Leadership Development: What is your Purpose? And Why does it matter???? Have you heard that question before? If you have heard it but have no idea what “knowing your purpose” serves, then here’s the information you might need. What does the question mean? When someone asks you about the purpose of your business, what they […]
Business Coaching: Leading Assertively: “If you don’t ask you don’t get” and this rings true in life and business. If you don’t ask clearly then you still won’t get. I have found that there are very few accurate mind readers in this world and thus my guess is that you do not work with or […]
Business coaching: Making the best match. Are you two a good fit? Have you ever had that feeling of relief when a potential business collaboration is turned down? These means that you knew all along that you weren’t a good fit. It also means that neither party could do anything amend that, and thus, it […]
How are you with Business Coaching Boundaries? Have you ever felt extremely frustrated with other’s demands when, in hindsight, you recognise that you could have asserted your boundaries earlier? There is much talk of ‘responsiveness‘, ‘agility‘ and ‘iteration‘ in leadership right now. These certainly have a place in the engagement of individuals in the development […]
Business Coaching Course of Action: The only way to really find out if your business idea will work is to Just Do It. You can research, survey monkey, you can talk about it, have the best logo, get more qualified for it. You can improve your site and design the most effective marketing strategy. But […]
Business Coaching Entrepreneurial: There is many a well-formed businesswoman out there who simply have not named themselves as such. ^ One of the time things that I both love & hate about running a business is that there is always something new to learn… I love it when I have time. I can Certainly resent […]
Business Coaching Training: Have you ever found that you have been utterly elegant with a client or customer, all focussed on the relationship-build, amenable and genuinely curious, only to turn right around and snap at your business partner???? Yep? This is the place where ‘familiarity (needs to NOT) breed contempt!!!! Here it the place to begin […]
Business Coaching Bristol: Enabling others to build their businesses is a privilege. During one particularly rewarding session the client came up with this mantra for her enterprise: “Bugger it, Be yourself and Be opinionated.” The more I walk alongside new enterprises the more if become apparent that John Lydgate‘s words “… you can’t please all of […]
Business coaching for sustainability: I have had some realisations regards my drivers for practising as a coach. I recognise now I was allowed to ask how anything worked other than humans when I was small. Now I get handsomely paid to engage in really open and contracted professional curiosity. “I can say what I see, […]
Business coaching Identity: I tried to define my business identity in a void. Does this sound familiar? I wanted to know exactly who I would be coaching and how I would be doing it, before even trying it. This prevented me from practising. This perfectionism prevented me from being of any use to anyone else […]