Why Being A Good Listener Is Overrated

Why Being A Good Listener Is Overrated

A Great Webinar You’re going about your day and out of nowhere an opportunity to join in and listen to an informative webinar catches your attention. So what do you do? You sign up of course! Once the time comes for the webinar, you sit down ready to listen intently and take rigorous notes. You…

What Makes You Tick?

What Makes You Tick?

Do you ever reflect on your life? Are You Good Enough? It wasn’t long ago that I was reading a great blog post from a fellow colleague about vulnerability. It went deep into how powerful negative beliefs can be, and why so many of us allow ourselves to get sucked into this emotional dark cloud…

Ignite Your Passion

Ignite Your Passion

Do you ever get the feeling you’re on this planet for a specific reason? Or do you feel you just exist? The Ah Ha Moment In a recent conversation with a colleague of mine it occurred to me that I had fallen off course, taken a derailment if you will. I realized it was time…

Business Education Builds Better Business

Business Education Builds Better Business

  This is a guest post by Sharon Gilmour-Glover- She is an experienced consultant, speaker and teacher specializing in leadership, strategy and change management. It’s been more than 3 decades since Michael Gerber published The E-Myth and introduced us to the concepts of working IN our business and working ON our business. In a nutshell,…

5 Reasons Your Business May Not Be Growing

5 Reasons Your Business May Not Be Growing

(A Guest post by Tim Glover of JumpPoint, a business consultancy that  help clients learn how to uniquely adapt their strengths and opportunities to achieve Sustained Innovative Advantage.) Most of us have become fair–‐‑weather business navigators and we don’t even know it. If you are waiting for fair–‐‑weather to return – you are in for a very…

Why Success Can Ruin Your Business

Why Success Can Ruin Your Business

How could success possibly ruin my business? Well… as humans, we seem to experience increased motivation when faced with urgency, uncertainty and/or failure (or at least I do). Why is this? And does it mean we only work well under pressure? Becoming Settled When you have your own business, or are running someone else’s, you…

Keep It Consistent

Keep It Consistent

Like many things in business, we need consistency. Whether it be our brand message, sales process, communication strategy or even the way we treat ALL our customers, consistency is our friend. Quick and to the point The purpose of this post is nothing more than me making a commitment to you.

Great People Make Great Business

Great People Make Great Business

How are you growing your business? Are you learning from a book? A person? A webinar? A class? It’s important to understand that if you’re not growing, you’re dying. I have found over my career that there are ways to grow…