Best Practices for SMEs in FY25: Navigating a Dynamic Economy.
As we step into FY25, SMEs face a unique set of challenges and opportunities in a dynamic economic landscape. To thrive, SMEs need to focus on key areas that drive growth and sustainability. Read More…
Navigating Tomorrow’s Uncertainty Today: The Importance of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP).
A well-structured, active BCP can prepare for potential disruptions, safeguard their operations, and maintain stakeholder trust. Read More…
How To Talk To An Employee Who Isn't Meeting Expectations.
Creating an opportunity to work collaboratively to strengthen the employee and manager relationship in performance conversations, through a supportive and valued lens. Read More…
The Essence of Leadership: Cultivating Leaders, Not Followers.
Leadership is a multifaceted journey which is unique to everyone. An important factor for any leader is an emphasis needs to be placed on you, allowing time for you to invest in becoming a better leader. Read More…
There are numerous tax incentives available to support your business, particularly if you're focused on innovation. Let's explore four key areas where you might find significant advantages. Read More…
Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy.
Companies have long been building purpose into what they do, but usually it’s seen as an add-on—as a way to, say, give back to the community. The high-growth companies in the study, in contrast, had made purpose central to their strategies, using it to redefine playing fields and reshape value propositions. Read More…
How to avoid shutdowns and downtime in critical infrastructure
If your company relies on critical infrastructure assets, you know how devastating downtime can be. This article explores the risks of asset failure, inadequate maintenance, and cybersecurity threats, and the damage they can cause to your reputation and finances. Read More…
Cybersecurity Action Plan: 7 Tips for Small Business CFOs
A data security breach is one of the CFO’s biggest nightmares. Delivering you some practical steps help finance chiefs enhance or build practices to prevent cybersecurity risk from CFO.com. Read More…
Why You Need to Train Your Leaders in Mental Health.
Employees are grappling with unprecedented levels of stress, trying to balance work and life amidst rising living costs, increasing KPIs, and looming deadlines. The value placed on safety, happiness, and fulfilment has never been higher. Read More…
Is Your Team Working In Silos?
Lack of collaboration or the often-referred-to ‘working in silos’. If so many organisations are struggling with this concept, then as leaders what are we doing to address it? Gavin from Leading Teams offers some advice in tackling the challenge. Read More…
How to give effective feedback: building a culture of continuous improvement.
Feedback is the driving force for growth, high-performance and trust-building within relationships and teams. It’s the mirror that reflects our blind spots and areas we might overlook to provide us with valuable insights into behaviour and potential obstacles. Read More…
Economic Outlook: What’s in store for 2024?
In a world of economic uncertainty, we often look to the Chief Economists of Australia’s leading financial institutions for their insight into the shape of our economy and prevailing market conditions for the year ahead. Hewison have summarised the views of three prominent sources, NAB, RBA, and Macquarie, into the economic landscape of 2024, delving into each perspective and comparing their outlooks. Read More…
Your Organisation Isn't Designed To Work With AI.
Many companies are struggling to derive value from GenAI because of a fundamental flaw in their approach: They think of GenAI as a traditional form of automation rather than as an assistive agent that gets smarter — and makes humans smarter — over time. Read More…
Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023
Despite efforts to beef up cybersecurity, data breaches, there was a 20% increase in data breaches from 2022 to 2023. There are three primary reasons behind this increased theft of personal data: (1) cloud misconfiguration, (2) new types of ransomware attacks, and (3) increased exploitation of vendor systems. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce the impact of each of these factors. Read More…
Tips for organisations on cultivating values. Read More…
Keep your team motivated when a project goes off track.
If one of your projects is going sideways, here are 6 ways to motivate your team to get back on track. Read More…
Could this have been an email?
As a leader how do we effectively set an agenda where participants contribute, feel informed and part of the solution? Here are some strategies from global CEOs on what they have implemented in their workplace, to ensure everyone benefits from internal meetings. Read More…
How to Handle an Emotionally Charged Negotiation
Conflict resolution in the workplace is a necessary, but often uncomfortable, part of being a leader. A leader is required to navigate layers of emotion, dig deep to surface hidden issues, and think fast in the face of curveballs. These are valuable skills that can take years, if not an entire career, to learn. Read More…
Succession, it is not just a popular TV show.
Succession in any business is vital to ensure that you are set up for success and has minimal impact to the day to day running of your company. These three tips can help steer you in the right direction as you start to design and implement an exit strategy now to help set you up for the future. Read More…
Make 2024 the year of engagement.
One thing is for certain and that is algorithms for Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram are constantly changing. Therefore, it is important to ensure that your content stays relevant, engaging, and visible. Read More…
How a single sentence can help align your entire business.
Does your company have a single sentence that sums up your business strategy and can be sited by all stakeholders?
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What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?
Harvard Business Review takes a look at the strategic approach that companies are taking to attract, develop and retain staff. Read More…
5 Cyber Security Risk Management Strategies
Ian Brady - Managing Director - Steadfast Solutions
With cyber-attacks steadily growing more sophisticated, understanding how to defend against them is critical to maintain business
continuity.
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The importance of a business strategy
A well-thought-out business strategy can help project growth, navigate through economic constructs and enables you to
think objectively about key elements in your business that assists with your decision-making.
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How protected is your business from cyber criminals?
There are many common misconceptions about how safe you think your business is from a cyber-attack. Read More…
Employee share ownership plans (ESOP), the benefits to your business.
Discover the benefits of introducing ESOP to your business. Read More…
Evaluating ROI on your Company's Learning and Development Initiatives.
Five ways to ensure your L&D investments pay off. Read More…
How to Prepare for a GenAI Future You Can't Predict
A framework for making plans in the midst of great uncertainty. Read More…
Proactive Not Reactive Are You Fulfilling Your Positive Duty Obligations?
Ahead of new regulatory powers of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to investigate and enforce compliance with positive duty in December 2023, Mapien describes how you can implement the changes needed to meet your legal obligations. Read More…
How Leaders Can Apply the Circles of Control, Influence & Concern
As a leader, you likely deal with more stress than the average person. The challenge is that so many sources of stress can often feel out of your control. And that can be quite stressful in itself! So, what can you do? Read More…
How to retain that hard fought contract, before the renewal date.
by Steve Gerlach | Apr 13, 2023
So, you’ve won the contract after a long and complicated tender process which has tied up your sales, operations and bidding teams, everyone
has celebrated the hard-fought victory and your operations team has mobilised to site….now what?
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