Tag Archive: authenticity

What Does Honesty And Integrity Mean In Your Business?

One of the benefits that running your own business brings is the fact that you get to make all the decisions about everything, mostly. Which means you get to decide the what, when, how and who of all your important communication with customers, clients, prospects, employees, suppliers, contractors and anyone who has anything to do with ...

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Who Do You Listen To?

There's an interesting debate going on at one of the blogs I follow; some readers/commenters are questioning the creds of one of the contributors. Not in a particularly aggressive way but they're simply saying "Hey, what exactly is it that qualifies you to be advising thousands of other people on this topic?". It's a good question. This ...

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How Much Does Experience and Authenticity Count For These Days?

First of all I'll start with an admission...I never, ever thought I'd sound like one of those curmudgeonly old fuddy duddies who goes on about "in my day and age blah blah blah". In fact it pains me in some respects to even bring this up but I just can't keep it in and for my ...

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A Summary of Updates

Sorry it's been a while since I last posted...I never quite adjusted to the time zone in Dubai and being 4 hours ahead of the UK always felt like I was chasing my tail and needing to catch up with things. I guess that's what comes from spending most of last year behind and feeling ...

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How To Apologise

The one thing my Mum used to say I was totally rubbish at was apologising - but actually that was only to her (those closest to you and all that). Ironically, now that she's gone I think I'm actually far, far better at it than many people. I've had two experiences this year where misunderstandings, misinterpretations ...

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Are You Fighting Against Your Natural Strengths?

When it comes to running a business and the business of earning money, there are those who believe you should focus on improving your weaknesses so they can't be exploited by the competition and those who believe you should only work to your strengths and ignore the weaknesses. Where do you stand? The two schools of thought ...

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How To Treat People

Thanks to this website for these very important & inspiring lessons to remember for the beginning of your fabulous week... 1. First Important Lesson - "Know The Cleaning Lady" During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read ...

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Authentic Businesses

I use this word quite a bit with my clients "authentic" - encouraging them to be honest, authentic and 'real' people in their marketing & running of their business. And I've just read a blog post by one of my first coaches which has inspired this post and prompted me to write what ...

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