Month September 2019

OMP 12 – Block 2 Update

In August 2019, Owner Manager Business Program 12 kicked off with most of the sessions held at the glorious Spicers Hidden Vale. The group includes businesses from Manufacturing, Hospitality, Education and Training, Agriculture, Real Estate, Business Services, Retail, and Health…

Dan Everson Podiatry

Kinetic Orthotics 3D Print PPE Kinetic Orthotics (OMP3) have been helping the local community during the pandemic by putting their 3D printers to good use producing PPE face shields for Sunshine Coast hospital. They were asked to help in April…

Eurofurn and Ashley Cooper Construction Team Up

Owner Manager Program Alumni team up to refurbish the Jackson Building at St Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane. Ashley-Cooper Construction and Eurofurn have worked together to revitalise the old administration building, ‘Jackson Building’ at St Anglican Church Grammar School with…

Mandy Johnson – Staff Recruitment Retention

Attracting and retaining key people in your business. At Australian Owner Manager we talk to a lot of business owners! One current theme and challenge is how to attract and retain great employee’s that add value to your business. This is something…

How to Manage Fast and Accelerated Growth

The majority of discussions around SME business disruption are generally in the negative – ‘we had a disappointing month of sales’, ‘Bob has unexpectedly resigned’, and so on. Learning to cope with the knock-backs is all part of the journey.…

When “strategy” is not actually strategy

The Importance of Properly Defining Your Business Problems Almost invariably, when I ask a team what problem they’re trying to solve, they’ll instead express an outcome or output. I’ll typically hear things like: “We want to increase sales revenue by…