I have read and heard so much about blogs that I have decided to start one myself and see what all the fuss is about. Up to the summer of last year - 2008, I had been publishing monthly newsletters that contained lots of interesting and useful articles, inspiring quotations and sources of information aimed predominantly at owners and managers of small and medium sizes companies in Ireland. I was at the same time contributing to a biweekly comumn in the Business section of the Limerick Leader newspaper. One of the many benefits that I got from writing the newspaper articles and publishing the newsletters was the opportunity to get my thoughts in some kind of order, teasing challenging situations out and solving problems for myself and my clients. I found that writing forced me to structure my thoughts and make some sense from them so that both my readers and I could understand them. In all honesty, the reason I stopped publishing the newsletter was that I felt that I was not getting enough return and new business to warrant the effort that it required.
This blog is in essence a forum for me to put some structure on my thoughts about the challenges facing small and medium sized businesses today which will (a) allow me provide a better service to my business coaching clients and (b) provide you the reader of this blog with tips and tools to help you navigate your business or career through these tough challenging times.
I sincerely hope you check in regularly, I don’t envisage that I will be updating the blog any more than once a week but I will review that in 3 months.
Fergal.
Tags: business coaching, coaching, goals, work life balance