Spend time to make time!

Spend time to make time

Busy? Good business isn’t “busi-ness”! How are your new year business goals/ objectives/ strategies going? A general principle in business is that you need to “spend money to make money”. This is the basic principle of capital investment, sales, marketing… the list goes on. These factors require you to make the investment and then receive […]

Economic Update with NAB

NAB Economic Update

Today we hosted Alan Oster and Lucia La Belle from NAB  to give us a bit of an Economic update on the current state of the Australian and global economy as we begin to come out of the covid-19 restrictions. A number of business owners have contacted us looking for a bit of an update […]

Will All Learning Go Online?

All learning online?

My daughter stepped out of a meeting last night and said “I’m over zoom meetings” (no disrespect to zoom, it is a great platform). I am sure she was just repeating what she had heard me saying when describing my day. I think the following video summarises what zoom is like at times: Someone asked […]

Congratulations to Peter Matthews (OMP12) of Solar Service Guys.

Peter Matthews

Owner Manager Program participant Peter Matthews receives Master Electrician of the Year Award. This award is presented to an electrical contracting business that has shown a commitment to professionalism, quality, safety and the industry that stands them apart from their peers. click on the image to watch the interview.  From Peter, “Being a Tier 1 […]

Dan Everson Podiatry

Dan Everson Podiatry

Kinetic Orthotics 3D Print PPE Kinetic Orthotics (OMP3) have been helping the local community during the pandemic by putting their 3D printers to good use producing PPE face shields for Sunshine Coast hospital. They were asked to help in April after the hospital was searching for supplies with no success. Kinetic Orthotics can now 3D […]

UQ Business School Offering $8 Courses for Staff Development

$8 Courses

UQ: Online Courses for uncertain times The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts across all industries. The University of Queensland Business School if offering online courses on leadership, innovation and resilience-building across a range of industries – including the hard-hit tourism industry. Courses On Offer Tourism & Travel Management Course This course will suit those […]

How to Manage Fast and Accelerated Growth

Accelerate Growth

The majority of discussions around SME business disruption are generally in the negative – ‘we had a disappointing month of sales’, ‘Bob has unexpectedly resigned’, and so on. Learning to cope with the knock-backs is all part of the journey. Unfortunately. But there’s good news, too! What about when your business is disrupted in a […]

When “strategy” is not actually strategy

Strategy

The Importance of Properly Defining Your Business Problems Almost invariably, when I ask a team what problem they’re trying to solve, they’ll instead express an outcome or output. I’ll typically hear things like: “We want to increase sales revenue by 20%”, or “We need a marketing campaign”. But here’s a fact that’s as useful as […]

Eurofurn and Ashley Cooper Construction Team Up

Eurofurn

Owner Manager Program Alumni team up to refurbish the Jackson Building at St Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane. Ashley-Cooper Construction and Eurofurn have worked together to revitalise the old administration building, ‘Jackson Building’ at St Anglican Church Grammar School with stunning results. Featuring staff offices and amenities, as well as implementing a complete terraced landscaping […]

Mandy Johnson – Staff Recruitment Retention

Staff Recruitment

Attracting and retaining key people in your business. At Australian Owner Manager we talk to a lot of business owners! One current theme and challenge is how to attract and retain great employee’s that add value to your business. This is something that we deal with in great detail on the Owner Manager Program thanks to Mandy […]