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Low Employee Engagement? These measures will turn it around
When talking with small to medium enterprises (SME) and family business owners, and you ask them about their major concerns, many will express frustrations around...

How becoming Certified Employee-Owned can benefit your business
Promotion and use of Certified Employee-owned could be a unique marketing strategy to grow sales and premium pricing as well as a new method to...

Should you keep your business in the family?
Why is it that succession in family businesses can be such a difficult issue? Why is it that such a low...

Phantom Share Schemes – can you have your cake and eat it too?
Business owners often work to have their cake and eat it as well – Phantom Share Schemes are a great example – employees receive...

Should you engage a business adviser for your succession and exit strategy?
Business owners, without a good quality business adviser, are steering the ship blind. Business today is complicated and the number of areas of expertise...

Do I really need a Shareholders’ Agreement?
In short, yes. If you own your company jointly with another person, regardless of whether they are your mate, your brother or an investor, you...

Your Business – Sale or Succession?
We’re a passionate bunch, aren’t we! Of course, I am talking about SME owners who live and breathe their business. Whilst this level of passion...

How an attitude of ‘she’ll be right, mate’ won’t work for your family business succession
At a recent meeting with some long-standing clients who have built, and continue to operate, a successful family business I asked the parents (who both...

How will tax affect the sale of your business?
An owner’s exit strategy should be centred on maximising after-tax cash flow, both in the short term and long term. There is a logical sequence...

6 causes of business devaluation and how to avoid them
Most property investors would be somewhat familiar with the 3 Sacred D’s of Real Estate, which relates to three life events creating a “highly motivated...