Encouraging Excellence Blog

Tag: NLP business coaching

  • 3 Magical Mindset Moves

    You generally have a positive mindset, you see the good, the possibilities in things, you achieve (most of ) your goals and overall you are happy. Your business is ticking along or growing and life is good. Great! How often have you encountered something difficult and after trying to give it a go for a…

  • 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…

  • Subtle Sales Talk To Sucker You In? (Or Leave You Cynically Sarcastic)

    We’ve all come across the smarmy sales person who leaves us with the strong desire to take a shower after only shaking our hand and we can usually spot them from a distance too. However sales people are getting better training these days and while we are told it’s all about building relationships nowadays, there…

  • GROWTH

    This post’s acronym is GROWTH, without which your business will stagnate. G Growth is necessary for everything to move forward, be it business or personal. For your business growth there is a certain element of personal growth too. We expand our personal knowledge when running a business, we learn to overcome personal blocks and issues…

  • SALES

    This post’s acronym is SALES which to some people are the lifeblood of any business. To me there are many parts that are essential to run a successful business and sales is certainly one of the main arteries. S Selling successfully is very easy to do and yet so many people hate doing it. In…

  • SELF

    This business acronym is all about you, how you run your business.  Each of us is in business for ourselves, so this acronym is SELF. S Scrutiny. Put your mind, thoughts, beliefs and actions under the microscope.   Have you got a healthy mindset or could it do with a check-up?  What are you currently…

  • CLIENT

    This acronym is the lifeblood of any business. C Clients, customers call them what you will, without them no business is successful. We want to keep the current ones we have and we also want to attract new ones to help us grow our businesses. For some businesses this is a fairly easy process as…

  • CHATTY

    As a chatterbox who could and regularly does talk the hind legs off a donkey, this acronym really struck a chord with me. How chatty are you in business? C Cool. Just how cool are you? You can take this up any way you want. You can be trendy, hip and with it in business,…

  • BUSINESS

    This post’s acronym is: business B Build your business from the ground up. Put the proper structures in place. Unfortunately too many people don’t do this. Some take short cuts and discover along the way that they go through an unnecessary steep learning curve before they start to correct the mistakes that they have made.…

  • TRAINING

    I’m concentrating on acronyms and using them for business. Training is the first of them. T Training is something that every business owner could do with investing in at least once every year. It doesn’t necessarily need to be an expensive training, in fact spending a lot more than is necessary is a complete waste…