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The Secrets to Hiring a Great Executive Coach

A quality executive coach can be invaluable, helping you to overcome obstacles, develop leadership skills or get over a career plateau. However, with many coaches to choose from, selecting the right coach may seem confusing. Use these secrets to ensure you hire a great executive coach that will provide you with a great return on...
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7 Ways to Jumpstart Your Business

Have you finally decided to open your own business? This can be an exciting time. However, it can also be an overwhelming time for you as there are so many details to figure out to make sure your business is off to a good start.  Below you will discover 7 ways to jumpstart your business...
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5 Secrets Successful CEOs Don’t Want You to Know

Achieving success as a CEO doesn’t just happen by chance. Successful CEOs have some things in common. Of course, while there’s no list of secrets that will guarantee your success, you can do certain things that increase your chance of being successful as a CEO. Here are five secrets that successful CEOs don’t want you...
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5 reasons why your business may fail in 2017

Based on the research conducted by the magazine called Dun & Bradstreet, approximately 33% of all the businesses that are started fail within a period of just six months. Approximately 50% of all new businesses experience failure within the first 24 months of operation. Then, a total of 75% of businesses fail in 36 months....
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Women Repeating The Past

Women Repeating The Past. Despina Melas Fergusson General Manager B.A.C.U.P. the Future Pty Ltd t/a Executive Coaching Sydney. We live in a business world where repeating the past is a natural art form for at least 90% of women and men. We seem to be wired to a universal brain that won’t let us...
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Why Women - Leading In Business

Why Women - Leading In Business.  John R Fergusson. Monopolies are very hard to break once they are formed. It is a fact that in most cultures, patriarchal dominance is a very powerful monopoly and auto-dictates the business culture of society. Its natural spontaneous authoritarian defence of itself as the stronger leading/conquering gender is the precursor to...
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The Inherent Power of Women in Business

The Inherent Power of Women in Business.  Noelle Harb Master Life Coach and NLP Practitioner.   I recently watched the movie ‘9 to 5′, an old 80’s classic starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and depicts Dolly Parton’s character, where she suffers constant unwanted sexual harassment from her boss (Hart), who has managed...
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How Executive Coaching Can Help a CEO

Collaboration requires of you to work together with the rest of your team towards a common end goal. Your primary goal should therefore be not to operate as a ‘Lone CEO Ranger’, but to look for ways to accomplish business success, and doing so collaboratively. But why can you not just work alone, and still...
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Consulting with Executive Coaches

You may have considered going with reputable outside sources to help turn your business around while the market is weak. If that is the case, then we want to congratulate you for steering in the right direction. Professional executive coaching will ensure you get results. After all, you need to up your game if you...
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How Executive Coaching can improve your life

As we are only human, we all try to avoid conflict and remove a sense of awkwardness by not telling the truth when our friends ask us for our honest opinion. This is especially the case if you are not doing well in your business and prompt your good friends on their opinion as to...
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Executive Coaching for Sydney - Positions in Protective Custody

What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘pioneer’? It may or may not come as a surprise to learn that they are the first ones to open up new ideas or thought processes. On the other hand a follower is someone who looks up to either a leader or manager to show them...
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How to know when your board and executive team need to be changed

You cannot hope to change your organisational culture if you have no idea where you want to see yourselves within the next year or two, or what particular elements within your company need to change. It is like the Australian national airline (Qantas) who finally decided it was time for change, and created a new...
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Executive Coaching is not an Option

A prominent business owner found a way to turn things around for his company. He went to the trouble of enlisting the services of executive coaching and consulting specialists who helped him design a coaching program that soon got him 14 clients in as little as a few weeks. The coaching team managed to put...
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A wise and compelling Executive Coach

Working with a wise and compelling executive coach is definitely in your best interest as they will assist you to produce the change and results you are after, in your life, business, and relationships. Not only will this deepen your learning and enhance the quality of your life, but it will also improve the performance...
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2017 the year for Executive Coaching

Companies have to move quickly in order to meet various market requirements and respond to changing global conditions to not get left behind as the competition might be one up on them. Business owners have come to the realisation that they need external assistance as they simply do not have the time needed to communicate...
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What Will You Do - Peak Performance?

What will you do after you have reached your “peak performance” and can’t do more without creating great stress for yourself and maybe those around you?  Do you think it is right that we should expect, indeed even compel each other to become better, faster, more clever, more competent on a perpetual basis as a...
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Keeping Your Purpose - Or Die

Keeping your purpose and the focus of that purpose as the centre of analysis, will reveal the boundaries (both the inner and outer) in the current operations of your business.  It will also expose those areas which need more knowledge, understanding, wisdom, energy and effort, providing the pathway to successional learning, which will give you...
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Cycle Analysis - What most Ignore

Cycle analysis covers business type, vision, mission, values, structure, systems, culture, people, positions, control, markets, margins, debt, profit, times/seasons, finance, worldview, growth, benchmarks, future innovation, enemies, strategies, weaknesses, strengths, uniques, niches, force/power, domination, realm, rule, reign, challenges, resourcefulness, resources, to name a few of the most important areas of business executives must be fully accounting...
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Success Is Static And Relative

Success is completion of a planned journey, of reaching a milestone, of completing a course, of winning a race, of reaching a specified goal, of overcoming sickness, of surviving against all odds, of being successfully revived from drowning or a heart attack.  So we see clearly that success is definitive, relative and static, that is,...
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A Loaded Gun

There is nothing more motivating than a loaded gun held to the head.  It is the fastest way to get a decision for both – usually from the one who is under its threat, for the one who is holding the gun.  There are many loaded guns (means) used in business to obtain specific results....
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Ruling & Controlling is Dynamic and Infinitive

You don’t Rule & Control because you are successful! You are successful because you Rule & Control!  It is the Ruling & Controlling that people don’t get, or won’t, or can’t do and so success is limited, arbitrary, ad-hock and for many uneducated minds, luck. Success is a Result!  It can never be a Goal. ...
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Success is a Prison - Don't Go There