Posts Tagged ‘Learning’
Are You Coachable?
Being coachable, whether you are a top executive, a middle manager, a front line sales manager, or an individual contributor is critical to your success. To grow and develop, to improve our abilities to achieve our goals and results, we have to be constantly learning and developing. Having others providing feedback, coaching, helping us think…
Read MoreAn Experienced Coach Has Seen Your Movie Before
Business coaches come in all sizes and shapes. Entrepreneurs will have a relative willing to devote time, a school friend with business experience, professionals who charge for the service, investors with a reason to promote your success and more. But by far the best coaches are those that have lived through the process you’re going…
Read MoreTake These 3 Funding Myths with a Grain of Salt
Funding your business isn’t difficult, but acting on poor advice makes the process unnecessarily challenging. Your friends and family will support your vision, but there’s no guarantee they understand what it takes to fund a business. To get funded, you need to distinguish the difference between encouragement and business advice. Identifying encouragement vs. advice When…
Read More7 Things Wannabe Entrepreneurs Need to Know
What do entrepreneurs need to know as they get started? Of course there’s need to know, absolutely; and there’s ought to know. I was asked to come up with a list, and here is my best guess. Know the difference between cash and profits. You Think in Profits, but You Live on Cash.Things like sales on…
Read More3 Books That May Change How You See the World
In a world of instant gratification and get quick rich schemes, the activities that are worth doing are often forgotten or ignored. They are simple things like habits that produce change and results. The reality is that you may not notice because transformation creeps up on you. You practice or perform your routine one day…
Read MoreDon’t Miss Out at Events!
Personal development is important no matter what line of business you are in or what position you fill in that business. Going to conferences and networking functions helps to keep you on the cutting edge of what is happening in your sector. But sometimes, especially if you run a small business, you may find it…
Read MoreWant to Change the World? Read These 7 Books
There is nothing easy about trying to make real change in the world. Furthermore — there’s nothing easy about changing your career, following your dreams, starting a small business, or even simply admitting to yourself that it’s time to start something new. While it all sounds as simple as a decision inspired by a motivational bumper-sticker, the actual…
Read More5 Easy Steps to Become an Expert in Your Field
One thing usually keeps people from branding themselves as an expert: they think they need a fancy degree or else nobody is going to want to hear what they say. In the entrepreneurship world, you don’t need 30 years of experience or a certificate to give a talk or write a book, you just need…
Read MoreCould Your Business Writing Use Work? 5 Tips for Brushing Up
When was the last time you thought about how you come across in your writing? Communication is key, but much of the time, you’re probably talking to colleagues face-to-face or over the phone. However, that doesn’t mean that written communication isn’t important, particularly since many teams now use chat applications like slack or HipChat for…
Read MoreWhat We Learned from Losing Clients
At Seer, we’re the first to admit that we aren’t perfect. While we strive to be better partners to our clients every day, we know that no matter how good we get at retention, losing clients is just the nature of being in the business. When we do lose clients, regardless of our ability to…
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