​Business is an organic beast.  You may have a single, specialised product or you may have a complex business model that delivers services or goods across a spectrum of industries. No matter what you do, how you structure your team may need to change over time and this kind of change requires business leaders to consult with their employees.  Not only is it best practice, in most cases, it is a legislative requirement that will also keep you out of trouble if the process is foll [...]

​We know that as far as COVID-19 is concerned, most of us have reached saturation levels when it comes to absorbing information.  Regardless of how exhausted we all are, with respect to directives regarding how we need to operate in order to minimise the impact of the virus, it is necessary keep up to date with  important information that may impact how you manage your staffing levels and the work flow in your business.  Being a close contact does not necessarily mean [...]

​I started working a long time ago.  It wasn’t exactly the time of dinosaurs roaming the earth, but smoking was allowed inside the office (can you imagine!!)  and it certainly was pre mobile phones, email and the magical world wide web.  Time marches on and instead of reaching for a gasper while waiting on the client order to be confirmed via fax, we are standing up at our desks, tapping away at our computers and accessing files from ‘the cloud’ while comm [...]