Business management consulting, business coaching and the people who are highly visible in that market place are getting much more popular. People like Brian Tracy and Jack Canfield and authors like Dale Carnegie and Napoleon Hill must have benefited from the massive rise in Internet searches for their name. And the increase business guru searches [...]

Coaching is steadily becoming big business. And business coaching even more so. Some people say it’s expensive, others that a coach doesn’t really help them because “they could have done it for themselves.” To answer the first point a coaching organisation has issued a coaching press release where they noted the massive ROI with coaching: [...]

Manchester has an interesting funding arrangement at the moment. It’s called Creative Credits. Creative Credits aims to help Manchester SME businesses get creative input from other businesses registered on the Creative Credits gallery on their web site. The way it works is as follows: Creative Credits As A User Initially eligible users register on the [...]

Rachel is remembered as the one of the founding members of BBC TV’s Dragon’s Den. She’s also remembered for creating, growing and then over-extending her Red Letter Days company that sold extra special and unusual experiences as gifts. Rachel continues to help other entrepreneurs through her public speaking at events and through mentoring and consultancy. [...]

I went to see a prospect a few weeks ago down in London. The MD runs a nice sized company (over £30million turnover). We were discussing a combined project with another business I’ve dealt with before. Both the MD and the managing partner were amazed at how incredibly cheap the other company was offering to [...]

Business coaching is big business. I’ve worked with Chet Holmes for many years now and have seen and heard a large number of different business coaches, gurus and the like. The good ones really can make a difference to a business. Often however, it does require that the business take action on what the coach [...]

Eric Schmidt from Google, Steve Jobs from Apple and,John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins are just 3 of the top CEOs that get coaching from just one man, Bill Campbell. Campbell is an ex football coach who also ran Intuit (they made money program Quicken). In Silicon valley Campbell is a legend. He’s had a finger [...]

I’ve been coaching a client who has a product that almost everyone needs. She is competing with a number of other providers in her area. One of those has been established about 12 years longer than her business and has built up a set of loyal clients. The issue is that my coaching client has [...]

Executive coaching can be the key that unlocks the door to a company’s greater profits. Maybe as an executive coach I’m a little biased! Or maybe it’s a result of a little knowledge… An interesting study was conducted by Metrix Global, a survey company, on behalf of a US Fortune 500 company and the executive [...]

I went out for a few beers after work last night with an old pal from my former IT consultancy days. As the night slipped by Glyn asked me what my business was as he’d explored this blog and web site and was still none the wiser. I shook my head and admitted that because [...]

Of course you want to be a business that’s growing and one that’s making a positive difference to your employees, customers and suppliers. If you fit the bill you should sign up for the contest to find “Bank of Scotland Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year.” It’s got a certain ring to it hasn’t it? And [...]

I talked to a gentleman last week who had a bit of a puzzle. He had started and run 2 very successful businesses. Then a few years ago he retired and stepped down from running them day to day handing over the reins to his children. One business is still highly successful and is very [...]

It’s vital that executives realise that when they’re appointed they’re not also anointed with God-given powers to drag their firm into the economic stratosphere. Equally coaches needs to understand that each business is unique and not simply a cookie-cutter exercise in “helping” people see they need coaching. Sometimes some coaches suffer from the delusion that [...]

You may not have heard of Dan Lok, although he’s the self-proclaimed number 1 website conversion expert and has a lot of people who back up what he says. I’ve been a subscriber to his email newsletter for a number of years because I like what he writes and of course I also like to [...]

The news is that a super sales guru has just released a new book, he’s so good clients retain him at $25,000 per month! If he can’t teach you anything about selling I’d be very, very surprised. Normally I would have reviewed a book like this to see whether it’s any use, but … I [...]

4 years ago I never expected to be coaching clients worldwide. Although I certainly had a helpful background: Already done a ton of marketing A successful ex-IT project director Ex IT project manager Written the strategy for an IT consultancy’s quality manual (based on Deming’s principles) Undertaken business growth reviews and reports Conducted seminars, workshops [...]