How you end your meetings can make the difference between whether your team’s time was wasted or well-spent.
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Dragons’ Den Best & Worst
In only six episodes, series 12 of Dragons’ Den has already given us plenty of brilliant and just enough terrible pitches.
Create the value in Digital Marketing
Digital technology continues to re-write the rules of marketing, demanding that we operate in a commercial environment where the landscape is constantly changing. Marketing has always been a mechanism for understanding what consumers want: and it has never been more relevant.
Caffeine mainliner, self-improver or procrastinator? What’s your stress personality?
BM Columnist Julian Hall takes an irreverent look at human behaviours under stress and explains why, in reality, it’s no joke.
Employment law crib sheet
The essential back-to-school reading for the busy small business owner.
5 sins that will send a conference audience to sleep
We’ve all been there; politely sitting through a number of conference presentations mentally compiling shopping lists or daydreaming about the summer holidays instead of actually listening.
Beyond networking
For many smaller businesses (particularly business to businesses) marketing equalled networking. But as a central way of promotion, those days are your business are long gone.
Building relationships within your industry – what’s in it for you?
When you’re working on your own, it’s easy to forget about networking and building relationships with other people in your industry, or to think that it’s not worth your time.
Use Science to Remain Calm Under Pressure
The ability to keep your wits in a crisis isn’t a character trait; it’s a skill that you can learn in minutes.
Habits of Remarkably Successful People
Successful people don’t get that way by accident. They engage in a set of simple but powerful habits that ensure their success every day.
Enterprise Nation opens advice centre at London’s Somerset House to boost UKs small businesses
Small business network Enterprise Nation is set to open an events and education space dedicated to micro businesses.
Bad Work Habits That Are Limiting Your Potential
Isn’t time to get rid of bad habits that limit your potential?
The highs and lows of purchasing distressed debt
When a company’s financial predicament is such that it is facing insolvency, there is normally a significant impact on its equity, as its perceived viability falls. These assets can then be purchased at a heavily reduced amount by ‘distress debt’ investors.
Bereavement in the workplace… the role of a trustee
In his latest article, John Ritchie, Chief Executive of Ellipse, looks at the crucial role of life scheme trustees – often appointed from a company’s senior staff – when a colleague dies.
10 reasons you must take time out in your business
Most business owners, directors and senior managers spend all of their working days, and sometimes several hours each day of their personal time, dealing with the hurly-burly of day-to-day business life.