Look After Your Network

All of us running our own business have our backs squarely against the wall. We need to look after our network ...

Business Learnings From The COVID-19 Pandemic

Such a lot to learn from this pandemic; enough to keep the social scientists in PhD material for the foreseeable future ...

Consultancy Start-Ups: Building Your Network

Ideally, you will have been planning this for quite a while, and you have your first client already teed-up ...

Does Equality Matter In Business?

There comes a time with many small businesses when you can't do it all yourself and need to recruit a team ...

How Not To Go Broke When You're Busy

Last week, I discover two successful small businesses I know are in financial trouble because they stopped marketing ...

Do You Walk The Talk?

The term 'walk the talk' has come up as a major topic for me in conversation this last week in several different ways ...

Networking Skills: Invite People To Join You

Networking skills, as you know from your own experiences and in what you've read on my blog, are about building relationships ...

Are You Ready To Join A Mastermind Community?

A Mastermind community is a group of entrepreneurial people who dedicate time to working together ...

Choosing Your Network Events

Times of uncertainty always gets people reviewing what they are doing and what gives them value for money ...

Why Write Your Vision For Your Business In The Present Tense?

Like many a coach before me, I ask you to write your vision for your business in the present tense, as if you've already achieved it ...

Learning With My Clients

I had a lovely email when I first published this blog post from one of my clients, new to running his own business ...

We Live In Interesting Times

I reply with, ''We live in interesting times'' when responding to enquiries about how I'm coping with lockdown ...

Back To Basics: Make It Easier For People To Refer You

We’re in a countrywide lockdown and some companies are not going to make it. That could be someone you know ...

Collaboration In Adversity

We’re all in for tough times over the next few months so how do we implement collaboration in adversity?

Two Great Tips To Market Yourself As A Consultant

John had a successful career, reaching financial director of a mid-sized company and was then made redundant ...

The Power Of Collaboration : Lessons From The Real World

Nothing gives me more confidence in someone than seeing them apply what they teach in their own practice ...

Farm Diversification: Is It Love At First Sight?

My first thoughts on farm diversification were so what? Farmers are looking to earning an extra income ...

The Science Of Friction

Like many regular bloggers, some weeks I just stare at the paper and can’t think of anything to write about ...