Business coaching

People ask: What stage of a life cycle is considered to be adulthood? Research results say: “Adulthood is the period in the human lifespan in which full physical and intellectual maturity have been attained. Adulthood is commonly thought of as [...]

It’s a well-known fact that only 3 percent of businesses that get started, get sold. Most business owners who start businesses fail to capitalize on the time and effort they invested in building them. So, what can business owners do [...]

As an ActionCOACH Business Coach, I have found that many of the businesses I engage with bemoan the fact that they have to do most of the operational work because their team is not up to the standard they need. [...]

Spring Day most certainly crept up on me and all of a sudden there it was. I had to rush to buy some ‘Spring-ish’ flowers (as the friendly cashier put it) and organised a last-minute Spring breakfast at a nearby [...]

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. was a man who possessed incredible amounts of money, but he once remarked, “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making [...]

Several people have the desire to become an entrepreneur because they view it as a pathway to wealth building. In my locality, Nigeria, we recognise that entrepreneurs are people such as Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group, Oba Otudeko of Honeywell Group, and Abdulsamad Rabiu of BUA Group. All these well-known entrepreneurs started out as small trading businesses and grew into conglomerates operating across various [...]

You’ve heard it all before – a few steps to do this and five ways to do that – all designed to help you to succeed in one way or another. However, the point is that when a program has [...]

Think of a 911 Porsche. The Porsche 911, launched in 1963, traces its roots back to the 356 Porsche of the 1950s which actually shared a drivetrain with the Volkswagen Beetle. Similar underpinnings but a vastly different package. Which would [...]

What seems like a lifetime ago, on a Thursday morning, ActionCOACH business coaching was launched in South Africa at the Sandton Convention Centre.  On 3 May 2007, we launched the global business coaching phenomenon at the Franchise Association of South [...]

As a business owner, do you truly believe you could have or even deserve freedom? Do you know what real freedom actually tastes like? As a business coach for more than a decade, I have more often than not, discovered [...]

As we enter the final month of 2020 many of us can look back on this year and agree that it has brought about many challenges that none of us would have thought of or planned for at the start [...]

Each day brings us a crushing wave of demands: a barrage of texts, emails, interruptions, meetings, phone calls, tweets, and blogs. Not to mention the high-pressure challenges of running and managing your business, which can be overwhelming and exhausting. These [...]

In South Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many businesses coming to a total standstill, yet, I launched mine right at the beginning of it. That was certainly not the plan, but two days after coming back from international business [...]

Peter Drucker once said, “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.” We could not say it better ourselves. Understanding why time management is important, will change the way you look at your [...]

“If the client does not buy your sales approach, they aren’t going to buy what you sell.” – Unlocking the Sales Game, by Ari Galper  If I were to ask you what image you have of a sales person, you’d probably [...]

Why some businesses thrive while others implode during economic downswings remains a puzzle to many entrepreneurs. Often, they mistakenly assume that all businesses must suffer through recessionary cycles. In reality, some companies are essentially recession-proof, and not necessarily because they [...]