In tough times like these, it’s important that you as bosses and owner managers avoid being sucked into a pool of despondency amid reports of a double dip recession. The latest edition of the Brand Yorkshire business to business magazine aimed at CEOs, MDs, professional services and owner managed businesses features my proven 10-step approach [...]
What would be the impact on your business if, like serial entrepreneur Matt Liotta, you came up with a storming idea which disrupted your market – and catapulted you into the driving seat? As an executive coach and business strategist who boosts the profitability of owner managed companies and family businesses I coach via What [...]
With the Bank of England expecting inflation to remain above 3 per cent over the next 12 months, have you planned how to deal with it – and how it will impact on your business? This is key issue I help business owners to address as a business strategist and executive coach who helps to boost [...]
Low staff turnover, high customer satisfaction and strong year-to-year customer retention were three traits common to all the companies profiled in the Employees Matter report . Most survived the Great Recession without layoffs, and all are enjoying the kind of financial success which every business owner strives for. As a business strategist and executive coach [...]
‘Lean Thinking is only for production people’ is one of the most common self-limiting beliefs I hear as a business strategist and executive coach. Nothing could be farther from the truth – especially in these tough times when generating profitable sales is more costly and time consuming. How good are your sales people? – do [...]
“Clogs to Clogs in three generations” – an adage based on the premise that it takes one generation to found a business, the next to build it, and the third to or destroy it – is a fear that has haunted many family businesses for hundreds of years. As an expert in performance coaching with [...]
One of my key tasks as a coaching executive who focuses on helping business leaders to be more profitable and successful is to challenge business leaders to get out of their comfort zones, change what’s not working – and keep looking forward. As an expert in performance coaching, here are my five top tips to [...]
Do you have financial performance targets for your business that focus on boosting effectiveness and efficiency as well as profitability? As a business strategist and executive coach, I see too many private businesses are focused solely on increasing revenue and ignoring other key drivers of business effectiveness and efficiency. Over the next 30 days take [...]
As clubs gear up for the new football and soccer season every supporter’s eyes are on their team’s manager and his proposed team line up. So why not do the same as the club managers – carefully scrutinise your team line up and ask yourself if you have the top scorers on board. Below are [...]
What difference do you think you could make to your business if you followed the example of Andy Grove who, when CEO of Intel, walked out of the front door of his business, found a coffee shop and put himself into the mindset of a hypothetical person who would be taking over his company. Get [...]
