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Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Getting feedback can improve leadership
Asking for feedback can give leaders insight into their blind spots, ensure greater self-awareness and a deeper understanding of how they need to improve their performance.
Don’t let the World Cup turn ugly!
It may or may not have escaped your attention, but there’s a rather large football tournament taking place in Brazil, that starts today.
Find the people that are right for your business
Recruiting the right people is one of the toughest tasks facing any business owner, especially when it’s to fill key roles.
Brand Identity: Tips to make it to the Top
Running a successful business can be tough, but with the right branding you can take your business to the next level.
Adding value to individual development
We did many things to add value to people’s development at Pacific in addition to the weekends away.
Data Losses: Times Change, but the Threat Remains
How should organisations mitigate their risk of suffering a damaging data breach? Steve Smith, MD of security consultancy Pentura describes a stepwise approach to the problem
Need to make redundancies?
Redundancies are a harsh reality that many businesses may be forced to face and it is a difficult process for both employers and employees to go through.
6 Essential Strategies for Growing Your Business
Expanding a business creates a whole new set of challenges but it is important that your business doesn’t stagnate and is constantly moving forward.
Psychology of the Sales Process
There are seven stages of the sales process, but before I tell you them all, let me first emphasise that you do not have to do this every single time. What’s important is that you know what those seven stages are.
Making your emotions work for you
Your emotions matter in negotiations. They fuel your behaviors, energise you, and allow you to strengthen—or distance and damage—relationships with the people you’re negotiating with.
Cold Calling Conundrums – 7 Common Mistakes
Whenever I’m working with salespeople and business owners to help them generate better results from their cold calling, I start by looking at their current performance, so we can easily see where quick improvements can be made.
Here are 7 common mistakes they are usually making – have a look at them, and see how many you or your team are currently guilty of
How to get productive
Forget the apps. True productivity requires discipline and simplicity.
What employers need to know when it comes to employee work-life balance
Managing work and home life is a challenge for a large number of the working population in the UK.
The 5 basics of networking
Making the right connections can make the difference between success and failure.
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