Business Essentials

An Australian veteran business leader shares the lessons he's learnt from the rough and tumble of five decades of business life. Geoff Slade built Slade Group to Australia's biggest executive search firm through a combination of hard work and developing trusting and meaningful relationships. He's identified many truths along the way - his personal perspectives on what really counts to achieve success in business and in life.

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Like all farmers, Chris Balazs understands how much tastier meat is from animals he slaughters on his own farm. For those and other ethical reasons, he and his team have built Provenir, Australia's first and only mobile abattoir. Provenir oversees the whole operation from purchasing livestock on-farm direct from their partnering farmers, to the on-farm processing and into their artisan butchery.

It hasn't been all plain sailing – the regulatory hurdles have been enormous. But he has some important backers, including celebratory chef Guy Grossi, and the owners of Rockpool and Three Blue Ducks, who value the premium quality of the meat from selected farmers across the country. And consumers know where their meat is sourced, thanks to Provenir's innovative technology.

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If you think about it, there are very few businesses that aren’t reliant on some form of technology or digitisation. And with the pandemic speeding up the process, the move toward automation isn’t so much a choice anymore, as much as a requirement, if you want to remain competitive. Alex Kain, CEO of Human Pixel, says “digital is just purely an evolution of business”, and he explains the ways in which SMEs can automate, cost effectively.

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We’d all like to sail through business life without legal hitches – but sadly, they happen. In fact, Paul Brennan, Principal at Brennans Solicitors tells us, it’s easy to get caught up in a legal wrangle if you’re not careful - which is why he’s drawn up his hit list of the ten biggest ones, the most expensive legal mistakes you’re likely to make, and how to avoid them.

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We all have stories to tell – they may reveal our vulnerabilities, our very personal thoughts and feelings, but we shouldn’t be afraid to tell them because those who work around us, or who buy from us, will respond positively. Colin Pearce reminds us that we’re not just business people, we’re human beings too!

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Are you overwhelmed by urgency? Do the distractions throughout the day feel as if you don't have the time to get the important things done? Productivity expert Dermot Crowley has pointed out the problems many of us have in taming urgency in his new book, 'Urgent!' In this episode, he outlines how we control urgency and improve productivity, all the while keeping our stress levels in check.

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So you wake up one morning and say to yourself “Today I’m going to sell my business – and I’m going to get top dollar for it”. If only it was that simple. But the reality is that preparing a business sale can take years. In fact, according to business sales expert John Blight, the process should begin on the day you first started the business.

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If there are any lessons to come out of our experience with COVID, it’s how we’ve learnt to adapt to change. Many businesses have discovered that flexible workplaces, for example, have empowered employees to get on with doing what’s important. Karen Gately, CEO of Corporate Dojo, says we’re seeing a move away from a command-and-control style of leadership.

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There have been many business lessons we’ve learned because of COVID, particularly in sales. For one thing, says Sue Barrett, CEO of Barrett Consulting Group, the pandemic has underlined the importance of ethical behaviours and virtues like trust, cooperation and gratitude. Sue says your strategy, processes, people, and culture, should be underpinned by a holistic approach.

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Being on time matters. In business, punctuality reflects your integrity and builds trust with others whom you honour with a promise of not being late. That’s according to business coach, productivity guru, Les Watson, whose own punctuality you can set your watch to. Les has some tips on how to combat distractions which can prevent us from arriving to events on time.

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