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When it comes to acquiring new equipment for business, do you use your own money or the bank’s (do you lease, rent, use a chattel mortgage? What’s smart?) Scenario Let’s say we [...]

Despite the label “Business Coaching”, working towards performance improvement in business is essentially about facilitating personal change in the people running it.  There [...]

Early in coaching any new Client will face one potentially fatal challenge – if we don’t take them beyond fighting alligators, they never get the time to drain the swamp, and we fire [...]

If you have felt a business downturn of any sort over the last 12 months, it’s a certainty that you are not aiming your products and services at NEOs because they haven’t slowed their spending at [...]

That Sinking Feeling – Is That Water Around Our Ankles? You’ve been doing business with them for five years now, and they’ve always paid their bills – eventually. There was a time a few [...]

In his excellent newsletter, Paul Mitchell (The Human Enterprise) stresses the importance of understanding, recognising and then playing to your “strengths” in life and in business. [...]

With a 40 year trading history, Adelaide’s Truscotts Casual Living hit the wall this week with debts of “around $5 million”.  Were there any warning signs to the captain of this [...]

When someone steps out for a smoke, how is their temporary inaccessability accounted for and balanced against the availability of the non-smokers? Employing smokers may be more costly than is [...]

What do you do when your problems at home – be it spouse, crappy nappies or hormonal teenagers – impact to the point where you lose focus and function at work?  Believe it or not, [...]

Taking a coaching approach to your management can make a huge difference to the results you will experience from your team.  The fact that your stress levels and theirs are likely to lower [...]