working practices

How to set effective goals

There are many ways to set goals.  When you are growing a business it helps to keep it simple. These are our goal setting tips: Pick a single goal Reduce the goal to be achievable in 30 days Use the rule of 20. i.e. do 20 actions to reach goal Post the goal and your [...]

What is the economic reality?

The UK’s economy suffered a slight contraction of 0.5% in the last three months of 2010, figures have shown. This was reported by the BBC website as a “shock contraction” and the BBC’s economics editor Stephanie Flanders said “people were right to worry about where the UK’s growth would come from in 2011, especially as [...]

Socially acceptable.

I was interviewed recently by an academic group from Yonsei University in Korea who are working on a project for the Work Together Foundation. They are researching social enterprise in the UK in order to report back to Korea and help better establish a third sector. I coach a number of social entrepreneurs and so [...]