Neil Steggall

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Showing Integrity, Leadership and Respect.

Showing Integrity, Leadership and Respect.

Showing Integrity, Leadership and Respect. Leadership goes hand in hand with Trust and Respect and to build a reputation for Trust and Respect you need to demonstrate a high level of Integrity, however, integrity can be a contradiction in today’s workplace.The label of integrity is hard to earn and yet it can be lost in a single action. It is not something we consciously look for in someone but…

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Strength Through Diversity & Change

Strength Through Diversity & Change

Strength Through Diversity & Change Diversity and Change are catalysts to growth and development, to new ideas and to improvement throughout the world in which we live. Darwin’s evolution of the species demonstrated how through diversity and change the world is able to constantly evolve and improve.Why then are so many of us suspicious of both diversity and change, why do we fight to protect the…

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How To Become A Great Negotiator

How To Become A Great Negotiator

  How To Become A Great Negotiator Most of our successful leaders and entrepreneurs are great negotiators. The skill of negotiation is recognised as one of the important ingredients of success and yet so few of us truly understand what it is that makes a great negotiator.It is often said that children are great negotiators; they are persistent and return to their objective time and time again,…

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Seven steps to getting rich

Seven steps to getting rich  

The accumulation of wealth is easier than most realise. Once your antenna is raised to embrace wealth potential and you commence the journey riches will follow. In recent times wealth and its creation are seen as less than desirable objectives perhaps even a little dirty, not quite the done thing.

I find this attitude strange as throughout nature creatures nest and…

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Why is my business stalling?

Why is my business stalling?

Why is my business stalling?

If you were to receive a substantial capital investment into your business would you engage outside expertise to help further develop and improve your business? There are few business leaders I know who would seriously answer no to this question, which if you really think it through is very odd.

Why is it odd? Because if you need help after receiving a substantial…

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A Profitable Business, Growing & About to Crash!

A Profitable Business, Growing & About to Crash!

 “How important is profit?” this question in one form or another is one of the most common questions we receive from start-up owners or potential start-ups and surprisingly it’s not a simple answer.

Some time ago I sat down for a chat with a highly intelligent friend who had recently joined the board of a mid-sized family company. “I just don’t get it” she said “everyone tells me the business…

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Why do we Procrastinate? ......Well, I’ll tell you tomorrow!!

Why do we Procrastinate? ……Well, I’ll tell you tomorrow!!

Why do we Procrastinate? ……Well, I’ll tell you tomorrow!! Procrastination is a problem for the sufferer, it’s a problem for business and it can ruin cohesive team work. It is a universal problem in businesses of all sizes and yet we rarely discuss it.

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” Napoleon Hill

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5 Traits of a Great Leader

5 Traits of a Great Leader

5 Traits of a Great Leader Leadership is an extraordinary skill so much so that it is often difficult to define that certain something which differentiates the great from a good leader.  When assessing investment opportunities we always look at the leadership first and foremost, particularly in start-ups. To guide us we have developed the 5 Key Trait test. It is rare to find all of the traits in…

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  Loyalty, respect and support for team members are values instilled in us from childhood and…

  Loyalty, respect and support for team members are values instilled in us from childhood and they are certainly amongst the key attributes of successful leaders. A recent review has caused me to recognise that at times we may carry loyalty too far and we risk severe consequences by doing so.In a recent review of two unrelated corporate failures I realised that each business suffered enormous…

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It takes one rotten apple sitting in the team……….

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Loyalty, respect and support for team members are values instilled in us from childhood and they are certainly amongst the key attributes of successful leaders. A recent review has caused me to

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Leader or Manager? – Vive la Différence!

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The terms leadership and management are often used to describe the same person or even used as though the words are interchangeable. They are not. The differences between leadership and management

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The Naked Entrepreneur - 7 Steps to a New Beginning

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Respect and Trust are vitally important qualities to find in an entrepreneur, however, I fear both are currently being discarded in the rush for blatant self promotion.Do you remember when the UK's

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3 Secrets of C Level Leadership

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Reaching the top in business requires you to develop and utilise a wide range of leadership and management skills, however, if you can develop these three specific skills you will grow and prosper.

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Teamwork the Key to Success | 7 Steps to a Great Team

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Early in my career it was noted that “I didn't suffer fools gladly”. At the time I took it as a compliment, I couldn't understand why some of the people in the organisation just couldn't grasp the

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Time Machine Crashed?

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How do you rate on time management? How many times have you said “there just aren't enough hours in the day” well let's think about this. There are 24 equally sized, nicely paced, hours in every day.

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Passions, Do you Really know yours?

Passions, Do you Really know yours?

  We are often told that great leadership and success flows from the passionate vision held by the entrepreneur or CEO and how they followed their dream fuelling their passions as the company prospered.I may be a sceptic but this raises two questions in my mind, firstly what is it about “grey widgets” that fuelled such passion and secondly is the passion story really true or a heroic post…

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Don’t F*** With Your Business. Plan For Success

Don’t F*** With Your Business. Plan For Success

Don’t F*** With Your Business. Plan For Success I apologise for the title, but I see so many smart people with so many great ideas fail to make the grade and do you know why? They simply fail to develop and implement an effective business plan.In my experience in leading dozens of business planning workshops across the world, I’d say only around 10% to 15% of the small to mid-cap teams I’ve…

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