Time Management On The Move

If your work puts you on the road for hours a week, we have some simple strategies for making that time behind the wheel more productive and enjoyable. We have shortlisted 15 things to do while [...]

Engaging Your Staff for Better Business Management

Employing people only fills your ranks; engaging people is what fills your banks. As a leader, you have a moral responsibility to engage your team; as a manager you have a commercial imperative [...]

Productivity – A Path to Profit

Leaving aside profits from outside investments, there are only four ways in which you can increase your profits: The Four Profit Basics 1.Increase your Sales Revenue 2.Decrease your Cost of Sales [...]

Cashflow Options – Debtor Finance

A Debtor Finance Facility may be the answer to unlocking the true cashflow potential for your business according to Bank of Queensland’s Marissa Robbins. Why would I plug BoQ ahead of other [...]

Selling & Buying Businesses

Whether you’re buying or selling a business, there is so much at stake that you want to get it right.  Here’s help if you’re selling and help if you’re buying.

Salespeople: What Works? Commission Or Retainer?

 One of our coaching clients asked for some thoughts on structuring rewards for their sales people, and the following notes arose from our thinking on the subject. On reflection, even though [...]

Lowering Stress In Your Business

If you’re a boss, there may be strong value for you in reading and applying this. If you’re one of the troops, the real value will be in passing this to your boss, and asking to [...]

How To Get Your Bills Paid Quicker

From Jurek Leon’s eNewsletter (one of the very few I read regularly) here’s a no-cost solution to improved cashflow: A UK survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the University of [...]

Educating Gen Y About Financial Risk

If you’d like to create some very positive “glue” with which to stick your best young talent to you for the next couple of years, here’s a little exercise that’s [...]

Opportunity In The New Industrial Relations Landscape

Robert Gottliebsen has raised a fascinating opportunity in a recent article on Julia Gillard’s industrial relations legislation. In short, Gottliebsen points to what he calls the [...]