Category: Advice

Being angry is natural. It happens. It is part of life and part of being human, and being clever humans, we have developed different ways of disguising and communicating that we are angry.

You already know not to find fault with your team member in a meeting, bark orders at your staff, or correct an employee in front of a customer.

I am working with several clients currently who have employees who for one reason or another can no longer do the job for which they are employed.

Jane Galsworthy from GrowthAccelerator, the coaching service that helps ambitious businesses achieve high growth, looks at how small and medium sized businesses can foster ‘intrapreneurship’ to maintain their competitive edge as they grow.

Everyone has their own biases. But strongly-held biases, especially those based on false information, can be lethal to a company.

The economy appears on the brink of an upturn. Global opportunities are increasing and there are clear signs that overseas investors are looking hard at UK businesses once more.

The business world has always been plagued by more than its fair share of meaningless jargon. Maybe it’s the twitter effect, but the number of snappy-sounding but vacuous phrases has grown.

You can tell the people who run businesses and have trouble engaging certain members of staff: they’re the ones with large red marks on their foreheads from slamming them repeatedly against desks and walls.

Dealing with change can be difficult, it happens to all of us so understanding it; can make it a lot easier. Everybody deals with change in different ways. Janice Haddon, Managing Director of Morgan Redwood, reveals her top tips on how to deal with change in a positive way…

Over my career in Human Resources this question has been raised again and again. Can we test our staff if we think they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol?

November has arrived and the year 2013 is drawing to a close. As it does Johnny McGinley shares his top 5 tips this month for evaluating Public Relations campaigns.

Emma Hamnett, Senior Associate at Clarke Willmott LLP, discusses who employers can approach the difficult subject of employee absenteeism due to adverse weather

Somewhere along the line you started treating it more like a resume. It’s time to fix that.

Most entrepreneurs are eternal optimists: You don’t start a business thinking it’s going to fail.

In just five years, electronic cigarette retailer ECigaretteDirect.co.uk has gone from selling online to having shops across Wales. James Dunworth shares his tips on how to take an online business offline.