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I’ll be at the BACD from Thursday afternoon – through to close of play Saturday. There to network, to observe, to chat and to listen. Normally, my initial conversations with prospective coaching clients are over the telephone. To support and encourage the BACD and all that they do – Im happy to make myself available.
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Delegation is trending. The difference between an overwhelmed Principal and a relaxed Principal is an effective manager(s). Someone to delegate to – someone who you can trust to do it as well as you would yourself, 90% of the time – and quick to learn when they produce 10% of results that are less brilliant
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The team at 7connections have been getting me back into some good habits recently, one of which was to start asking existing clients for testimonials for the difference that we make – hence Testimonial Tuesday will become a regular blog feature. Fitness Friday will be another and I was tickled pink when a testimonial came
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I have the permission of Sandeep Mohal, Principal of Confidental in Sandhurst – permission to bust him. There I was today for a management meeting and I asked him where his lovely business cards were. The cards tick most of my boxes – especially a delightful photograph of the man himself (sorry I cannot reproduce
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Entrepreneurs I used to think didn’t have enough hobbies.Then I thought they must be workaholics. Or both. I always assumed they had more than enough money. I always assumed I’d jump at the chance to retire once I had worked out how much enough was and had squirrelled it away. And now courtesy of living
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A client sent me a link over the weekend to a cut-price web site in his city, offering a 59% discount on short-term ortho at a neighbouring practice. Understandably, the question followed “how would you deal with this?” The chap in the photograph dealt with exactly the same problem in 1890. John Ruskin was the
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The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. BanksMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The challenge is to find the time and space to appreciate Banks’ brilliance. My travel schedule for the last 5 weeks or so has been tough going and I have often opened The Hydrogen Sonata late at night after a 17-hour day and
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I’m sat on the train from York to Manchester after a monthly meeting with Gary Dickenson at his team at Cfast, planning their “bigger future”.   Big revelation this year has been the opportunity that train travel brings to stay way ahead of the “incoming” and also have the time to create content and THINK.
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I was recently asked to submit an article to the new A-Dec magazine Utopia on the future of smartphone connection in dentistry. At last week’s BDTA I was especially interested to see how developers are embracing mobile technology, not just from the “mobile-friendly” web site but through to on-line appointment booking, social media integration in
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