Mark Collins

About Mark Collins

http://www.markcollins.co.nz

Mark Collins runs a specialist hospitality and food consultancy that helps business owners achieve better business results with non-nonsense practical ideas and, innovative tools.

Posts by Mark Collins:

M2 Mar/Apr 2023 Issue

Self Accountability is the Key to your Circumstances

So stop letting yourself off and take control of your opportunities. Change, Action and Momentum are the three big focus… Read More

M2 Jan/Feb 2023 Issue

Complexity Always Costs Someone

The more dishes on a menu means the more ingredients the cooks will need to manage, the more combinations they… Read More

M2 Nov/Dec 2022 Issue

Using Your Knowledge Better

Business is simple. It is a series of processes that, when working in harmony, create more value than the cost… Read More

M2 Sep/Oct 2022 Issue

Are you Doing Enough ON or Are you Trapped IN?

In the beginning, you may be the only person working in your business, which usually means you are the business.… Read More

M2 Jul/Aug 2022 Issue

Strategy and Good Habits Trump Knowledge

We are starting to see people getting back into positive routines, supported with good habits. This alone will deliver a… Read More

M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue

Have “Excuses” Crept Into Your Business And Life?

Initially the excuses may have sounded reasonable and even expected, but have the words like “Due to Covid” become entrenched… Read More

M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue

“Stop It” goals might be the most important goals you ever set!

Stop doing everything that you do that doesn’t give you pleasure, real results or make any apparent difference. All of… Read More

M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue

Are You Living In Your Power?

Your world view can often be defined by where you live and what is in your immediate surroundings. But then… Read More

M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue

Are You Living In Your Power?

It seems we all self-sabotage, but how much it is impacting our success depends on the scale that each of… Read More

M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue

STOP IT! Is Self-Sabotage Stealing Your Success?

It seems we all self-sabotage, but depending on the scale that each of us is doing this, as to how… Read More

M2 Jul/Aug 2021 Issue

When Did You Last Feed Your Desire?

Clarity of desire is essential when it comes to getting an action plan down on paper. I think most people… Read More

M2 May/Jun 2021 Issue

Stop Chasing The “Problems” In Your Business

It is not surprising in a time of incredible pressure that my clients say, I just want you to help… Read More

M2 Mar/Apr 2021

Approach Your Life Like An Artist

Every January I do a stone carving symposium and I am always amazed by the similarities between creating a sculpture… Read More

M2 Dec/Jan 2021 Issue

Is Your Decision Making Based On Data Or Gut Feel?

When you are confronted with a threat or an opportunity you would do well to acknowledge your gut feeling when… Read More

M2 Sep/Oct 2020 Issue

A Plan For Your Business

Our ability to change is critical to being able to adapt to the variety of new circumstances we continually face.… Read More

M2 Sep/Oct 2020 Issue

Have You Ever Heard Of Anyone Not Surviving Because They Changed Too Fast?

Our ability to change is critical to being able to adapt to the variety of new circumstances we continually face.… Read More

M2 Jul/Aug 2020 Issue

The Untapped Potential All Around You

At the time of writing this, we are in week four of isolation and with no idea as to what… Read More

M2 May/Jun 2020 Issue

Hacks To Achieve Your Goals With Ease

It might be time to put a mirror up instead, so that you can see yourself in the current reality.… Read More

M2 Jan/Feb 2020 Issue

Tools For Your Business

It is so easy to become overwhelmed with all the things that you need to do in your business. When… Read More

M2 Nov/Dec 2019 Issue

Why Before How

The order you do something in is critical to you getting the result you desire. When you start out on… Read More

M2 October 2019 Issue

Walk Your Talk

Do you mean what you say? It’s the clichés and the claims we make on how we want the world… Read More

M2 September 2019 Issue

The Freedom To Fall

Your company’s culture drives everything within your business. It represents: What your people believe in which drives behaviour; A commitment… Read More

M2 August 2019 Issue

The Value of Halfway

We have passed the half way point of 2019 and I have just received my daughter’s half year report. It… Read More

M2 July 2019 Issue

Are You Dealing With Your Dark

Deal with what you are not clear about, as a lack of clarity is stealing your results. I refer to… Read More

M2 June 2019 Issue

How Resilient Are You?

There are times in business when you feel lonely, everything seems to be stacked against you and you just don’t… Read More

M2 May 2019 Issue

Is it time you did a “Performance Review”?

No, I am not talking about the type of performance review done by your boss. A bespoke performance review on… Read More

M2 April 2019 Issue

When you are Successful, Everyone Benefits

Realise how big your contribution is when you are running a successful business. If you have staff, you are providing… Read More

M2 March 2019 Issue

12 Top Insights From 2018

THE ANSWER TO PERPETUAL YOUTH Keep learning, fascinated and relentlessly detached from what you already think you know. A PHONE… Read More

M2 February 2019 Issue

How to be an exceptional achiever in 2019

By now you have already read a heap of articles and encouragement to set goals for 2019. So have you… Read More

M2 January 2019 Issue

How Well Are You Listening?

Listening is totally different from hearing and unlike hearing we can and should put significant effort into listening better. Listening… Read More

M2 December 2018 Issue

Your growth is your responsibility

As I spent the weekend in my garden I was reminded of the inspiration derived from seeing something grow. We… Read More

M2 November 2018 Issue

More Success With Less

Several years ago I read a great book by Jay Abraham called “Getting everything you can from all you’ve got”.… Read More

M2 October 2018 Issue

Strategies To Survive Change, Both Personally and Professionally

I have been helping people manage and implement change for years and I know how really, really difficult it is… Read More

M2 September 2018 Issue

The Secret to Business Success, Strength Through Codependency

Business’s and their employees are codependent- The business needs to communicate clearly and regularly what they want to achieve and… Read More

M2 August 2018 Issue

Reset Your Mental Health: The Value Of A Fresh Start

Don’t underestimate the value of a fresh start to revitalize you, reduce your anxiety levels and reset your mental health.… Read More

M2 July 2018 Issue

If You Don’t, Who’s Going To Do It?

This is a very good question and was often asked by John Collyer, a good client of Toho. It’s a… Read More

M2 June 2018 Issue

How To Kickstart Your Personal Growth

Achieving success is within everyone’s reach but beyond most people’s grasp, so contemplate these 10 questions. Are you a teacher… Read More

M2 May 2018 Issue

The Importance Of Incremental Accumulation

I want to activate your interest in something that is all around you, something that can work for or against… Read More

M2 April 2018 Issue

How To Use Your Mind Power Like A Superhero

Your life and your world is a consequence of what you think. You may not realise your mind is an… Read More

M2 March 2018 Issue

Exceptional Customer Experience = Exceptional Success

We know this stuff, but how well are we doing it? When airlines around the world put in airport lounges… Read More

M2 February 2018 Issue

How To Turn Your Opportunities Into Success

Are you going to get off your arse this year and turn your opportunities into success? New Zealand needs you… Read More

M2 January 2018 Issue

Understanding & Mastering Your 10 Motivators

When you do, you will be more successful, do projects that make you happy, and understand more what kind of… Read More

M2 December 2017 Issue

Why You Should Maximize Your Life

Are you creating a positive legacy and proud of the life you live – YES or NO? If you answered… Read More

M2 November 2017 Issue

Are you changing fast enough to stay relevant?

To let your fears determine what you do will not only limit what you fail at but, more significantly, what… Read More

M2 October 2017 Issue

Why you need to simplify your business and your life

It will make you happier, more profitable and give you more free time, and this one strategy will carry on… Read More

M2 September 2017 Issue

Thank God for Disruptors

Disruption occurs when the environment you are working and living in is stifled and not open and flexing freely like… Read More

M2 October 2017 Issue

9 things my 9 year old daughter has taught me

To be able to see things from the perspective of your children or a new staff member or your customer,… Read More

M2 October 2017 Issue

How To Make The Most Of Opportunities

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill Finding… Read More

M2 August 2017 Issue

Using Belief and Balance: The Percentage Game

There was never a truer statement than: “If you believe you can, you will, and if you believe you can’t,… Read More

M2 August 2017 Issue

The Three Factors That Will Give You An Edge

Commitment Have you ever wondered why you don’t always get the results you want? As unpalatable as the answer is,… Read More

M2 July 2017 Issue

Best Business Advise I Have Ever Given!

Your need to be really, really, really clear on what you want and it has to be stated simply. This… Read More

M2 June 2017 Issue

Audacious Social Entrepreneur Needed

M2 Coach Podcast – An Audacious Social Entrepreneur Needed BIG DISRUPTION IS LOOKING FOR AN AUDACIOUS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR – IS… Read More

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