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The Right Stuff! Do you have right stuff to start your own home based business? That is first question you must know answer to before you strike out on your own.

Visualize! Next step, visualize what your life would be like if you were to start your own home business. Are you getting a good picture? Do you like what you see? Or do you shudder at thought?

Research! Still determined to start a business? Time to do a lot of research. Research is needed if you plan on succeeding in your new business venture. To find answers you will have to ask a lot of questions. First, seek out other business people who would like to mentor new business owners. Research at your local library or Online. A great place to start The Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov

Honesty! It may be difficult, but you have to be honest with yourself. Do you have needed talent, skills, experience, to handle daily task of running a home based business. If not, do you know where to obtain education, certification, or training?

Finances! Are you financially secure enough to run a home business. You will need enough money to tide you over while you are trying to establish your business. Are you willing to give up a steady salary for uncertainty of running your own business. Will your spouse or others help support you? Do you have a sizable bank account or other financial resources to tide you over for several months or even a few years?

Support! Are you at odds with your family members over this business idea? Family members may not be supportive because they are fearful of what could happen without a steady income. You must face this possibility and understand why they may oppose your plans.

Time! Are you thinking of getting rich over night with your business idea? Remember, success might take years. Even, if you have your game plan together.

Combining ancient ideologies and traditional values with new visions and technologies may just be answer. Cheryl Rickman (http://www.webcritique.co.uk) investigates.

The Changing Face of Business Not long ago, words like mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and partnerships were seldom used. With changing face of business in New Economy, these words are now part of everyday business vocabulary.

With many companies choosing to ‘work with’ other companies, a new breed of individual and team is achieving pre-eminence. People who can be trusted and always do a job well, plus people and organisations who grow to develop and produce optimum results. People are, after all, a company’s best asset in fractured business arena. This is why organisational behaviour and a company’s people are increasingly being recognised as imperative elements of a company’s success.

In developing and training their people, businesses are investing in their primary assets to deal with changes New Economy.

Fusing Old and New to Survive New Economy Training and development is not a new phenomenon, in prehistoric times when humans began to create artefacts, they needed to teach others how to use them. However, that was training in its crudest form with minimal ongoing development.

Now, need has arisen for increasingly dynamic development programmes that actually deal with transforming individual and organisational performance via behavioural change. Also, with each marketplace becoming more and more competitive, businesses are striving more than ever to rise above rest. Ultimately those companies that survive in New Economy will be those that translate transformed individual and organisational behaviour into transformed business performance.

One way to achieve this is to focus on an organisation’s people: their values, skills and behaviour and to combine traditional values and ideas with modern and technological approaches. Growth within New Economy is firmly rooted in growth of behaviour and ongoing development of teams and individuals, within a working philosophy that combines old ideologies with new vision.

Ken Buist, Founder of Transform People International, (http://www.transformpeople.com), firmly believes in this idea,

“At end of day it is their people that will make a business work, it’s their people that will make business successful, and this can only be achieved through having commitment to common business goals, a unity and spirit of purpose, and excellent communication at all levels. My vision is simple – to transform business performance through a transformation of its people.”

Will Real Aristotle Please Stand Up? Just as personal and organisational development are by no way new phenomenon, neither are ideologies that provide basis for some of most dynamic and successful training programmes that companies embrace today. Ancient methodologies written by Aristotle and Hypocrates BC still have immense weight, as do traditional values of family and well-being. Aristotle, born on a Greek colony in 384BC, defined three main rhetoric styles that together form ‘Art of Persuasion’: Ethos, Logos and Pathos. Today these ancient ideologies still have weight because, in business, we are all trying to sell something, even if it is simply ourselves, our knowledge or our skills.

Transform People International (TPI) is one example of a company that provides a development programme that focuses on people and behaviour, and combines old ideologies with a dynamic and modern approach. They combine old methods with new ideologies to transform way their clients work and live. Transform People International call this new breed of individual who is achieving pre-eminence in New Economy, The Trusted Adviser™.

To help companies produce this kind of individual, Transform People International have created The Trusted Adviser Excellence Programme™, which, according to Founder, Ken Buist, “aims to transform people’s attitudes and behaviour, helping them to grow and be more effective.

In order to transform you have to change thinking, and in order to change thinking you have to provide insight and revelation. In other words we don’t just aim to teach skills but to bring about fundamental and sustainable change.”