Addressing Performance Niggles in Your Team
Performance niggles often fall into one of the following categories: Attitude, Skill, Knowledge, or Support. This is also known as The Performance Matrix. It’s up to us as leaders to develop an individual’s knowledge through training, coaching and systems, and to support our team as they undertake their work, especially at the beginning of their […]
How to Say No If You’re a Yes Person!
Are you a yes person? Even when you’re snowed under with work, family, and life admin, do you find yourself saying yes to things you don’t really have time or head-space for? The downside of being a yes person: You can enable others to develop a dependency on you You may be susceptible to people […]
The Benefits of Creating a Holding Company
Once your business gets to a certain size and turnover, there’s real value in assessing the business structure and how to make things more tax-efficient. Setting up a holding company is one way to start creating an ordered and effective group structure. And by moving any surplus cash up from your trading entity to your […]
Start Your Year Off in The Performance Zone
Getting back into work after a break can be hard. You might be struggling to get back into your routine and engage your brain in work. Or, perhaps you spent time setting your goals and planning your year and you’re full speed raring to go. There is, however, an optimum approach somewhere between these two […]
Set the Right Growth Goals for Your Business This Year
If you’re going to grow your company in the right way, pinning down your goals and having a clear vision for the business from the outset is vital. You may want to increase profits and create an income that supports your lifestyle, or you are looking to increase market share and aim for hypergrowth. You […]
Want More Money, More Time or Less Stress?
We believe our clients all deserve the three freedoms: Financial Freedom; Time Freedom; and Mind Freedom. In other words, more money and time to spend on important things outside of their business, along with less stress. Is your business stifling your freedom? Being in business is tough. At times, you might be worried about whether […]
Fundamental Three to Successfully Scale Up Your Business
There are three fundamentals to successfully scale up your business: having a clear organisation structure, having comprehensive systems, and developing great leadership. Heard the quote, “What got you here won’t get you there”? These are wise words (and the title of a book you should read!) are from Marshall Goldsmith. Choosing to scale your business […]
Fundamental Two to Successfully Scale Up Your Business
There are three fundamentals to successfully scale up your business: having a clear (and documented) organisation structure, having comprehensive systems and processes, and developing great leadership. With growth comes growing pains. Such pains can affect team morale as well as your margins. It’s critical to pre-empt potential friction and put systems in place to ensure […]
Fundamental One to Successfully Scale up Your Business
Growth brings increased opportunity, but at the same time, increases risk. Poorly managed risk can cause failure, even if the business is growing. So, how do we plan for success in a fast-growing business? There are three fundamentals to successfully scale up your business: having a clear organisation structure, having comprehensive systems and processes – […]
Why you must set SMART goals
Content by The Gap. You’ve probably heard of SMART goals and, surprise surprise, they’re not rocket science… but they are very effective. SMART goals are an excellent filter to maximise planning outcomes. With the SMART acronym comes five simple parameters; that any goal (if you truly want to achieve it) must be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, […]