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Chris Kaday - Business coach and mentor
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Stimulating thoughts and ideas from a top business coach and mentor
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You can make money and have fun too
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The difference between sales and profit
Imagine my surprise when reading the Evening Standard on the way home yesterday to read a headline on the front page ?John Lewis feels the pinch as sales fall be a third.? Goodness there must be one hell of a sale coming up I thought. I know the credit crunch is bad but [...]
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Plan your work and work your plan
As a business coach I am more about motivating action than generating ideas. I find my clients have ideas aplenty and although I certainly add more, it is getting them to do what they say they will which is the real challenge. It is not as if we don?t know what we need [...]
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Courtesy and the credit crunch
I have a very good friend who is a recognised artist. We communicate virtually every day on email and this week he is to have a one man show. As it is quite a way out of London we have decided to make a little holiday of the trip. I rang the [...]
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Acknowledgement ? don?t forget to do it
Our next door neighbour used to own a pub in the local village. It was a legend in the area and apparently even people from Spain came to our rural Somerset to sample her paella. She was reminiscing over a cup of tea last week and wondered if she should throw some of [...]
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Price before proposal
I was given a good reminder on responding to proposals today which I thought I would share. I am looking for a web designer for one of my clients with a well written brief, so it is very clear what we want. One company has responded with a short email giving the project [...]
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Business success ? ?mind set? or money?
The more business owners I meet, the more convinced I am that ?mind set? not money is the key ingredient for building thriving companies. It is the resourceful, ?can do?, fearless, capable, decisive, organised, realistic, empathetic, effective people who create successful businesses, more often than not from zero or near zero capital. There are others [...]
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Desperate for change? Maybe you need to accept or adjust?
At this time of year we can often feel dissatisfied with life. The job is getting you down, your partner or your family is driving you mad, the house is in the wrong place, the car too slow. In fact nothing seems to satisfy you.
Of course wholesale change can be really liberating. However, learning to [...]
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Starting a business ? too fearful?
A survey by Orange of 2500 UK adults found that four out of ten would be entrepreneurs were too sacred of failure to pursue their business idea. Now there is an interesting topic for a blustery Wednesday morning.
Some have commented that these would-be entrepreneurs should be encouraged to take the essential step from idea into [...]
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Accept who you are right now
Ann Widdecombe has decided to stand down as an MP at the next general election, whenever that may be. Whatever your political persuasion, one must surely agree that the redoubtable lady has certainly made an impact. But it is her acceptance of who she is which has inspired me today. She once said of herself: [...]
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