Tom Ball, Founder of CEO of NearDesk discusses some of the hurdles that you may face whilst in business.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Digital Marketing: Science or Fiction?
The current Wikipedia definition of digital marketing is: ‘marketing that makes use of electronic devices such as computers, tablets, smartphones, digital billboards, and game consoles to engage with consumers…’
Total Customer Engagement
Social media seems to have changed the way we look at things as marketers. I’m not saying social media is the centre of anything – certainly it shouldn’t be seen to be important as a channel in its own right, but it has shown brands that the consumer has a powerful say.
How to keep on the right redundancy road
Have you ever had to downsize your organisation through redundancies? Was it for more than 20 people at a time? Were those 20 at one of your sites or spread across many? Well, until recently that final question was critical in terms of whether you had to collectively consult.
Would you share your rights?
George Osborne’s Shares for Rights scheme was rejected twice by the Lords, before scraping through in April. Darren Fell, MD of Crunch Accounting asks just what the controversial new legislation will mean for SMEs.
The Apprentice –The Final week
As I settled down to watch this evenings The Apprentice I contemplated whether Barbie would beat Bratz, whether fairy cakes would trounce facelifts, or if blondes or brunettes really do have more fun?
Do It! Give MPs More Money – For The Sake Of Better Future Government!
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) says we should give MPs a £7,500 pay rise, and I am 90% behind them. My problem with this is that it’s not nearly enough!
What do employers want from a new recruit?
The right attitude to work and a strong set of basic skills remain at the top of employers’ wish lists when it comes to hiring new recruits. That’s the finding of new research we carried out with our members.
The Apprentice – week eleven
Research says you make your mind up about a candidate in the first two to three minutes of an interview and you spend the rest of the interview justifying that decision.
Got a job interview? Then don’t watch The Apprentice tonight!
If you’re one of the country’s 2.5million unemployed and are about to take the step back into the world of work with your first job interview, don’t watch The Apprentice tonight!
Accelerating growth among Britain’s growing exporters
It is encouraging to see increasing recognition of successful SMEs as the growth engine for the UK economy. Accelerate 2013, a business festival held in Liverpool at the end of June, hosted 1,000 delegates from SMEs nationwide, designed to promote discussion, knowledge sharing and operational efficiencies among fast-growing companies.
Friendly tip or over familiar Take Two?
You may recall I wrote a few weeks back about whether being called ‘sweetheart’ and being manhandled constituted appropriate business etiquette. Well I have cause again to question this – but from a written perspective; to kiss or not to kiss in an email sign off?
The Apprentice – week ten
It was a week where the task was to ‘dump the useless stuff’ and sell what worked. Much like Lord Sugar himself does in the boardroom each week.
The Apprentice is “false” & “morally bankrupt” claims business professor
The University of Leicester School of Management’s Professor Martin Parker has fiercely criticised the BBC reality television programme
Will paying for tribunal claims put off disgruntled staff?
I was fascinated to learn that claims to Employment Tribunals were up 36% for the first three months of 2013 when compared with the same period in 2012 – a whopping 57,737 apparently.
