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Aligned 4 Growth was founded with a mission to help SME business owners and entrepreneurs achieve the next level of sustainable growth. Read through our range of news posts below aimed at educating and assisting business owners to reach their business goals.
Aligning personal goals to build the business and life you want and deserve
A recent client of mine, Michael who is the founder and hardworking owner of a trade business, was deeply involved in the day-to-day running of his business. With no clear path at the age of 59, the question many of us face suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks:” How...
Aligned 4 Growth – The 10 Australian Business Strategists & Experts to Watch in 2021. The ABJ.
Hiring a business strategist is a common trait of successful businesses going back decades. Regardless of size, progressive business owners know that in order to scale and thrive, sometimes they need to engage the help of an expert outside of their company. Aside from...
What are the key fundamentals for small business growth?
Businesses that achieve successful next level growth have common characteristics. They understand that growth is change and they need to have aligned strategies, capabilities and systems to manage the growth while reducing risks of failure. They ensure their...
Can You Be a Successful Business Owner/Leader and also Have a Life?
Imagining a different way to work and live also means adopting a change mindset that recognises both family and work are important. As a Business Owner and Leader, the urge and desire to build a successful and stainable business and maintain a quality private family...
Business Challenges create Opportunities – The Road to the Other Side
Small businesses across all industries have been placed under immense pressure over the last 18 months. Supply chains have been challenged, customer buying behaviour has changed and business continuity has been challenged due to ongoing lockdowns. The small business...
Aligning Personal and Business Goals as a business owner to achieve balance and fulfilment.
As a business owner, do you feel like you are in the back seat and your business has control, dictating your life from the driver’s seat? We know this an alignment problem, all too common. It is usually because you do not have clarity and direction with personal goals...
10 steps to scaling up your business – Next level Growth
You have decided to grow your business, now for the next challenge; how to scale your business for next-level growth. Even if you manage to blow your sales expectations out of the water, you’ll soon have another headache; you have to be able to fill the orders or...
How business owners protect their health whilst growing their business?
Many of us are experiencing uncommonly high levels of stress right now related to COVID-19, politics, and the unknown future. As a business owner, you can feel overwhelmed and alone, dealing with the challenges and responsibility of running a business,...
What are the focus areas for Small Business next level growth?
Your business is doing well, but you’d like to take growth and profit to the next level. The problem is, you don’t know where to start. Here are seven actions you can focus on to take your business to the next level; achieving your goals of income, freedom and...
Strategy: What are the key focus strategy elements for SME and Family businesses?
SME and Family Businesses need to adapt, identify their unique differentiating value proposition and develop new strategies if they are to remain relevant, healthy and financially viable. The dynamic external environment, driven by increasing competitive markets, make...
Perfection versus Progress- to take advantage of new business and market opportunities
For businesses that are planning for the next opportunity, next-level growth, excellence is always a worthwhile pursuit. But how do you know when the quest for doing things well tips into perfectionism—causing delays or impeding progress? For businesses, an...
Take time to reassess during challenging conditions and go back to your core value proposition.
Unfortunately, right now in Australia many small businesses and sole traders are struggling, and some of them are in extremely challenging positions, because of the Covid-19 response. It might sound strange to consider we can learn any business lessons from a business...
Aligned 4 Growth: 5 Unconventional Leadership Practices for long-term sustainable success.
Almost every business today faces major strategic challenges. In a survey conducted by Strategy &, PwC’s strategy consulting business, majority of the respondents think that they do not have a winning strategy. In another survey, the majority concedes that they...
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Key to business growth is how you differentiate from competitors in target markets.
SME businesses have many challenges. One of these challenges is how to determine what makes their business stand out from the competition, their differentiating value proposition. Being able to differentiate your business and communicate your unique capabilities that...
Reset your approach to Business Growth Strategy with a Capabilities Driven Strategy
Consider your company’s struggles with achieving sustained next level growth. How many times have you developed a new strategic plan or direction, pursued new a growth opportunity with a substantial investment of time, resources and money, but without creating...
How a focused approach to IT capabilities can provide a winning business growth strategy
The new IT agenda is an informative report highlighting the distinctive value information technology can add to an organisation of any size, to become aligned for growth. Common challenges relating to complexity and indecisiveness around "fit for purpose"...