Category: Advice

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.

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.

The Heartbleed, GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker viruses have hit the headlines recently and highlighted the increasing threat that cyber fraud poses for the modern-day small business owner.

Alongside identifying, researching and working on overseas business opportunities, UK exporters also require specialist financial guidance.

Working for yourself is the dream, but too often it leads to disappointment. Discover why–and learn how to make entrepreneurship work for you.

Christopher Aedo, Chief Product Architect at Mirantis, gives a step by step guide to evaluating your cloud requirements and matching your needs with the right platform.

If you’re thinking about growing your business, you may have considered whether you can provide goods and services to new customers based overseas.

Whether you had your own office, an area segregated from the rest of the team, or a desk alongside your colleagues, where you sat used to be the barometer of the hierarchy of an office.

These days the term brand is loosely thrown around, and on the surface you wouldn’t be foolish to assume its purpose is to simply sell or by thinking it is synonymous with a company’s logo.

The first step is knowing you have a problem. Even if you think you don’t, it could come back to haunt you.

From football to banking to care homes, it’s no surprise that ethical leadership and misconduct continue to grab the headlines. Here, Alex Swarbrick, Senior Consultant at Roffey Park, considers why the meaning of ‘ethics’ and ‘misconduct’ can seem hard to pin down and even harder for organisations to get to grips with.

Stress can be a killer–in more ways that one. Take some simple steps to kick stress out of your life once and for all.

Perhaps the best way to begin is to make sure we all understand what negotiation actually is.

Almost every businessperson says they want more clients, or they want to sell more products. Either way, we are all looking to build our businesses and make more money.

You have more important things to focus on than, um, focusing. Get back on track with these tips.