Scale-up Specialist Exit Strategist 117 Acquisitions $5.2bn in Exits Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors, building high-value companies. Over the last decade, he has built, bought and sold 26 businesses with a combined valuation of $5.2 billion dollars. He also works with […]
Category: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
The Challenges of Funding: Advice from a Female Entrepreneur
The word on everyone’s minds when it comes to female funding is still “she was lucky”. I hope the next few lines can help you forget this notion of luck and believe that in business there’s either work hard or work harder. Let’s start from the beginning. To be funded you need to have an […]
Get back in the box (BIB) and adapt your business to the new reality
One thing that has not changed in the past few years – The people in your company will ultimately determine the success or failure of your business. Your people ARE your most important asset! Not new news, is it? Hopefully we are so close to emerging from the worst of the pandemic, and executives around […]
How To Sell Yourself Effectively At Networking Events
Networking is all about making it easier for people to recommend one another. It is not about selling directly to the person you’ve just met; that can be embarrassing as few people go to a networking event to buy. Most, in fact, go to sell. Your objective has to be to encourage those you meet […]
Networking!
Networking! The phrase itself is self-explanatory. Increase the size of your “net” and you increase the number of “Fish” clients. By working. The harder you work, the bigger your net. After all, more fish means more food. Networking can and should be one of the most powerful sales tolls for any business, but it’s often […]
Effective Team Building
Whether you are in L&D, OD or other areas of HR, at some point or another you will have been asked to provide some form of “team-building” activity by a department within your organization… a request to deliver some form of exercise or event to inject some motivation, energy or sense of fun into what […]
The Future – Accelerated
Mankind was slowly, but surely, moving towards certain evolutions in our way of life. Now, post pandemic, we are hurtling towards it. This evolution is transformative and impacts virtually every sphere of our lives. What was slowly creeping up on us, is now part of our daily lives. Digital transformation is now being led by […]
Starting With ROI
Many years ago, I was sitting at my desk when I received a strange email from my supervisor, it was merely one question! He said, “Did we meet ROI?” My instant reply then was “What do you mean? We haven’t met any ROI so far…” I will leave it to your imagination to find out […]
Outdoor Team Building
After an exhilarating outdoor teambuilding training, there’s nothing more gratifying than overly delighted delegates, satisfied clients and a pleased training provider. But there’s more to outdoor teambuilding training than fun and fulfillment. Without careful design and delivery of outdoor teambuilding, its benefits may be wasted and its detriments may surface. To prevent that, we need […]
Team Building Does Not Work!
If the requests that I receive for ‘’Team Building’’ are anything to go by, team building is definitely the buzz word of the era for L&D. My first question is always: ‘’What are the issues/Challenges? What are you hoping to achieve? ‘’Answers vary, but mostly the answer alludes to ‘’the team are not getting on/are […]