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Are Your Financial Goals Realistic?
Read moreAs entrepreneurs we love to think big and dream even bigger. The sky is the limit right? However, when it comes to your financial goals, they need to be both realistic and attainable. If not, you may find that a few weeks into the financial year you have lost your momentum and motivation because you are quickly falling way behind
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Transform Yourself From Worker to Leader
Read moreMaking the transition from worker to leader can be difficult. We are all creatures of habit and whether you’ve risen through the ranks to be promoted to a leadership position, or you actually founded the company yourself, it’s tempting to keep doing what you’ve always done and just do the work yourself. Increasingly, businesses are embracing a flatter organisational structure.
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Are Women the key to a Productive Workforce?
Read moreWomen in part time and flexible roles, often as a result of returning to the workforce after maternity or family based leave, bear the assumptions that they are not pulling their weight and are in fact a drain on the organisation. Considering that productivity gains are the goal of so many businesses in the aim of reducing costs and increasing
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Fighting for the First Rung on the Corporate Ladder
Read moreClimbing the corporate ladder rarely happens by accident. Sure there are some people who are blessed with luck, where hard work and opportunity collide, and rise almost by accident, but most of us need to take deliberate and targeted steps. If the Workplace Gender Equality Agency survey tells us anything about the climb to the top, the undisputed facts are
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Defining Your Business
Read moreYou have a passion for giftware (or makeup or homewares), a flair for sales and you want to open your own business. You love shopping online and have decided to combine all your interests and open an online store. Hold on. Aren’t there already a glut of similar stores online, all competing for the same customers and selling similar items?
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Time to Move On to Seek Job Satisfaction
Read moreIn our grandparent’s day, perhaps even in our parent’s experience, it wasn’t unusual to stay in a job for life. Changing jobs or even careers is far more common in today’s job market and this trend will increase in the coming decades. Mark McCrindle, social researcher states “By 2020 average job tenure will be around 3 years (4 years today)
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3 Ways Your Business can Shine Amongst the Competition
Read moreWherever you look, there seems to be a business offering the same kinds of products or services. No matter what kind of business you run, we’ve probably all felt the same way at some stage. Some days you wonder how your customers are going to find you in the crowd. Some business owners turn to discounting their offerings while others
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Sheryl Sandberg – Ban Bossy
Read moreIn April of this year, Sheryl Sandberg, the well-known COO of Facebook and author of Lean In, launched the Ban Bossy campaign. According to Sandberg, words have an incredible power to shape the narrative of a culture, and have a direct impact on an individual’s ambition and drive. Sandberg believes that the term “bossy” should literally be banned from our
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What are You Going to Achieve in the Last Quarter of 2014?
Read moreDo you remember the start of the New Year, and all of those shiny new goals and resolutions that you made? How are you coming along? Have you achieved everything that you set out to do this year, or did you hit some distractions or even roadblocks along the way? Perhaps you were focussed at the start of the year
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Do you Lead or Manage?
Read moreDo you lead or manage? And is there even a difference? A manager is someone whose responsibility is to plan and direct the work of a group, assess and monitor progress and take corrective action if and when required. This is often an entry level management role and a stepping stone to greater things. Alternatively, a leader is a person
