Category: Advice

Want to get to the top? You can’t be nice all the time. Here are 5 ways you need to be tough. See if you can be ruthless when needed.

A study released by Gallup in 2013 found that only 13% of workers felt engaged and enjoyed their job so with winter just around the corner what motivates us to get up and go to work, to produce excellent results, to energetically succeed and be innovative?

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently revealed another increase in the number of people turning to self-employment in the UK. The number of freelancers, a sub-set of this group, continues to rise even more rapidly, with a 38% increase of under 30s choosing freelance roles since 2008 and a 25% rise in mothers working as freelancers.

Think back to your most productive workday in the past week. Now ask yourself: On that afternoon, what did you have for lunch?

The standard to-do list might not be as innocuous as it seems. Here’s how to fix yours–and actually get the important stuff done.

According to latest research 55% of the sales workforce lack the qualities required to succeed.

Find yourself staring out the window again? You can quickly get back on track.

As a small business, success or failure can rest on your ability to bring in much needed money or recognition. So, why give a half hearted attempt when your in front of the people that might be able to provide you with that much needed boost?

Visual aids can be a very useful part of a business presentation – but not if you just stick to boring PowerPoint slides.

The curtain has fallen on Paris Fashion Week, the culmination of the New York-London-Milan-Paris Big Four run. Before the glitz and glamour have been metaphorically swept up, however, begins the next phase: the buying and selling.

If the thought of going it alone by setting up your own company has crossed your mind, you might wonder what you need to do once you think you’ve had that ‘eureka moment’.

Corporate leadership is a marathon, not a sprint. So as a leader how do you get to the next level and attain leadership mastery.

Communication is at the core of almost everything we do. If you want to build better communication skills, a good first step is identifying and avoiding these common problems.

Running a business often means taking risks – but these shouldn’t be random risks. They need to be calculated – in other words you need to ensure they actually aren’t that risky at all!