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The Why and How of Trust

CATEGORY: Organisational Success, People and Performance Trust is “being able to have a confident expectation of something”.  Trust is at the core of success, giving people the ability to rely on others, what they say and what they are likely…

Quality Organisation

CATEGORY: Organisational Success There are many components to becoming a quality organisation.  This article covers some of them. What’s the Purpose of the organisation?  Why does the organisation fundamentally exist?  An insurance company exists to cover the risks of the community; the…

Y18-02-BT1

CATEGORY: Financial Management, Organisational Success, People & Performance, Planning, Sales & Marketing With broad and rapid change affecting industries and business more than ever before, one crucial aspect to be aware of is the changing roles in business.  Some roles…

Why Engage a Qualified Contract Bookkeeper

With all the current hype of software companies promoting that a business owner can do their own bookkeeping or that accountants can do a business owner’s bookkeeping, engaging a well-qualified bookkeeper may seem like an unnecessary expense, but is that…

GST on Low Value Imports

GST on low value imported goods will apply to sales from the 1st July 2018. This will only be relevant to those businesses that provide goods valued at $1,000AUD or lower. The items that are relevant include: Clothing Cosmetics Books…

Career Management

Category: Coaching, People & performance Sound career management is paramount to professional success.  This article provides ways to do so. People are changing careers, jobs and job roles a lot more often today. Sometimes these changes are being chosen but…

Challenges for Small Business

Category: Organisational Success, Planning Small business (owners) are facing increased challenges in today’s very demanding commercial world and only those willing to change and adapt will succeed. Small business owners and key people have always had to have a wide…

Annual shutdown guide part 2

This is the follow-on from the Annual Shutdown Guide Part 1 The time of the annual shut-down for each business is arriving quickly as Christmas is now only a matter of a few short weeks away. There is still much to…

Why Businesses Fail

Category: Organisational Success Sadly, many businesses either fail, don’t reach the levels the owners would like or don’t reach their potential. There is one fundamental reason that causes poor performance for privately owned and operated businesses … the owners! So many…