You may think of leadership skills as something that belongs to corporate culture, but they’re just as critical to any entrepreneurial business.
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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
A need-to-know guide on music in the workplace
With stress levels rising in workplaces over the last few years, it’s no wonder that music is seen as a perfect solution to ease the tension and lift staff morale. Recent research by London-based performing rights societies Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music found that 62 per cent of […]
5 Top Tips to help cut the cost of compliance for your small business
Despite government efforts to reduce the amount of time and money spent on keeping up to speed on regulation changes, there’s no escaping the fact that compliance costs are on the up.
Influencing: The new science of Leading Change
Learning how to motivate and enable others to change their actions maybe the most important skill you will ever acquire.
Under pressure.. strategies for coping with overload
With almost half of UK managers working an extra day of unpaid overtime per week leading UK Business Coach, Marielena Sabatier, looks at how UK business leaders can create strategies for working more effectively in high pressured environments.
5 tips to prevent important tasks falling through the cracks
Whether you’re a sole trader or manage a team of dozens, you need to ensure that the work that needs doing gets done – correctly and on time.
Top tips to avoid pitfalls for start up businesses
Jane Crosby, employment lawyer at law firm Hart Brown gives her top ten tips to avoid the pitfalls for start up businesses when employing staff.
Does Automatic Enrolment affect me?
If you’re an employer in the UK, then automatic enrolment will affect you and there are things you’ll need to do. It’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with Auto Enrolment now to understand the impact on your business and how you can prepare for it.
Make the most of your day and get more productive
We live a world of micromanagement and hyper-connectivity–posting 140-character status updates on Twitter, using online apps to track every business expense during the day, processing hundreds of emails–it’s easy to get overwhelmed by granularity.
Make sure your business is cyber safe!
The Heartbleed, GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker viruses have hit the headlines recently and highlighted the increasing threat that cyber fraud poses for the modern-day small business owner.
Financing Exports – Where To Turn For Guidance
Alongside identifying, researching and working on overseas business opportunities, UK exporters also require specialist financial guidance.
What they don’t tell you about being an entrepreneur
Working for yourself is the dream, but too often it leads to disappointment. Discover why–and learn how to make entrepreneurship work for you.
There Is More Than One Type of Cloud – Make Sure You Select the Right One
Christopher Aedo, Chief Product Architect at Mirantis, gives a step by step guide to evaluating your cloud requirements and matching your needs with the right platform.
5 things to get right before you start selling to overseas customers
If you’re thinking about growing your business, you may have considered whether you can provide goods and services to new customers based overseas.
Is your work affecting your wealth, health and happiness?
Whether you had your own office, an area segregated from the rest of the team, or a desk alongside your colleagues, where you sat used to be the barometer of the hierarchy of an office.