Business Essentials

By employing what she calls her “Critical Alignment Model” for both herself and her clients, Remi Pearson has built an expanding, international coaching institute. In one of her many books "Disruptive Leadership: Four Simple Steps to Creating the Winning Team," she explains how to question the status quo so as to build better businesses.

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If COVID-19 has taught us anything over the last 18 months, it’s the importance of workplace culture. Greg Halse, Partner at Mazars, says now is a good time to connect with your people, and understand what motivates them. It helps to nourish a sense of pride and purpose, and allow social connection to flourish within the team.

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Making important decisions in an uncertain environment can not only be crucial to the success of a business but it can also play havoc with the decision-maker’s personal state of mind. Management Consultant Roger Perry explains how to lessen stress when it comes to making important decisions, and how decision makers should stand back and look at how they go about the process.

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Start-up life is never easy, but entrepreneurs are born with an innate desire to create and build. There are however some well-worn pitfalls that entrepreneurs keep tripping up on. Tara Shelton is founder of a number of successful businesses, including 'Dream & Do', a creative agency that helps start-ups build their brand and communications. She says that she’s seen it all before — the good, the bad and the ugly — so, she’s identified 7 deadly sins that entrepreneurs keep making but need to avoid.

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Automation and systemisation might work at the supply chain level or in fast-food production, but be careful about being too efficient with your customer communications. You don’t want to ruin your customers’ experience. That’s according to sales guru, Sue Barrett, CEO of Barrett Consulting Group. She outlines the three C’s of customer centric experience: clarity, consistency and communication.

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Andrew Ford, Founder of Social Star, has turned the elevator pitch on its head with his own pitch structure which aims to be more conversational. The standard elevator pitch, he insists, is one-directional and lacks true engagement. With practice, your pitch shouldn't feel like selling; instead, it should feel like you're providing answers to someone's questions. The challenge Andrew sets out to solve is getting them to ask you questions.

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The past year was certainly one marked with COVID outbreaks and restrictions, but 2021 also saw huge growth in shares and house prices underlined by bargain-basement interest rates. Melbourne University Economics Professor Neville Norman looks back at 2021 by comparing it to the preceding decade, and outlines where the 2021 federal budget got it wrong.

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If you want your team to be fully committed to your idea, first it's worth spending time with them to connect and develop a level of trust. That's according to Simon Dowling, business coach and author of ‘Work With Me: How to get people to buy into your ideas.’ You’ll achieve the best results, he insists, if you have a team who’s as enthusiastic and willing as you are about your idea.

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The swings and the roundabouts of running a business can be stressful at the best of times. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to business consultant Roger Perry. He advises his clients to build business resilience by concentrating on two key aspects of their enterprise: what he calls organisational fortification, and organisational adaptability.

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Do you often feel like you’re a fraud or a fake? Perhaps you started your business because you were good a particular thing, but then you question whether you’re any good at running a business. These are signs of Imposter Syndrome, and if left unchecked they could impact the very thing you’re unconfident about: your business. Behaviour change expert Suzanne Mercier says there is a cure – she outlines what you can do if you think you suffer from the dreaded Imposter Syndrome.

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