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Summer is Coming – It’s Time to Heat Things Up!
The first four months of the year can be tough – you’re coming off the holidays, trying to creating new goals, getting your taxes paid… Now that we’re into May and summer is just around the corner, it’s time to … Continue reading
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Tagged business coach, business coaching, business owner, business owner mindset, business systems, creating teams, entrepreneur, goal setting, leadership, manager training., setting expectations, small business management, staff expectations, strategic mindset, team building, training for managements, training teams
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Talk the Talk & Walk the Walk
As companies around the world continue to try to figure out what the “new world of work” looks like, remote work, hybrid schedules and teams in multiple locations are becoming the norm. But whether your employees are 20 feet away … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits of business coaching, business coach, business coaching, business owner, business owner mindset, business systems, communication, emails, entrepreneur, expectations, leadership, management, meetings, small business management, strategic mindset, zoom
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How Systems and Training Can Help You Cope with Fewer Staff
As we recover from the COVID-19 Pandemic and businesses are reopening their doors, they aren’t finding a shortage of customers, but they are dealing with a shortage of staff. It’s easy to find a “Now Hiring” sign in almost every … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits of business coaching, blogs, business coach, business coaching, business owner, business owner mindset, cross-training, entrepreneur, small business management, staffing, strategic mindset, systems, training
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Shameless Plug: You Could be More Awesome with a Coach
We’ve been posting to this blog for well more than a decade and, throughout those years, we’ve tried not to spend too much time talking about what it means to work with a business coach or why we think it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits of a coach, benefits of business coaching, business coach, business coaching, business owner, business systems, Growth Coach, leadership coach, sales coach, strategic mindset, working with a coach
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Helping Employees Manage the Transition to Management
With end-of-the-year reviews all wrapped up and plans for 2022 well underway, mid-winter seems to be the time for big promotions. Depending on the size of your company, there are a few kinds of promotions but, for the purpose of … Continue reading
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Tagged business coach, delegate, entrepreneur, goal setting, leadership, management, manager, manager support, PD, professional development, promotion, small business management, strategic mindset, training
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Throw Your Resolutions Out the Window? (We Did.)
We talk about resolutions every year around this time. Sometimes it’s about making and keeping those resolutions, but often it’s a joke about how long we can go before we admit defeat. That’s the problem with resolutions: without SMART Goals, … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, balance, benefits of business coaching, business coach, business coaching, business owner, business owner mindset, business systems, entrepreneur, goal setting, goals, leadership, new year, resolutions, small business management, smart goal, strategic mindset
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Setting Up Employees for Success
January is always a big time for hiring and onboarding new employees, even in a world where everyone is looking for help. But finding and hiring the right people is only a part of the battle. If you don’t set … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits of business coaching, business, business coaching, business leadership, business systems, entrepreneur, hiring, HR, human resources, management, new employee, onboarding, small business management, strategic mindset, team building, team insights, team management
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Find Your Focus Before the New Year
If you look at previous December blog posts, even going back 10 years, you’ll see we often talk about a lot of the same topics at this time of the year – evaluating the your goals, setting new goals, thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits of business coaching, business coach, business coaching, business owner, business owner mindset, business systems, entrepreneur, focus, goal setting, goals, leadership, small business management, strategic focus, strategic mindset, strategic planning
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Combat Turnover with Mission-Based Leadership
The job market is tough right now. Everyone is hiring, pay is competitive and many employers are offering bonuses to get the right employees in the door. But once you’ve hired someone and invested in their onboarding and training, how … Continue reading
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Tagged business blog, business coach, business coaching, business owner, business owner mindset, entrepreneur, growth, leadership, management, small business management, strategic mindset
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It’s the Fourth Quarter: What’s the Score?
In football, if you’re behind in the fourth quarter, you have to rally your team, buckle down and, sometimes, go for the Hail Mary. That’s because, when that countdown clock hits zero, the final score is the final score. Win … Continue reading
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