Reading – A Great Book to Pick Up

Creating Magic I found a book at QBD for $6.99 called Creating Magic by Lee Cockerell, based on the principles taught at the world-renowned Disney Institute. It is a bargain at this price!  I have just finished reading the first couple of chapters but already it has great insights on leadership and how different methods ... Read More

The Simple Insights are often the Best!

It is sometimes so obvious that you need someone outside of the forest to show you One of the most satisfying processes we come across as coaches is the ability to move the coachees thinking to the point that they illuminate with the answer to their own thinking. So often, it is that you already ... Read More

Business Coaching – The Elements of Successful Coaching

What is Business Coaching? All too often we as coaches are posed with a blank expression or the question of what does a coach do? As a professional business coach, we use this expression to ensure that you can hear that we are: 1. Professional i.e. abide by a ... Read More

When Your Passion meets your Mindset!

What happens when you align your passion, purpose and potential with your mindset? Last week I attended an International Coaching Federation meeting whose guest speaker discussed and helped us assess our own Genius. What an extraordinary exercise. With the methodology used, it crystallized who I was and what I was meant ... Read More

Business Planning – Platforming Systems for Growth Part II

Continuing on from the last blog post, Systemizing your Platform.  What are the advantages? My third image is to show the expected effect on your platform by way of systemizing your existing platform.  We are then achieving the maximum efficiency out of your current people, equipment, procedures etc.... Read More

Business Planning – Platforming Systems for Growth Part I

What is Business Platforming and why does it affect Business Systems? One of the most common queries regards when we start to talk with clients about what platform their business has and how they manage the business systems to get the most out of that platform. All too often there is a blank look and ... Read More

Starting a New Business – What mindset do I need?

Ah, where do you start with a new business. You have ideas floating around your head, people giving you advice (some of which have never had a business in their life) and the more you think of it the more confused and demotivated you become. We have all heard of the statistics, you know the ... Read More

Business Marketing – Who places where?

Further to the article on the last blog, the source did not include TV or some other media or forms of advertising. What it did list in order of effectiveness: Email newsletter Networking Word of Mouth (these were all around the same mark) Website Direct emails Local newspaper advertising Printed flyers/letterbox drop Paid marketing in search engines Direct mail. They also offered ... Read More