Brand Leadership

Protect Your Business In Tough Times

Jun 15 2022

As we open up after the pandemic lockdowns, many businesses are yet to fully recover. In fact, some may never recover from the enforced closures and the extended reduction in demand as customers preferred to stay home to be safe.

While people begin to embrace this new world, it is still tough out there.

This means we have to think of ways to protect your business in tough times.

While it may not be possible to be fully proofed against these times, what is possible is to secure your business as much as possible by following some common-sense business strategies.

These strategies can be either “defensive” or “aggressive” strategies.

As your profit performance drops it is difficult not to panic and to tighten all your spending. However, you can tighten things too much. While it is natural to seek defensive strategies such as cutting costs, it is important to keep in mind the more aggressive strategies – those that your business should take to ensure that you are the one in your industry survives while others are closing down. Read More

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Small Businesses And An Uncertain Future

Apr 13 2021

As small business operators, our world is impacted by uncertainty.

Sometimes, from day to day, we’re not sure of the long-term loyalty of our staff; overhead costs like rents can trend up or down quite quickly; new legislation that we had not expected can change your trading landscape.

Even as we write our annual or other short-term Business Plans, we sometimes feel unready to look too far ahead. While planning for next year may be reasonably reliable, really small businesses rarely write long-term Strategic Plans looking ahead 5 or 10 years because we feel that we are unable to reliably predict the stability of the future.

So what are we to do as small business owners trying to reach a vision of the future in as steady and as planned a direction as we can steer?

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A Challenge in Customer Fulfilment

Sep 01 2020

Customer Fulfillment usually refers to the process of delivering the product or service to the customer, involving “order fulfilment” methods such as logistics.

However, when I say customer fulfilment, I mean the whole system of ensuring that your customer is “fulfilled” in their engagement with you.

In other words, how fulfilled are they when they first encountered you, how easy was it to transact with you, whether they received their goods and services in the way and time that they liked, and what was their experience after the sale?

I take customer fulfilment to be much more than “customer service”.

It’s about total satisfaction.

In this definition, customer fulfilment is one of the six key factors that successful businesses must have to be successful.

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Three Reasons Why Leadership Grows Your Business

May 26 2020

As a small business owner, you may be up to your armpits in fixing a bushfire or working after hours keeping up with the bookkeeping.

You hear about people saying that a business needs leadership to guide it to success and maybe you think that’s fine for some but in the real world, it’s pretty much BS!

Where have you got the time?

And anyway you own and run a small business. At best you only have a handful of people working for you and they seem to be doing what they’re told!

Well, let me take a few minutes of your time and show you why Leadership will help you grow your business into the successful business you want – that successful business you dream about but maybe don’t really think you can build.

I’ll give you three reasons why Leadership grows your business.

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7 Key Skills of Business Leadership

Oct 23 2018

Let’s get down to brass tacks – as a small business owner, you are not a “manager” who organises work. You have to be a business leader, who inspires, sets agendas, and creates opportunities.

What you need to successfully grow a business today are leadership skills. You probably started your business as a subject-matter expert with those specialist skills that made you produce your product or services.

But as your business grew, and you took on employees, the role of the small business owner has to shift from “do-er” to “leader,” from specialist subject-matter expert to generalist, and from problem solver to agenda setter. You need to create strategies that find opportunities, and the transition is not easy for people who became specialists and subject-matter experts by working for someone else.

So, what are the key skills you need to be a business leader?

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