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:…
Having worked through the crises of 1987, 1998, 2000/1 and 2008, a theme emerges. There are always 3 very distinct phases: First denial, then panic and finally, optimism. Right now most people seem to be stuck in the ‘denial’ or ‘panic’ stages. It’s either a…
What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You.. But it Can’t Help You Either I was speaking informally with a business owner recently when the subject of whether to join Check-a-Trade came up. On balance he’d decided to go for it – but had a little…
On the way back to the office from a business coaching session with a new client, I read an article by ex-captain Michael Vaughan commenting on the upturn in the fortunes of the England cricket team. He expressed the opinion that a move away from…
Why is it that the failure rate of businesses in years 6-10 almost identical (c65%) to the failure rate of businesses in years 1-5? Why is there no ‘experience dividend’? When you look at business growth in the context of business plans, it’s hard…
