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How carefully do you choose your words? I choose my words carefully and am keen to avoid littering my talk with negative words but I noticed there was one area where I was unconsciuously letting things slip. When replying to people I found I would…

How much fun are you having right now in business? Are you laughing a lot with your team mates? Are you and your customers really enjoying your time together? If you’re the boss and YOU’RE not having fun, imagine how much fun your team are…

When I was young my mum told me I was forever using my pocket money to buy everyone sweeties. When she sent me to the shops I always came back with 2 of whatever item I’d been sent for…just in case she needed more. My…

Where’s your focus right now? Are your goals fixed on moving away from something that’s not what you want? Are they more positively moving you towards something you want? Or is something bigger than you inspiring you? Whichever it is, I guess the important thing…

We have a phrase in ActionCOACH… “Because being in business should give you more life” I couldn’t agree more. Here’s my personal interpretation of of the team vision which is on my office wall. Enjoy Work – why? because we work long enough hours we…

What’s your best definition of success? Mine USED to be one by Earl Nightingale “Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal“. At the time I hadn’t heard a better one than that. And it’s still a beauty but, for me, Coach John Wooden’s…

Ponder these 2 options if you are a business owner/leader: 1. Say “we don’t have time” to gather the team for a review of the last quarter. Another way of saying that is “we’re too busy” 2. Make the time for the review. Make it…

How do you respond when things aren’t quite right in your team? Do you shrug your shoulders and ask yourself “why don’t they just ‘get it’?” Do you start to point the finger of blame towards the team? Or do you have a growth mindset…

We’ve all heard the phrase before but in my experience I don’t see it being applied. In fact, the opposite tends to prevail. Hire Fast. Fire Slow……and that’s painful for everyone! Here’s my take.    

When you’re at the stage of needing to install a Leadership team in your business then, as the business owner, you’re about to experience the real benefits of leverage. Leverage of other people’s time, effort and energy. Leverage of other people’s experience, ideas and passion.…