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How does your business rate on People Management?

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Business objectives and people alignment help your organisation achieve its strategic plan. Without this important link between the business plan and your organisation, it may be difficult to achieve your Vision. Whether you are managing performance reviews or undertaking strategic alignment, our performance management systems help your employees to plan and implement the key activities …

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Are you a High Performer? Try this test

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There are two ways to excel in business: The first is by developing effective strategies. The second is making those strategies happen, in a highly effective manner. The latter is all about personal high performance, yet very few executives and entrepreneurs spend much time improving their own performance. Here’s a test to help you identify …

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Why isn’t my Business Reaching its Potential?

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6 COMMON Areas of untapped potential. Are you “Niche Marketing” your products or services for maximum lead generation and profit or do you generally do the same as your competition? Effective marketing is changing at an alarming rate and if you present yourself as a “Jack of All Trades” you may soon be seen as …

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Radical Transparency Will Change Your Life

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It’s possible that I spend too much time thinking about how to improve business so it benefits everyone.  But sometimes it leads to some pretty funny observations. Take, for example, one of our Best Practices, which we call “Radical Transparency.” Transparency is supposed to solve this problem, and it does — but only if you …

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The Power of Conducting a Swot Analysis

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Don’t under estimate the power of conducting a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. When we are working with clients this is usually completed quite early on in the process to get an overview of a company’s potential and is a key component when developing a business strategy. Below is a reminder of how …

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Disorganisation

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One of the things that we often encounter in businesses we visit is DISORGANISATION – sometimes it’s the boss, sometimes it’s the team members individually, sometimes (but fortunately, not very often) it’s everyone. Other times it’s the office or workshop environment that creates the opportunity to be disorganised rather than the people themselves, but one …

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The Importance of Budgeting Every Year

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The majority of business owners we work with do not like budgeting. Whether it is because of a lack of excel skills, understanding the construction of how Profit and Loss or Cashflow statement are compiled or the fact it can be boring budgeting on your own! However, budgeting is revealing and a necessary exercise. It …

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