Business Strategies

Many entrepreneurs fall into the trap of thinking that partnering with a business coach will solve all of their business challenges. This is only partly true. Read on to find out why. Imagine you’re training for a marathon. You have [...]

High performance comes with years of discipline, massive amounts of sacrifice and the inevitable roller coaster of highs and lows. No athlete, whether participating in an individual or team sport, would ever consider embarking on a path of high performance [...]

From experience, I thought I’d share a summary of what we see as being critical success factors across our team of business coaches and their entrepreneurial clients. To get these ‘secrets’ to work best for you try this – read, nod, take action and repeat!

John D Rockefeller, a man who commanded incredible amounts of money, once said: “Those who have leisure time to spend pursuing their passions and dreams experience the real wealth in life.” Knowing how to spend time is a more valuable [...]

Weekends are usually days of rest but for workaholics the day of rest never comes. There is always unfinished work; one more email to read and one more phone call to make that simply can’t wait until Monday. Ask yourself [...]

There are certain things you might have heard that are putting you off buying a franchise. There may also be some exaggerated facts that try to seduce you into buying a franchise without thinking. Whatever you may have heard, we [...]

As the year begins, businesses all over the world have renewed (or established) the goals that they are aiming to achieve. Whether you want to increase yearly profits by 20%, open a new location, hire an additional person, or even [...]

Over the last 11 years I have worked with and experienced the highs and lows of several franchise relationships and have come realize that all franchise partners experience the same journey—some more so than others—but they all go through the [...]

If you’re like most entrepreneurs you simply live out the till.  When the till has more money in it you live a little better and when the till has nothing … well you get the picture. As a business owner [...]

Many entrepreneurs start their own businesses and focus on all the “logical” issues required to be successful in business, such as a Business Plan, a good product or service, getting the right pricing strategy, attracting the right target market, setting [...]

Many entrepreneurs dream of building their businesses to the point where they need to expand their businesses into other territories or regions.  Franchising, if correctly done, provides a very effective form of leverage to expand into other regions. However, many [...]

A sense of belonging goes a long way among a team. For more and more employees, feeling like they fill a significant space within a team is a strong motivating factor, and this often reaches beyond their normal daily duties. [...]

ActionCOACH discusses the benefits upskilling your employees can have on business success, but why it needs to be strategically handled. It’s a commonly held belief that improving the skillset of your employees ultimately results in a loss for the employer, [...]

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is an adage that most people are so familiar with, it seems to have lost its meaning. But it remains a truth that HR departments deal with on a daily [...]

Accountability does not simply mean taking the blame when something doesn’t go according to plan. At the end of the day, it’s not a blame game; it’s a function to help grow a passionate and engaged workforce. Holding someone accountable [...]

So you’ve started a business and need help moving in the right direction, but what would work best for you – a business incubator or a business coach? While incubators and coaching may seem similar on the surface, they are [...]