Category: Advice

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.

Isn’t time to get rid of bad habits that limit your potential?

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.

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.

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.

It’s not just for finding a job.

There is a deceptive misconception in business. Many seem to believe that when someone buys from us we automatically have their loyalty.

We’ve all experienced the difference between a speaker who makes us drift off and a speaker who has the ability to grab and hold our attention. The difference is simply rapport and engagement. Some speakers have it – others miss it completely.

You may think of leadership skills as something that belongs to corporate culture, but they’re just as critical to any entrepreneurial business.

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.

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.

Learning how to motivate and enable others to change their actions maybe the most important skill you will ever acquire.

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.

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.

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.