Tag Archives: small business

Coaching Process

What is The Coaching Process? If you like graphical representations, here is an explosion of the key elements in a coaching session. Scroll down (click here instead) below for a narrative description. A Coaching Session A coaching session is a … Continue reading

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Business Coaching

                              Business owners and managers have plenty of work and lots toworry about. This seems to be the natural state of being entrepreneurial and liking to … Continue reading

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Podcast – Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team

7 Reasons why you need to add a part-time CFO to your business team

This podcast is 7 minutes 20 seconds long

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Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team

Many small businesses operate with only a bookkeeper and CPA to manage the finances. The owner or GM fills in, or at least think that they fill in,  for all of the duties of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As … Continue reading

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Biography

Business Coach and Management Consultant For the last six years Mark Orton has focused on hands-on work with owners and leaders of start-up and small businesses. He applies strong active listening with useful questions and appropriate data to help leaders … Continue reading

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Microsoft Goes Crazy – the Office Live Small Business tools

Yesterday’s New York Times contained an article by David Pogue, “Mom and Pop Get a Partner: Microsoft”, that announces a whole new suite of services for small businesses from Microsoft. And they are all virtually free. You can set up … Continue reading

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