Author Archives: Steve Scott

Business Keys To Success-Building A Team

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Building a team is one of the quickest paths to business success.  Whether you are running a small business, starting your own business or in a corporate environment the value of having a good team is critical to any success. Yet, very often in my business coaching practice, whether it be with self-employed business owners, Read More

From The Business Coaching Chronicles-A Little Extra Change

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Most people are resistant to change.  They desire improvement but they resist changing their everyday routine.  That’s a problem because, as leadership expert Max DePree says, “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”  To sharpen your Read More

From The Business Coaching Chronicles: Confrontation Is A Good Thing

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One of the things most self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs and solo professionals dislike is confrontation.  What I have seen time and again in my personal business coaching practice is that avoiding confrontation very often causes problems to fester, grow bigger and explode. Confrontation The Wrong Way I had a client with seven employees.  One employee Read More

The Business Coaching Chronicles: Who Is Running Your Business?

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Who is running your business?  For this one particular client, a self-employed business owner, the answer or the truth was a revelation.  As a personal business coach I have collaborated with and supported business owners, executives and managers in various stages of business and personal growth. The business in this story was entering Read More

From The Business Coaching Chronicles: The Power Of Momentum

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Keeping momentum is difficult in small business. Learn to create the power of positive momentum to carry you, your business and life to where you want to go. Read More

Keys To Success: Matching Marketing With Client Expectations

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For the self-employed business owner, marketing your business is essential.Success comes when the expectation from your marketing is exceeded by the experience. Read More

Business Keys To Success: Confrontation

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Confrontation is very challenging for most self-employed business owners.  As a personal business coach, and having owned several successful small businesses I found myself in a state of Read More

Business Keys To Success: Become More Solution Oriented

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Coming up with a solution, as any self-employed business owner, entrepreneur or solo professional knows is the key to advancing in small business.  Small business by its very nature is about Read More

Challenge: The Holidays

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For all of us, the Holidays will have an impact on our businesses and lives.  Why?  Even if you don’t celebrate the Holidays, people you know and work with do.  And, there will be three specific days, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, where most business stops or is very limited. And for a time that Read More

Who’s In Charge? The Case For A Job Description

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A job description can be the tipping point to having a successful small business.  Too often,the self-employed business owner becomes immersed in performing the business and really doesn’t know what his employees are doing and how they are doing it. This is a recipe for Read More