June 2016 Issue 116

OPC i.t has been providing technology support to organisations throughout Australia for over 30 years. We know that at the heart of successful business is a robust, stable and efficient IT infrastructure. Managing it all can be time consuming, frustrating and costly and can divert you and your staff from more important tasks. With OPC overseeing your technology you can...

Are you struggling to get through everything you want to do each day? Ever wonder how those ultra-successful people do it? Richard Branson swears by waking up early. Zappos founder Tony Hsieh bundles up all the emails he needs to reply to each day and hits them in one go. Winston Churchill would spend most of his morning working in...

- ADVERTISEMENT - I left my career in the public service - six months shy of long service leave - and decided to hang up my shingle, with just one three month contract. Some would say I was nuts. I would say they don't understand what drives small business owners. Because I loved every minute of it. Sure, it was...

Somehow, in our thinking and talking about domestic violence, we've created a stereotype that only fits a certain kind of circumstance. We seem to revert to a mental checklist of what domestic violence looks like and what it doesn't; of who "qualifies" as a victim and who doesn't fit with our expectations. We've lost sight of the fact that no...

You'd think it would be the ideal for any employer, however, a candidate rich market can complicate the recruitment process. Worth noting - quantity does not align with quality! Be it internal or external recruitment, it's both time-consuming and costly to recruit. To manage this in a candidate rich market increases the difficulty - not only to secure that perfect...

ESC's Managing Director, John Falez, said that ESC Technology has gone from strength to strength over the past 15 years. "I've seen technology change substantially but customers are still looking for the same high level outcomes and standards of service. At ESC we're continually striving to provide our customers with the most appropriate technology for the task with the best...

We came. We engaged. We walked away more enlightened. Convergence - Optimising your organisational change - held in April 2016, was launched at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra to an 80 strong participant group from around the country. Created and funded by founder of Redgrass Communications, Sonia Irwin, the event drew together some of the top experts in...

This is the question posed by the President of Strata Community Australia (ACT), Chris Miller. Chris has a long history in property and strata management in Canberra culminating in recently becoming the Managing Director of his own strata management business, Vantage Strata. "I believe Canberra will become the 'Strata Title' Capital of Australia. We have an aging population, high property...

If you're a busy person that currently invests a lot of money in a personal trainer each week or someone that would like a personal trainer but baulk at the cost - then Trick Fitness is for you. Most personal trainers charge between $60 to $120 per session. At Trick Fitness you could train 10+ times a week with a...

The Federal Government's Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws Proposals Paper proposes three changes to Australia's bankruptcy and insolvency laws, with a view to encouraging entrepreneurship in Australia while simultaneously protecting the rights of creditors. Will these changes be beneficial? The proposals are: 1.Reduction of the current default bankruptcy period from three years to one year. 2.'Safe Harbour' provisions for directors from...

Many new developments are currently sold off the plan. What that means is that a developer purchases land and, with the help of architects, designs a building that meets planning guidelines and restrictions. A strata management company is then often engaged at that early stage, to assist the developer in deciding how common property amenities can be built and managed....

When marketing anything, numbers are important. Be they statistics, percentages, milestones, growth, increases, size, projections - and most important dollars etc. They matter. Don't kid yourself. They are the basis of all news stories. Young journalists are taught to ask 'Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?' and most importantly 'How much?'. If you want to sum up what 'News'...