Source: Crunch.co.uk (2013) Meet Jacob Aldridge, Crunch client and antipodean Business Coach. Jacob began coaching in his native Australia, before moving to the UK in 2010. Down under he had always used a traditional accountant, but upon his arrival in the UK a colleague recommended Crunch instead – a suggestion for which he “will always...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald If attending meetings ever becomes an Olympic event, Jacob Aldridge will be in gold medal contention. The business and senior strategy coach at Shirlaws coaching company estimates he has sat through 4712 meetings in his dealings with more than 250 small businesses since 2006. “I’ve seen the good, the great and...
I recently published my ‘Testimonial’ page, although in true Jacob Aldridge fashion I named it ‘Shameless Praise‘. The motivation should be obvious (testimonials and recommendations about my amazing work add credibility to my writing and proposals), and some recent submissions from the KPI Enterprise program and a few newspaper articles prompted me to complete this....
I was born in 1981. This means I, and those born a couple of years either side, are singularly placed for our retirement plans to be screwed by a combination of demographics and economic cycles. The good news is we can, as individuals, do something about this (and collectively, we will still be able to...
It’s a common question: what is the difference between a business consultant and a business coach? Pedants will observe that a pure consultant brings the solution and completes the work themselves – think IT or Legal, for example. A pure coach does nothing but ask questions, ‘coaching’ you because all the answers are inside you...
In mid-2007, Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper interviewed me for their Career One section feature: A Day on the Job. At the time I was about a year into my business coaching career. Since the article is no longer online, I have chosen to publish my answers here with a short note at the end about what has changed...
