Brad Sugars

Can Winning A Business Award Boost Your Business?

Copyright (c) 2011 Brad Sugars How can you develop a great reputation for your company? Start to enter (and hopefully win!) local, regional and national business awards. How can entering your company into an awards competition help you build your... Read >

How to Get Good Business Help from a Business Coach

Even though business coaching is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and demand for coaching services are high, many business owners really aren't sure what benefits hiring a Business Coach can have for their companies. The process of b... Read >

7 Questions About Business Mentoring and Business Coaching

I'm often asked how a business mentor or a Business Coach can help a struggling business succeed or make a successful business better. In my mind, the main value of having a mentor or a coach is in having someone beside you who knows the "ins and outs"... Read >

Marketing Mistakes And How To Fix Them

If you're like many business owners, you're either doing the wrong marketing activities well, or doing the right marketing activities wrong. Now, how could that ever happen? It's quite simple really, let me explain: Firstly, in my business experience, ... Read >

The Four Keys to Successful Business Ownership

There are many keys to success. For business owners, I believe these can be summarized as being Leadership, Knowledge, Confidence and Activity. Growth in all four of these areas is critical to support the growth of a business owner as their business gr... Read >

How to Make Your Business Boom

As we head out of our economic "winter" into economic "spring," here are some proven strategies to make sure your business can "boom" over the course of the next several years. While that is a problem ... it is also an opportunity for the average busin... Read >

As a Small to Medium Sized Company Grows, It Becomes Harder to Effectively Communicate

As a small-to-medium sized company grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate across the organization. Whether within or between departments, communications must be optimized for organizations to execute at their peak. The key, according to Act... Read >

If You Could Reach Just One Goal in 2010, Which One Would it Be?

If you could reach just one goal in 2010, which one would it be? How much of a difference in your life would it make if you reached it? So, how is 2008 shaping up for you? Will it be just another ho-hum year that started with great intentions (that... Read >

7 Reasons Executives Hire an Executive Coach

Copyright (c) 2010 Brad Sugars Today, Executive Coaching is a billion dollar industry. Executives who are going somewhere in their careers are the ones who hire an Executive Coach. In days past, executives who hired an Executive Coach were looked down... Read >

Why Executive Coaching Will Put You Ahead of the Pack

Copyright (c) 2010 Brad Sugars If you are a successful executive, you may have been approached by your team or an outside consultancy about the possibility of being coached by an Executive Coach. But why would you consider hiring a coach if you were... Read >

Developing Leadership through Executive Coaching

Most large organizations already have their own point of view about the leadership competencies required for success in various roles. These competencies form the basis of job descriptions, hiring and promotion decisions, performance reviews, and profe... Read >

Developing Personal Mastery through Executive Coaching

The model of leadership as we knew it in the Industrial Age has undergone a massive face-lift. The "command and control" approach no longer works in the Information Age, which is based on a more participative leadership style (rather than authoritarian) -... Read >

Learning to Coach While Deaf

If anyone knows about a business challenge that seems insurmountable, it's Michele Alexander. On a Tuesday morning two years ago, she woke up completely deaf. Two years ago on a Monday evening, Alexander was sitting at her computer when she thought she... Read >

The 20 Types of Executives(part 4) How to Improve Your Performance No Matter What Type You Are

In our final article, we'll review the last types of Executive personalities. Hopefully, you can be better aware of your own type of personality and see how executive coaching could benefit you. 14. The Popularity Contest. This executive still wants ... Read >

The 20 Types of Executives (part 3) How to Improve Your Performance No Matter What Type You Are (Par

In our first two articles on this subject, we looked at the types of Executive personalities. Now, we'll continue with our overview, so you can be better aware of your own type of personality and see how executive coaching could benefit you. 9. The Gen... Read >