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attracting, developing and retaining the right people for your business is a lot more like a chess game. Good strategy keeps you in the game against formidable odds.

Some time ago one of my leadership coaching clients asked me how managing change effectively would improve her business because she wanted improved profits.

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is used in organizations as a strategy to bring about continuous organizational change. It is a systematic approach for continually improving all processes that deliver products and services. These can be incremental improvement to processes over time or dramatic for more immediate changes. All processes are continually reviewed in terms of their efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility.

Thoughtful budgeting does result from thoughtful discussions and helps turn expectations into reality. When businesses don’t prepare an annual budget and wonder why reality doesn’t meet their expectations, it may be time to take a second look at the benefits of small business budgeting.

This is the time of the year where most people have moments of nostalgia; we look back on the past with Rose Tinted glasses and reminisce about the good old days, phrases such as ‘no school like the old school’ and ‘they were the good old days’ float around.

There are learnings from all services projects that a business delivers to its clients. These learnings need to be taken and applied to all future projects to enhance project profitability and quality of delivery.

…The emperor, who used to call himself the first public servant of his state, once said: “One must work until one drops from exhaustion!”. I couldn’t stop thinking about all the people in business that unfortunately follow Franz Joseph’s advice..

The sudden cold spell most of us are currently experiencing can come as quite a shock, one day we have normal autumn weather and suddenly its freezing cold with snow…

The small business owner (or free-lancer) is often the sole person responsible for time management, tasks, projects, deadlines, paperwork and what seems like five million other responsibilities that can have a tendency…

So how do you balance your work and ultimately your career when you start a new family?

I am keen to hear your thoughts, as I find this can be a tricky balancing act! Here is my typical day and how I am attempting to do it!