360 Reviews: Ignite Growth or Risk Culture Collapse
The three elements you need to focus on for your 360s to NOT Sabotage your Culture. WHAT ARE 360 REVIEWS? 360 reviews are a powerful management tool for developing effective leaders…
Implementing Profit Sharing: Driving Employee Engagement and Financial Performance
Profit sharing is a powerful tool that can further develop your organisation’s employee engagement, financial performance, and company culture. It is not a quick-fix, short-term strategy to be used to fix poor employee engagement or poor company culture
Think-Write-Share: A Powerful Model for Strategic Thinking & Planning
The reason why we employ people in our business is so that we can scale. Getting the most our of our teams knowledge, insights and experience can be achieved by using the Think-Write-Share framework.
The Importance of Budgeting and Creating What-If Scenarios, Backed by Neuroscience
Budgeting, AKA: Planning, for Success. In neuroscience, the concept of cognitive laziness is rooted in the brain’s tendency to rely on well-established neural pathways and past experiences…
Why Local Manufacturing is Becoming More Attractive: A Look at the Shift Away from China
In recent years, I have witnessed a growing trend of businesses moving out of China for manufacturing to other Asian countries or back to New…
360 Surveys: What are They and Why Your Business Needs Them
Do you know what 360 surveys are? If not, you’re missing out on a powerful tool that can help improve your business. 360 surveys are questionnaires that allow employees to provide feedback on the company culture, management, and more.
Manage your Time Right: Top 4 Essential Tools for SME Owners
“I don’t have enough time.” The #1 feedback that I get from SME business owners is that they do not have enough time in the…
The 5 Top Reasons Why Business Owners Protect Their Employees From Knowing All
Based on my own experience and after asking many others, these are the top 5 reasons why we don’t say it like it is to our staff: 1. You are concerned that…
Personal Branding in SMEs – Time to Challenge the Paradigm
The average SME starts from the typical ‘garage’, i.e., the owner invests some dollars and leverages off their experience or training to start their business….
Micromanagement vs. Accountability
When you think about your business or the one you are employed in, how would you answer the following: This list is not exhaustive but covers most situations of how and…
The Three Measures that are Guaranteed to Drive Company Performance
I do still find that there are some businesses out there that still have no dashboard or any form of indicators that track overall business…
The best 90-day plans for a successful business
There is a veritable avalanche of information about 90-day plans online. These plans usually include basics such as establishing goals and trimming the business fat.