Business
44 articles
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How to Hire a COO or Ops Person
How does a small or medium-sized business hire a COO or operations person? Here's what to look for and how to hire one successfully.
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How to Build a Leadership Team
Every business needs a leadership team. But what does a good leadership team look like, and how do you go about creating one? Find out here.
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Why Company Culture Matters
Company culture matters. It affects your customer experience, team behaviour and your bottom line and profits. Here's how.
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How to Update and Maintain Your SOPs
Once you've built out all the SOPs for your business, how do you update them regularly? Here's how.
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Critical and Core Processes
Critical or core processes are the 4–9 processes that make your business work. Here's how to find them and use them.
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How to Hire an Assistant
An assistant is usually the first hire business owners make. Here are the three types of assistant, and how to hire each of them.
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Weekly Meetings
Weekly Meetings are the most important part of your real-time meeting rhythm. They let you align your team and handle critical issues every week.
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12 Things Business Owners Should Do and 9 Things They Shouldn't Do
Here are 12 things that I've seen business owners not do that they should, and 9 things that they do but they shouldn't.
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Daily Standups
Daily Standups are a common type of business meeting designed to help teams sync up on what is happening in the business.
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A Quick Guide to Asana for Business Owners
Should you use Asana and should you use it for project management? Here's what you need to know as a business owner.
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Calendars for Business Owners and Teams
Every business owner and their team should be using calendars. Here's how you use calendars properly, step-by-step in your business.
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Job Scorecards
Job Scorecards are one of the most valuable team management tools you can deploy in your business. Here's how you create and use them.
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Systems and SOP Management in Notion
Notion is the best way to manage systems and SOPs in your business. Here's why and how to set it up as your team's wiki.
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Effective Delegation and Situational Leadership
How do you effectively delegate work in your business? There is more than ONE way of delegating — and you have to delegate the RIGHT way to get things done.
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Team Onboarding
Does your business have a team onboarding process? If not, what happens when a new team member joins? Here's what I recommend.
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How to Hire New Team Members
With the rise of anti-work and a jobseeker's market, how do you hire new team members as a small business owner? Let's find out.
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How to Manage Your Business
Discover the 7 areas you need to successfully manage your business so that it's efficient, profitable and runs on its own.
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What a True Business Owner Looks Like
A true business owner values choice and optionality in their business, while enjoying the profits. Here are the most common types, and how to become one.
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What are Business Systems?
There are many types of business systems. Knowing the right ones to implement is the key to working less and making more in your agency business.
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How to Use My Tasks in Asana
My Tasks is the second most important part of using Asana, and where you will find all the tasks assigned to you.
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Why You Need to Use the Asana Inbox
The Inbox is the most important part of using Asana as a team. Here's how to find it, use it and how to keep it neat and tidy so you're on top of your Asana every day.
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Project Management Views and Data Structures in Asana [VIDEO]
This is advanced training video showing the difference between data structures and views in Asana.
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Project Management for Service Providers [VIDEO]
If you're a coach, consultant or agency owner who knows you need to take your project management seriously but don't know where to start, watch this!
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Common Project Management Mistakes [VIDEO]
Here are the 4 most common mistakes that business owners make when trying to set up project management for their business.
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Advanced Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) [VIDEO]
Here's how you create advanced standard operating procedures (SOPs) for more complex or larger businesses.
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How to Write an SOP in 6 Simple Steps [VIDEO]
There are 6 parts to every standard operating procedure (SOP). Here's what they are and how you write them.
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Three Best Knowledge Base Apps for 2021 [VIDEO]
The three best knowledge base apps for 2021 are: Confluence, Slab and Notion. Here's why.
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Cloud Infrastructure For Business Owners
Cloud infrastructure lets business owners take advantage of cheap and distributed computing for processes and workflows. Here's how.
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Vision and Implementation
Vision is necessary to start a business. And implementation is needed to bring that vision to life. Here's when you will need both.
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Disagree and Commit
Successful business teams can disagree and commit. This means debating an idea, but backing it 100% once a decision is made. Learn how here.
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Systematic Risk Management for Your Business and Life
Systematic Risk Management may not sound trendy or cool, but it is an essential part of making risk/reward decisions in today's world. Here's how you do it.
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How to Run Effective Internal Business Meetings
Despite popular belief, internal business meetings are important and essential to running a modern company. Here's how you can minimise them and actually run them effectively.
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How Remote Working Differs From a Traditional Office
Remote working differs from working in a traditional office. You can't just replace meetings with video calls and expect productivity. Here's what you need to do instead.
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Incorporating New Apps, Techniques and Ideas Into Your Existing Systems
Your simple guide to working out where that new app, technique or idea fits into your existing systems.
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Why You Need to Stop Using Email (And What to Do Instead)
Here's why you need to stop using email for your internal business communications, and how you can replace it with direct messaging and other tools.
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Essential Apps for Remote Work
Every company that wants to set up remote working needs a certain set of apps to function effectively. Here's a guide to exactly what you need.
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How To Create And Influence Company Culture
Company culture is the personification of everything your company stands for - its goals, mission, values and purpose. Here's how you can create and influence it.
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Knowledge Management: How to Systemise Your Business with SOPs
Knowledge Management is about systemising your business to pass down what you and others know to you company. It creates a culture of training, learning and improvement, and here's how you do it.
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The Hierarchy of Communication for Your Business and Personal Life
The Hierarchy of Communication helps you pick what medium is best for sending your message. It uses urgency, importance, content and intensity to work out if to text, call or speak in person.
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How to Set up Your Business for Remote Working and Let Your Team Work Remotely
Remote working is in. Here's your guide, specifically written for business owners, on how to set up your business and team to successfully work remotely.
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Remote Working: How to Stay Productive While Working From Home
Remote working is here to stay. If you have an employer who will let you work from home, here is how you can make the most of it - and avoid some of the common mistakes of working remotely.
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Time Management for CEOs, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
Time management is a little different for CEOs and business owners, because of the incredible demands on their time. Here's how they handle it.
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Strategic Planning for CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
My comprehensive guide to executing strategic planning in a business, specifically written for CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners.
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How to Create Standard Operating Procedures for Your Business and Personal Life
Here's why you need Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in your business and personal life, and how you can create and use them.