Business Essentials

Play big and get excited about life! Don’t let the last 12 months or so keep you down. Now is as good time as any to embrace the opportunities that come your way. So says Les Watson, a trainer at Get More Time, with passion and expertise in time management, he’s affectionately earned the title of The Time Lord. In this episode Les picks to pieces the personal bad habits that stymie our success – including the three Ugly Ps and the 3 Beautiful Ms.

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Part of a manager’s job is to chat with individual staff members about their performance or behaviour. Poor performance can often be easier to address than offensive or inappropriate behaviour. Karen Gately, CEO of Corporate Dojo, has some tips for those must-have awkward conversations, including how to keep yourself together when emotions are high.

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If you want to connect – to truly connect – with the people around you, start telling stories. Because storytelling is a powerful way to reach people at a much deeper emotional level - just ask Colin Pearce. He’s spent a lifetime telling stories and relating their importance in the business setting. It’s scientific, he’ll tell us, as our dopamine, oxytocin and our endorphin levels all start working overtime! 

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What role does motivation play in achieving the goals you set for yourself? Those are the questions Craig Harper is exploring in his quest to further understand self-development.

As a business coach and motivational speaker, Craig believes it’s emotional and social intelligence that make a great leader. If your role is to coach and mentor, he says you need to understand the people you work with, and that comes first from understanding yourself.

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Reveal yourself as an expert in your industry and you'll reap the rewards later. Content marketing is an online marketing strategy to help you build your profile and be the 'go-to' expert in your field. It doesn't have to be as time-consuming as you might think, says content marketing expert and journalist, Valerie Khoo. So that you're not reinventing the wheel, she explains how to turn one discussion point into several communication methods – like blogs, videos or articles – to be published on different social media platforms.

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A cure for a hangover? Sounds like good timing as COVID locks us at home with perhaps a tipple more than we need to cheer us up. But the amazing growth of Bae Juice into the Australian market has been much more than pandemic-driven, and the young co-founders Tim O’Sullivan, Sumin Do and Liam Gostencnik are on a roll as Woolworths signs up for national distribution.

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Who of us in business doesn't want more time in our day? One way to get it back is by shortening the time spent in meetings. Is that possible? It is if you follow some of the tips in Donna McGeorge's book, 'The 25 minute meeting: half the time, double the impact'. She says we can't do without meetings, but we can do without the time-wasting aspects that infect a lot of them.

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“OK, that’s it – time to get back to the office!”. Is that your attitude? Because if it is, you may want to think again or lose your best staff, who are quite prepared to vote with their feet if returning to the workplace means losing a decent work-life balance. That’s the warning from the highly experienced corporate psychologist, Rhonda Andrews, of Barrington Centre.

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Katrina McCarter, Founder and CEO of Marketing to Mums and OUT LOUD Marketing Partners believes that marketing partnerships are the fastest and cheapest way to grow a business – but you need to follow some rules to make it work, for example, making sure you’re ethically aligned and that there’s an equal exchange of value taking place. Get the partnership right, though, and it’ll do wonders, both for you and for your marketing partner.

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Find out more about the OUTLOUD Marketing Partnerships Program at:
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When Amantha Imber, Organisational Psychologist & CEO of Inventium, eliminated management, she found that her workforce was happier and productivity increased. The idea sprung from research she did on "holocracy", a flat, self-management system where decision-making is vested in each person. They haven't looked back since the system was implemented.

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