by John Drury | Jun 6, 2022 | Group Mentoring, Leadership Articles, Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building, wellbeing
A sales trainer I once knew loved to take his clients away for a week’s bootcamp in a nice location and teach them to make high end B2B sales over the phone. He would boast at the end of the week how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales were ‘done’. I know... 
by John Drury | May 5, 2022 | Group Mentoring, Planning, Small Business, Team Building
A fresh challenge During the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 I have been busy. Firstly, beating off a nasty little cancerous growth in and around the muscle tissue of my bladder. I’m very grateful that surgery in February 2020 was very successful. Three check-ups... 
by John Drury | Nov 30, 2021 | Finishing Well, Group Mentoring, Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Small Business, values, wellbeing
You know you are too busy when you do not feel like you have time to think. It is vital to be regularly reflecting on your business. Ideally, you need to carve out some thinking time every week. I strongly urge you to take at least half a day once a quarter (4 times a... 
by John Drury | Jul 7, 2020 | Finishing Well, Group Mentoring, Leadership Articles, Self Leadership, Small Business, wellbeing
Why business owners need to be skilled short-term AND long-term thinkers I was a bit shocked recently when a friend told me he had drawn down $10,000 from his super. This opportunity has been made possible as a short-term measure under provisions allowed by the... 
by John Drury | Nov 21, 2018 | Group Mentoring, Planning, Small Business
I launched my first Group Mentoring Program in 2018. Three very genial male business owners joined the program and we had a great year together. The program was based around the top 10 Small Business Essentials that I have learned MUST be in the foundations of a small... 
by John Drury | Nov 20, 2018 | Group Mentoring, Personal Growth, Small Business
Who makes a good business mentor? A mentor is someone who has experienced business success related to whatever endeavour you are undertaking. They will have reflected upon their experience, their successes and failures, in such a way that they have developed the...
