Are You A Carrot, An Egg, Or A Coffee Bean?
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Are you working hard or just working long hours?
Hard vs: Long Work As the long days of summer become the shorter days of Autumn, how are you spending…
Don’t Think Outside the Box – Redefine It!
Thinking “outside the box” is a popular idea in the business world today. People and organizations are told to think…
Business: The $20,000 Phone Call
Business: The $20,000 phone call When a business receives a phone call, who answers? When a new prospect or customer…
10 Elements of a World-Class Company
The 10 Elements of a World-class Company Highly successful organizations have certain definable qualities in common. These universal distinguishing characteristics…
Business Success: Eight Fundamentals
Business is full of mysteries, but none is greater than this: What are the elements that contribute to a company’s…
Ten Reasons People Resist Change
Leadership involves introducing change, but what is a leader to do when faced with ubiquitous resistance? Resistance to change manifests…
75% Temporary Wage Subsidy during COVID-19
The Canadian Federal Government recently announced a revised 75% temporary wage subsidy for eligible employers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click…
Free Cashflow Stress Test
Learn and understand the 13 priorities you need right now to manage your cash. Book A Call Now …
Free Survival Planning Session
FREE COACHING CALL Free Survival Planning Session We’ll take 45 minutes to discuss the most pressing business concerns you…
7 Steps to Pivot Your Marketing
FREE COACHING CALL 7 Steps to Pivot Your Marketing Schedule a no-obligation, complimentary coaching call to discuss our proven…
SWOT Examination and Opportunity Planning Session
FREE COACHING CALL SWOT Examination and Opportunity Planning Session Get the info and the plan your business needs to survive…
What is the Temporary Wage Subsidy for Employers?
The Canadian Federal Government recently announced a 10% temporary wage subsidy for eligible employers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click the…
EWSP (Employment Work Sharing Program)
EWSP (Employment Work Sharing Program)Details: Work-Sharing (WS) is an adjustment program designed to help employers and employees avoid layoffs when…
Business Oxygen
Most business owners are paralyzed right now. They are struggling and lack clarity on where to turn for support or…
How to Close More Sales
The phone rang. It was Sharon calling. She sounded glum, and there was no energy or life in her voice.…
Why Connecting with the Tough Decision Makers is Worth Your Time
Presenting a product or service to someone who cannot say “Yes!” and is not the primary decision-maker is one of…
Having A Bad Day? Find Something Beautiful
Many years ago, a very special high school teacher’s husband died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after…
What are you worth?
A well-known speaker started his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. Then he asked the 200 people in the…
10 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation and Creativity
Believe in the possibility. Stand in the belief that you and your team can find a better way to do…
What are you Measuring in Your Business
What are you measuring in your business? According to Peter Drucker, and the experience of all my clients, “what gets…
7 Ways to Dramatically Grow Your Business
Increasing Profitability When you increase your business’s profitability, you increase the viability of your business and its ultimate value. Increases…
Company Culture – How to Cultivate the Right Kind for Your Business
Certain industries are notorious for the kind of company culture that they cultivate. Hedge funds on Wall Street are known for…
How to Keep Your Employees Happy at Work
Managing a business successfully requires that you possess the complete package, so to speak. You need to have strong interpersonal…
Four Reasons to Use B2B Email Marketing
It’s easy to think that social media is the only way forward in 2019. Nearly every business, big and small,…
Qualities of Good Leaders
If you type in “qualities of a strong/good/effective leader” in a search bar, you’ll get a thousand different results by…
How Stress Can Affect Your Job Performance
A job that is completely stress-free doesn’t exist. With deadlines to meet, people to please, standards to uphold, and new…
Making a Customer Relation Management (CRM) System Work For You
If you’re not familiar with that CRM software does, it’s specifically designed to help facilitate and improve the communication and…
Do You Have The Symptoms Of Affluenza?
Do You Have the Symptoms of Affluenza? There’s an insidious disease going around, and it’s woven into the very culture…
Culture Of Leadership
CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP RITUALS. I like the “cult” in culture. The best companies like Dell, Google, Southwest Airlines, Apple and…
A Business Coach Engages in Provocative Conversations
A Business Coach Engages in Provocative Conversations. A great Business Coach hears what the client is saying and not saying,…
Measure Your Way to Success by Using KPI’s
One of the things I enjoy about watching a good basketball game is the commentator’s use of statistics. I’m amazed…
Ensure a Good Return on Your Investment
To be a business that is, a commercial, profitable enterprise that works without you — your business must give a…
A Business Coach; A Clients Journey to Self Discovery
A Business Coach Reveals the client to themselves The more aware anyone is, the better choices they can make for…
Is Your Business Growing or Dying
As a Business Coach, often business owners ask if it’s true that 80% of new business may fail within the…
Breakeven Analysis
Breakeven analysis is a tool used to determine when a business will be able to cover all its expenses and…
Keeping Score in a Winning Business
Technology in sport today has become increasingly sophisticated and enables monitoring of individual and team performance to levels unheard of…
Exercise wisely…
Did you know that, relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue? Business Lesson to be…
Muck & Money
And what is ‘Where there’s muck there’s brass’ all about? For hundreds of years in the UK, money has been…
Who said that?
Who said: ‘Work Smarter…Not Harder’? This phrase has been attributed to Allan F. Mogensen, the creator of ‘Work Simplification’. And…
Why are owls so wise?
In Greek mythology, Goddess Athena used an owl as her emblem. With its focused, silent gaze, the owl gives the…
Uncomfortable Conversations
“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing…
Investing Time on the Right Tasks
Adoxography was a term coined in the late 19th century. It refers to highly skilled writing about trivial subjects. In…
COACHING — Not just for GOLF!
Attention Business Owners: COACHING It’s Not just for GOLF! Let’s talk about the development of your golf game. Your game has likely improved…
The Art of Delegating
In today’s busy world, one of the best ways to create more time for top-priority projects is to delegate lower-priority…
How to Make Your Business Writing Twice as Good
You can double the power of your business communications simply by stating your primary message earlier. When business writing is…
Increase Profits by “Pruning” Your Business
When you hear people talking about sales goals, they’re almost always referring to gross sales, i.e., “I want to do…
Features versus Benefits
The last thing you want your marketing copy to be is a features-laden description of your products or services. Most…
Are you lucky? Or just on your game?
Are you lucky? What is the definition of luck? For my clients, luck happens at the fork in the road…
How fresh are your marketing strategies?
Think about your last significant purchase: what steps did you take before deciding to buy? Now watch this three-minute video.…
Business – Game Changer
Business Game Changer – the Tiger Woods effect. Tiger has over $99M in career earnings. The nearest competitor Vijay Singh…
Are you still learning?
What you learn after you know everything will have the greatest impact… Are you still learning?
Riding a Dead Horse
Riding Dead Horses: A Common Pastime The tribal wisdom of the Dakota people, passed on from generation to generation, states…
Business & Baseball
Business and Baseball Detailed job descriptions can actually make or break your business. Is this an overstatement? Think of it…