| How to prepare your business for a resilient 2021 | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/how-to-prepare-your-sme-for-a-resilient-2021 | How to prepare your business for a resilient 2021 | As 2021 kicked off with another Lockdown extension and a new wave of COVID-19 infections, businesses have experienced a tough start to the year as they continue to navigate the “new normal”. However, on the plus side, the past year has taught business owners and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMEs) some significant lessons in agility and resilience, making them better equipped for what they might face in 2021. | 2021/01/21 10:00:00 PM | | |
| If you won’t take a holiday for yourself, take one for your business | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/if-you-won’t-take-a-holiday-for-yourself-take-one-for-your-business | If you won’t take a holiday for yourself, take one for your business | One of the quickest and surest ways for business owners to do a health check on their business is to plan a holiday for themselves, says Kevan Govender, Umhlanga area manager at Business Partners Limited (BUSINESS/PARTNERS). “It will show you where the weaknesses are in your operations, even if you just do it as a hypothetical exercise without actually taking the holiday,” says Govender. | 2017/12/13 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Quiet or busy, the festive season requires careful planning for all businesses | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/quiet-or-busy-the-festive-season-requires-careful-planning-for-all-businesses | Quiet or busy, the festive season requires careful planning for all businesses | For most businesses, the festive season is either dead quiet or frantically busy. Even for those businesses whose sales remain as steady as an undertaker’s, just the number of public holidays in December is enough to disrupt the normal flow of things. | 2017/12/13 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Nine tips for boosting your business with the right mentor | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/nine-tips-for-boosting-your-business-with-the-right-mentor | Nine tips for boosting your business with the right mentor | Growing a business is such a wide-ranging undertaking that no single entrepreneur can possibly be good at all aspects of it. Your weaknesses and blind spots will always manifest in the business you build, and entrepreneurship can become a very fraught and lonely experience if there is no-one to advise, counsel and guide you to overcome them. | 2017/10/30 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Batteries recharged? Now is the time to reflect and plan | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/batteries-recharged-now-is-the-time-to-reflect-and-plan | Batteries recharged? Now is the time to reflect and plan | Business owners who have been lucky enough to pinch a week or two off in December are probably about as rested and fresh as they are going to be for the next twelve months or so. There is no better time for them to take a good look at their business and assess its readiness for the year ahead, says Jeremy Lang, regional general manager at Business Partners Limited. | 2017/01/26 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Your employees are the first impression | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/your-employees-are-the-first-impression | Your employees are the first impression | A major aspect of doing good business is that all-important "competitive edge". But don't look too far afield for ways to do this. Your biggest selling point could be the face your business presents to the outside world, and most often, that would be your employees. | 2016/11/30 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Stay off the road to burn-out by playing as hard as you work | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/stay-off-the-road-to-burn-out-by-playing-as-hard-as-you-work | Stay off the road to burn-out by playing as hard as you work | Entrepreneurs know how to work hard. Almost by definition they are people who get themselves going, start all sorts of projects, and push through with a venture until it succeeds or crashes. | 2015/12/17 10:00:00 PM | | |
| The five rules of survival in the tourism industry | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/the-five-rules-of-survival-in-the-tourism-industr | The five rules of survival in the tourism industry | The tourism industry, replete with its constant messages and images of laughter, leisure and fun, does a good job of hiding its dark side. | 2015/09/28 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Open communication can turn family into a valuable business asset | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/open-communication-can-turn-family-into-a-valuable-business-asset | Open communication can turn family into a valuable business asset | In a sense, almost all owner-managed businesses are family businesses. The fortunes of even those run by a single entrepreneur without the direct involvement of other family members are heavily influenced by what goes on at home. | 2015/04/27 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Five New Year's resolutions for entrepreneurs | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/five-new-years-resolutions-for-entrepreneurs | Five New Year's resolutions for entrepreneurs | The number of unused gym contracts and abandoned diets by the first week of February is enough to make anybody cynical about new-year's resolutions, but David Morobe, Business Partners regional manager, urges entrepreneurs to think differently about it. | 2015/01/28 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Taking back your life from the clutches of entrepreneurial burnout | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/taking-back-your-life-from-the-clutches-of-entrepreneurial-burnout | Taking back your life from the clutches of entrepreneurial burnout | It is well known that few people in the world of work carry so much weight as entrepreneurs. Not only are they ultimately responsible for every single aspect of the business, from finances to quality control, but they must put food on the table for several families by making sure that there is enough money in the bank every month to pay salaries | 2014/12/17 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Riding the high-season wave | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/riding-the-high-season-wave | Riding the high-season wave | Tourism insiders know that their industry is not for the faint-hearted. Every year, almost every tourism business faces a gigantic wave of seasonality which is thrilling to surf, but which can just as easily wipe you out. How do you get ready for the big wave? | 2014/10/06 10:00:00 PM | | |
| Growing your business | | https://businesspartners.africa/entrepreneurs-growth-centre/useful-articles/business-wellbeing/growing-your-business | Growing your business | If your business is established, you already know the ins and outs of your business environment. However, with market trends changing as often as they do, it is important to stay abreast with these changes and keep your options open. | 2014/09/25 10:00:00 PM | | |
