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It’s Lonely at the top!
- Are you overworked?
- Are you and your team not working together?
- Are you spending too much time on doing and not enough planning?
- Have you reached a plateau and want to get off it
Being an Owner and/or Managing Director of a Small to Medium sized company is difficult - very difficult. Everything depends on you and even though you may have partners it’s not always easy to talk things through. Also being skilful at everything is just not possible.
What you need is a Mentor?
Someone who can provide
- Unbiased experience and high calibre support
- Robust challenges to thinking and activity – asking BDQ’s – Bloody Difficult Questions
- A reality check with an opportunity to air doubts, concerns, problems and get them resolved
- Pressure to focus on key issues (MD’s and managers tend to avoid difficult situations and challenges)
SM Mentors can provide you this Director level resource to help you realise the goals and objectives you desperately want to achieve for your business and your personal life.
A FEW USEFUL LINKS
“Nicholas has helped me and my board to transform the business and has helped us focus on the key issues necessary to manage and drive the business forward” Victor Rawlinson – MD David Howard Group
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BUSINESS TIPS
- Understanding the Market
- Keeping you and your clients positive
- Putting the past behind you
- The Wonder & Secrets of Networking
- A real experience
- Treasuring the Treasure
- How many no's before you get a yes ?
- Admitting one's own mistakes
- Are you Drowning or Swimming ?
- Gie us the Gift
- It's here and what will it bring ?
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Archive 2008
- Selecting the Right Candidate
- Economy, Economy, Economy
- Spinning Heads
- Brighter Future
- Holidays Love them or Hate them ?
- Poacher turned Gamekeeper
- Communication
- Nicholas Spoke and he wants to speak more!
- What's Worse ?
- Blue Coats White Coats
- Nicholas Speaks
- Refreshing Oneself & One's Business
- Positive Feedback
- Putting Yourself in Danger !
- Giving Yourself Permission
- Pride is a good thing
- New Year, New Skills
- Energising Your Business
- Fate, Luck or Hard Work?
- New Networking Group
- Herts Chamber News
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Archive 2007
- CashFlow, Cash Flow, Cash Flow
- Time for Reflection
- Newly elected Director of the Herts Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Mind the Gap
- Expert Support
- In My Good Books
- What Dance are you Doing?
- Change or Die
- A New Season
- Family Business
- The Dead Days of August
- Family Holiday
- How Dependent are You?
- Recruitment, Recruitment, Recruitment
- Business Best Price
- Benefit of Exhibitions
- Times are Tough
- Job Interview Coaching
- Fears
- Supervisor
- Woolly Thinking
- Just a Talking Shop
- Football Update
- PRL & SM Mentors
- Herts County Cup Final
- Mentoring Matters & Ideas
- Personal V Business
- Denial / Avoidance
- A Fresh Start for the New Year
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Archive 2006
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ARTICLES
- Taking a different route
- Knowing When to Sell ?
- Swine Flu - Business Continuity & Communication
- Swine Flu - Suggested Email
- Don't Panic Don't Panic
- Succeeding in spite of, not because of
- Mentoring to remove the barriers to your success
- A positive approach to the Credit Crunch
- Are you Drowning or swimming ?
- Who is in control of your business ?
- Building Windmills
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Archive 2008
- People, People, People
- Arctic Lessons in Leadership
- Lead a horse to water
- Love or Hate Customers
- Surviving the Downturn
- Trapped
- So what makes me and SM Mentors different ?
- Do you have to be lucky to be successful ?
- Management and Mentoring with Congruence
- Management and Mentoring with Empathy
- Management and Mentoring with Unconditional Positive Reguard
- Change Matters
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Archive 2007
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Archive 2006