Professional Development
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Are you more Optimistic than your team?
Charlotte Park | July 26, 2011
The higher up you go in an organisation the more resilience and optimism you will find, because it is these traits that get people promoted in the first place.
All roles have a minimum level of experience, skills and education needed to adequately perform the role, but once that minimum is there, higher levels of those factors don’t differentiate people’s performance – it is resilience that makes the difference. -
Goal Attack
NAB - Business View | July 20, 2011
You have a grand business vision; an idea that you’d love to get off the ground to help your SME expand or to ramp up cash flow.
But how do you make it a reality? Goal setting and breaking your idea down into manageable chunks can help it come to fruition. -
Quickflix to grow off Telstra referrals
Helen Hull | July 4, 2011Online movie rental company Quickflix has signed an agreement with Telstra which will see the company refer its BigPond Movies DVD customers to the First 5000 member when it closes on 30 September 2011.
As part of the deal Quickflix will also acquire BigPond’s library of DVD and Blu-ray discs and equipment which is expected to help boost its customer base.
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LinkedIn: key business tool
Helen Hull | June 28, 2011The business focused social media website LinkedIn is a quick, easy and highly accessible way to manage your contacts and business leads.
Tom Skotidas director and founder of B2B social media lead generation agency Skotidas believes LinkedIn is a very effective and efficient way to identify and connect with decision makers.
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How often is too often?
Geoffrey McDonald Bowll | June 22, 2011When is the right timing for business or personal contact? If you meet a possible customer at a function, do you ring them desperately the next day and look pathetic, friendless and pushy, or do you wait a good six months and hope they remember you, like you’re as memorable as Barack or the Dizzy Lama?
It’s a mystery to many of us. Who wouldn’t love the timing talent that knows exactly when to push the button and when to hold off, teasing the audience, putting them more in love with your words of wisdom, because they have received them right when the coffee arrived, or the second glass of wine kicked in.
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APTS recognised as WA Telstra Business finalist
Helen Hull | June 21, 2011First 5000 member, Australian Pressure Testing Services (APTS) has been named as a finalist in the 2011 Telstra Western Australian Business Awards across three categories.
The service provider to the oil and gas industry, which pressure tests pipelines and vessels to prove their integrity, is a finalist in the Panasonic Medium Business, Yellow Pages Social Responsibility and AMP Innovation categories.
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IPA’s Conway wins Young Professional award
Helen Hull | June 7, 2011
Andrew Conway, chief executive of First 5000 member, the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA), has been recognised as the Professions Australia ‘2011 Young Professional of the Year’.
The award is intended to encourage and recognise the achievements of a young professional who has demonstrated a noteworthy commitment to excellence and innovation in their profession and has worked to promote the profession as a whole. -
Get into bed
Geoffrey McDonald Bowll | May 9, 2011Let’s do something the ACCC is going to hate, but can’t do much about. Get together with competitors.
There’s two sorts in business. The bulk want to make friends, have a few laughs, go to work in a good mood, enjoy the day, make a buck. The others, the nasty minority, think it’s about conflict and competition and killing the other guy.
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Telstra launches 2011 Business Women’s Awards
Helen Hull | May 2, 2011
Telstra has launched the 2011 Business Women’s Awards which have over the last 16 years uncovered amazing and inspiring business women and their extraordinary journeys.
Almost a quarter of women recognised as inspirational leaders in business through the Telstra Business Women’s Awards have joined a board following their success.
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PM Gillard talks Getting Aussie Business Online
Kate Dixon | April 20, 2011Well, it isn’t every day that the Prime Minister talks about MYOB but in late March we were in Perth to talk about Getting Aussie Business Online with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy.
They were speaking about plans for the National Broadband Network and the need for businesses to get online to take advantage of the digital economy.
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Managing cash flow in the growth stage
Suelen McCallum | April 19, 2011For many medium businesses, growth is the barometer for success. But expansion can present challenges and one of the critical issues in any company when it is experiencing a healthy level of growth is cash flow.
In this article, I look at the reasons why cash flow is important and why growth often contributes to a lack of funds.
Cash flow basically means ‘Do I have enough cash in my bank account to cover my expenses?’ Sounds simple, but you’d be surprised at how many people ignore this. And not just small business either! Medium sized businesses have often achieved the desired levels of sales and growth but fail to realise what effects that growth has had on cash flow. -
Boost founder says push boundaries
Helen Hull | April 13, 2011Success in business is about attitude and not being afraid to make mistakes, according to Janine Allis founder and director of Boost Juice Bars.
Speaking at PMP Limited’s Schmart Marketing Conference in Melbourne and Sydney last week (4 and 6 April) Allis told marketers, advertising agencies and business managers you must make mistakes and push boundaries to find where your level is.
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Meta boards and collaboration
Lindley Edwards | April 13, 2011Recently Prof Drew Dawson, a non executive director of various organisations and the director of multi-disciplinary collaborative research centre at the University of South Australia and I had dinner.
In our dialogue we explored the concept of Meta boards.
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Business process review online seminar
Helen Hull | April 5, 2011Getting your business management system right can deliver a lot more than a few new software features and extra buttons to click on a screen, according to MYOB Enterprise Solutions.
“If you can map out and define your business processes and then build your system around them, you can transform your entire operationally approach – and deliver real, quantifiable business benefits,” MYOB Enterprise Solutions marketing campaign manager Loucielle Estève said.
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AFL’s Swans encourage networking
Helen Hull | March 23, 2011
It doesn’t all have to happen in the boardroom and with the 2011 AFL football season set to start on Thursday (24 March) First 5000 member the Sydney Swans are offering a range of hospitality options.
The Swans, who claim over 1.2 million fans or 32% of Sydney as supporters of the club, believe corporate hosting is a unique experience for both clients and businesses.
