by John Drury | Mar 27, 2025 | Leadership Articles, Planning, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building
Working as a Business Mentor for the past 15 years, I have noticed a lot of business owners start to drift off track by the end of March. After the Christmas/New Year holiday break, most have clarity about their goals and are able to implement some basic plans at the...
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...
