Private, Independent, New Zealand Owned

​What do these words evoke for you? ​Expensive, high quality, great service?​Any small to medium business in New Zealand will quickly tell you that this isn’t necessarily so! Quite often the service or product that they supply is either a similar or even slightly...

PUBLIC SPEAKING: A Fate Worse Than Death?

​Okay – for me personally, this may be a bit of an exaggeration. But I know that for a lot of people, the fear of public speaking is completely and utterly unbearable, and they probably would rather die. There’s nothing quite like the sweaty palm, racing heart rate...

Does My Personality Define How I Communicate?

​Personality. It’s an all-encompassing term that plays a huge role in defining you as an individual. Whether you have much interest in the subject or not, it is undeniable that personality not only shapes how you live, interact with others, think and feel, it also has...

Lost Opportunity

Lost Opportunity​Do you ever contact a company and afterwards think; “Thank goodness that person doesn’t work for me?”. ​I have had just that thought after receiving woeful customer service from a company that I had wanted to purchase from.​I chose the company as I...

The Value of Values

The Value of ValuesOur current newsletter talks about the strength of knowing your company values and how many people may not know theirs. ​I want to head this in a slightly different direction to talk about, as my heading says, the Value of Values.​I am going to talk...