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Let us introduce you to a range of business support options that can transform the way you do business.

Cost effective business support that will assist your business to be what you want it to be - a more successful enterprise.

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Hints & Tips

E-mail is a great benefit but stay in charge.  You set the time to scan your e-mail for important messages and respond.  Leave the rest until it does not stop you doing more important things.


Your daily routine will include some important tasks and some urgent tasks.  Make sure you find time for the important ones.


Many consumers today are CASH RICH and TIME POOR does this create new opportunities for your business?


Spend some time alone every day – THINKING.


Always start a new project with the end in sight – set measurable objectives and clear action plans.

 


  1. Be proactive - create a personal vision

  2. Begin with the end in mind - personal leadership

  3. Put first thing first - personal management

  4. Think win/win - interpersonal leadership

  5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood - empathic communication

  6. Synergize - creative cooperation

  7. Sharpen the saw - balance self renewal

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE - STEPHEN R COVEY


In all your business dealings take a lesson from the early Greeks;

  • Ethos - establish your personal creditability, integrity and competence

  • Pathos - create empathy and align with the other person

  • Logos - present logic and reason

Note the order of importance: Character - Relationship - Logic

 

“The person who is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative.  He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.  He has been essentially defeated in his job.” Parkinsons Law - Professor C Northcote Parkinson.

 


  • When your business grows you will need to delegate important decisions to other.

  • To grow your business you will have to think and act strategically.

  • Work is an activity not a place.  Work is about achievement.

  • Read some management books and get some management training every year.

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