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Brett Morris delves into a question asked by many managers and employers – should trust be earned, or given?
“In establishing a relationship with a new employee or team, should managers/leaders place their trust in them? Or should they withhold that trust and expect that the employee/team earn it from them?”
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Danielle MacInnis blogs about businesses that refuse to focus on what their customers need.
“If you don’t engage they will by-pass you. It’s so easy for them to ignore – they can turn off the tv, delete the email and fast forward the podcast.”
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Rick Mapperson delivers a timely reminder about securing important records and documents in your business.
“The solution is to switch to electronic record keeping. It is the safest, easiest and most efficient way of maintaining the necessary records for your business.”
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Arndria Seymour blogs about how the carbon tax is raising questions about corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
“Integration of sustainability and ‘green’ strategies should now be viewed as a business critical mission if you work for a socially responsible organisation. Going green requires mind and behaviour shifts at all levels of the organisation.”
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Rohan Gamble weighs up Australian business bank packages with their UK counterparts.
“You’d like to think a more robust economy that isn’t teetering on a gut-wrenching debt precipice would fare pretty well in the financial services stakes – especially now that the taxpayer is guaranteeing savings and all that.”
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Brad Callaughan blogs about the benefits to small business of using Self-Managed Super Funds to purchase commercial properties.
“You can have a tax effective asset that is held safely in a SMSF, with no recourse from the bank, and pay no tax when you sell it.”
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Nikki Mumford of Umm.. Communications tackles a question SMBs constantly ask her – should I go with a marketing agency, or do it in-house?
“When you are a small to medium business owner there are limitations to what you can offer with regards to marketing in-house and there are generally big holes left within the marketing department (if you even have one), that need to be filled.”
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Lady Danielle Di-Masi blogs about the link between a making a strong first impression and being successful in business.
“Once you get that first 7 seconds over with then you need to move on to making a lasting impression that continues through your entire relationship with this person.”
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Managers must learn how to distance themselves from being problem solvers and instead as problem finders and givers, Brett Morris blogs.
“Popularly, these voracious problem finders are known as micromanagers. But because of the obsessive compulsive traits they display, we like to say that they’re suffering from Management OCD.”
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Alicia Beachley gets serious about protecting your Intellectual Property online.
“Your work and therefore your IP is something that should be very valuable to you, both commercially and intellectually.”
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