When you’re buried in daily operations and your leadership team struggles to hit the right notes, the whole business’s performance suffers.
At Munro’s, we see leadership as a secret ingredient to turning everyday chaos into a symphony of success. Our seasoned business advisors in Perth understand that when your leaders work in concert, around a defined and compelling strategy, every facet of your small or medium business can thrive.
When you’re ready to talk about what we could do for you, please book a meeting or send an enquiry.
If you don’t have a crystal clear strategy that everyone knows, then you’re likely to find one person going off in one direction, another going in a different direction and perhaps another somewhere else.
Solution
Strategy, strategy, strategy!
Outcome
Aligned leaders understand precisely where they’re meant to be going.
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If we came to your office and spoke with each of your leaders, will they be able to tell us what your business strategy is?
Let’s assume they can give some answer to that question. Are you confident each of your leaders will provide a clear and focused explanation of your strategy? Will they know what strategic tasks they have to perform this quarter to move your strategy along?
We know they won’t. Otherwise, you wouldn’t even be watching this video and contemplating what it is that you can do to help enhance leadership within your business.
To enhance leadership, you have to get everyone to know your strategy.
Your strategy is the bedrock of your business’s direction.
A clear, ambitious and hyper-focused strategy will detail your goals. It’ll include a series of actions that drive and inspire the entire business to achieve those goals and create a competitive advantage.
It’ll enable your leaders to get on the same page. To drive down the same road. A necessity for them to perform at the top of their game.
Outside of directly enhancing leadership, a well-constructed strategy stipulates the value proposition you offer to customers. Enabling you to communicate this effectively to them.
Don’t be that business which demands the world from leaders but doesn’t equip them with what they need to excel.
If you find yourself walking out of a meeting with little resolve on what is actually going to get done, or you find yourself in meetings that are mostly focused on short-term budgets and firefighting, you’ve got a seriously problematic time-wasting issue.
Solution
Strategically focused meetings with accountabilities.
Outcome
Meetings actually translate to better outcomes, rather than wasted time.
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Transcript available on the Small-Medium Business Boards page.
Less than ideal decisions, and long-term deterioration in business performance, may arise when questions are put to the group and there is silence or bickering ensues.
Solution
Embrace conflict
Outcome
More productive relationships and better decisions propel the business forward.
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Transcript available on the Small-Medium Business Boards page.
If all your business leaders aren’t growing they’re capabilities by at least as much as your growth ambitions, the business may find itself drifting as opposed to growing.
Solution
Hone capabilities
Outcome
Leaders who are capable of growing your business.
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Growing businesses will have growing numbers of leaders.
In many cases, these leaders are promoted from within the business. They are commonly promoted because of stellar performance. However, a potential flaw with this is that it is the leader’s technical skillset in getting work done that gets them promoted, whereas the skillset they need to perform as a leader is quite different. E.g. the ability to manage, delegate, mentor and inspire.
Some people learn leadership skills through the hard yards of experience, and some really struggle without appropriate education.
Whether your leaders are in, or out of, the boardroom a business seeking growth should be needing its leaders to become the best they can be. Without educating them, that’s a tough ask.
We don’t think leaving it up to leaders to learn to be the best leaders is something that should be left to chance.
Always keeping the financials in mind – i.e. cost and return on investment – leadership enhancement programmes should be incorporated into your business to enhance leadership.
The more targeted and relevant the programmes the better.
Your strategy and applicable 90-day strategic actions should greatly influence what leaders are taught. This is because enhancing your leaders’ skills with a regard to the present strategic actions is making the learning relevant and useful. It’s called Just-In-Time Learning.
Just-In-Time Learning is commonly designed to be cost effective by utilising a combination of group workshops and online learning. When designed and implemented well, your business develops stronger and stronger in-house capabilities, ideal for enhancing business growth.
Boardroom leadership may also be improved with similar learning, and also with the addition of coaching and/or regular participation in business leadership groups.
With these things in mind, we encourage you now to sign up to the Munro’s Business Academy. Also share the link with your leadership team. You and your leaders will gain access to some of the business leadership knowledge we have to share.
In due time, for more tailored learning and capability building for your team, we invite you to book a Get To Know Each Other meeting.
If employees don’t know the strategy, don’t understand why certain decisions have been made, don’t understand exactly how to perform their role in strategy execution and don’t have a say in continuous improvement of the strategy, then your “plan” isn’t likely to get you very far.
Solution
Never in isolation
Outcome
Successful strategy execution.
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It’s a fairly common view that strategy formation is the easy part. Leaders are already decent at it.
It’s strategy implementations which broadly needs to be improved.
Rigorous research in this area has found that strategic execution is significantly negatively impacted by:
Enhancing leaders strategic execution knowledge and skills to carry out the strategic plan is accordingly pivotal.
Leaders at the top need to know to involve middle managers. Truly involve them.
They need to know that once-off or intermittent communication of the strategy is seldom enough. They need to develop and refine their skills of discussing strategic affairs with their team.
Not only does the wider team need to know the plan, but they also need to understand the plan. Even more so, they need to be encouraged and enabled to drive continuous improvement. To help insights make their way from employees to the board. This is how your business enhances the continuous cycle of strategy refinement and execution.
We don’t want to see you stumble. To be like countless other businesses who are too caught up in the day-to-day grind with a strategic document that is neglected, gathering dust.
Separate yourself from the pack and invest in enhancing your business’s capabilities to execute a phenomenal strategy.
See the Munro’s Business Academy for some further inspiration and book a Get To Know Each Other meeting at your earliest opportunity. You’ll be very pleased you did.
In that video you just watched, we mentioned some research.
If you’d like the references, simply head on in to the Munro’s Business Academy and you can find them on the Reference page.
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Upskilling Event for Business LeadersClaims of being a ‘Top 2% ranked Australian Accounting Firm‘ (and similar claims) are based on two separate assessments conducted by Munro’s on 9-10 August 2023 and 1 December 2023. The ranking is derived from a comparison of the total of each accounting firm’s overall star rating multiplied by each firm’s quantity of reviews as shown on Google Maps. A total of 4,235 Australian accounting firms listed on Google Maps were identified for the earlier assessment, and a total of 4,301 for the latter assessment, which may not represent a complete list of Australian accounting firms. Munro’s claims are based on Munro’s best estimation and represent a snapshot collected at the time of each assessment. If the assessment was to be conducted today, then it is likely that Munro’s ranking would have changed – Munro’s may or may not be in the Top 2% today. Also, the methodology does not account for other potentially relevant factors such as quality of service, expertise, or client satisfaction beyond Google Maps reviews.
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In December 2023, we conducted a review of Australian accounting firms on Google Maps, based on star rating and quantity of reviews.
Out of the 4,301 Australian accounting firms we identified on Google, Munro’s ranked number 44, placing us in the Top 2% of Australian Accounting Firms. We’re thrilled to share this fact with you and share those reviews on our website. We’d also like to thank all our clients who left us those wonderful reviews.
Thank you.
Wonderful support and response from the team at Munros. We have been with them for many years covering both business and personal matters. It is a credit to both past and present staff.
Thank you
Thanks Drew and Michael, great job 👍
Munro’s are by far the best accounting firm I’ve ever dealt with it. My accountant Carl is very good at what he does and I would highly recommend him and the entire Munro’s team. They provide the most amazing customer service, absolute pleasure to deal with, incredible attention to detail and extremely experienced in all aspects of accounting for business, crypto, derivatives, property etc. I’m confident to say Munro’s have my business for life.
Drew has been exceptional. Very knowledgeable, easy to understand, timely with his responses, he came in to bat for us when we needed someone to do that. Highly, HIGHLY recommend.
Mike assisted with our farm succession planning. Thanks to Mike’s in depth knowledge on this subject, this process has been smooth and amicable. We highly recommend Mike and his team for family business succession.
I can highly recommend Tony and Michael at Munros – they have done my family affairs for several years now and couldn’t be more happier with the service I receive. The quality and professionalism of the work is second to none.
Drew is absolutely amazing and very informative regarding tax purposes.
If you are a NZ citizen and not already an Australian citizen, then you need to book a time with Drew.It was a breath of fresh air speaking with Drew as our previous accountants could not relay a definitive answer for some of the questions we had, and Drew answered it without a second thought.
Seeking information regarding tax can be a daunting subject and not everyone explains it in Layman’s term, and that’s where Drew fits that topic.
Definitely gained a couple more clients and has definitely earnt our business going forward.
Thanks Drew 👍🏾
A big shout out to Mike and his team at Munro’s for the outstanding work you’ve done on our accounts and returns!!
From our very first interaction with Mike, we had a great feeling about engaging with Munro’s, and you’ve more than delivered.
It’s been such a relief to know our business and personal accounts are in such capable hands.
Highly recommended.
Congratulations Munro’s on 50 years. I think my father must have been one of Donald’s and Barry’s earliest clients. Their names were ever present around the breakfast table when I was hopping on a school bus. I reflected with Christine a few months ago that the most important people in life were my family, my accountants, my GP and and Gough Whitlam. In no particluar order. (Why Gough Whitlam? He gave me a free university education and stopped the Vietnam ballot a year before it was my turn. And I have never voted labor). Thanks to Ian, Melissa, Christine, Noeline and Rama. Ever professional.
We followed Mike Beer when he joined Munros and have been with them ever since. Mike has been a huge help over many years. He is always available to answer even the most basic/ extraordinarily naive questions, and always with a generous and helpful attitude.
Munro’s have been our accountants, both for business and personal, for 50 years. During that time we have been really happy with the work done for us. The personel have always been professional, welcoming and efficient form the person at the front desk who greets you, to the people who handle your work.
Congratulations and best wishes for the future.
PS It does help that Simon supports the right footy team but he is not as good at tipping as he is at accounting!
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