At this time in my life, virtually everything I do is a team effort. In my personal business coaching, public speaking and career coaching I have a team to support me. But, when I was younger, Read More
Life is full of surprises, and the adjustment of our attitudes is a lifelong project. Think about your destiny in business and life. It will never be determined by our complaining spirits or high expectations. In my business coaching practice and in my own life I had to come face to face with my attitudes. Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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