Category: Advice

Think back to your most productive workday in the past week. Now ask yourself: On that afternoon, what did you have for lunch?

The standard to-do list might not be as innocuous as it seems. Here’s how to fix yours–and actually get the important stuff done.

According to latest research 55% of the sales workforce lack the qualities required to succeed.

Find yourself staring out the window again? You can quickly get back on track.

As a small business, success or failure can rest on your ability to bring in much needed money or recognition. So, why give a half hearted attempt when your in front of the people that might be able to provide you with that much needed boost?

Visual aids can be a very useful part of a business presentation – but not if you just stick to boring PowerPoint slides.

The curtain has fallen on Paris Fashion Week, the culmination of the New York-London-Milan-Paris Big Four run. Before the glitz and glamour have been metaphorically swept up, however, begins the next phase: the buying and selling.

If the thought of going it alone by setting up your own company has crossed your mind, you might wonder what you need to do once you think you’ve had that ‘eureka moment’.

Corporate leadership is a marathon, not a sprint. So as a leader how do you get to the next level and attain leadership mastery.

Communication is at the core of almost everything we do. If you want to build better communication skills, a good first step is identifying and avoiding these common problems.

Running a business often means taking risks – but these shouldn’t be random risks. They need to be calculated – in other words you need to ensure they actually aren’t that risky at all!

Forget everyone else’s opinions on how to do social media. These are the real mistakes to avoid.

Increasing reports of compromises by well-funded and resourced attackers are raising the profile of cyber security to such an extent that headlines of data breaches are becoming mainstream.

Spectacular business failures have dogged some of the world’s most successful business people at early stages of their careers yet resulted in no long lasting harm to their public profiles.

If you feel like you’re drowning under paperwork in your small business, you’re not alone. In a 2012 study, small business owners reported that they spend 1-3 hours every working day on administrative tasks, and nearly half felt like they had to work out of hours to get everything done.