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Strategies for Time Poor Business People

In the fast-paced business world, time is perhaps the most valuable commodity. For busy professionals juggling multiple responsibilities, finding ways to maximise productivity and efficiency is crucial. Time-poor individuals often struggle to balance work, personal life, and self-care, leading to…

Driving Value from Planning Days

What value do you get from your planning days? We need to make the most of them, to create significant and positive improvements for the future. Here are some ‘musts’ to run high value Planning days: First, planning days should…

ENGAGE STRATEGIC THINKING

Every business, small or large, should engage in strategic thinking. Strategic thinking is: Futuristic Open (for input from a variety of thinkers/people) Boundless (in its coverage and possibilities) Ongoing and consistent (not just a planning session nor conference) Challenging (to…

JobKeeper Scheme

The JobKeeper Scheme is underway.  Here is what we currently know and for all these steps we will be providing you with authorities to enrol you in the system and templates to meet all your eligibility and record keeping requirements…

Prepare your Budgets

This action is applicable to EVERY business, irrespective of size, industry, ownership, financial expertise or anything else. If you have been someone who, in the past, has not seen the value in preparing and reporting against budgets, we urge you…

How to Think Creatively in Business

In this article we look at how to best go about setting up creative thinking …. and how not to go about it. It is necessary to understand how the human brain works, through its subconscious and conscious components. The subconscious receives…

ATO New Record Keeping Resources

Early in 2019, the ATO invited members of the Small Business Stewardship Group (SBSG) to participate in a consultation activity about several issues regarding the structure and content of the ATO website. This included a new business record keeping resource…

Tips & GST

Restaurant Tips Tipping for services – do you pay GST on the Tips received? What happens when a customer pays a tip? Does it get reported on the BAS? What is the impact for employees/contractors? What happens with tipping depends…

Motivation Myth

The Motivation Myth This high performance action / article is the answer to anyone’s woes in ‘motivation’. Note the colours of the print below: Blue print = High Performance Red Print = No Go Zone Normal Print = Commentary Do…