Finding Your Next Star Employee
By Alisa Sainoski Identifying your next star employee is one of the most strategic actions a leader can take. Star employees do more than just work for you, they protect you and extend your capacity and influence. Consider how much more effective and less overworked you are as a leader if you have an A-team […]
Commercial Real Estate Challenges in the “New Normal”
Australia’s commercial real estate sector was thrown a massive curve ball with the COVID-19 pandemic. Suddenly many businesses had to close, all have had to accommodate social distancing requirements and at the same time they have had to provide reassurance for their teams that the work environment is a safe place to be. Whilst these […]
MarketWatch May ’20
By David Prattent Is it yes, or no, or maybe? MarketWatch has spent the morning ploughing through some of the world’s news publications and journals. The amount of column space devoted to the coronavirus pandemic is truly staggering. What on earth did we do for news before this happened? And perhaps just as importantly what […]
Business Planning in an Uncertain World
By David Prattent If there is one word which sums up the beginning of the 21st Century, it is “uncertainty”. As businesses try to find a way through the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole notion of planning for the future seems irrelevant when compared to the need to survive today. Surviving today is […]
Working From Home and Cybersecurity
By David Prattent Working from home (‘WFH’) has been introduced to most Australian workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. WFH provides an organisation with an opportunity to sustain at least some of its activities and keep it’s business going. Unfortunately, WFH also provides an opportunity for hackers to explore individual and home vulnerabilities. The Office […]
The Next Step
Over the last month our lives and business outlook have changed dramatically. It is hard to believe that 4 weeks can make such a huge difference to our corporate landscape. The time is here however to look towards the “end”, analyse how our businesses are run, how they are structured and how we can manage […]
Working From Home, What You Need to Know
By Alisa Sainoski The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our ways of living and if you are one of the lucky ones, you will be or have started working from home. Most of us have never claimed ‘home office’ expenses or were relatively small claims, which were mostly at weekends, or in the evenings. With […]
MarketWatch April ’20
By David Prattent Notes form a bunker MarketWatch was not alive for World War II, but he is starting to feel an affinity for those souls who spent much of their time underground in bunkers. Despite the company of his dear spouse, Mrs MarketWatch, and Tess, the black Labrador, even living on what is called […]
JobSeeker v JobKeeper…Are You Confused?
By Alisa Sainoski Clearly the government is trying to do their best to minimise the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, isn’t it just frustrating when there are daily changes, if not hourly updates, and you think you have read all the news articles and listen to all the news segments of what is going […]
MarketWatch February ’20
By David Prattent MarketWatch moved his attention away from his glass of Rioja and turned his mind to the Baltic Dry Index. Well don’t you? The index measures the cost of shipping raw materials over a number of different routes around the world. Why is called the Baltic Dry Index when it has no association […]