If there is anyone who knows how to grow a business it is James Caan. As well as being co-founder of The EBA he is a serial entrepreneur and runs his successful private equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw. We asked him to reflect on his success stories so you can learn from his lessons.

We interviewed Kate Pexton, founder of Consulte, for this month’s “Business in the Spotlight”. Here’s what we discovered about the business, the woman behind the business and her journey as a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy.

Whether we meet people face to face or via the telephone, social media or email, the interaction we create (conscious or otherwise) influences how people react and feel about you.

It is an interesting fact that most people spend longer planning a two-week holiday than they do planning their workload during the other fifty weeks of the working year. Why is that?

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) provides tools and techniques to help us communicate effectively, motivate ourselves and others, think positively and create actions to make a difference. Pretty cool stuff. Who amongst us doesn’t want to communicate and motivate better and win more clients?