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Lessons To Learn From High Staff Turnover

Lessons To Learn From High Staff Turnover

So, even though a high staff turnover will probably not be the recommended model for most businesses, there are certainly benefits to it, and lessons that we can learn to make our business just so much stronger and robust and set to grow. People are the core of any business, and with the opportunity to gain great new people your business can only get better!

How To Truly Let Go In Your Business

How To Truly Let Go In Your Business

Truly letting go of your business can be tough, but rapidly changing workplace environments have created the need for a more hands-off approach. This is not always easy. If you started your business to share your expert knowledge, chances are you’re passionate about...

What Is Your Business Really Worth?

What Is Your Business Really Worth?

The better shape your business is in, the more likely you are to sell it quickly for a premium price. Some of the simplest steps you can take are the most effective – build your team, outsource and automate. Take a long, hard look at every aspect of your business and start taking action to maximise its value right away.

Hearing Silence From Your Customers? Here’s Why.

Hearing Silence From Your Customers? Here’s Why.

Building a good product and marketing it well is the job only half done. Collecting customer feedback is critical to the growth of any business. Providing your customers with the levels of service they expect is important, but the only way to understand what your customers really want is by collecting and analysing their feedback.

How To Manage Your Creative Team

How To Manage Your Creative Team

s with all of the good things in life, the key is balance. Leadership that manages creative employees well is a leadership that knows where to tweak and alter their expectations, setting clear goals and opening wide open spaces to get there.

The Right Time To Streamline Your Workflow

The Right Time To Streamline Your Workflow

Streamlining your business removes wasteful or redundant steps to improve efficiency. In business, time is money, so a small business achieves key financial and operational advantages from streamlined operations. You reduce costs, attract more customers through nimble response times, drive higher revenue and compete effectively. When is the best time to streamline your processes? Asthe Chinese proverb says, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today.”

Time Poor? Simple Strategies To Get A Full Work Day Back Each Week

Time Poor? Simple Strategies To Get A Full Work Day Back Each Week

If you’re getting bogged down with endless tasks or find yourself feeling burnt out before the day even starts, it could be a sign that something is wrong with your current routine. There may be little you can to do make that to-do list go away, but the more efficiently you use every hour you have by developing systems for your business, the more successful you’ll be at managing those hectic days.

Hidden Costs Of Poor Business Management

Hidden Costs Of Poor Business Management

Every business owner wants to deliver a really happy, wonderful, reliable experience for their staff and customers alike, where you’re solving problems and exceeding expectations You want to earn great word of mouth feedback to go out into the community for referrals and testimonials and it takes great systems to achieve that. When systems are bedded down and clear for everyone, you will be able to nail those goals every single time.

7 Essential Systems To Scale Your Business From Home

7 Essential Systems To Scale Your Business From Home

This new season has really put the condition of our business under the microscope. Right now we can probably see the strengths and weaknesses of our business better than ever before. Developing systems to scale can be done from absolutely anywhere. Let’s make sure this time of crisis, challenge and possibly panic is not an excuse to to pull back. Now is the time to advance forward with boldness and determination!

How To Truly Embrace Uncertainty

How To Truly Embrace Uncertainty

One key thing about this time was that the things I considered certainties were put to the test, and I realised I don’t think you can ever be certain about anything, ever. This is actually a good thing, and you can step up to celebrate just how much benefit there is amidst the throes of uncertainty.

Struggling To Delegate? The 7 Essential Ingredients

Struggling To Delegate? The 7 Essential Ingredients

Delegation can be scary, your business represents you, and it is how you make your mark on the world. Because of this you may want to personally supervise everything and anything within your business, to make sure it is right. But with a bit of investment in time, people, processes and trust, you will make it to the end to reduce the workload on your desk.

How Building A Team Brings Out The Best In You

How Building A Team Brings Out The Best In You

Sometimes, building a team is not easy and is not always smooth sailing. Leading real-life humans with real-life challenges can be difficult. So in those times, let this blog be particularly valuable to remind you of all the great benefits that come out of building a team and relying on them to build a business that’s bigger than yourself.

Get Back To Your Business Values

Get Back To Your Business Values

As the leader of your growing company you are ultimately accountable for everything that happens in and through your business. From finances to branding, sales to site management, even to company culture, the buck stops with you. If you are serious about living up to...

When Do You Get Paid?

When Do You Get Paid?

The obsession that business owners have with sales often confounds me. Don’t get me wrong, I love a profitable sale as much as the next entrepreneur, and there are few things more euphoric than closing a big deal. But I sit on the operations side of the equation. I...

Do Your Staff Have You Hostage?

Do Your Staff Have You Hostage?

One of the most common things I hear business owners say about improving their processes and procedures is that they fear the resistance they think will come from their team if they make too many changes. It is not changing itself their teams will resist, but the...

No Pong Case Story

No Pong Case Story

When we came to Kerry Anne about getting help with our systems management, we had a lot of great processes, but they were all inside our heads instead of written down. This made running and growing our team much more labour intensive than it needed to be. We would...