Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BlogueEN.m4a Fundamentals are back (finally!)   Demonstrate your added value Clarify your service offering Communicate your expertise   These are the messages that coaches, consultants and experts have been communicating for years, with the aim of helping entrepreneurs stand out from their competitors.   But are they still valid?   In his book A New Kind of Diversity, best-selling author and John Maxwell business partner, Tim Elmore, describes the history of distinction in business as three mileston ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/audio_EN.mp3   It’s time for me, for you, for all us to become more intentional with our businesses and our lives… It’s official, I’m leaving Montréal to spend five months in Costa Rica with my 14-year-old daughter! (As you’re reading these lines, I’m finalizing our packing and leaving any day now!) Why? Because I’ve always dreamed of living abroad. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been intrigued by the different ways people live. I want to live with them, take part in authentic rituals, dive into foreign cult ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/QuiteFiring_EN.mp3   Sometimes intentional, often unconscious…are you guilty of this? Last month, I shared with you a growing movement we’re seeing in the marketplace, the “quiet quitting”, where employees gradually become disengaged and pull back from executing more than the minimum in their job description. As we’re hearing more and more about quiet quitting, another phenomenon has also come into focus: quiet firing. Forbes describes this as: « …a phenomenon where employers demoralize their unwanted employe ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/quiet-quitting.mp3   Learn all about this new movement and its solutions. Since the beginning of the fall season, we’ve been hearing a lot about the “quiet quitting” phenomenon, where employees decide to do the bare minimum at their jobs and to stick to their job descriptions. According to Gallup, a global analytics and advisory firm that helps leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems, “quiet quitters” make up at least 50 percent of the U.S. workforce – and probably more. Which means that half ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/audio-en.mp3   High standards, high expectations: are you realistic? You’ll agree with me: our business is our baby. We want things to run smoothly, we don’t want anything to fall between the cracks, and we want to get the job done right… But sometimes our team drops the ball or performs a task efficiently, but not as exemplary as we would like… Sometimes it makes us angry, disappointed, frustrated, or disempowered. We don’t know what to do to make sure that things are done according to our expectations, and we of ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/audio_en.mp3   A new reality, a new opportunity Recently, I was sitting in a restaurant with a group of entrepreneurs, and we were discussing travel, life, and…time. How time is really THE most important resource we have. We can always have more clients, more money, do more. But we can’t have time back. Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. And, as luck would have it, an hour later, my 16-year-old son texts me this: Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will nev ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/goals-en.mp3   Your success depends, above all, on your state of mind. I often say that success happens in our head first! This usually makes people laugh, but we know it’s true. What’s stopping us from moving forward? Why don’t we get the results we want? Why do we procrastinate? This is our mindset. It’s not a question of know-how, because 99% of the time, we know very well what we should do: stop doing tasks outside our zone of genius, call this potential client, let go of that client who doesn’t fit our ideal ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bucket-list_audio_EN.mp3   Real leaders who embody real lives – that’s what our clients need. Last year I was with my best friend, one of the people I adore most in the world, and I could see that the pandemic, the containment that came with it, was getting to him. I felt that the enthusiasm I know exists in him was dying out. So, I came up with the idea of crossing things off our bucket list – that list of things and experiences we want to do before we die that we tick off one after another once we’ve done them ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/English.mp3   Client expectations changed, so your approach should also evolve… The fund company Vanguard1 recently published the results of a study on the value-added of advisors – but from the clients’ perspective. Mind you, although the study focuses on the financial services industry, it’s applicable to all advisory industries! It’s no longer enough to provide our “knowledge”, our “expertise”, today’s clients are looking for human connections (read or re-read my article on the ‘hello@mail’ and the one on the c ..read more

Listen to This Article https://saragilbert.coach/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/hello_audio_EN.mp3   The importance of developing relationships with your clients We all know that “client relationship is at the heart of our business success”, that “what the potential client buys is us” or that “it’s not B2B (business-to-business), nor B2C (business-to-consumer), it’s H2H (human-to-human)”. These are beautiful statements that I personally make at conferences, because they are true. Now in “real life”, in our everyday reality, how can we easily and simply deepen the relationship with our clients ..read more