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    Leadership born or made?

    Leaders: Are They Born or Made? Updated

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 15/04/21

    This is a repost from a previous blog written by Liz Wotherspoon, Chief Executive of Growth at The Icehouse, was first published in NZBusiness Magazine in 2018 and is as ...

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    Business Owner Programme Bay of Plenty

    Business Owner Programme and the bay of opportunities

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 30/03/21

    The Bay of Plenty is sitting at the top of the current rankings for annual domestic GDP, according to figures from Stats NZ released in March 2021. ‘Boosted by construction and ...

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    Jo Clayton

    Leaders Exchange: The value of leadership reset and reconnection

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 25/03/21

    Jo Clayton, Programme Facilitator at The Icehouse, outlines why there’s never been a better time for leaders to reset and reconnect with their businesses through The Icehouse’s

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    Business Owner

    How to Pay Yourself as a Business Owner: Updated

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 23/03/21

    This is a repost of a previous blog from The Icehouse in 2019. Since we first published this article we’ve experienced COVID-19, multiple lockdowns, the introduction of wage ...

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    skills shortage

    Time to plug the gap in your skills shortage?

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 16/03/21

    Any sudden change in the structure of a domestic or global economy inevitably leads to an uneven shift in job openings across industry and sector. How do you address this if ...

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    Keeping Employees

    The Art of Keeping Your Employees: Updated

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 04/03/21

    This is a repost of a previous blog from The Icehouse in 2016. As relevant now as it was then, the points raised address today’s challenges around skills and talent shortages, ...

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    Director farewell Icehouse

    Thank you to our retiring Icehouse directors

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 03/03/21

    In late February 2021 we met up to celebrate the work of the three directors who retired from their Icehouse duties in 2020; namely Chris Quin, Tim Williams and Greg Tomlinson. ...

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    Gavin Lennox Group CEO

    Introducing The Icehouse... Gavin Lennox, Group CEO

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 27/01/21

    To welcome in the new year, our latest profile of key members of The Icehouse team is a special one, as we focus on Gavin Lennox, our Group CEO.

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    The business why

    Why does your business exist?

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 26/01/21

    Step back in time to ask yourself some challenging questions to help you refocus, get your purpose back on track and take your business forward.

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    Back to work in 2021

    How to get back into the swing of things in 2021

    By Ben Whittacker-Cook on 14/01/21

    Well, that didn’t seem very long, did it? Two golden weeks of summer (three, if you were lucky) and now in the blink of an eye, mid-January sees the big return to work. So here ...

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