Leverage
Posted on June 23, 2008
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I recently had talks with a firm about taking my business systems in sales and coaching/mentoring to a more international audience on a joint-venture basis. I’m looking forward to progressing things.
In a service business - especially when one chooses to work as a micro-business - you eventually reach a stage where you cannot physically grow much larger or create any further revenues - short of increasing your standard fees. At that point the need for leverage becomes apparent.
To grow further or to get to a stage where your IP can be richly mined then in a service business such as mine, there exists the opportunity of leveraging the business through technology - audio/DVD training programmes, the Internet (on-line coaching programmes, e-books and social networks) and
finally through joint-ventures or investors.
Its never easy for an entrepreneur to ‘let go’ of their business. After all, it’s their ‘baby’. However we have to realise that it is just that - a business - designed to attract, serve and retain customers for a profit. It is a separate legal entity where one has created a corporation or limited company. Just like any child there comes a time when you let it go in order to grow.
Once you do, you may discover there are new worlds and markets to create and succeed in.
R&R
Posted on June 16, 2008
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Rest and recreation and yes, I am re-visiting the topic. Maybe it’s because I’m heading out next week for two weeks in Malaysia and Borneo - with the family in tow and mightily looking forward to the opportunity to take time out and take stock of things. Expensive - yeah, there’s always a little financial pain but I learned the importance of not putting money before memories some years ago.
Money can always be earned and renewed but the time in one’s life in which it can be used to make memories that sustain you, your loved one and especially your children - to awaken young minds that experience a world that is global and diverse - is finite.
I spent four different coaching sessions with senior executives last week and the theme was exactly the same. Take time out - get away from the job. Give yourself some space - and for good business reasons too.
Most of our creative insights, our new ideas, our renewed motivation comes when we are not working. Typically they come when we take time to go on holiday - or usually when we are asleep and kept awake until the idea forms itself and thus we often lose good quality sleep.
By keeping ourselves at the coal face we fail to see the ideas and the insights that can help us transcend the challenges that we might be facing in the role. Our unconscious minds need time to integrate and synthesise, to reflect and resolve, to connect the pieces - it is from this that the insights which drive our success and creativity come from.
Taking time out regularly is a critical business decision - it boosts our brain power, connects with the universe and shows us the way.
Authenticity
Posted on June 7, 2008
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I’ve just uploaded another video introducing a fellow r’evolutionary Lesley Everett on Rebel Island TV on the www.rebelisland.net website . Lesley speaks about discovering and promoting your authentic brand and by doing so raising your game and that of your business.
Authenticity is a very hard thing to manufacture - it has to be mined.
One has to look deep within oneself to find one’s inner compass and then learn to trust it. I’m a great advocate of the Insights Discovery psychometric tool which allows one to discover one’s preferred communication and personality style in a non-judgemental way. I use it for coaching and for team communications and find it both great fun for participants and a great way to establish an intuitive language for communication.
The report often presents us with two aspects of ourselves - our ‘unconscious self’ which is who we truly are and our ‘conscious or adaptive self’ - the person or the mask that we manufacture to operate in business.
How different would things be - and how much more powerful would we be in our communications and our relationships - if we truly had the courage to discover and live our natural selves. If we could be fearless and free - if we could release the rebel from the business suit.
Time Out
Posted on June 2, 2008
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Just had the most amazing weather this bank holiday weekend here in Dublin and lots of time for family. Interesting how the sun has such an effect on our natures. The sunlight releases more seratonin for the brain and raises awareness levels - that’s why it’s such an important resource when conducting training sessions - the more sunlight the better. Seems my teachers had it right when they brought us out onto the football pitches to do lessons on good days.
Time for family - to catch up, to laugh, to heal. Sunlight for the soul.
It’s no surprise then that people who take regular breaks are the most successful in business. They give their minds space and time to reflect and create, their bodies time to repair and their souls the chance to integrate.
Ready for the coming week!
