Keeping My Business Tight In these turbulent times it is no secret that business is tough for some of us. In the last few years, businesses have been loaded with additional compliance and costs that, coupled with the challenges of COVID, have lent to us potentially taking our eye of the ball! Prime Strategies endorses …
What is the burning goal for your business? In business, as in life, it is very easy to get caught by the trivia of the world around you. As someone wiser than me has said, “in the absence of goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until we become enslaved by it. Put …
They call this a “Dashing Cavalier” hat: When you are at work as an SME Business owner, do you try and where one of these? The Dashing Cavalier: The person who can do everything? What I am talking about here is that as a business owner, unless your business is perhaps $10m plus per annum, …
How much of your day is taken up by responding? Don’t get me wrong clearing your inbox, responding to colleague questions, or texting friends about a catch-up is important, so is getting on with the work that your team and clients depend on you to do. As leaders, what we do can get accepted as …
Improving Productivity 3 – the Fifty-Minute Block Principle Read More »
How often have you wanted a few more hours in the day? I know I have and without a doubt it is the most common request from business owners. Owning a business is exhilarating but it can also be exhausting, especially if you’re having to deal with an overflowing inbox, social media messages, text messages, …
Improving Productivity – the Five-Minute Principle Read More »
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
What is your biggest regret in business? When I look back, my biggest regret in business was that I did not engage business advice when I bought my first business. Coming out of a high level corporate role and purchasing a small business was going to be easy wasn’t it? After all, I had managed …
