6 Management Fundamentals
When going through a business journey that involves KPIs, stressing about finance and taking the business to the next level….
Staff Training or Train Wreck? Which Track Will You Take?
When it comes to training and up-skilling, statistics show that only 78% of Australian businesses provide structured training…
My Sticky Note Wall
I’m pleased to say that I’ve worked with many successful tech companies throughout my professional career. However, like many of the Gen X’ers learning new technology does not come naturally to me…
Let’s change the conversation
Healthy conversations and good communication are paramount to every process you ever complete in your personal and professional life…
Explain your product like you’re explaining it to your Grandma
It’s easy to overcomplicate your product concept, marketing and future direction. When you’re super passionate about the problem your product solves, and you’re spending all of your time building your business, you forget about the perspective of the…
What’s your exit plan?
The best advice I could possibly have received, something I wish I had heard 14 years ago when I started my first business was from one of my greatest mentors, 3 years ago. One simple question that I initially found a little offensive and glum, in a time when…
Why Most Good Employees Leave
Most managers have never been taught how to develop their people. In the current business climate, with its brutal hours and aggressive markets, a precedent is often created that can be damaging for most businesses. Most managers are concerned about their department’s…
Is Your Business Just Another Glum Statistic?
There are approximately 2.5 million small businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Over 800,000 of these businesses have employees and two-thirds of the 2.5 million businesses are non-employing, in laymen’s terms a ‘one-man show’. Approximately 81% of these businesses…
Starting a Business Can Be Lonely
You have a great idea, you start developing it and think you have a clear view of the path you want to follow, but sometimes you get stuck. It could be because you didn’t realise that the journey would be so long and stressful. You didn’t realise that no matter what…
Fastest Frustration Diffuser: Break. It. Down.
Science proves that when we are stuck, we lack the motivation required to solve the problem we face. My nine-year-old son has a solution… A few weeks ago I faced a task that involved mathematical work. Everyone who knows me knows that maths is not my strong suit, so…
