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 | Oct 20, 2021 | difficult conversations, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building, wellbeing
A few years ago, I was mentoring a CEO of a large multi-national firm in Sydney. He casually told me that he was making an underperforming staff member redundant. Their plan was to leave the position vacant for 6 months and then advertise the position under a revised... 
by John Drury | Sep 2, 2020 | Finishing Well, Leadership Articles, Personal Growth, Planning, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building, wellbeing
I have always been reasonably organised. I would write ‘to do’ lists from an early age. As a young adult, I was the organiser and leader of an 8-member band which became very busy. We even went fulltime for a year. I planned tours and made bookings and organised all... 
by John Drury | Mar 24, 2020 | Leadership Articles, Planning, Small Business, Team Building
How to Manage People…. Remotely The COVID-19 crisis is forcing many companies into an experiment with work from home (WFH) options for their staff. Figures from the US (Gallop) indicate that before this crisis, 43% of employees work from home, but on average just 2... 
by John Drury | Nov 8, 2019 | Leadership Articles, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building
One of the most basic needs of every human being is for security, or a sense of control. If we lose the sense that we have control over our lives, we start to feel powerless. Like a victim, our decisions and actions feel like they do not matter. We all seek control...
