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Running any business alone can be self-fulfilling for every entrepreneur but equally as tough and impossible to successfully manage. With this in mind, hiring a business coach is always a smart move because the opinion of an expert enables and facilitates businesses to reach their full potential. The business coaching industry in the US has grown in recent decades to a worth of over $12 billion highlighting its impact and the need to find the best business coach for your business so as to unlock maximum potential.Even the best business coaches require the services of other business coaches to effectively understand, explore and take advantage of the many specifics in their individual business set ups.Hiring a qualified coach can improve leadership and facilitate expansion in domains of fun
Read MoreWhat is Action Learning?What is the last class or training you can remember taking? Did it happen to be a lecture that made you feel drained afterward? Well, action learning is a tool that instructors can use to create an energizing training or class for participants.Action learning techniques can be used individually, as a team, in a small group setting, or within an organization. Action learning can be conducted one on one, in person at a physical location, or online. Using this method of teaching can aid in the education of an individual because it uses audio, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile learning styles to develop successful strategies.What are the key elements of Action Learning?The Key elements of action learning can be a combination of any or all of the items listed below:a. Pro
Read MoreFor deciding the user segment or target market for an app, the only thing needed is knowing all the pain points of the mobile users. A mobile app's key touchpoint is its ability to influence brand interactions, level up the UX (User Experience) and increase customer satisfaction. But, how to ensure that the app you are getting for your business will hit the right users? Does it accompany all the features that users needed desperately? There are many things you should know well to make sure that your app is grasping the right audience or right opportunities in the market. The only way to get that is by knowing the emotions playing in the minds of the users and striking the right chord.The following section explains to you how to know about users' sentiments and then build an app that resona
Read MoreMy passions have always been gardening and painting. The two seem to go together and this was born out when starting a business in landscaping. It was natural to paint a picture of the finished design in my head. This led me to undertake counselling for those who could not imagine what a garden should look like. My long-standing interest in the outdoors held me in good stead as my little fingers were always in dirt from the time I could toddle.Once advertising started and my first consulting job came to me it led to other things. The lady was so impressed with what she was offered that she paid me $400 to draw a plan of it. This was something right up my ally.Putting my imagination to work the plan was a great success and before long there were some 2-3 per week along with consulting jobs.
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There is a real difference between how an internal corporate curriculum designer and an external design consultant can receive and incorporate feedback from document reviewers.An internal curriculum designer (ICD) can set deadlines for responses and reasonably expect the deadlines to be met. The ICD can specify and limit the type of feedback to corrections and suggestions. The ICD can use a corporate calendar to schedule a meeting to discuss any additional information or clarification that is needed.It doesn't work that way for an external design consultant (EDC). The EDC is contracted to create new curriculum and/or revise existing curriculum. In either case, the EDC must rely on technical subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide the necessary reference materials.The EDC may be under a st
Read MoreThe battle to save the planet begins with each individual. You matter. Your actions, habits, and general attitude combined with that of others will help reduce waste and carbon emissions, and in the long-term will help reverse the devastating effects of pollution and climate change. To get the kind of planet we want to live on, we must change the way we think about everyday things.The throwing away of plastic bags is one of the most harmful things to the planet. The trillions of transactions that take place every minute of every day around the world tend to include the use of such bags. That adds up after a while, and the only way to dispose of such non-biodegradable material is to burn it or bury it. This is simply not sustainable, as the population of the world continues to increase and
Read MoreOn being a significant part of the economic success for most of the countries, these middle market companies are playing a major role in the revenue sector. But with the growing competition and unduly risks the major holders are finding it difficult to find a proper source for funding.Hence forth they have started to depend on a new source namely mezzanine financing, leaving the traditional methods behind that comes with higher interest rates. This mezzanine finance is developed by performing a significant change in the capital structure. And by doing this, the entrepreneurs are safe from providing the large collaterals which can risk them eventually. This new financing source which guarantees zero principal amortization ensures the holders with maximum cash flow and enables them to concen
Read MoreThis is a message for all of my colleagues out there who work in the area of professional development and training, consultancy, coaching and mentoring.As professionals and business owners our professional or industry knowledge is important. People expect us to know what we are talking about. They expect that we are someone they can trust to provide us with a service or product they want and to have all the required knowledge about it.Have you noticed, however, that it's not always the cleverest, the ones who've done the most training or got the most qualifications who are most successful?Once we became the preferred service provider solely on the basis of our industry experience or the fact that we were highly qualified. If you'd been in business for a long time or if you had multiple uni
Read MoreWhile organizations, should seek the best possible leadership, and the utmost involvement, from their leaders, and stakeholders, there are often times, when a particular project, activity, etc, necessitates, or indicates, using a qualified consultant! However, it's important to remember, all consultants are not created equal, nor possess the same skills, assets, attitude, abilities, or understanding/ empathy. Selecting the wrong individual, for your circumstances, often achieves little, constructive purpose, and is often, merely costly, and/ or mis - directed! We often, fail to evaluate and consider, whether someone, believes in themselves, and the value, they provide! Therefore, this article will briefly examine, and discuss, 4 keys, in terms of, considering, and evaluating, whether the c
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