We're given all sorts of messages about how to be perfect leaders and managers. When a small business owner is unclear about...
Elli St.George Godfrey
Elli St.George Godfrey coaches leaders and managers of small enterprises with her proprietary 3 Keys process to use their abilities and build on success to propel their businesses and personal growth. By integrating coaching with metrics to show results in the bottom line and in each person, her clients feel confident in identifying and developing strategies to be more effective leaders, plan more creatively, innovate, and overcome the fears and obstacles that interfere with building thriving businesses.
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What Is a Real Business Owner? Part 1
by on July 28th, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Category: Business expansion, Start-ups, marketing
Tags: bad messages, lack of focus, overwhelmed, small business owners
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I Can See Clearly Now...
by on July 6th, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Category: Business expansion
Tags: business, Can-Do attitude, emotions, resiliency, small business, small business owners
Did you start the new year with bright shiny plans and a Can-Do Attitude? Everywhere you look are references to how the outlook is poor or changing at an obscenely slow pace...
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Engaging in Conversation? W.A.I.T.
by on June 17th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Category: customer service
Tags: business, business owners, communication, conversation, listening, W.A.I.T.
Such a simple acronym with such a punch! Ever had one of those moments when you know you are going on and on and you can't stop yourself?
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Is Your Business a Microclimate?
by on May 7th, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Category: Business expansion
Tags: business, business as microclimate, business owners, microclimate
Businesses which are more fertile microclimates are less vulnerable to the "weather" of the economy or other market variations. Their managers and leaders do certain things that make it possible to...
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Taking the Irreversible Step
by on March 17th, 2010 | 26 Comments »
Category: Business expansion, SugarTone
Tags: business, business development, business vision, decision, decision making, SugarTone
Decision point. We know that having a vision for your organisation is more than a fantasy of what the business could be. This is scary stuff to act on our desires. It sounds so grandiose...
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Do you feel as if the momentum you started with at the new year is slipping away? Are you an [...]
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Failure, Success, and Can-Do Attitude
by on February 25th, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Category: Business expansion
Tags: attitudes, beliefs, business, Can-Do attitude, entrepreneur, Michael O'Leary, Ryanair
What is in your philosophical soup? Not only are there national ideas about failure and success but there are class definitions and family definitions...
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Finding Your "Can-Do" Attitude
by on February 16th, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Category: Business expansion
Tags: attitude, business, Can-Do, entrepreneur
One of the most pervasive themes in American thought comes out of the pioneering spirit that settled and built a nation. It's the "Can-Do" attitude. It's really not unique to America though.
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Tired of last minute rushes to get things done? Wonder why you seem to lose things or forget where you [...]
One of the top ten skills needed to be an effective leader is managing change. The day-to-day operations command our attention but this can become the death spiral of our small businesses.
