Social media advertising can be challenging There is a lot of talk in the press about Google and Facebook right now. And as business owners over the years how much we spend on these platforms to ‘find customers’ seems to go up and up. Gone are the days when we would...
Goal setting is about getting what you want… Sometimes (especially in times of significant change) goal setting seems rather pointless. We often say to ourselves ‘there is so much we cannot control – it is too hard to plan.’ But if you don’t plan – and set...
Collaboration is one of those words that we use a lot but I’m not really sure if in fact I do it that well. When we had group assignments way back in the day at school and Uni I was not really the person that would gather everyone together to work on things. I...
Finding our leadership framework. I firmly believe that everyone needs a plan, particularly business leaders. And right now, with an ever changing landscape courtesy of Covid-19, it’s very challenging for leaders to formulate any kind of plan with certainty. Changing...
The Experience of Work – BRG Six point framework. We know work has changed – but how will culture be affected. Many leaders are asking themselves – ‘Do we go back to the office’? As some know, I’m all about making, maintaining and...
When Shark Tank judge Naomi Simson delivers a pitch for Start ups. I was delighted to do several question and answer sessions for the Start Up community recently. At one of these sessions with Start Up Grind – I was asked to pitch my own business. The question...
Some thoughts on how to move forward and rebuild with a sense of optimism and purpose. Anyone who knows me is aware that I’m an optimist and yesterday as I presented to 50 rural women business owners the question of ‘what next?’ and ‘where to from...
Small businesses are seeking partnerships to help them survive and thrive. This is a story about one of my favourite places on the planet. A place that my husband and I love so much we chose to have our honeymoon there – and it is only a few hours from Sydney (by...
How we will make every moment count After the ‘Oh noooo’ moment which happened on 11 March 2020 when the World Health Organisation announced, ‘the pandemic’ like most other business owners, we picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and have been working around the...
It is time for an economic uplift for rural Australia I read with interest that ‘Post-COVID, Australians go back to grassroots’; ‘The regions offer brighter post-COVID futures, predicts demographer Bernard Salt’. Salt’s article goes to great lengths to speak of the...
