Better in Business: Marketing self-audit – how and why?
Everyone talks about marketing, but is everyone talking about the same thing? What does your marketing look like? And is it working?
Is it time for a cash flow audit?
No matter how good you might be at selling, if you don’t have a clear payment program for your services and an efficient accounts receivable function, your business will never thrive. Collecting payment for services is a fact of life. If customers or clients enter into a transaction with you there is an expectation that…
Advance tax planning – Pay LESS tax and enjoy a raft of other business benefits
There are THREE parts to effectively managing tax. Most business owners are familiar with the first two: Tax reporting that comprises preparation of a range of tax returns required by the ATO; and tax payments which are the direct result of the aforementioned tax reports.
Better in Business: Leadership – Delegation
‘It’ll be quicker to do it myself’. Wrong! Successful leaders delegate, and so should you. Beware. It’s tempting to think that by the time you’ve explained a task to someone else, you could have finished it yourself.
Better in Business: Time Management – Shifting Priorities
You’ve made good progress on a key task. Then it starts. The phone rings, the emails arrive and there’s someone else at your office door. You already have a list of priorities for the day. What do you do?
7 Habits of Successful Business Leaders: #7 Building your Team
The ability of some business leaders to shape a strong, harmonious and sustainable team is both an art and a science, and always impressive. The leader who has habits in place for creating a cohesive team really is worth their weight in gold.
7 Habits of Successful Business Leaders: #6 Eliminate Distractions
For business owners, there’s huge potential for you to be distracted from working efficiently through your priority tasks. Distraction simply goes with the territory – think email, social media, phone calls and texts from colleagues, employees, suppliers, customers and more.
7 Habits of Successful Business Leaders: #5 Commit to Implement
‘The power of an idea is in its implementation.’ I couldn’t agree more with business coach Michael Sheargold. It takes implementation to transform a concept into reality and to put a plan into practice, but it’s easier said than done. Effective implementation requires time, strategy, purposeful communication and follow-up.
7 Habits of Successful Business Leaders: #4 High Standards
Behind a successful business there’s always a business leader with the ‘high standards habit’. What happens in your business every day reflects your clearly communicated expectations of quality: in attitude, processes and outcomes.
7 Habits of Successful Business Leaders: #3 The ‘Urgency’ Habit
They say that a fish rots from the head. Forgive me for likening your business to a dead Barramundi, but this graphic image is helpful for reminding you that as the business owner, you are the ‘head’, and that your leadership habits will influence your team – the ‘body’ – of your business.