Business Finance 101 – Negotiating To Lease Or Buy Equipment

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 [...]

Why Change is so Important for Business Management

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

Time Management For Time Poor Managers

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 [...]

NEO’s – A Salesmans Best Friend

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 [...]

Credit Control 101

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 [...]

Strength Of Mind, Body & Business

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. [...]

Another Crash! Accident Or Certainty?

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 [...]

Smoking? Or Missing In Action?

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 [...]

Business Coaching For Personal Issues?

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, [...]

How to Stay Awake in Meetings

Do you keep falling asleep in strategy and team meetings? At workshops and seminars? How about during those long and boring conference calls? Here’s a Way to Change All of That Before (or [...]