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Category Archives: Business Coaching
The Reason to Change
Doing self-employment training and support, I often hear, “I only want to be small”, or “I don’t use technology in the business, so it won’t impact my business”, or “I don’t need to put in training money because I’m experienced”. … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Communication, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Entrepreneurs, Marketing, self-employment
Tagged Business, Change, Change Management, Competition, Marketing, Organizational Change, Self Employment, Technology
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A Culture of Learning
What have your employees learned today? What nugget will they take away today that will make them more effective tomorrow, or better equipped to handle the pace? Will it be technical, giving them new skill to add to their storehouse, … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Career development, Coaching, Communication, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Empowering people, Environment, Life coaching, self-employment, Training
Tagged Career development, Career transition, Coaching, Communication, Competitive, Courses, Culture, Education, Employee retention, Employees, Employers, Learning, Organizational development, Soft skills, Staff Training, Technical, Training
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Puzzling World
We live in a world of contradictions. We are repeatedly told that stress is a killer, but we fall victim to it in all of our interactions. I was at a forum today where it was mostly managers or executives. … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Coaching, Communication, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Empowering people, Facilitator, Human resources, Listening, Managing stress
Tagged Communication, Executives, Facilitator, Human Resources, Managers, Organization, Organizational development, Smartphones, Stress, Training
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Damn Millennials!
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt of authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” This quote was from Socrates’ writings more than 2000 years ago. The more things change the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Coaching, Communication, Diversity, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Life coaching, Older Worker, Relationships, Retirement, Team development, Young Professionals
Tagged Change Management, Children, Elders, Employers, Interact, Millennials, Nanaimo, Recruitment and Retention, relationships, Respect, Rotaract, Rotary, Students, team building, Young Generation, Young Professionals of Nanaimo, YPN
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disABILITY
We are sometimes blinded by what we see or our perceptions of who people are. We consciously or subconsciously measure their abilities by what we see or hear. That is not who they are. Physical or mental issues can set … Continue reading
Posted in Assessments, Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Career development, Clients, Coaching, Community Futures, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Empowering people, Life coaching, Lifestyle, self-employment, Training
Tagged Abilities, Attitude, Business, Cedar, Disabilities, Employer, Employment, Inclusion, Organizational development, Parksville, Recruitment and Retention, Social Enterprise, Training, Unemployed, WorkBC Employment Centre, Workforce
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Proactive vs. Reactive
I have always said that in small business, especially sole proprietorships where you are a ‘one-man band’, so to speak, if you are out there seriously marketing you have little time to work in the business and if you are … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Clients, Coaching, Customers, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Entrepreneurs, Human resources, Life coaching, Managing stress, Marketing, self-employment
Tagged Business, Clients, Coaching, community, Customers, Human Resource Practices, Human Resources, Marketing, Proactive, Reactive, Small Business, Sole Proprietorship, Stress
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The Appearance of Professionalism
You can have all the skills in the world, but you need to look the part as well. Realtors will tell you that an attractive entranceway to a home will determine how the prospective buyer views the rest of the … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career professional, Clients, Customers, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Life coaching
Tagged Appearance, Business, Coaching, Employment, Leadership, Organizational development, Perception, Professionalism
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