Tweet With business confidence at its highest point since May 2012, according to accountants BDO, so it’s time to give your sales strategy a summer boost. As an experienced business mentor and performance coach who enhances the effectiveness, performance and profitability of owner managed and family-run businesses from Calderdale to California, I understand that keeping [...]
Tweet Keeping the spotlight on the increasing number of businesses that will go digital in the future, I’m looking to develop a digitalised on-line form of my existing What If? peer group forums through cost effectively engaging my Southern California blog readership and other channels. To make my digital dream a reality I’m seeking your [...]
Tweet If “Sparkly People make a Sparkly Business” – how does your company fare in the sparkle stakes? Is it shimmering with energy and vibrancy – or jaded and deflated? I was captivated by the ‘Sparkly People make a Sparkly Business’ phrase at the launch of The Bayford Foundation – a highly innovative training programme [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet In the adage that actions speak louder than words – how well you listen tells your team far more about you than all the words and presentations under the sun. We’ve previously discussed how failing to listen and speaking to the wall is a key warning sign of why leaders fail. This was reinforced [...]
