First meeting of the embryonic “New Team CB” today. We borrowed the board room of an accountancy practice and I arrived with my car loaded – boxes of workbooks for this week’s workshops, ring binders inherited from Barbara containing historical financial records, old cheque book stubs, badges and CD’s again for the workshops. I resembled
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It really does make the world seem a better place. Presenting in Birmingham yesterday, I was addressing the issue of “team building” and explaining that appreciation does more to build morale than money or training. Just a heartfelt “thank you” makes all the difference. As I spoke, an email popped into my in-box from a
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It’s amazing how quickly they keep coming around – and today was a full crew, with Barbara, Simon, Paul and a welcome visit from Steph. Our focus was new client acquisition – our beloved dentists have a gold medal in procrastination and so I have implemented some of the rules that made me successful as
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Today I meet with Barbara, Steph and Simon for our monthly management meeting. As the leader of the business I began with a lengthy overview of my current state of mind – how I feel about where the business is at the moment and how I feel about where we are going. I believe its
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Sorry – been traveling this week. Exeter on Thursday for a great Dental Business School board meeting with Barbara and Simon. The business is really healthy. Today I have been on a business development day and catching up with some client emails before the weekend. Sunday I will be running in the Duchy 20 –
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OK – so I ended yesterday’s blog by announcing myself as the anti-preparation coach. And it occurred to me that I just spent the whole afternoon revising and updating my “Quarter 2 workshop” PowerPoint slides for The Dental Business School. Yes – I did it myself – loaded a funky new background from www.presentationpro.com, changed
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Its 4.45am in Vancouver and my car to the airport arrives in 15 minutes. Here goes for a long journey – Toronto first, three hour stop over and then overnight to Milan and a week’s vacation. There is much happening in Barrow-land, to do with immigration issues – I will reveal all in a few
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Enjoyed a fantastic team meeting with Jen and Barbara in Starbucks this morning. My clarity was around understanding that my practice cannot grow unless I offer them an equity participation in the business, as opposed to just being “on the payroll”. I love what I love to do – speak, coach and write. I hate
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We started our quarterly management meeting in the back of Russ’s limo this morning and chatted about the next 90-days, 12-months and three years as the car made it’s way to Niagara. My assistant had organized this as a bit of a treat for Team CB after our work at the Live Event these last
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