Being the best kept secret in town is bad for business. Sure, as customers we like to find products, services and businesses before others do. It’s exciting to be an early adopter. Sometimes however, no matter how good what we purchase is, we may not always tell others about it.…

Value Statements. Mission Statements. Vision Statements. We’ve all seen or got them in our business. Can everyone or anyone recite them? Or even remember them? When all is said and done, words on a wall mean nothing unless there are behaviours that support the words intent. When businesses have complex…

Everyone has a brand. Your brand is not what you say it is, and it’s not what someone tells you it is. Your brand is what someone tells someone else it is. Your brand is being assessed every day by everyone. It’s no different from a business or product brand.…

Whether you want to unearth a personal purpose or a business purpose, the process starts in the same place. It starts with your stories. Stories of experiences and moments that have meaning to you. Stories that showcase who you naturally are during good times and bad. Living on your natural…

We all go through ups and downs in life, and at times it causes us to seek greater meaning, or greater purpose. At its core, a purpose is doing something for someone else. It drives what you do, and who you do it for. It’s that feeling that we are…

We are about to face heavy economic headwinds across the globe. Rising costs, rising inflation, supply chain issues, financial uncertainty, labour market challenges. No business will be exempt from an impact. So how do you prepare and minimise the impact for you and your team, and then accelerate out the…

Every business has a purpose. Do you know your business’s purpose? This applies to any business or organisation. Private or public, every business exists for a reason. Whoever started the business did so for a reason. They could have started any type of business, but something drove them to that…

Performance is formed from a basis of trust. Trust doesn’t happen overnight and it does take effort to build trust in teams. It takes vulnerability and genuineness in understanding each other. Trust is built through growing meaningful relationships where genuine care and interest in each other’s thoughts, ideas and feedback…

Interdependence will always trump independence. No one ever succeeds alone. You may have had a lot of success yourself throughout your career, but you didn’t get there without the assistance of others. To succeed in business, a motivated and united team supporting each other is essential. Attracting purpose aligned people…

Ask each of your team to write down the answer to this question: “Why does our business exist?’ Collate the answers. If they are not all the same, ask yourself what are your team basing strategic and operational decisions on. Each business has a purpose. Each team or department in…

Sport has long been driven by a valuable but diminishing volunteer base. It’s slowly being replaced by an increasing “where do I pay, where do I play – no volunteering for me” attitude from those seeking recreational activities. You can understand that as people’s lives become busier, and as choice…

Let’s face it, business is partly science, and partly art. Every business runs on numbers but feelings and intuition in business decisions occur daily. Whether it’s experience or knowledge, there are times when decisions are made and prove themselves right for the business. But what are these decisions based on?…

Sometimes we are our own biggest threat by not seeing or acknowledging the truth. If your sport is not growing, you are falling behind. From years of experience, I have witnessed many sports and sporting organisations say “we’ve held our numbers this year”, and essentially they have seen their growth…

Numbers are crucial in any business. From setting performance indicators to monitoring your finances, you know how much they matter. So when unearthing and understanding something based on feelings, it’s difficult to justify pursuing it any further. Why is something like a purpose important to my business if I can’t…

Before COVID had even appeared, the greatest challenge for businesses was convincing consumers of their authenticity, authentically! In other words, how to build trust in an ever sceptical and choice rich society. The COVID pandemic then raised and accelerated new challenges for business,and new thinking was required to not only…