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Time Management or management of time?

Time Management or management of time?

If you ever catch yourself saying you don’t have enough time consider this: the length of the hours available to you are the same as those that Michelangelo, Pasteur, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Thomas Jefferson had available to them. The...
Hiring Staff – Personality fit

Hiring Staff – Personality fit

As a business owner one of your most important on-going tasks will be hiring the right team. To be sure, it’s far from easy. Not only is it time-consuming but there are financial and reputational consequences to consider. Bad hires are most definitely bad for...
Buying a business

Buying a business

There are few things more exciting that deciding to go into business on your own. Rather than facing the blank sheet of paper and starting your business from scratch buying an established business could be the best way for you to get started in New Zealand. I have...
Engaging your Audience

Engaging your Audience

With 97% of New Zealand businesses having less than 20 employees, we are a nation of small businesses. There are many ways that this smaller size helps owners, its more manageable and so on, but one area where SMEs face unique challenges is in their sales and...
The leadership qualities that matter today

The leadership qualities that matter today

Leadership is a commonly used word, and we all know the dictionary definition, but for SMEs what does leadership really mean today? When launching an SME, leadership is all about the idea and the drive to make it happen, the force of character to create something new...