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Get your week off to a flying start
How do you start your week? It’s important to get the week off to a good start by: Getting some structure to the week and planning your time effectively – with the correct focus Injecting a positive energy! If you have a team then the above are even more important. ...
Metrics that make sense
What are you measuring in your business? It’s July! How did that happen? In many ways it seems an eternity since the first of January – I don’t know about you but I can’t quite believe that half the year has gone already! When I am working with clients I encourage...
Apps for Business – calendars
My continuing theme is various apps / software programs and how they can help you in your business. The topics are: 1. Accounting 2. CRM 3. Project management 4. Appointments / calendars This week I want to look at some of the apps you can use to help you to manage...
Apps for Business – Productivity
My continuing theme is various apps / software programs and how they can help you in your business. The topics are: 1. Accounting 2. CRM 3. Project management 4. Appointments / calendars This week I want to look at Project management / productivity / collaboration...
Apps for Business – CRM
I have been looking at various apps and how they can help you in business, together with some things you need to consider when selecting software for your business. I am covering 4 main areas: 1. Accounting2. Customer Relationship Management - CRM3. Project...
Apps for Business – Accounting
I am continually being asked "which app should i use in my business for X" and so I thought it would be useful to review different types of software and how they can be used in your business. Bear in mind that what suits one business may not be right for yours. The...
Growth Mindset
Have you heard of "The Growth Mindset"? Do you consider yourself to have a growth mindset? What does it mean - and what can it mean for you in your (business) life? As children we begin to define our mindset. Babies and toddlers are programmed to learn - and not to...
Try New Things
The topic this time is learning. Learning new things is so good for our brains – especially as we get older. Learning new skills builds new connections – new neural pathways – and strengthens existing pathways - even as we age. The more we practise our new skill the...
Telling Stories
We all need to “sell” something at some point – to convert a prospect into a customer at its most basic. Most of us hate the idea of “sales” and “selling” – so what’s the answer? Some of the time we are “selling” to people we don’t even know yet – it’s not selling of...
Networking Top Tips
I would like to talk about networking – for two reasons – 1) there are starting to be opportunities to network face to face again (in small groups) and 2) we can all stand to learn how to improve our networking skills! And – amazingly – there are going to be people...