Business Tips

Maintaining a Positive Work-Life Balance

In the hustle of today’s work culture, it’s easy to fall into the cycle of back-to-back meetings, late-night emails, and working through lunch breaks. While dedication to your career is important, consistently sacrificing personal time can take a toll on both your mental and physical health. Striking a positive work-life balance is not just about […]

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Workplace Wellbeing

Several factors contribute to stress, ranging from relationship issues and financial concerns to simply not getting a good night’s rest. However, workplace stress is often a primary source of pressure for many adults. Tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and interpersonal conflicts can all contribute to feelings of anxiety and burnout. Recognising when a colleague or employee is struggling and offering support is a critical part in helping them manage stress.

Here are a few steps to aid in this:

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Why Maintaining a Positive Attitude at Work Matters

With the nature of work today where challenges flourishes with a great demand, a positive attitude is no longer just a personal characteristic but rather a key element in one’s profession. Such advantages include work engagement, personal productivity, and team collaboration that can all be attributed to a positive attitude which makes it useful for employees and even organizations.

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Whose responsibility is it to maintain employee relations?

Is it management or the employees responsibility is it to maintain employee relations?

Each company requires a balance of both positions. However, being a leader involves more than simply guiding people. Just as the top of the company needs balance, so do the employees reporting to management. Employee relations refer to the company’s efforts to maintain positive relationships with its employees.

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Preparing your business for Fiscal Year End

The financial year end of a company (also known as Fiscal Year End or FYE) is undoubtedly the busiest period of a business’s year.
Essentially, it is the wrapping up of the company’s accounts for the business year. This assists all key stakeholders assess the company’s profits, losses and overall financial performance for the year that was.

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Handling your Debtors and Creditors in December

Proper planning of cash flow should be done to ensure that earlier release of monthly expense obligations or preloaded payments will be authorised before the office shutdown period, given that most administrative staff members will be on leave at month end in December. It is never pleasant to start the new year with overdue and unpaid accounts.

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Measuring Output Vs Input

While management may know what time should be spent on a project, there are several variables that affect the time spent on the project by staff. Variables like, rest, personal issues, time of the day, distractions, politics in the office, internet speed etc all have an impact on the time spent on completing the project.

Any manager in the service industry will tell you that it is almost impossible for staff to meet all their time budgets on their projects.

So instead of measuring the input that your team is putting into each project rather focus on the output that you expect from each team member to meet their salary costs each month.

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