Our Blog

Right now there is a lot of chatter in the marketplace about how hard it is to find good staff. There is also a lot of poaching going on - employers are losing good staff to the competition down the road who are prepared to pay more. We are seeing $5 to $10 an hour more being offered this year for some roles. That is quite a change in 12 months. But it also raises the age old debate - can a business afford to pay their people more? Often when considering this very issue an im

I remember telling someone a long time ago that I 'jumped out of bed every morning to get to work'. It was in the late Eighties, I was in my mid-twenties and working in a large advertising agency in Wellington. (Those were the days!) It was the look that he gave me that I have never forgotten. Was it envy? Or disbelief? Whatever it was, it hammered the point home to me - you gotta love what you do. To really want to be good at something, to want to keep learning and growing a

At our recent Club meetings in Napier, Hastings and Waipukurau we have been teaching everyone the 5-Ways formula. It is the magic formula that opens a business owners eyes to the easiest and most effective way to grow a business. Not everyone wants to build and own a multi-national but most business owners we meet want to be comfortable and relatively stress-free. That means a decent level of growth and a good return on their investment. It should be possible for any owner of