Recently I met with a potential client who was concerned about an attitude of entitlement his staff were displaying. His staff expected him to be ok when they came to work a little late, take extended lunch breaks and smoko breaks every couple of hours. Read More...

There are times when being human can be a challenge especially when working within a team.  Read More...

A lot of my new clients believe a budget is just about the money. That a budget is a projection of what they can (or can't) spend. In reality a budget is much more than that making it a critical tool in every business. Read More...

The year is only just started and we are once again coming to the end - the end of the financial year. Now is the time I see many business owners stressing about their accounts, worrying about what tax they will have to pay and frantically trying to balance their books ready to hand their 'shoe box' to the accountant. Read More...

Remember the days when you first went into business. You read heaps of books on how to run a business. You talked with others about the challenges of managing staff. You tried different products / services/ pricing to build a customer base. Those were the days of learning. Now you are in business, you survived the first 3 years when most businesses fail and things are ok, you have people working for you and money in the bank. Read More...