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Leadership Development for the Next Gen in Family Businesses

There’s a well-worn saying that you must be able to lead yourself before leading others. And like any skill, learning to lead requires a personal commitment to strengthening what is already working for you and challenging the limitations that may be holding you back.

Do You Have a Business Strategy for 2025?

Planning and strategy are essential for navigating uncertainty and achieving success. While business planning often focuses on internal factors like costs and resources, strategy involves making choices based on what products and services to offer to whom in a way that you win over your competition now and into the future.

What Does Your Business Need to Succeed?

No business can do everything. There is not enough time, money, access to the right people, right equipment, right anything. Identifying and optimising the key areas of your business can be the first step to maximising the harvest potential of your finite resources.

What’s Your Brand Promise?

A well-defined brand promise can serve as a cornerstone for your business strategy. Here’s a high-level look at how you can map out your brand promise and integrate it into your strategy:

What’s Your Employee Value Proposition?

An Employee Value Proposition is critical for talent management strategy. A well-defined and executed EVP can your enhance the ability of your business to attract, engage and retain talent.

How are you going to win in the market in 2024?

Do you have a strategy and a plan to win in your market in 2024? Join one of our ‘group strategy workshops’ in February to put you on the right track to accomplishing your business goals.

Strategy & Planning: Why you business needs both

Businesses need Strategy and they need Planning – and they are not interchangeable. Strategy is about winning in your market. The Plan is about actions determined by your budget and priorities.

Recruitment is a key to supporting business growth

Finding talent is the number one pain point for most business owners - another key pain point is dealing with and managing poor recruitment decisions. Getting the recruitment decision right is an absolute necessity.

Introducing Martin Pike, Strategy Facilitator

Blue Jam introduces Martin Pike, its second experienced Strategy Facilitator working with growing businesses on their Strategy & Accomplishment.

How’s your Marketing? Limited review offer

Let Blue Jam’s Marketing as a Service team review your marketing and communications systems to assess how they are helping or hindering your growth.

Blue Jam launches to enable businesses to grow

Introducing Blue Jam, a new SA-based offering established by seasoned advisers to help business clients achieve growth.

Key tools a medium sized business needs for growth

There are a variety of tools that can help businesses grow – some more common than you may think.