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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Dental workshop in Exeter today – there were only 3 dental practices represented, a total of 11 people in the room. But that’s OK and a nice contrast with the needs of a room of 100+ people in Leeds next week. Today we were introducing a new group to the first quarter material on 3-year
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1st July already! I flew to Belfast early this morning and delivered the first of this quarter’s dental workshops – Q3 on The Patient Journey and Ethical Selling Skills. Barbara is actually in Oxford at Ashley Latter’s 2-day Ethical Selling Course – I felt quite lonely arriving at the hotel without her trusty company and
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Yesterday was spent in Salisbury, Wiltshire – researching domestic rental properties. We spent the day working our way along the city high street, calling in at every estate agents office and asking for a “lettings list”. Almost without exception, the staff representing these firms were slightly scruffy, badly organised, poor at communication – and showed
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Why does that happen? For the last 2 weeks I have slept soundly and well – often for more than 8 hours per night – and even for 10 nights in the open air on the balcony of our Como apartment. Monday morning I woke at 4.30am (on that same balcony) and watched a glowing
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Traveling from Italy to England today but I’ve just written this week’s ezine over cappuccino and figs. It’s been very hot in Como this weekend and during my stay here I have slept under the stars on a private balcony at the back of our apartment. Some of the best nights’ of sleep in a
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Just about to close down the technology for 2 weeks – back blogging on 28th June 2005. I was dismayed to read that some corporates were encouraging their workers to take wireless access on vacation so that they could stay in touch with the office. For myself, I’m looking forward to 14 days with no
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I’ve been back in my “home” of Hale, Cheshire, England this weekend and had a rather un-nerving experience. I’ve lived in and around this urban village for 20 years and seen it grow from a reasonably nice neighbourhood to one of the most affluent areas of the United Kingdom. Hale high street is no more
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So I posted my “personal reflections” in the ezines this week – and took a 2-day break from electronics. On my return yesterday afternoon I found well over 30 positive emails from readers, offering to join an “R&D” team to debate how we can move forward on the idea of creating a coaching coalition –
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