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- Avoid these management traps
- Tips for setting goals and strategic priorities
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Organisationally… How Bendy Are You?
According to a recent survey; “Survey on Workplace Flexibility” [Herman Trend Alert 23.2.2011], workplace flexibility is a highly valued and important benefit for employees. How’s this for startling results from US employers: - 98% offer at least one workplace flexibility …
Business Plan Template
Here’s a very simple way to start business planning today.
Position Description Template
A helpful template to use when advertising a position in your business.
Dealing with difficult employees
A nightmare employee can create a cloud over the entire office!
How do I build a marketing plan?
A marketing plan forces you to think about your business and answer some specific questions.
SWOT Analysis
Analysing your business with the S.W.O.T: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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Avoid these management traps
Industry Week recently posted an article about some of the common traps that leaders fall into. This inspired us to write our take on this topic – adding more depth to some of the issues raised, plus a few others …
read moreTips for setting goals and strategic priorities
Beware of “Group Think” People in the same team (sometimes even in an entire industry) can tend to all think alike. This is a trap to beware of when setting strategy and forecasting goals. Groups can tend to be over-confident …
read moreIt’s on the list!
In this busy world of ours, some time honoured habits are just the ticket to make sure things get done and make life easier. For example – whilst scouring around for a fresh take on what’s what, we noticed various …
read moreFrom Watchmaker to Dream Maker
This is a story of a young boy who at the age of 12 dreamed of being a watchmaker, and like all good stories, this has a very happy ending.
read moreWestpac Young Fashion Designer Award – Jess Britten
This time next year Jess Britten, the winner of the Westpac Young Fashion Designer Award, hopes to be enrolled at London’s Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, a school that has produced some of the world’s most well known fashion designers.
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Most popular guides
How can I reduce time spent ‘doing the books’?
Filing your GST Return electronically can make things a lot simpler.
read moreHow do I build a marketing plan?
A marketing plan forces you to think about your business and answer some specific questions.
read moreWhat is social media?
Social media is commonly referred to as user generated media and can take many different forms.
read moreWhat is Twitter?
Once you start using Twitter, you’ll realise how powerful a community it can be.
read moreWhy do I need a website?
The saying now goes, if your site can’t be found on the first page of Google your business doesn’t exist.
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