Coaching

The doom and gloom of domestic drudgery was the straw that finally broke the back of the proverbial camel causing an uprising of femme-pioneers, women who were integral in empowering the move of the fairer sex from the clutter of [...]

As the year marches on and we enter the third quarter of 2019, ActionCOACH business coaching recently took some time to reflect and celebrate at their biannual conference in the mountains of Tulbagh of the Western Cape. May 2019 marked [...]

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!

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 [...]

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 [...]

So you want to put your business on autopilot and finally take an unplugged vacation where you can safely step away from your laptop, phone and other devices, do you? Then you need business systems and they need to be [...]

When you’re in the army, the lines of power are set in stone. Your commanding officer is your superior in all ways. Bad behaviour is punished swiftly and severely, and through an atmosphere of bureaucratic fear, recruits quickly learn to [...]

Regularly assessing your business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats is a vital component of managing your business effectively. Every enterprise is limited, to a lesser or greater degree, by its resources, so it is unlikely you will be able to [...]

It’s tough out there. There are new ventures popping up on a daily basis, fighting for a piece of the same pie as their competitors. If you’re hoping to get ahead of the pack and challenge your innovative mind, you [...]

If the first few names that spring to mind when you think ‘innovative businesswomen’ are the Oprah Winfreys, Marissa Mayers and Martha Stewarts of the world, you obviously haven’t been keeping an eye on what’s happening closer to home.From big [...]

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 [...]