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Coaching & Mentoring Small and Medium-sized Business Owners to Succeed
BUT: Once talking, at some point or another they utter one or all three of the major concerns of the small business owner:
THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER’S 3 MAJOR CONCERNS
In 2009 we had an interesting conversation on the fin24.com portal where I blog on why banks lose so much money when investing in small businesses. Well, they really don’t understand the problems facing the small business person. (click here to see part of the debate).
I have put together a package that addresses the small business owner’s need for practical and and cost-effective advice. The package comprises three one hour sessions over a period of six weeks.
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First we address your main concern.
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Then we carefully analyse your productivity and pricing, and finally
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We look at areas where you can improve as leader and manager.
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Three reasons to get a business coach or mentor:
- You limit your risk because you have an objective sound board.
- Discover inefficiencies, learn to maximize productivity and increase profits.
- You get to strategize and plan in a structured way to overcome present and future obstacles.
A coach or mentor may help you avoid paying very expensive school fees. Says Christophe du Bois gourmet chef and restaurant consultant on on getting support:
“In the end you will spend the money, the only choice you have is whether to spend it wisely or foolishly.”
Read more on the wisdom of this remark. Choose to spend your money wisely! Don’t suffer regret afterwards. Two heads really are better than one!
SakeBeeld featured MindPilot as an entrepreneurial success story in April 2005. Read here (Afrikaans article). I had to reach demanding targets from day one. In the very week that I launched out on my own, my daughter enrolled at medical school for her first year. I had no margin for error.
Clockwise from top to bottom: Certificate for attending the Naspers- Harvard Strategy Program. Logo of Coaches and Mentors SA, I am a practitioner member since 2007. Certificate from The Centre for Coaching at the UCT Graduate School of Business.
Without exception my clients testify to the impact our sessions had on their businesses. These range from: “If it weren’t for you, I would have had lost my business,” to “You have really shown me the way forward.” Referrals on request.
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At the Solidarity Conference on Entrepreneurship I shared the stage with Mr Christo Wiese (Chairperson of Pepkor), Dr Johan van Zyl (CEO of Sanlam), Dr Steve Booysen (Ex CEO of Absa) and Dr Dawie Roodt (CEO of the Efficient Group). I presented on the challenges for businesses with less than 20 employees.
I am on the official vendor’s list for Sasol subsidiary, Chem City.
TOP 10 Business Blog of 2010
My blog “Read This!” on fin24.com, South Africa’s largest business and financial portal had been voted “Top 10” business blog in 2010. I have been blogging since May 2008. The purpose is to offer business people food for thought and expand the mind with bits of valuable information. Please click through (and don’t forget to leave a comment!).
My book: Don’t lose your pension, 8 questions you absolutely must ask your financial advisors originated from a discussion on the blog.
Don’t lose your pension was featured in January 2011 in Entrepreneur Magazine in their section on investment planning for entrepreneurs (p 52). Also read what Memeburn said.
TOOLS FOR MANAGERS: Download the booklet on motivation. Click on graphic.
