Provision of Neighbourhood Enterprise Talent Scouts and Neighbourhood-based Business Advisors

Another invitation to tender appeared today.  This time a council looking for the provision of Neighbourhood Enterprise Talent Scouts and Neighbourhood-based Business Advisors to work closely together in stimulating enterprise.
Talent and Business.  Business and Talent.  Is this REALLY what it is all about?  Or is it about frustration, unfulfilled potential, anger and possibility?
One thing I [...]

Reflecting for Effective Practice?

What percentage of your clients come back to you for further support?
What percentage do you just see once?
What percentage of your clients go on to open a business?
What percentage decide that enterprise is not for them?
What percentage decide that they want to run their own business – but decide that they can’t make THIS [...]

Enterprise Growth March Workshops

Interested in attending a workshop to explore how to make enterprise coaching work in practice?
Three new open workshop dates have just been organised in March.
Find out more, and book on-line, here.

Helping Does Not Help…

We need to stop being helpful.
Trying to be helpful and giving advice are really just ways to control others.
Advice is a conversation stopper…we should substitute curiosity for advice.
Do not tell people how you handled the same concern in the past.  Do not immediately offer the text book solution to the problem – unless you want [...]

Enterprise Evangelist or Enterprise Coach?

Enterprise Evangelist
Enterprise Coach

Entrepreneurship is a good thing – you should try it.
Entrepreneurship is neither good not bad.  For some people it is a wonderful life affirming experience.  For others an unmitigated disaster.

We can turn your ideas and dreams into reality.
You can make progress in getting the kind of life [...]

Paths to Prosperity

The Monitor Group is an international consulting firm founded by Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School.
They have just released an interesting report on entrepreneurship based on research conducted in 22 countries.
The report explores the different dimensions, including attitudes and policies, to encourage entrepreneurship.
I recommend a read – and please do share your thoughts!  [...]

Fulfilling Potential

Why do we obsess about fulfilling the potential of young people?
Clearly this is an important challenge – but what about the over 25s? Over 50s?
Perhaps we need a more genuine approach to developing the potential of people.
The language of ‘opportunities’ is different to the language of ‘potential’.
Potential is something innate to the individual. [...]

The Idea Obsession

Do you have a fantastic business idea?
Why do so many efforts to engage ‘would be’ entrepreneurs start with this question?
My ideal client would answer with a resounding ‘No!’ to this question.
I want clients to be hungry and passionate about trying something new- but they definitely do not have to have a fantastic business idea.
Or even [...]