Who’s flying the plane? Sitting on a plane on the way to our MSI conference is a great time for reflection. Noise cancelling headphones and a glass of red wine do assist in the reflective process. A discussion I often had with businesses I’ve worked with over the last 20 years (I’ve had the privilegeread more

What is Workplace Rehabilitation? Workplace Rehabilitation is the process of providing guidance and support to an injured worker, to enable safe and timely return to work after an injury or illness. Receiving an injury in a work place can have a big impact on your life as a whole. Depending on the injury or illness itread more

Your strategic plan for 2016 is locked and loaded, right? And you and your fellow business owners are aligned on all the important stuff and have documented this at a high level with action plans to underpin and guide the implementation? If you haven’t done this yet, it’s not too late.  But you do needread more

When you sit down this year as a business owner and wish for a great Christmas present what will it be? At this time of year, most businesses wish for more cash flow. Alec Blacklaw, our Business Improvement Director, shares a number of things you can do to improve the amount of cash you haveread more

Alec Blacklaw shares feedback from the hundreds of Team Advisory Boards he has run for clients, with their team members, in nearly every industry. Lots of business owners will often say it’s hard to attract the right team members to their business in this ongoing war for talent. And then it’s even harder to getread more

Over recent weeks, the directors at McKinley Plowman have been invited to speak at Franchising Expos and Business Breakfast Briefings on this topic. The most successful business have designed and developed a business plan that is supported by the right legal structures that allow them to maximise their profits and value on any exit. Theseread more