As a business coach, I’m frequently asked what the most important aspect of business is. Sure marketing is important, sales is important, knowing your figures is important. Being disciplined is important, as is having business knowledge and acumen … but when I really identify the one thing which is most important in business, I’ve got…
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When it comes to business, we don’t just want to survive and hang in there by the skin of our teeth. We want to thrive. As an experienced business coach, I work with so many clients who want to do well, but just lack a little knowledge, know-how and experience to make it happen. Rather…
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How much waste actually occurs in business? It’s large and wide and often is unable to be fully tracked. Waste can be anything from the mismeasured piece of timber in construction, through to office staff spending time on personal Facebook. As an experienced business coach, I know it’s not an obvious line on the profit…
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When it comes to efficiency, I don’t think anyone can argue that paperless is not an improvement. Well, other than paper manufacturers. Here are some great reasons and ways to go paperless in your business today: It’s great for the environment. When it comes to saving resources and…
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With the release of an Artisan grants program (see link below), I thought it relevant and timely to discuss exactly what an artisan business is, and some of their challenges and differences from most other businesses. The word Artisan is French and means skilled craft workers who make or create items by hand. These…
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Who wants to do business with (or work for) a cranky person? When it comes to doing business with someone, whether that’s a customer, supplier, boss or employee – the fact that they can do the job is important. The fact that the pricing is right is important also. But almost as important is whether…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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