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Working On The Business
As a business owner you face a constant challenge: do I work on business growth or work in the business to deliver today. For micro and small business owners this can be a particularly challenge. However, it can all to often […]
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Values Driven Leaders Enable Better Performance
Sustainable business change comes when business leaders align their values and behaviours to build high performing businesses. Business owners are often wrestling with the all too familiar pressures to grow the business and its reputation whilst maintaining cash flow in […]
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Time to Value Your Customers.
A customer service culture drives improved business performance. Treasured gift A few years ago I had the privilege to be best man to a close friend of mine. As a thank you he and his new wife gave me a […]
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Are You Carrying Monkeys on Your Back?
I was engaged in a leadership coaching session and suddenly became aware of how sad this person looked as he talked about his life at work. His frame was hunched over, his eyes had lost their sparkle, and his speech was slower […]
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Imagine Wasting 60% of Your Capability!
If as a leader you are not enabling and developing a positive and open culture to harness the potential of every employee in the business to enable it to achieve purpose; develop and grow in the market place then you […]
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Learned Behaviour
My learning on the journey of life has taught me that the education system has taught us that ‘teacher knows best’. The system ensures that Teachers have the script: they have all the answers. They have the power and authority […]
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How can we show we hit the monthly targets!
I was commuting on a train recently and found myself listening to the conversations going on around me in the carriage. My fellow commuters were all business people, all absorbed in their latest panic. Papers spread across their laps, or […]
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Chasing Deadlines
I have missed my deadlines! I should have completed all my end of year reviews by the end of last month. I am late putting the final touches to my business plan, and a performance improvement plan. The performance team […]
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Leading Effective Change Management
One night driving home from work I began thinking about the challenges for leaders in the workplace given the context of a tough economic climate, and the pressure to continue to make business efficiencies and drive business growth. The art […]
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Staying in Control of Your Priorities
We help busy people who face the challenge of having too many priorities as everyone pushes to get more with less. How quickly can we meet? Is often heard in conversations. Well it seems that speed is relative! A client that […]
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