Business Keys To Success: Embrace Commitment

The world has never seen a great leader in the world or in business who has lacked commitment.  If you want to be an effective leader, you have to be committed.  Why?  True commitment will attract Read More

Business Keys To Success: When To Make Decisions

Very often we make decisions without even thinking about the context in which we are making them.  This can lead to some bad consequences.  Are things going well?  Are they going badly?  Are you under a lot of stress?  Remember there is Read More

Business Keys To Success: Enlarging Others

Enlarging others is an important key to success.  As a young employee and ultimately business owner I was striving for success and somehow it was always painful.  It turned out that I had the wrong attitude.  Instead of enlarging others I was always Read More

Business Keys To Success: You Are Responsible For Your Attitudes

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

Business Keys To Success-Building A Team

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

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

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?

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

Keys To Success: Matching Marketing With Client Expectations

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

Challenge: The Holidays

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