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Have You Got Team Buy-In?
"People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies" Start with...
Is Your Family Business Fraught With Conflict?
Many business owners think their particular family business conflict is unique. Usually, it's not. Conflict is particularly rife in family businesses. Handling The Conflict Dealing with any kind of conflict in your business is tough. It takes your mind off the game....
Is Your Professional Advisor The Right Fit?
Business owners can often feel frustrated and unsatisfied with their professional advisors. Every case has different issues to deal with. But there's usually one thing in common - they're all irritated at not getting the outcome they want. This causes angst and...
7 Key Steps For Effective Wealth Planning
Human beings are strange. We secure all our assets including our home, cars, and boats. We use banks and safes to protect our valuables. We insure our personal possessions against things such as fire, damage and theft. In the main, it's incomprehensible for us not...
Why Now’s The Right Time To Revolutionise Your Banking
Like many business owners, you might be running around right now chasing your tail. Making up for lost time. Making up for lost dollars. Doing your best to work through the Covid minefield. Striving to keep your business and your wellbeing intact. You might be coming...
How To Get Your Employees To Do What You Want Them To
Does it drive you crazy when your employees can’t follow instructions?You ask them to do one thing and they do something else. What you say (or think you’ve said) gets misinterpreted. Does the job often turn out nowhere near like you expected, or wanted? Most business...
5 Sure-Fire Ways To Lose Your Customers
It's said that the purpose of a business is to create a customer. This might be true at a basic level. But it also points to the reality that one of the ongoing purposes of a business should be to KEEP a customer. As business owners we can't argue this point. But...
How To Find A Work/Life Balance
For many business owners time is as precious, and sometimes seems as scarce, as money. Striking a balance between work and personal time can be a constant struggle. You might be working 12 hour days, or longer. Even more than 5 days week. There are never enough hours...
5 Ways To Build Brilliant Customer Relationships
In today’s world exceptional customer relationships are more important than ever. This means you not only need to build these relationships - you need to keep them. You want relationships that are strong. Customers that are not only fans, but become raving advocates....
Cash Flow: From Juggling Act To Peace Of Mind
Any business owner will tell you that managing cash flow can be a juggling act. It’s one of the most common problems you'll lose sleep over. If you can gain control of your business’s cash flow you’ll reduce stress and improve your peace of mind. 5 Ways You Can...