Many people balk at the idea of discipline and if you look up the meaning of ‘discipline’ it is “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.” – I…
As a business coach, you’re probably wondering why I would be talking about not expanding. For a start, whilst 90% of my clients are looking for business growth or expansion, I do work with some who actually do NOT want to expand or grow. For them, working with me is about working better, more efficiently…
For any business these days, our phones are one of our important tools of the trade. For some of us, we live on our phone and can do anything from it – especially if you are in business. I recently got the iPhone 8 (and love it) which got me thinking to how to best…
I think at some time or another we’ve ‘lost it’ or experienced someone in a business environment ‘lose it’ and display a degree of anger that just is not on. Displaying anger in your business can literally be deadly. Let’s look at how business anger is deadly…
The importance of having fun in the workplace can’t be overlooked by business owners especially when it makes employees more efficient at work. Why will you make the office gloomy when you can make the work fun and productive at the same time? Employees who work in a happy working environment tend to work harder…
I wrote an article for Soar Collective about being a female leader in business. As I said, leaders and entrepreneurs aren’t born… they are made by finding their way through the challenges around them. I, myself, was brought up with limiting beliefs. I was made to believe that as a girl I would need…
One of the most painful aspects of being in business is getting paid. If you’ve been in business more than five seconds and offer credit, then you know what I am talking about. There is everything from the “I’m not happy so I’m not paying” comment, right through to complete ‘ghosting’ where you are completely…
The face of the bookkeeping industry is hugely changing. The last 5 years have seen massive changes and I don’t believe those changes will stop, pause or even slow down. In fact, I believe they will accelerate. So what are those changes? The three main changes in the bookkeeping industry…
The Aussie Federal Budget was handed down this week – and somewhat earlier than usual. Our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison states this as “the first budget plus in 12 years.” Yes, we will all see this is a free election budget as it benefits many. I’ve broken this up into Business, Individual and General. …
Many have heard this expression; but do we really understand what it means? I’m going to look at what it means to work ON your business (versus IN the business) and why it’s important as a business owner to work ON it. What exactly is working IN a business?…