Goals

We know that creating a strong company culture is crucial when it comes to hiring the right employees – and then ensuring they’re inspired and enabled enough to help you reach your business goals. But once you’ve hired a load [...]

I remember as a teenager, watching my mother going about the house doing her chores and thinking to myself, “I would love to be happily married, have children, and run a home one day but I would also like to [...]

As I am writing this blog, winter has arrived in Cape Town with a bang, which means rain, cold fronts, and fewer daylight hours compared to the summer months. People travel to work and drop off their kids at school [...]

Winter is here! By now you should have no doubt about it. The highland areas and central SA have had a few weeks of bitter cold and the Western Cape finally has received its first real cold and rainy weather. [...]

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 [...]

If you go to Google and type in ‘challenges that business owners face’, one of the results listed in 2018 is ‘Lack of business funding, marketing, and cash flow’. Now, if you Google ‘business challenges for 2021’, suddenly results are very, very different; ‘how to avoid burnout, how to avoid fatigue and how [...]

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 [...]

The majority of business owners we—as business coaches—get to interact with, work extremely hard to increase their profits, and the sad part is that they don't realise that they are missing the opportunity to make huge gains on their bottom line by simply not leveraging [...]

Freedom, in general, can be said as the state of being free, or not being imprisoned or enslaved. It could as well be interpreted as the ability to act without restriction. Something is "free" if it can easily be altered [...]

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 [...]

The concept of TEAM is so important in ActionCOACH that Teamwork is one of the pillars in our 14 Points of Culture. We define Teamwork as: "I am truly responsible for my actions and outcomes and own everything that takes place in [...]

During the Navy Seals infamous ‘Hell Week’, the students are grouped into boat crews of seven men with each boat crew being assigned an Inflatable Rubber Boat (IRB). The highest-ranking student in each boat crew is the leader, responsible for getting [...]

If you think about any game or sport there are always rules to ensure that all the members on both teams know how things are meant to work. Can you imagine the chaos that will happen if a game of [...]

As a business owner, you have no doubt experienced this nightmare scenario; an empty chair. Either a team member has resigned or you have created a new position within the organisation that will help you grow and better serve your customers.    Here's a [...]

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