Save Your Business: 8 Dynamic Ways To Ignite Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
Home When last did you look in the mirror and ask yourself: “Do I still have an entrepreneurial spirit?” And what was your answer? Was it something like: You’d better remind me what it is again? What is an entrepreneurial spirit? I wish I had a short simple definition for you that you could just wrap […]
8 Easy Ways Business People Can Improve Their Writing Skills
Home Show me the average entrepreneur, business person or manager of a small business, working off-line or online, who cannot benefit from improved writing skills! I know I usually emphasize having public speaking skills but effective writing skills are equally essential for various aspects of your business life. For example, it’s also important for your: success in […]
Conflict Management: How to Make It Your Best Leadership Tool
Home Before I discuss how to make conflict management your best leadership tool, perhaps we should step back and take a quick look at leadership first. Very simply, leadership is the process of getting things done through people. To get things done through people, you must be able to exert significant influence over those people. For me, […]
Make Decisions That Will Last In 7 Smart, Easy Steps
Home I knew I was procrastinating but sometimes I hate when I have to make decisions. So there I was…suspended between writing a blog post and completing the documents for my Top Level Speakers Program. Then my phone rang. On the phone was my fave business colleague and friend, inviting me to “a quick power lunch.” In […]
9 Key Negotiating Strategies Small Business Owners Need to Win
Home If I were to ask you, “What does your business need most?” Without hesitation, you’d say “money!” If you were to ask me the same thing, without hesitation, I’d say “It needs you to have sound negotiating strategies!” You see, whether you realise it or not, as small business owners (SBOs) you constantly have to be negotiating. […]
6 Ways To Turn Small Business Failure Into Amazing Success
Home My spirit was in turmoil and my body was feeling the stress. I had too many sleepless nights…pacing my house in straight lines and in circles… I was choosing my fingernails over steak and potatoes. You see…my latest business MISadventure was causing me all this. It was standing in line to be voted “small business failure […]
How To Master Raising Money For A Business
Home “Raising money for a business”… You were enjoying the conversation until someone mentioned those words. But why do you get that nauseous feeling in the pit of your stomach, that sense of dread, when you hear those words? I think it’s because for the most part, you bring tremendous emotion to raising money for […]
10 Easy Public Speaking Tips Just For Small Business Owners
Home Would you like some easy public speaking tips to jumpstart your “info sharing career?” I thought you would say “Yes!” You see, I know you. You are among those small business owners who would love to share your knowledge but don’t know where to start. After all, I’ve already showed you 10 reasons why public […]
Team Building: 7 Ways To Quickly Build A Highly Effective Team
Home “What’s all this foolishness about highly effective team building? You mean to say, that after I hire people, and pay them good money, I have to build them into a team too?” These questions came from a small business owner, “Ronald” who was invited to the luncheon by his friend. I felt the annoyance in the […]
How to Lead Your Team to Amazing Success? Start Here!
Home “You must be Lorna! Please tell me you know something about how to lead! Leaders must really be born…because I am no leader and I have made a complete mess of my business! And… “Whoa! Hold up Buddy! Good Morning…you must be Mike!” I offered brightly as I complete my entry into the room […]