Encouraging Excellence Blog

Tag: business coaching

  • How Do I Find My Ideal Clients?

    I’ve often heard business described as a three legged stool, leave out one leg and sitting on the stool will cause you to topple over at best and constantly struggle to maintain your balance at worst, which is exhausting and eventually you will fall over anyway. These three legs are: Finances Clients Marketing In this…

  • Business Mums – Are You Playing Or Are You For Real?

    I have had many jobs down through the years. All through the eighties and nineties when many people were finding it difficult to either get or hold onto a job I found it relatively easy because I treated it professionally. I was for real! I had skills in more than one area of employment and…

  • Drill First, Skim Next

    Anybody who has read Napoleon Hill’s book Think And Grow Rich will be familiar with the phrase: “Drill an inch wide and a mile deep” Yet how many new business owners stick with that principle?  When we set up in business we often have so much to do that in that process itself that our…

  • Unfavourable Forfeits From Floppy Focus

    You are a business owner and are busy running your business to (hopefully) the best of your ability. You do up a To-Do list and then try to stick to it as best you can. However there are days when you go over the things you managed to get done and the things you simply…

  • You Might As Well Quit…!

    I’ve been reminded recently by quite a few small business owners that they felt that they didn’t really feel like they had much choice about becoming self-employed and also reminded that some of them still resent what they consider their options being limited, due to no fault of their own. They find they are struggling…

  • Do You Have The Ronseal Factor?

    We all see the adverts on television and some of them we can recite from memory, often including the tone of voice too. I’m sure many of you remember the Ronseal adverts. Y’know, the one where the man was wood staining his front door and stated that it said on the tin it would be…

  • So You Wanna Be A….

    “I wanna be a (insert your own wanna here) so much”. This is a phrase I hear quite a lot in my line of work. My reply to that is always “So what is stopping you?” At this point there usually comes a stream of excuses..ahem..reasons as to why they are not being what they…

  • 5 Basic Blocks To Building Brilliant Businesses

    We all have in us the potential to be the most successful business person we can be, yet many people don’t even consider this to be an option in their lives. For those that do there are many that will not succeed at it. In this post I’ll go through five of the main blocks…

  • STAFF

    As your business grows there will come a time when you won’t be able to do everything that needs to be done. At that stage it is time to think about hiring the people you need to move on to the next stage. The last in this series of acronyms is STAFF S Staff can…

  • FINANCE

    The acryonm for this post: finance. F Finance that is the lifeblood of any business. We go into business to increase our share of it. We interact with other businesses using it as a means to being paid. We use it to pay our staff and any sub-contractors we hire. We use projections to get…