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September 30, 2021

How Did I Get to Have A 100% Referral Business?

I was asked by a client “How did you get to have a 100% referral business?”
I’ve had a 100% referral business (Metattude now) since 1999, when my first client had a Business Review Weekly article written about their success with me, giving me a one-line mention.

May 7, 2020

Your Smart Skills Are More Crucial Now

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Your smart skills are those of relating, empathising, sharing feelings effectively, expressing feelings effectively, engaging others, influencing, persuading, inspiring, convincing and supporting. Wrongly dubbed ‘soft’ skills, these smart skills are harder than hard skills (trades, operations, sciences and professions) to master. Under our current global situation, with workforces more dispersed and stressed, […]

December 5, 2019

Are These Ten Business Laws Useful for You?

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash I’ve had success, failure and success again in my business endeavours over the last thirty odd years. For the last two decades I’ve been an effective executive coach and have learned that the following ‘laws’ help not only me, but also my clients. Are they useful for you? My Top 5 Laws […]

August 15, 2019

This Easy to Remember Secret Formula Gives Huge Power to Your Brilliant Thinking Immediately

Photo by v2osk on Unsplash Sounds hard to believe doesn’t it?  Well, you can test it in a moment. As you know, everything we create, do, don’t do, achieve or don’t achieve first begins as a thought. The quality of our thinking determines the quality of our actions and influences our outcomes. What we pay attention to with […]

March 15, 2018

4 Tools to Have Your Mind Set for Success in Anything

For the last nearly half-century I’ve been on the learning path to success, (in this instance business – but it can be success in anything) and I’m still on it. My behavioural traits and thinking style enable me to move fast, be decisive and remain curious about everything. Whilst all that is very useful, it […]

February 15, 2018

Leader, Improve Your Story About Yourself

Many people who become leaders do so with self-doubt. I know, because I did too. What we think about ourselves becomes a story, one we tell ourselves. In my case, as a 20-year-old newly commissioned officer in the army, I had concerns about many things: Would I make a mistake? What if they think I’m […]

November 9, 2017

Executive Coaching at the Right and Best Level

There is a ubiquitous crisis of leadership in the workplace. Gallup says 82% of managers are the wrong fit. Executives are both leaders and managers.   They lead people and manage processes and things. We can’t manage people, we can only either lead them or not. Sadly, most executives are chosen, not for pre-existing leadership or […]

October 26, 2017

Steps to Deal Effectively with Unacceptable Behaviour and Performance (and keep trust and respect)

One of the situations most avoided by leaders is dealing with unacceptable behaviour and performance. The main reasons are: Fear of failure. Causing more conflict or escalation. Losing or breaking relations. Not knowing how to do it effectively. Concern about the process being onerous. Yet, those leaders who have invested the time to learn how […]

November 17, 2016

Leadership Can Change Your Perspective

John (name and identifying data changed) asked me to coach him. He’d recently been appointed as the CEO of his engineering firm, which provides turnkey process infrastructure. John is an engineer and for the last four years had been the senior engineer in charge of production output, reporting to the previous CEO. He asked me […]

November 3, 2016

An Early Sign of Failed Leadership

Your company appears to be doing OK. Sales are strong, even growing with new accounts. You have a few rainmakers doing a great job bringing in those new accounts. The rainmakers are well incentivised; the reward system is working.   Existing customer sales have plateaued, but that’s understandable in the current economic climate. Your CFO […]

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