Tips and Advice for SMEs

I was recently contracted by a business to meet a team of eight who weren’t getting on. On the surface, they were pumping out great service to customers, but behind the scenes was a very different matter. As a conflict manager it was easy for

The first time I told my dad that I was planning on going into partnership he told me he didn’t think it was a good idea. Based on the horror stories you hear about failed partnerships and how often things do go wrong, what he

An age agnostic business avoids arbitrary assumptions and hires mature age people for their skills and experience. Australia is in the grip of an ageist epidemic with hundreds of thousands of mature aussies who are willing to work. They are being denied opportunity on the

Inefficiency, like rust, never sleeps, and can suddenly creep into any corner of your business. Vigilance against inefficiency is even more critical for small to medium-sized businesses because margins for error can be thin, and small but steady drains on revenue can suddenly hit a tipping

The second annual Chubb Australia SME Cyber Preparedness Report 2019 – “Ignorance is Risk” – released recently, reveals 47 per cent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia are not aware of their obligations under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme.This follows the introduction