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THE ALTERNATIVE BOARD AUSTRALIA MEMBER FIND CLARITY AND FOCUS TO GROW HER BUSINESS For many business owners, the first year of operations (or first five years) often presents the greatest challenges. Whether it’s fine-tuning and introducing new products or services,...
How your business can overcome the issues and challenges of rising costs
As the global economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, rising interest rates and energy prices are becoming a growing concern for businesses. With interest rates and energy costs on the rise, many businesses are finding it increasingly challenging to...
How to Develop a High-Performance Team for Your Small Business
Article by Madison Crader A high-performance team is essential for businesses to operate effectively and create a competitive advantage. But what makes a team high-performance? And how can you develop your own high-performance teams? The foundation of a...
Recruiting through Social Media: A Quick Informational Guide
Increasingly, businesses in search of talented job candidates are turning to social media as part of their overall recruitment strategy. “Social recruiting” seeks to leverage the power of various social media platforms to strengthen an employer brand, attract interest...Board Template
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How Business Leaders Can Find Work-Life Balance
As businesses recover from the effects of the pandemic, a lot of emphasis is being placed on helping employees find a healthy work-life balance. This goal is no less important for CEOs and business leaders. Without such a balance, they are just as susceptible as...
How to Develop a Financial Plan for Your Business
Article written by Victoria Byrnes Owning a business entails both daunting challenges and exciting opportunities — but that’s what makes it so fulfilling. You get to create a business plan, conceptualise new products and services, and make a great marketing...
15 Questions to Ask in a Mastermind Group and Advisory Board Session
Are you thinking about joining a mastermind group or advisory board? It might be the best decision you make for the future of your business. Mastermind groups—also called peer advisory groups or advisory boards—are comprised of a small group of business owners and...
Focus on Three B2B Business Fundamentals to Rebuild and Grow Your Business
As the first wave of businesses opened up these past couple of weeks, it is critical for business owners to cut through the noise and focus on the three things that matter most, to lead the way to preserve and restore revenue as well as profitability, rebuild and grow...About The Alternative Board
ABOUT THE ALTERNATIVE BOARD Believe in the power of peer support. BECOME A MEMBER ABOUT US The Alternative Board supports business owners to take their business to the next level through; supportive advisory boards made up of other local business owners, expert...
Forging Innovation at Your Business: Expertise and Creativity
Everyone wants innovators in their business, but finding employees who are willing to innovate is a very challenging task. As we discussed in my last blog post, the most innovative workers might have a non-traditional background for the position you’re staffing....Business Coaching & Boards
What is The Alternative Board? Believe in the power of peer support. BECOME A MEMBER Don’t Go It Alone. We’ve Got Your Back. The Alternative Board brings you a thriving community of forward-thinking CEOs, business owners and leadership teams who share the...
Cyber Security: Why Small Business Is Often Threatened And How To Protect Yourself
We’ve all read with shock and horror about large cyber-attacks such as the breaches at Optus, Telstra and even Netflix but what if we told you that the most frequent threats have been to small and medium-sized businesses? In fact, more and more small businesses are...
It’s Time to Stop Measuring These 3 Marketing Metrics
Article by Jodie Shaw. Some days, it feels like we marketers live in a frenzy of numbers – from data analytics software that tracks every click on our websites to the colour coded charts embedded in every social media platform we’re on. Even our personal lives are...
What Baby Boomers Get Wrong About Millennial’s
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, millennial’s will take over 50% of the U.S. workforce in the coming five years. As more millennial’s filter into the workforce, it’s becoming more and more important that Boomers learn to work with...
Who Do You Turn to For seeking Good Business Advise?
It’s helpful for any business owner to have someone they can turn to for business advice. In my experience, I’ve found that discussing your business issues with a person, or in a group of like-minded individuals, is particularly helpful when overcoming business...
A Quick Guide To Effective Chain Supply Management
Ensuring a disruption-free supply chain is (or should be) a key goal for every CEO and business leader. This facet of operations has become even more prominent, due to supply chain troubles surfacing within the past several months. According to Logistics Plus,...
7 Tips for Managing Millennial’s on your Sales Team
We often hear that millennial employees are a breed apart, and require a shift in management style and perspective. The same can be said about a millennial sales team and what’s needed to effectively manage and leverage their particular outlook and talents. How do you...
Is Poor Leadership Damaging Your Company’s Culture?
As the CEO or business owner, your job is crucial in setting the tone for your company culture. These five pitfalls can lead to discontent, high employee turnover and a negative culture. Your role as CEO or business owner goes beyond planning for the future and...
How Becoming A Mentor Can Make You A Better Leader
Chances are, most successful individuals have benefited from being mentored by a CEO, owner or another business leader at some time in their professional career. If you’re among this group, you’ll likely remember how valuable the experience proved to be. Generally...
How to be an Effective Manager in a Small Business
Article by Ronita Mohan People are what make up a business and managing them is one of the key tasks of any business owner or managerial level employee. Being an effective manager at a small business requires you to understand your working style and that of the people...
Dealing with Grief in the Workplace
One of the most difficult things a leader will have to deal with in the workplace is the death of an employee. Whether the result of ongoing health complications or a tragic accident, a death in the company requires nuanced, careful handling. In recent times, I have...
EBITDAC: What is Your Business Worth Now?
Several friends have sent me a picture of an EBITDAC coffee mug this week. As it states, EBITDAC stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortisation, and Coronavirus. Will this be the new measure of cash flow for valuing your business? A bleak joke,...
How to Generate Word-of-Mouth Sales Referrals
Think about how you choose to make your purchase. There’s research you do online, or perhaps you’ve bought a product or service from a particular company before, and you’re comfortable doing so again. But if you wish to buy something or get a service from a business...
How The Alternative Board Helped Kay Godfrey Be Accountable And Stop Feeling Lonely
Kay Godfrey is a professional bookkeeper and BAS agent. She lives on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and loves what she does for a living. Her business is called First Class Accounts Mona-Vale, where she has a team of three people who work with her. She explains: “I take...