Why Your Children’s Exams are Key to Your Business Plans
As a business owner who sits down regularly with your senior management to plan on a day-to-day, month-to-month and year-to-year basis, do you apply the same principle to your children? By this I mean getting around the table with them to discuss both their life plans – as well as communicating and sharing your aspirations and goals – and endgame for the business? If I asked you and your... [Read more]
How to Market Yourself
Guest Blog Post by Carl Hopkins In order to succeed you need to accept that part of your success will be the ability to ‘market’. If you have a service or a product to sell then you need to understand and employ proven marketing techniques. The same techniques can be applied to YOU. If your goal is the promotion of ‘you AND your business’, or ‘you WITHIN your business’ or even ‘you... [Read more]
How to Think Outside the Box to Boost the Bottom Line
Tired of the ‘same old, same old’ ways of doing things and worried that, as a business owner, you and your top team are stuck in a rut and missing out on massive opportunities? Scientists scour the complexities, depths and breadths of what constitutes creativity and innovation – in my experience as an experience strategist and performance coach – I can vouch that some simple practices... [Read more]
Ways to Avoid Worries Dampening Your Holiday
As an owner manager are you relishing the prospect of a well-deserved and worry-free summer break with family and friends because your top team will ensure the business runs smoothly? ….or are you dreading venturing further than the office front door because you fear things going wrong in your absence – with the result that you spend all your holiday stressed out? If the former then well done... [Read more]
Why Moyes Should Avoid Changing the Goalpost
The shock resignation of Sir Alex Ferguson kicked off endless debate this week about whether his successor should adopt a less autocratic style – or if the new leadership should comprise a team as opposed to one powerful figurehead. It transpired that the privilege of steeping into the shoes of the man who led England to 38 trophies has been bestowed on David Moyes who has quit Everton to take on... [Read more]
How to Sustain that Relaxed Bank Holiday Feeling
Are you at your desk or out at meetings working flat out and wishing you were still in relaxed bank holiday mode? Would you love to be able to keep that sunshine ‘feel good’ factor which comes with spending magical moments with your family – but don’t know where to start because your business is driving you – and you are working too many hours? As an experienced business strategist and... [Read more]
Five Key Questions to Establish Your Big Business Strategy
I’m all too aware as a business strategist and performance coach that a lot of companies compose short concise statements that claim to be their “vision, mission and values”. Unfortunately such statements can fall into the trap of being so clichéd that no-one really acknowledges them. They can likewise be so ambiguous that it is impossible to measure if companies are achieving their... [Read more]
Why More Talk Equals More Sales
Building sales growth requires you having more things to talk about to more people, according to master marketeer Carl Hopkins. This simple and effective formula has enabled him to power a business from £9m sales to £20m in just a few years. So what do you talk about? With more than three decades of boosting the effectiveness and profitability of business owners and leaders of family companies as... [Read more]
How to Beat the Economists’ Crystal Balls
They didn’t see the credit crunch coming and according to many the Euro should be a thing of the past. so why should we pay any heed to the latest reading of the bones from the economists. Irrespective of whether we’ve avoided the triple-dip recession, here are a few things to help keep your head up and pushing towards a better and more profitable tomorrow. Tune out the Noise Be selective in what... [Read more]
A Three Step Formula for Gearing Your Team up for Growth
How valuable would it be to know why you fail to smash your annual growth targets? Is it because the energy and enthusiasm you exude at the start of the year is lacking a serious strategy for growth that can be tested and measured? Is it also because your senior team need equipping with the tools for growth so they can be fired with enthusiasm and instrumental in boosting the company’s expansion,... [Read more]
