As the working year winds down with the annual Christmas party, managers need to prepare before the celebrations begin to protect employees from sexual harassment. Charisse Gray outlines the reasonable steps managers are expected to take to ensure the workplace is safe: before, during and after the party. The office Christmas party is a traditional […]
The benefits of technology to any small business can be huge, if you make the right choices at the start. Wrong choices are expensive, frustrating, and time wasting. Helen Bradley outlines the right approach to planning a system that will fit the bill now, and grow as the company does. Starting a new business is […]
A passion for rural industry, working systems and keeping staff happy has led to award-winning success for a business that blossomed in a backyard. Cameron Bayley finds there is a bigger picture behind this carefully detailed operation than just making money. Wendy Erhart describes herself as a systems person. Perhaps it’s her background in psychiatric […]
A passion for rural industry, working systems and keeping staff happy has led to award-winning success for a business that blossomed in a backyard. Cameron Bayley finds there is a bigger picture behind this carefully detailed operation than just making money. Wendy Erhart describes herself as a systems person. Perhaps it’s her background in psychiatric […]
Australian exporters have a curious blindness when it comes to Europe, a consumer market now bigger than Japan, Canada, and the US combined. Tim Harcourt examines this mysterious affliction and comes up with some eye-opening reasons for putting this forgotten continent back on our trade map. What’s the problem, why do we put Europe in […]
For both beginner and veteran exporters, accessing new overseas markets can be daunting and costly – Rebecca Spicer finds that trade missions, market visits, and international trade shows can be a cost effective way of breaking down barriers to make those key first contacts. So your products or services are export ready, and research tells you there […]
Entrepreneurial flair is writ large in the Export Council of Australia’s Export Heroes Awards, a hall of fame celebrating those who have made extraordinary contributions to the development of a uniquely Australian export culture. Monica Higgins talks to one such winner—Professor Philip Cox, founding director of the Cox Group of architects, who was named an […]
The export awards season recognises the hard work and commitment Australians have to this industry, and casts the spotlight on some lesser-known export stars. Writes Ian Murray. November is always a good time of the year to be involved in export because it’s the export awards season. All states and territories in Australia go through […]
The internet has had a huge impact on the travel sector – Cameron Bayley talks to a travel agent who was at the cutting edge way back when doing an online booking was a radical geek experiment. The travel bug bites everyone sooner or later, but in Karsten Horne’s case it was a lot sooner than […]
Divorce statistics that read like an epidemic have encouraged a growing services industry to cater for it. Rebecca Spicer talks to a woman who’s taken advantage of this trend and, with some clever marketing, is making a success of her online business. While many of us dream of the day when we say ‘I do’, […]
