Author name: Marco Soares

I have worked with owner managed businesses since 2010. Over the years, I have helped my clients grow turnover and profit by assisting them to structure their teams effectively, implement proper business planning systems and become highly effective leaders. My approach is simple and practical. I believe that success is the result of structure, consistent marginal improvement, and a business’s ability to implement good ideas effectively.

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Top 10 Tips for Effective Internal Meetings

Team meeting? When I say internal meetings, what comes to mind? Dread, long, drawn-out conversations…

If your meetings drag on if they’re not very useful, if they don’t provide an avenue for you to make decisions and to have good quality discussions in your business, then something’s not quite right.

I’m going to share my top 10 tips to help you have much more effective meetings in your business.

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Purpose of a Managing Director: Mind Your Own Business – Episode 20

This week I met a business that doesn’t have a managing director which is absolutely crazy. They are equal shareholders, they have a very good business that has lots of potential, they want to grow but they don’t have a managing director. when I challenged them on this, they asked me Well, what’s the point of managing director? Why do we need one? Why is it so important?

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£1M of Steak: Mind Your Own Business – Episode 14

This week during a coaching session, I talked to a client about customer experience and told me the story about how five years ago, before he had opened up his second location, he was on the hunt for a great steak to put on the menu.

So he’d call round to one of the butchers at the time, and he’d asked his butcher for a steak explaining what he was trying to do; the butcher gave him a couple of steaks, went home, and my client opened up these steaks to test them out, and he was disappointed: the steaks were rubbish they weren’t good quality at all.

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