Balance the Grind is on a mission to create a work-life balance hub focused on conversations, ideas and community. Publishing conversations with people from different careers and lifestyles; from startup founders to CEOs, entrepreneurs to independent musicians, designers to software developers, and plenty more. Work-life balance, work-life integration, work-life harmony; whatever you want to call […]
Sometimes I miss the corporate world. About two years ago, I realised that one of the things I missed about the corporate world (and there are actually quite a few!) was getting together around a boardroom table, discussing how each of our departments had performed in the month. We would include positives and negatives, and […]
19th January 2015.. I don’t really remember that first day. Bit of an exhausted, excited blur.. Probably have little memory of the first year actually – it just flew by, with all it’s newness and excitement and my heart beating out of my chest, and some things going very wrong, and some things going very […]
Our Community Manager, Celia Newlands, brings a wide variety of skills to the business. “I’m always looking for new ways to help small businesses and sole traders in my community. As a Community Manager and now Co-operative Director, I’m able to connect people who could collaborate to resolve multiple problems. And as a result, grow […]
We’ve all been there (and if you’re reading this, you’re probably procrastinating right now). The clock ticks by, and with it your productive working hours. But you find yourself doing anything but the project at hand. You chat to colleagues, flick through emails and social media, and ignore the growing project pile on the desk […]
I really wanted to take a bit of time to delve in to explain what collaboration means to me. Why I feel collaboration is such an important part of what we do here at Central Business Associates, but also why it is of great importance for us all to learn how to do it, and […]
Bayside Business of the Month I was delighted to receive the inaugural Bayside Business of the Month award last month from our local Member, Joan Pease! Recognition for contributing to my community is really the icing on the cake. I love what I do. I thoroughly enjoy helping people to collaborate and grow their businesses. […]
How often do you actually ASK your customers what they want? Do you get too focused on what you like, what you want to be doing. On what you THINK customers want? Do you carry out customer satisfaction surveys, customer care calls? These touch-points with your existing or past customers can be the lifeblood of […]