Archive for the ‘Management Practices’ Category

What’s Your One Thing?

May 15th, 2012 Posted in Management Practices, Your Business | No Comments »

How many times have you heard someone preaching to you as a business owner, you should be spending more time ON your business rather than in it?  Too many no doubt if you have been in business for any length of time.  In reality though, it is very difficult to not get bogged down in the day to day stuff, there isn't a day or week goes by where most ...

5 Tips To Managing Your Time

April 11th, 2012 Posted in Management Practices, Your Business | No Comments »

As a business owner myself, I am constantly juggling my time, between client meetings, my own admin, updating my website, writing newsletters and still I try and find time for my family.  Some days and weeks I feel I am top of it but other times I feel like I am drowning.  So how do we try to minimise the later experience?  Here are 5 things for you to ...

Why You Need Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

August 26th, 2011 Posted in Management Practices, Marketing Principles, Sales Principles, Your Business | 1 Comment »

In my travels as a business mentor and coach, all too often I come across great businesses of all sizes doing what they do really well but barely being able to keep control of their team.  More often than not, they do not use Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). What is a KPI? Wikipedia states that "KPIs are commonly used by an organization to evaluate its success or the ...