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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Top Tips for successful recruitment part two
There are a plethora of articles on the www. of how, why, when, what to do, and what not to do when interviewing.
5 Tips for More Effective Brainstorming
Want to become better at coming up with ideas? Try using these techniques.
Top Tips for successful recruitment
How hard is it these days to get the right candidate for the available job you have? There are so many ways to attract interest, and even then when you have their attention you fail to shortlist the right ones or treat them dreadfully in interview!
How to qualify a lead in a 10-minute phone call
79% of marketing leads never convert into sales. So how can you qualify a lead quickly and efficiently in order to avoid wasting their time and yours?
6 tips to build confidence when delivering a talk
Having, and projecting, confidence is probably the single most important aspect to get right when delivering a speech or presentation.
Why your personal branding matters
Why people have more in common with corporations than you might think.
7 truths about LinkedIn every professional needs to know
LinkedIn has evolved to become one the most important and most prevalent resources for professional networking available. But that’s just what you do know. Here’s what you don’t.
Six Essentials of Negotiating the Best Price for Your Business
Anybody can put a business on the market, but negotiating the best sale price is a different ballgame altogether.
A challenge for leaders
British business leaders are being challenged to follow in the footsteps of such greats as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs by finding out how Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) can boost their performance.
Exorcise the ghosts in your books – and avoid a spooky fright!
Have you discovered any unwanted ghosts lurking in your books this Halloween?
Bouncing back from a social media disaster
Made a major flub in front of the whole world on social media? Here’s how to respond.
When its OK to be ruthless
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.
The motivated brain
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?
How to hire a freelancer
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.
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