Success

At the very heart of leadership lies one indispensable skill: communication. While it might seem straightforward on the surface, effective communication is far more complex than just exchanging information. It’s about how, when, and why messages are conveyed—and how they [...]

If you’re like most successful business owners, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, you didn’t get to where you are by sitting on the sidelines. You built something from the ground up. You showed up, worked hard, made tough calls, and pushed through [...]

If you're a business owner, CEO, or leader trying to grow your business, you’ve probably asked yourself: “Why aren’t we moving faster?” It might not be a strategy problem, you probably have an execution problem. Here's what often happens: There’s [...]

Struggling with Inconsistent Sales? Don't fix your Sales Team! If you’re a business owner, entrepreneur, CEO, or leader of a team, you’ve probably had this moment many times - sales drop, panic sets in, and the first instinct is to [...]

SMART goals have become a cornerstone of effective goal-setting because they provide a framework for business leaders and their teams to set realistic and measurable targets. When used correctly, the SMART goal framework helps businesses increase productivity, enhance team performance, [...]

Welcome to a journey through the distilled wisdom of years spent in the trenches of business growth and entrepreneurship. I'm here to share with you seven simple, yet profound tactics that can steer your business towards success. These lessons are [...]

The new year is now in full swing and over the last couple of weeks I have spent time finalising my own business plan and also engaging with many of our Franchise Partners on their business plans for the year. [...]

Recent research has highlighted several critical traits of successful entrepreneurs and business owners. Growth mindset is one such trait, which is the belief that personal qualities and abilities can be developed through effort and learning. Entrepreneurs with a growth mindset [...]

What a difference a year can make! One year ago, my family and I were just getting back to ‘normal’ after COVID-19. Then the riots in certain areas of South Africa occurred. This knocked our confidence and our security and [...]

In today’s environment, change is one of the only things that is guaranteed and it can be easy to get lost in the shuffle of where you, as a business leader, should focus your time and energy. As business leaders [...]

Someone said to me the other day “I don’t want to be rich because rich people are selfish.” This took a few moments to digest as the wealthiest people I know personally do an incredible amount to give back to [...]

For the last two years, we have lived through a pandemic that literally halted and shifted our ways of life and threatened to change the course of humanity, Russia invaded Ukraine and exacerbated the challenges that Covid-19 seemly had laid [...]

I love it when people say to me: "but Harry, it's not about the money." Really?!  Do you actually believe that? Now I'm the first to support that money isn't everything. There are a lot of things that are important. [...]

Navigating ourselves and our businesses in an ever-changing environment with macro-economic forces at play has become a real challenge for many. Yet, for every business that reaches the end of its road that are many more businesses that thrive despite [...]

A 2021/2022 report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that women displayed 20% less confidence when it came to their ability to start a business vs their male counterparts. What caused this? Perhaps it was the Covid climate that was [...]

The number of women entrepreneurs is on the rise. Many of these women are struggling to survive in the business environment given the unique challenges they face. In my experience as a Business Coach, many women-owned businesses are not given the [...]