Business Coaching Secrets to Groom Your Key Employees to Perform at Their Best

How do you best develop the talent of your current team?  How do you groom a direct report to take on new responsibilities?  How do you grow your employees so that they can start scaling your business with you? The secret ingredient is for you to coach and grow your team, and here are five…

3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Creating Your 1-Page Quarterly Action Plan

As important as it is to have a big picture vision for how you plan to grow and scale your business, it’s equally important to bring that broader vision back to the level practical execution. And that’s where the one-page quarterly plan of action is so effective.  These rolling 90-day action plans are powerful tools…

New Study Shows You’re Wasting 21.8 hours a Week

My business coaching firm launched a comprehensive study on time management. We interviewed and surveyed small business owners and their key executives in order to learn how they spend their time and, particularly, where their time gets wasted. We began this investigation because we kept hearing the same concern over and over again. My business…

12 Evernote Hacks To Save you Time, Money, and Aggravation

As a business coach, I’m always looking for new strategies to help people and businesses become more effective and more efficient. Usually, I focus on things like leadership and marketing tactics. But, in this article, I want to tell you about a productivity app called Evernote that’s helped me radically reinvent the way I work….

Use This Little-Known Delegation Trick to Get Stuff Done the Right Way

I’ve been coaching business owners for more than twenty years, helping business owners grow their companies and at the same time, reducing their companies’ reliance on them. When it comes to scaling their businesses, one of the biggest challenges that I see business leaders struggle with is the mechanics of  delegating effectively. When you’re delegating, it’s…

How a Little-Known Idea from a 1937 Best Seller Can Give You a Secret Edge in Your Business, Finances, and Life

Mastermind groups can help you grow both your business and yourself. But when a group settles into a routine, it can sometimes lose its effectiveness. That’s why I want to share five ways that you can breathe new life into your mastermind group. Napoleon Hill introduced the idea of the mastermind group back in 1937…

4 Ways to Increase Your Conversion Rate by 10-25% without Spending Any More Money

Think about how much money you spend on marketing. Then think about your current conversion rate. Maybe you’re converting 3 percent of leads? Or 12 percent? Now imagine that you could use a simple technique increase your conversion rate by 10 to 25 percent. Wouldn’t you want to do that? Of course you would. The…

6 Leadership Lessons from Top CEOs

Leadership grows businesses. It empowers teams to take on more responsibilities and deliver results.  In fact, the best leaders are those that train their teams to function without them. Having worked with thousands of business coaching clients, I can say with certainty that the mark of great leadership is the ability to delegate. Nearly all…