I’ve had a marvellous week. Rachel Turner sorted my head out on Monday. Phillippa Goodwin has moved me effortlessly between Manchester, Milan, London and Surrey. I’ve chatted with an accountant in Adelaide about financial reporting for our mutual client in Melbourne; with my client in Boston, USA about growth plans for 2019 and beyond. I’ve
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It’s dangerous to be too busy to grow and very rare that I see a client take a giant leap forward with their business. Mostly, it’s small steps. Marginal gains. The last 2 days in Milan were all about that. I was working with Adec (not to be confused with the chair manufacturer – Adec
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All of my active coaching clients (and their designated team members) receive an automated email on Friday morning, directing them to a Google Forms landing page, where they can complete a weekly progress report. We call that The Extreme Weekly Tracker. The questions they answer are: What were my most significant accomplishments last week? What
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So it’s 06:15am for me and 12:45am for you (if you are in my home time zone) as I write this blog post, listening to the call to prayer outside my hotel room in Mumbai and getting myself prepared for day 1 of a 2-day workshop here with my friend and client Manish Chitnis. Having
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After starting his working life as a teacher and a tour manager in the music business, Mark accidentally entered the charity sector as a short-term hire for a friend and has stayed there ever since. He and his wife Jo lived in Tanzania for 10 years, began raising a family and both served for the
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FREE WEBINAR: The FIVE KEY SECRETS you need to know to guarantee SUCCESS for your Dental Practice into 2019 and beyond…… My friend from Australia, Dr. David Moffet, helps dental practice owners around the world to grow their revenue without having to work harder or to buy extra expensive equipment. Next week, on Wednesday 20th February at 8PM GMT, he’s presenting a new webinar alongside
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PRICE One of those random coincidences that occur in life (and have us wondering whether we are watched over) has been three clients, far apart, who have commissioned a price analysis. In each case, a member of the team has been tasked with calling around other practices within a reasonable travel time (and who offer
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All of us in business have three basic resources with which to create our vision, our systems and our profits: TIME MONEY PEOPLE Our success ultimately depends on how best we use them. Recently I’ve been reflecting on my own past (and that of others) and realising that many of us make a basic mistake
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It’s a simple enough formula: MANAGEMENT = SYSTEMS = LOGIC LEADERSHIP = PEOPLE = EMOTION If you are old enough to remember Star Trek, the Vulcan second in command Mr. Spock was the ultimate manager; never flustered by emotion, he would easily recommend the sacrifice of a small community aboard a ship or a planet
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You know exactly who I’m talking about. The (so called) team member who is always stirring things up, gossiping, setting people up against each other, manipulating conversations and quietly sabotaging the progress you are striving for. Smiling terrorists who “play the game” when you are around and chip away at the foundations when you are
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