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3 Growth Challenges Your Small Business Will Face
When you look back through your business goals of the past couple of years, how do you feel? Excited? A sense of achievement? Have you forged ahead, or does it feel like groundhog day; nothing has changed, you are still in the same place, with the same or more issues...
7 Easy Hacks to a Happier and Motivated Workforce
Growth Challenges Your Small Business Will Face Did you know that happy employees are 36% more motivated and achieve their goals 31% more often than other workers? Or that happier workers are 12% more likely to help their colleagues? These are some of the findings of...
4 Simple Ways to Become a Better Manager
Meet Your Business Goals with Great Team Dynamics Having a productive and dynamic team can be the difference between you working on your business rather than in your business. Whether you consider yourself an entrepreneur, business owner or simply someone who is...
3 Processes That Leaders Often Overlook That Prevent Business Success
When it comes to HR, so many small business owners have a ‘meh not important’ opinion. It’s true that it can seem way down on the list of priorities when there is actual work and clients and stock and cash flow and logistics and every other single thing needs to be...
Is Your Recruitment Process Failing You
And that 1 out of every 4 hires is a 'miss' hire? You know them - the person in the next cubicle who is under performing and just shouldn’t be there. Working with them is completely frustrating and getting them to do what you need them to, is impossible; but the worst...
Right People, Right Role, Right Time
I need to Recruit – Where do I Start? Just the word “recruiting” fills some small business owners with exhaustion, and understandably so. Recruiting is no small task. An employee has left or perhaps business is growing and your team now needs to grow to service it....
Management
I’m a Manager Now – I Need Help! Whether you have been recently appointed to a management role or are an experienced people leader, there are a few key principals you need to understand and implement, to connect and engage your team. Left to their own devices,...
Compliance
Using Compliance to create growth – It’s not what you think One of the key qualities of a Leader is the ability to embrace change. Changes to legislation, industry regulation and compliance in general can be a tool to engage and grow your business, if used in the...
Leadership
While leadership and management go hand in hand, when it comes to your team, your actions will define the business culture that they adopt.Effective leadership sets direction for the team, inspiring them through articulating the vision and the path to achieve it. To...