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5 skills you must have to succeed
You may think of leadership skills as something that belongs to corporate culture, but they’re just as critical to any entrepreneurial business.
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 […]
Interviewing made easy…
Research shows that poor interviewing has a negative correlation between assessment and performance. Simply put the interviewer would have achieved better results by flipping a coin. Here are tips to make your interviewing more professional and effective.
Bookshelf: What Business Can Learn From Sport Psychology
How are the best athletes in the world able to function under the immense pressure of competition? By harnessing the potential of their minds to train smart, stay committed, focus, and deliver winning performances with body and mind when the time is right.
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.
Staff watching sport at their desk could be damaging your business
New research has revealed that 60 per cent of employees will watch sport at work during the office hours this summer. While nine out of ten businesses will be permitting staff to do so, only 39 per cent are introducing policies to cope with the added network strain.
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.
Peter Jones unveils Academy National Entrepreneur of the Year
A Peter Jones Enterprise Academy student from Amersham & Wycombe College in High Wycombe has been named National Entrepreneur of the Year by Dragons’ Den’s Peter Jones and presented with a cheque of £5,000 to invest in their business.
Ditch your mobile phone to boost your business
A small psychological business experiment has revealed that a consumer is almost six times more likely to call a landline number rather than a mobile number for the same service.
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.