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Business Strategy and Planning
KPIs: Measure what’s important
;Following on from our previous blog in this series, “The Most Important Thing”, the next step is to translate your goals into action. For this, setting your targets and measuring your performance against them is...
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Hope and Dreams
What do you want to achieve in your business? Every owner manager had their reasons for why they started out on that journey – what are yours? And more importantly, are they still valid, are...
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Board Meeting Frequency
We often find that many SME owners don’t see the value of holding regular board meetings. When we ask business owners how often they hold a board meeting, a large percentage answer “once a year”...
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Marketing plan – those that plan win!
Those that plan … win! A good marketing plan dovetails with your business plan. Together they act as a navigation system for your business: assessing the conditions and setting the strategic direction.
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People: Performance Management
Performance management definition The performance review itself is defined as: “An analysis of an employee’s work habits undertaken at a fixed point in time to determine the degree to which stated objectives and expectations have been...
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The Board: Minutes, outcomes and follow up
As mentioned in our article “Prepping a successful board meeting” 2 key parts of the meeting are taking minutes and circulating actions. Follow this link for handy templates for these tasks. This work is critical to...
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