--- title: Small Business Coaching, Resources & Tools | EMyth Blog | Remy Gervais description: Remy started working as an EMyth Coach in 1996, and still loves working directly with business owners, as well as serving at EMyth’s Coach Training and Development Manager. As a coach, she relentlessly pursues her clients’ goals, working to help them translate their vision into core standards and systems, while coaching them to become better leaders and guiding them as they move their companies through transformation. --- [Work-Life Balance](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/work-life-balance) 6 min read ### [4 benefits of taking time off during the holidays](https://www.emyth.com/inside/4-benefits-of-taking-time-off-during-the-holidays) n less than two years, we’ve seen such incredible shifts in workforce trends that the traditional model of five days in the office seems like a thing of the past. And among the conversations of how, where and when to work, the theme of a shorter work week is slowly becoming louder. Recent studies on a four-day wor... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais ## Latest Posts [Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/entrepreneurial-mindset) ### [How to think like an Entrepreneur](https://www.emyth.com/inside/entrepreneurial-mindset) [Business Coaching](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-coaching) 3 min read ### [Business Coaching Vs. Consulting](https://www.emyth.com/inside/business-coaching-versus-consulting) [Time Management](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/time-management)[Small Business Management](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-management) ### [To manage your business, manage yourself first](https://www.emyth.com/inside/self-management-as-a-business-owner) [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Small Business Organization](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-organization) ### [How to develop managers within your business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-develop-leaders-in-your-organization-and-small-business) ![Smart Business Coach](https://www.emyth.com/hubfs/Smart-business-coach.png?auto=compress&fit=max) ## Request a free coaching session with a Certified EMyth Coach [![Talk to a Coach](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/411995/14924c09-8a82-42d7-90b9-55a5c68c5989.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/411995/14924c09-8a82-42d7-90b9-55a5c68c5989) [Business Coaching](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-coaching) ### [The only business coaching model that works](https://www.emyth.com/inside/does-business-coaching-work) If you’re reading this, chances are you already know a bit about business coaching. You may even recognize that you need something like coaching. At the very least, you know that some change or transformation has to happen in your business, because it’s just not performing how you want it to or giving you the free... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [How to avoid crisis burnout](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-avoid-crisis-burnout) As a business owner, you’ve likely never experienced a year like 2020. The challenges have been complex and unfamiliar. And to keep business running, you’ve needed to confront each one head on. So has your team. While you’ve been focused on how to pivot, generate revenue, manage a remote team, and balance work and... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais [Small Business Design](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-design)[Business Vision](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-vision) ### [Design (and realize) your business vision](https://www.emyth.com/inside/design-and-realize-your-business-vision) If you’re feeling stuck in your business, then one thing must be true: Your business isn’t living up to the picture you have of what it could be. And that means you have a dream business in mind, which is good. But have you ever written it down? ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais ## Want a self-sufficient business—and life you love? #### Get the latest insights, downloads, and practical tools, right in your inbox. ##### Get Our Newsletter [Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/entrepreneurial-mindset)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [Choose to be proactive with the future of your business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/develop-a-proactive-mindset-in-your-business) It’s easy to run a business in default mode, to operate reactively instead of proactively. Many business owners do it. They allow systems to develop by happenstance in their business rather than designing them with intention; they keep their business afloat on referrals and word-of-mouth instead of developing a Ma... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais [Small Business Finance](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-finance)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Small Business Operations](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-operations) 3 min read ### [8 steps to effective negotiation](https://www.emyth.com/inside/8-steps-to-effective-business-negotiation) One of the essential skills for any business owner is negotiation. How well you can negotiate a favorable agreement or deal for your business makes the difference between growing to achieve your goals and not. There are so many different types of relationships—ones with your employees, your vendors, your customers... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais [Business Coaching](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-coaching) ### [The 5 biggest misconceptions about business coaching](https://www.emyth.com/inside/the-5-biggest-misconceptions-about-business-coaching) Unless you’ve had personal experience with it, business coaching is probably a bit of a mystery. Do business coaches just walk in and fix the broken parts of your business? Are they only there to motivate and support, or do they get down in the weeds with you? In our 40+ years coaching owners to be entrepreneurs, ... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais [Business Coaching](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-coaching) ### [Your business is your product](https://www.emyth.com/inside/your-business-is-your-product) When you think about your business, what do you see as your product? Is it the commodity you sell? The service you provide? The community you help build? Or is it the business itself? ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais [Work-Life Balance](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/work-life-balance)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [7 tips every business owner needs to take a real vacation](https://www.emyth.com/inside/7-tips-every-business-owner-needs-to-take-a-real-vacation) When I started as an EMyth Coach in 1996, I had a client (let’s call her Kathy) whose biggest frustration was not being able to trust her people to take care of the business in her absence. She confessed that it had been ten years since she’d gone away for longer than a weekend. Just one week prior, she’d stepped ... ![Remy Gervais - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/images/Remy_Gervais%20_Blog%20Author_image%20100x100.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Remy Gervais