Case study – Monsoon Aquatics
Case study – Monsoon Aquatics
The challenge
The business was growing rapidly and they expanded from Darwin to Cairns and Bundaberg in Queensland. With a team now spread around Australia, Brooke needed a way to make sure there was effective communication across the team and tasks were progressing.
The Workfacta solution
Workfacta provided the missing piece to facilitate weekly management meetings and develop quarterly and annual plans.
Features used
Quarterly Planning
Annual Planning
Meeting Minutes
The outcome
Monsoon Aquatics now has a management team that meets weekly for efficient, productive meetings where everyone knows what they’re accountable for and plans progress.
Improved Communication
Among the team
20% increase
In productivity
More goals achieved
After implementing Workfacta
Brooke Kimberley
Business Manager, Monsoon Aquatics
Customer since:
2020
Industry:
Aquaculture, Fishery
Location:
Queensland, Northern Territory
Australia
Website:
Monsoonaquatics.com.au
The details
Brooke Kimberley is the Business Manager of Monsoon Aquatics, and her husband Daniel is the Founding Director. Brooke says:
We love Workfacta! It’s incredibly useful for keeping the whole team on track and accountable.
Workfacta stops meetings from turning into a talkfest. Between meetings, you can park things in the Workfacta app and know they will get addressed at the meeting instead of interrupting people as things come up.
I would recommend Workfacta to anyone from small to medium enterprises or even large businesses with over 30 employees!
Better focus
Our meetings are more focused. Workfacta helps us move forward with our plans, no threads are lost, decisions are made and there’s no confusion over what was decided.
Best of all, no one has to write meeting minutes! Everything is done within the meeting, no one is wasting an hour of admin time after meetings writing minutes, assigning tasks and clarifying what was decided.
I can’t think of anyone I wouldn’t recommend Workfacta to! Anyone can benefit from using Workfacta.
Increased transparency
Workfacta has also improved our transparency. It’s forced us to form the habit of working out which numbers we need to look at and reviewing them weekly.
As a husband and wife working together, people assume we’ve spoken to each other and know what the other is thinking, but it’s not the case! Workfacta gives us the tools to communicate our direction and vision with the team and push forward. Workfacta also ensures what’s communicated with the rest of the team who aren’t in management meetings aligns with what we discuss.
Workfacta helps us execute what we’ve decided to do and shows us what we’re achieving. At the end of each quarter, it’s great to see that we’ve gotten through our tasks, ticked off those goals and can move on to the next ones. I would say our productivity has increased 20 per cent.
Workfacta will make your business more focused, more time efficient and get everyone on the same page.
Brooke Kimberley is the Business Manager of Monsoon Aquatics, a world leading supplier of premium hand-picked Australian Coral and Marine life. The company also regularly contributes to research, working with various organisations such as the Australian Institute of Marine Science, James Cook University, Darwin Aquaculture Centre and more.