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Meet the entrepreneur 7: Measuring performance

by Neale Roberts | Mar 14, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience, Inspiration

“What gets measured, gets done!” The principle is simple: If you can quantify something, you can immediately measure whether progress has been made. We know that entrepreneurs by nature are not the best managers, mainly because they’re ‘action people’ who are driven...

Meet the entrepreneur 6: Communication

by Neale Roberts | Mar 7, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience, Inspiration

Communication has been cited as the biggest problem in South African companies. But surely the smaller the company, the easier the communication? It would make sense that since we all talk to each other daily, that we would know how to communicate, but this is rarely...

Meet the entrepreneur 5: Favouritism in small businesses

by Neale Roberts | Feb 29, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience, Inspiration

“It’s not what you know, but who you know” Nepotism and favouritism are significant issues in most small companies. These seem to be accentuated in the entrepreneurial sphere, where either family and friends are employed because the entrepreneur knows and trusts them,...

Meet the entrepreneur 4: Accountability

by Neale Roberts | Feb 22, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience, Inspiration

Accountability is something that tends to come naturally to the entrepreneur in his or her own business. However, to implement a culture of accountability is not so easy. The main reason is because the entrepreneur owns and runs the business – everything is his...

The five habits of successful people

by Neale Roberts | Feb 18, 2016 | Being Human

They say that it takes 21 days to form a new habit, and just two days of not doing something for a habit to be lost. That sounds like quite a bit of hard work! The truth is though that there are certain habits that are worth forming, and worth working on, because the...

Meet the entrepreneur 3: Delegation

by Neale Roberts | Feb 16, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience

Passion and drive are key characteristics that enthuse the entrepreneur. Usually the business owner starts off by themselves, or with a partner, taking care of every aspect of the business – from marketing to tea making, from finance to floor sweeping. This is...

Meet the entrepreneur 2: The need for processes

by Neale Roberts | Feb 8, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience

In order to start a business there needs to be a spark of creativity. An innovator, maverick or unique thinker who has the capacity to see things in a way that others just don’t. This talent is rare and admired. This is the entrepreneur. One of the greatest issues...

Meet the entrepreneur: Employee motivation

by Neale Roberts | Feb 1, 2016 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Entrepreneur, Experience

The entrepreneur, by nature, is a highly enthusiastic and energetic individual. This person normally has an exceptional passion for his or her business with an incredible drive to ensure their business’ success. Their passion and drive often seems endless and...

10 pieces of career advice you’ve never heard before

by Neale Roberts | Jan 26, 2016 | Being Human, Competence, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Management

Career advice is one of the most critical areas for you to consider, because the wrong advice can launch you into years, or even a lifetime, of misery. Here are our top 10 pieces of advice gleaned from years of experience watching and listening to those who made their...

Failure and how to recover from it

by Neale Roberts | Jan 18, 2016 | Being Human

Often we are advised to just pick ourselves up when we’ve fallen down. It’s easy to say, simple to understand, but can be almost impossible to do when it’s you who has fallen.! The greatest approach to overcoming failure to have the mindset that failure isn’t...