Strategy Member Posts

Well, that escalated quickly! We went from fighting fires to fighting for toilet paper in a matter of weeks! As quickly as it came, COVID-19 has changed the landscape of many businesses. Literally. For many workplaces, busy office floors have been substituted with...

Only a few days ago, we were watching the developing pandemic as we would watch a disaster movie. COVID-19 was interesting, thought provoking, but distant, as yet unreal. Fast forward a week, and we have a clear and present danger to our families, our businesses, our...

The Redlands Coast Business Show was pleased to share the thoughts and advice from the Redlands Coast Chamber of Commerce, Rebecca Young. Rebecca shares a challenge that existed in her business, which almost brought it to its knees. Rebecca shared her strength by...

I use a strengths based approach to change when I am building effective teams, collaborations, partnerships or building a Compassionate Community.  The strengths based approach is the "5 D" method of Appreciative Inquiry. Definition - We Choose the positive for our...

No...my maths isn’t wrong...well not in the world of Diversity it’s not. One person: with their unique perspectives, skills, experiences, background and life: When given the opportunity to collaborate with another person also with their own uniqueness and value,...

It’s important to have a good relationship with your customers and clients. You want to be friendly and personal and make them feel like you truly care about their success. But in order to have a healthy relationship, you need to put certain boundaries in place....

Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) has to be one of the biggest corporate initiatives of the past decade. With so many social causes around D&I finally taking centre stage in our media, legal systems and political systems, the business world has made some gains in...

I’ve put together some key tips around what businesses should be doing in planning for a disaster to help protect themselves and if the worst was to happen how the business could get their IT systems up and running again. 1                     Put together an IT...

Some months ago I spoke about business conditions being Recessionary. Data released this week confirmed this predicament .  Average business growth  for  the year has come in at 1% with inflation ranging 2.75-3.0%. Small business face an ongoing struggle. The stress...