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Rick Mapperson blogs about the need to address the ‘elephants in the room’ that may be impacting your business.
“In your business it is an obvious problem or risk that no one wants to address or discuss. Instead, you pretend it is not there and occupy your time with other issues rather than deal with the looming big one.”
The nationally funded Paid Parental Leave scheme was brought in at the start of the year. But did you know that as of 1 July, you’ll be responsible for administering the scheme in your business?
Reckon Limited’s Gerald Chait blogs about what the Australian Consumer Law means for business advertising.
“Some parts of the updated rules are obvious, such as use of the words ‘closing down sale’ – it is clearly misleading to have a closing down sale that lasts for three years. But there are others that are worth keeping in mind when deciding on your advertising campaign.”
Staff retention is not an exact science and different employees will respond to different incentives. But losing good staff is sometimes a reality and that’s where succession planning is key.
Whilst the start of a new financial year is the preferred time for many businesses to purchase and deploy new IT equipment, Kroll Ontrack warns organisations need to pay close attention to ensuring sensitive financial or confidential company information is permanently wiped from old computers and systems.
Australian organisations are suffering from significant gaps in workforce skills, an Australian Institute of Management VT survey has found, due largely to high levels of employee stress.
Fair Work Australia will introduce amendments to minimum working hours for students on July 1, with the General Retail Industry Award to allow full-time school students to work a minimum 1.5 hours casual after-school work.
Australian employees are showing a keen interest in making their workplaces sustainable, but want senior managers to drive the shift to sustainability, a survey has found.
For the fourth consecutive year, NetApp has ranked on the BRW ‘50 Best Places to Work’ list, taking out the third spot this year.
The market for cloud solutions is expected to grow at twice the rate of traditional ICT in the region this year. If your small business isn’t on board yet, read on.
Anti-dumping legislation is set to receive its most important improvement to date, as the Federal Government looks to lessen the impact of dumping on local businesses.
Designing a powerful sales meeting is not an easy task, but it is one of the most important aspects of building and maintaining a high-velocity sales organisation. The objective of all sales meetings should be to increase sales—period. That’s why we call them sales meetings. Entertaining the participants and having them leave full of enthusiasm is a good thing, but it should never overshadow the need to produce sales.
You don’t need to be an accountant to appreciate the effects of one financial year ending and another beginning. Similar to a new calendar year, a new financial year can be used as the perfect opportunity to carry out a couple of those tasks that we all too often place in the “too hard” or “later” piles.
LinkedIn has found significant differences between men and women when it comes to online professional networking, with data showing that both globally and locally, men tend to be savvier online networkers than their female counterparts.
Lady Danielle Di-Masi blogs about the importance of ensuring your behaviour is flexible enough to fit the client.
“Referrals are a huge part of being successful in business but does it happen just because you give a good service?”
Vizualise has expanded its business to Melbourne to better meet increasing demand for its digital marketing and IT strategies, which Founder Rupert Dean attributes largely to its use of Cloud Computing.
Is it possible to model the success of one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time? How is it that one man can succeed with 300 companies while most fail to do so with one?
Data breaches are becoming a major concern for businesses, with a recent survey by Check Point Technologies and Ponemon Institute finding 77 percent of organisations have experienced data loss in the last 12 months.
Over 145,000 businesses experienced a risk downgrade in the March quarter, according to Dun & Bradstreet, as rising payment terms and bleak expectations for sales and profits put pressure on cash flow.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has expanded its entrepreneur program and introduced better technology solutions to help small and medium businesses grow, improve employee productivity and protect assets.
