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In last month’s blog (Leadership – Part 1), I identified four key traits great leaders possess; Authenticity, Empathy, Vision, and Resilience. My source of reference is from the book ‘Great Ted Talks – Leadership’ by Harriet Minter.  As with the previous blog, I have ended each section with questions so you use as a planning tool for guiding your business..  This blog addresses: Strategy, Collaboration, and Accountability. Strategy- Whether you have one employee or a team, as leader

LEADERSHIP -Part 1 For this newsletter, I turned to ‘Great Ted Talks – Leadership’ by Harriet Minter. In it, I identified four key traits that great leaders possess; Authenticity, Empathy, Vision and Resilience. My suggestion is you treat this as a workbook and use it as a planning tool for your upcoming year. The questions following will guide you in this process. Some of you may be leading teams,

This is a question that is frequently raised in our ASE meetings. Whether in business or in life in general, I feel that ability to convince and persuade, is a most important differentiator between success and failure. We all inadvertently sell. Many conversations opinions and assessments we engage in, are selling statements. Some have opined that the ability to communicate and connect is probably one of the most important

Whether you are a new business entrepreneur or you are a veteran business owner, whether you understand marketing strategy intuitively or have addressed it intellectually in the past, it is important to have another deep analysis of who and what is the target market you are approaching. Every business needs to promote their business, but it is important to have the marketing strategy, down and detailed, before even considering

Dear Friends, clients and future clients, Over the years we have enjoyed presenting our newsletter to you and are always happy to hear that you are enjoying the content. It has been a great pleasure for us to help so many of you with so many aspects of your business over the years in our focused meetings. We are reaching out to say that we have ‘covidly’ transitioned to

I remember the days when business life was simple, everything was manual and computers didn’t exist. In reality it was not that long ago. History indicates that in 1951 the first general purpose computer for businesses came into play. Since that time computers have evolved to be in every part of everyday life. IT used to be the glass house where nerds would write and test complicated programs based

If you could save both time and money in acquiring clients, would you be interested? And if this marketing strategy resulted in a higher retention rate of clients would you implement it? It’s known as ‘Referral Marketing’ or word of mouth marketing. Most businesses have not developed a formal referral system. An ad hoc approach is most frequently used and then abandoned because of lack luster results. According to

LEGISLATIVE CHANGES IN ONTARIO LIMIT THE USE OF NON-COMPETE PROVISIONS IN EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS The Province of Ontario has passed an amendment to the Employment Standards Act (ESA), effective December 2, 2021, which limits the use of non-compete clauses in employment agreements in the province. Historically non-compete clauses have been inserted by employers in employment contracts to attempt to prohibit a departing employee from engaging in a business in competition