Respect is something you should earn from your team and it should not be expected or demanded. Being a respected leader necessarily requires you to be mindful of how you interact with your team and peers. How effective leaders earn the [...]

Finding good employees can be really tedious. It involves time and money spent in advertising for a new role, sifting through applicants, and then spending time in a relatively short interview to gauge whether or not the person will fit well into your company. [...]

Every day around the world, an untold number of new small businesses throw themselves into the competitive entrepreneurial world. Business owners spend hours refining business plans and safeguarding against risks, and yet many will not make it past the first year of trading. You [...]

Material theft is a never-ending concern for all businesses. Managing this threat in a growing business is especially difficult, given that the more employees you have, the more chance of material being stolen. Fortunately, the concept of the ’Theft Triangle’ can help identify and [...]

Some of our team came back from a business course with the concept of defining our company’s values. As we went through the implementation process, it became obvious that a lot of the issues we had been having in recent times could be attributed to [...]

We are all busy people, constantly multi-tasking and blurring the lines between work and home life – answering phones while on the job, completing paperwork while supervising staff or minding kids at home, checking our work emails while out to dinner with family. Running [...]

First impressions are a key factor in gaining more business, and the easiest way to make a great first impression is to make sure your business looks and works like a professional outfit. Make sure the first impression your trades business gives is a [...]

Many of us working in the trades industries have played football or some other team sport. We have all had some great coaches as role models that we’ve looked up to and will never forget. Make it your goal to be that person. [...]

Let this be the year you streamline and automate your workflow so you can devote more time to building your business. We’ve put together a few simple ideas to help you on your way. Office staff spend 20 per cent of the work [...]