Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

“it helps to detach yourselves from day-to-day business operations and focus on what is needed.”
Carol Metcalfe
Period House Group

“an invaluable tool for any company owner/director to help understand and focus on the next steps to take”
Mark Viney
VH Maintenance Ltd

“As owners and directors of our company, we made the decision some months ago to take stock and involve some external support regarding growth.
Whilst we  were reasonably aware in our own minds where we intended to take the company, we had no specific “game plan”. We approached Lisa Smedley at Business Pathfinders and through “one-to-one” [...]

“I enagaged Lisa’s services after hearing about how she covers not only day-to-day accounting services, but also provides detailed strategic reviews to help a business identify its goals and alternative paths towards them. I was immediately impressed by the speed with which Lisa understood the fundamentals of my business and identified the key drivers.
As a [...]

“a great deal of food for thought and enthusiasm and content were exceptional”
Rachel Hatton
Logic Office Group

“I recently attended a Business Pathfinders Workshop run by Lisa Smedley.
The session was delivered in a fun and interactive way that made the learning easy. Lisa managed to bring the subject to life, making it easy to understand how it could be applied in a business setting. I am now able to use this knowledge [...]

“I just wanted to send you a quick e-mail expressing my gratitude at the help you have given us.  I know where I want We Love Sleep to go, but you have helped me develop a strategy to make that happen and have helped me overcome obstacles to making this happen, [...]

What shall I do with this?
The starting point for prioritizing your workload and planning what needs to be done should start with this simple question…
What shall I do with this?
And there really are only 4 answers:
Do It – This is the really important and urgent stuff
Dump It – This is neither important nor urgent
Defer It [...]

Top Ten Time Management Tips
I’ve decided to follow up the previous article with my top 10 tips on time-management taken from “The 25 best time management tools and techniques” (Pamela Dodd and Doug Sundheim)
These tips will not only save you time but will also increase your productivity and your personal and business development. There are [...]

Time is the scarcest resource.

If you were to ask ten small business owners what they wanted more of (besides money) I would put my house on all ten saying time. This article will show you how to snatch back some precious time by showing you how to work more effectively.
Try [...]