Outsourcing or Employing

Creating Skills Sets to Maximize Efficiency As your business grows you will be faced with challenging functions that you either have no or a limited skills set in. This could be marketing, accounting, financial invoicing, form design or any other business function. A basic thought process for good outsourcing is looking at whether you can ... Read More

Who Am I?

I am your constant companion, I am your greatest helper and heaviest burden I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed - ... Read More

Great New Book on Money Management

Managing money and allowing yourself to move forward financially! Yesterday I had the immense pleasure of attending a workshop called "Marketing Magic" by Tony Melvin of The Knowledge Centre fame and other great ventures. (More about that in a later post) During the day it became increasingly evident that Tony Melvin not only has a ... Read More

Memories, Thoughts and Photographs

Organizational Planning Recently I volunteered to present a short overview of Organisational Planning to a local business group. I love this type of analytical business stuff, but was looking for a worthy quote which would reflect the need to plan organisations. Well I found it reading the Peter ... Read More

Turning Goal Setting Upside Down!

Traditional Goal Setting is only part of the Journey! I have had the pleasure of working with some great people this week.  Part of this journey was working on Goal Setting and yes my mind immediately switched to SMART goals and how they have helped me along in life to achieve certain things.  But ... Read More

When Your Passion meets your Mindset!

What happens when you align your passion, purpose and potential with your mindset? Last week I attended an International Coaching Federation meeting whose guest speaker discussed and helped us assess our own Genius. What an extraordinary exercise. With the methodology used, it crystallized who I was and what I was meant ... Read More

Money – The reason for getting into Business!

Most people think that business owners get into business for the money However, if you ask the owners why they originally started the business and what motivated them, money usually if very low on the list. Most will describe to you phrases similar to: I had an idea for a product and was so passionate about ... Read More

Business Planning – Platforming Systems for Growth Part II

Continuing on from the last blog post, Systemizing your Platform.  What are the advantages? My third image is to show the expected effect on your platform by way of systemizing your existing platform.  We are then achieving the maximum efficiency out of your current people, equipment, procedures etc.... Read More