One of the biggest challenges facing Australian businesses at the moment is finding and recruiting people. It is especially challenging in regional businesses.

Having coached and mentored entrepreneurial businesses for 20 years, I adopt a very simple model to marketing.

Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor, is one of my favourite humans.

Having been a business mentor for about twenty years, I have had the privilege to have sat in thousands of businesses meetings where we talk operations, plot strategy and solve problems.

Once we have established these fundamentals, we are right to start the endless cycle of lifelong relationships with our clients and customers.

How do we accept failure in a commercial enterprise and still stay in business?

Is your strategy making you feel safe or uncomfortable?

Is your business chasing shiny toys or do you have strategic clarity?

Business culture can be a mystery for entrepreneurial SME businesses.

Determining an engaging business aspiration is a dynamic first step to great strategic planning.