Category Archives: Business
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Successful meetings – What’s in a name?
Posted on November 1, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Project Management.There are a lot of subtle ways you can set a meeting up for success. This article focuses on getting the right title. It seems like a little thing, but having the right title for your meeting can really set the tone. If you have a generic title, such as “discuss info needs” it really […]
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Boost productivity by booting the data entry – A look at Shoeboxed
Posted on November 1, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Cloud Services, Small Business, Technology.A lot of my process and Cloud integration clients are bookkeepers and accountants and it always amazes me how much paper they are constantly surrounded by. It is most extreme with bookkeepers, who often work out of a home office and manage with piles and piles of source documents (invoices, receipts, bank statements, etc). I […]
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New PowerPoint Presentation course
Posted on September 17, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Technology.We have a new course, hot of the press! It is designed as a practical PowerPoint course, incorporating technical skills as well as the opportunity to practice and improve your presentation skills. During the first half of the day we will cover core skills in creating a really great PowerPoint Presentation, including: Creating a Presentation […]
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Sydney BusinessConnector Mixer
Posted on August 17, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Dealing with People, Small Business.On Tuesday I went to the Sydney BusinessConnector ANZ Small Business Hub event. It was promoted as an “evening of genuine business networking” . While I wasn’t familiar with the group or the presenter Hugh Todd, I was drawn in by the promise of drinks and nibbles overlooking the harbour and the very reasonable price tag. The […]
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Microsoft Network Partner
Posted on August 3, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Cloud Services, Technology.Northpoint is a member of the Microsoft Partner Network! The network aims to help bring resources together to provide support to businesses and individuals across a range of needs. Through this network we will be able to stay at the forefront of new products and trends. For example, we will be taking a sneak peak at Microsoft […]
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Knowledge Workers – Like herding Cats?
Posted on April 15, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Dealing with People, Project Management.Knowledge workers have been an emerging class over the last 20 years or so. While manufacturing, retail and service industries are fairly easy to define and understand, ‘knowledge work’ isn’t really an industry unto itself. It sits across these other areas and is primarily found in upper management, where people are looking for innovation in […]
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Timesheets vs Value Billing
Posted on March 27, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Cloud Services, Project Management.Value Billing has been a bit of a buzz word for quite a while now in Consulting. But over the last few months I have increasingly come across people making the shift in other industries, most notably accounting and bookkeeping thanks to some pretty funky innovations in software. For those of you who don’t know, […]
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Review: Three Tips for Managing a Perfectionist, Harvard Business Review
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Project Management.http://hbr.org/tip/2012/01/05/three-tips-for-managing-a-perfectionist Some handy tips for dealing with a perfectionist staff member. If you can draw on people’s strengths and not throw them into areas too far out of their comfort zone you will reap the rewards -employee loyalty and a smoothly run operation. If you ignore people’s natural tendancies though, brace for stormy waters! Now […]
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Facing the Digital Divide
Posted on January 12, 2012 by Anita Gisch in Business, Cloud Services, Small Business, Technology, Trends.The ‘Digital Divide’ is a term coined in the 1990s to reflect the growing difference between people who have and use technology every day and those who don’t. As iPhones, Androids and other smartphones have exploded onto the market in recent years, it is difficult to remember that technology doesn’t come as quickly and easily […]
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