This is for every business owner At face value, this article is for those of you who are actively considering selling your business. Or at the very least interested by what it’s worth. What I try to demonstrate in this article is that business valuation…
Are you fed up with your team coming up with innovative ideas, taking responsibility and putting in great performances? Are you pining for those exciting days of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants chaos and fire-fighting? Here’s how to break your team in 12 easy steps. There are no quick…
At a theoretical level, the case for KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) is pretty clear. Think of it this way: you jump in your car, planning on a long drive to somewhere new. You then see the speedo, fuel gauge and Satnav aren’t working. I suspect…
Motivation is all around us – but does it actually work? It’s hard to spend more than 5 minutes on Social Media without tripping over a motivational quote designed to inspire. I find many of them enjoyable and some are genuinely challenging – but do…
The story so far You may well have read a book or been to a workshop on time management and come across the Default Diary being touted as a universal cure. (For those that haven’t: this is where you ring-fence blocks of time to allocate…
The 5 big questions you should consider (and 7 you shouldn’t) I’m in quite a good position to write this particular blog. As well as being a full-time business coach since 2011, I’ve also been lucky enough to have been coached (both informally and as…
First things first – what’s the difference? If you look just at the different types of business coach available, the range in the choice is huge. Then, when you add in business consultants, advisors, and mentors those choices can become a blur. Like many terms…
If you’re thinking about hiring a business coach, looking at testimonials and case studies will be helpful up to a point. But what you really want to know is not who it did work for, but who it didn’t – and why. You’ll be on…
How much should business coaching cost? As with many service-based products, this is a difficult question to answer – but not impossible. My aim in this blog is to help you understand what sits behind coaching programme pricing so that you have a clearer idea…
Easy come, easy go As US Senator Everett Dirksen reputedly said: “A million here, a million there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” As an acerbic quip about frivolous, unchecked government spending it works pretty well. The sentiment applies just as accurately to time management:…
