In this guest article by Jan Bowen-Nielsen we look at how a business coach can help you develop a successful growth strategy. Untapped potential Are you seeing some great unfulfilled growth potential for your business, but struggling to realise it? Is your team pulling in different directions and not prioritising their efforts well? Are you […]
Continue reading95. How to motivate and retain key staff
Setting the Scene When business owners are asked if they intend to bring key staff into the company shareholding fold, the response is often along the lines of: “No, I was going to see them right when the deal gets done.” This response is wrong, or at least short-sighted, on several levels. A business with […]
Continue reading94. The differences between AI and machine learning and VR and AR?
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is often defined as the ability to make computers do things that require a degree of intelligence when done by humans. And machines that work and react like humans is the aspiration. So, if we can teach a machine to do something by entering data, the machine can predict characteristics of a […]
Continue reading93. GDPR – what is it and why should you be taking steps to learn more?
What is it? GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – is an EU regulation that applies automatically to all UK businesses and those companies must be GDPR-compliant by 25th May 2018. And, no, Brexit won’t stop their implementation. The drivers behind setting up a more robust data protection environment are found in the increasing misuse of […]
Continue reading92. Should May Stay or Should May Go?
Well, what an intriguing last few days we have had! On Friday, 9th June, a hung parliament was confirmed; the British people had spoken and had given Prime Minister Theresa May a resounding raspberry. And despite her gamble backfiring – in no small part to a woefully run and poorly advised campaign – she blundered […]
Continue reading91. Solving the currency conundrum
It is tough to predict and anticipate currency fluctuations at the best of times, but the events of 2017 so far have arguably rendered attempts even more difficult. Indeed, at the start of the year, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America, Marine Le Pen got to the […]
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Tectona was asked by The Business Magazine to take part in one of their insightful sessions called “Taking the Temperature” focusing on key issues affecting small and medium size business. The Panel were asked to consider three issues – or Exam Questions: The chief concerns affecting us all Heathrow expansion Gender pay gap legislation Exam […]
Continue reading89. What Is A “Pivotal Moment” – And What Might It Mean For You?
Whatever stage of growth or maturity of your business you will at some point experience what we might call “pivotal moments”. Typically, signing a substantial new contract, taking on a new shareholder, opening a new facility – exciting and all potentially taking your business in a new direction. But one such moment which does not […]
Continue reading88. Are you squarely in your Comfort Zone?
First, I do not do holidays! That said, I was fortunate enough to recently spend 2 weeks totally outside my comfort zone. Not in a business context – although there are a huge number of lessons to be learnt, I am sure – but on a “working” holiday with my brother in Indonesia. Now, this […]
Continue reading87. How the Tectona Way can save you money when recruiting senior staff
In an earlier article we looked at alternative approaches for getting specialist director resource into your business rather than defaulting to the traditional approach of employing a full time director – we called this “The Tectona Way”. The traditional approach A full time specialist director is right for some businesses – those of a certain […]
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