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Rediscover Your Spark: How Small Business Owners Can Reignite Passion with Ikigai
Small business owner feeling burnt out? This blog will show you how to reignite your passion using Ikigai. Learn practical strategies to reconnect with your purpose, enhance work-life balance, and foster business growth. Rediscover your spark today!
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Boosting Performance and Morale: The Art of Feedback for Small Businesses
This blog explores the importance of employee feedback, providing practical steps on how to deliver it effectively to enhance team performance and morale. It addresses common hesitations and offers strategies for small business owners to give constructive feedback gracefully.
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Boosting Team Engagement: The Power of Involving Your Team in the Process
This blog focuses on the leadership tool of inclusivity in small businesses, showcasing how involving employees in decision-making processes enhances engagement, innovation, and overall business performance.
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Why Your Business Needs a Vision (really!) And How to Craft One
As you probably know, being a business owner isn’t always pretty or fun, especially as you juggle the tension between working “on” the business and “in” the business – and that's why a vision statement is SO important.
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How To Make Smart Hiring Decisions For Your Small Business
Looking to hire individuals whose values align with your business? Remember the importance of attitudes over skills when making hiring decisions.
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Business Success Keys: Mindset & Structure
The key to business success lies in having both a strong mindset and a clear, structured plan to achieve your goals – does your business have both?
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Marketing on Emotion – Red Brain/Green Brain
The red brain/green brain concept in sales and marketing emphasises combining logical and emotional appeals to connect with customers, leading to better relationships and increased revenue – how? Read on.
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A Case Study on Team Effectiveness
In 2012 Google launched Project Aristotle to uncover the secrets of team success. They found psychological safety, dependability, structure, meaning, and impact were key. Teams thriving on these dynamics excelled in performance and engagement, revolutionising Google's approach to teamwork.
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How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything
As we wrap up 2017, I reflected on my journey and the lesson, "How you do one thing is how you do everything." A recent encounter at a networking event cemented this philosophy for me. Let's set higher standards for 2018. What needs to change now for the life you want?
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Time Is Life – Let’s Make The Most Of It!
This post is a reminder, and I hope it gives you permission to pause. Take a moment to step out of the weeds of your day and reflect on whether your time is being invested in the right places.
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Why You Need To Take Responsibility For Your Own Stuff
Are you getting the results you want in business and life? Are you taking 100% responsibility for those results, or are you playing the blame game? Let's find out together in this blog post.
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How Your Money Beliefs Affect Your Business
Money, money, money…. How does an inanimate object have so much power over so many? The one pattern that I have coached more business owners on than almost anything else is poor money beliefs and the impact that they have on the success of their business.
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Why Values-Based Businesses Thrive
This blog discusses the significance of values-based businesses, highlighting the tangible benefits like customer loyalty, employee engagement, brand differentiation, and long-term success. It provides insights into implementing a values-based strategy and explores current trends.
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Shoulders of Giants: Zappos – The Power of Purpose and Passion
Check out how Zappos used the principles of Ikigai to boost productivity, employee engagement, exceptional customer loyalty and sustained growth.
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Organisational Culture: Understanding Its Impact and Importance
Check out this Youtube video on organisational culture, its impact on business success, and the critical role of business values. It provides practical steps to assess and improve your organisational culture, emphasising the importance of aligning values with business goals.
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Why Organisational Culture and Business Values Matter for Success
This blog explores the concept of organisational culture, its impact on business success, and the critical role of business values. It provides practical steps to assess and improve your organisational culture, emphasising the importance of aligning values with business goals.
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Rediscover Your Spark: How Small Business Owners Can Reignite Passion with Ikigai
Small business owner feeling burnt out? This blog will show you how to reignite your passion using Ikigai. Learn practical strategies to reconnect with your purpose, enhance work-life balance, and foster business growth. Rediscover your spark today!
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The Benefits and Pitfalls of Being Too Nice as a Small Business Leader
This blog is inspired by Episode 58 of Practising The Art of Small Business – Are you too nice, just nice or not nice enough?
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How To Manage A Growing Team: Key Strategies For Success
This video is designed for business owners facing the exciting but challenging time of growing their team. In it I present five essential strategies to ensure success.