Even the most organised person can sometimes find themselves in hot water with a to do list that is growing by the second.  So, if organisation is not your forte it is likely that this is more the norm than not. I have worked with many clients who are brilliant at...

An email popped into my inbox the other day and you could have knocked me down with a feather!!  The Umbrella Tree had made it through to the finals of the Dorset Industry Awards in the Best New Business category. We knew that we had been nominated, which was amazing,...

How do you delegate successfully? There is no doubt about it, delegating is tricky!  What to delegate, who to delegate it to, will they do as good a job as you, what if they don’t do it the right way?  These are all questions that frequently go through the mind of...

Planning, I bang on about it all the time. So here are my 4 top tips. Yet it is a bit of an art and it has taken quite a long time to finally find a method that works for me.  But if you run a business, no matter what it is, you must take time to plan.  If you do, you...

Is it time to outsource to a Virtual Assistant? None of us like change, or very few of us anyway.  Change for me does not sit easily.  I would like to be a more “fly by the seat of my pants” kind of gal but I am not.  So, when I moved from employed to self employed...