Happy New Year! Each year I review Aide de MD’s business plan, strategy and areas of development, there’s always an opportunity to use learnings from the previous year to refine and improve. I’ve condensed our mission statement down to one phrase: “To guide and support independent growth for businesses through clever, sustainable infrastructure.”
Each time I introduce myself, (and I’ve been to some excellent work events recently), I say that I’ve been consulting for 11 years. I do understand that my successful consulting business grew organically through experiences I’d gained in employment, travel and relationships.
What is a Partnership Review? Why do you have them and what is the purpose? “We talk all the time” is usually the response I get to these questions. Yes – but who to and what about?
I have run over a dozen strategy days in the last 6 months, and to date, they’ve been hugely successful. So successful in fact, that I am including them as an Aide de MD stand-alone program. The aim is to ensure that the team works together in a comfortable, safe environment where the overall strategy […]
Aide de MD supports and guides Owners/MDs of their own businesses, and gives them the confidence and support to grow strategically. One of the many challenges I see in business, is poor internal communication. This can be with staff, management or as the owner of the business with a Partner/MD. In my experience, external communication […]
It’s Autumn in Australia, or “The Transition Season” as it’s commonly known. The title amused me as it’s nearly always transition season in business.
In the last month I’ve heard from 5 highly respected business owners who are having a “tough week”. They’re not unrealistic, seriously worried or lacking business acumen. They’re going through the business cycle, and it’s tough.
No man’s land – Defined as “After the strategic planning, before the activity” The first two months of a New Year is a complex time filled with potential and excitement for what lays ahead, and some apprehension about the future. We all spend so much of our time planning, forecasting, predicting and laying the groundwork […]
In January this year I made an open promise to the LinkedIn community and Aide de MD clients to practice what I preach and to be accountable. I’m honouring that commitment by re-posting the article and commenting on it as if I was marking my own test-paper (eek!).
Published in the Australian Financial Review 15 September 2016 By Charlotte Rimmer Flexibility is such a topical word but what does it really mean? Who wants it and how do you get it? Salaries are not just about money – your renumeration is called a package as it consists of all the attractive, enticing temptations […]
