Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Emotional resilience and conflict management expert Julian Hall of Calm People explores the cultures that leaders accidentally create and the effects they have. From sulking to shouting and sharing to shrinking violets, why a company’s culture is what a manager makes it.
Shed Simove is an inventor, business maverick and the author of ‘Success Or Your Money Back’. Here Shed reveals his ten surprising secrets for success.
Lack of employee engagement could be damaging the long term future of many businesses in the UK. Stephen Archer, director of business consultancy Spring Partnerships looks at how this can be turned around and his seven steps for delivering cultural change.
As the saying goes from Benjamin Franklin ‘If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
Unless you are one of the few lucky people who are currently doing their dream job, you are probably looking for ways to improve your career prospects. That is why it is good to ask yourself whether you are working in an environment that allows you to do that.
No longer a convenience or ‘nice to have,’ flexible working is now a key part of every successful organisation’s business continuity plan.
Many leaders are currently facing the challenge of leading in conditions of great uncertainty in an unpredictable environment.
As a small business, finding the right talent can be a tricky process. You may not have the time to even squeeze in an interview here and there, let alone vet CVs thoroughly, which is why locating a local source and using it for specific talent pipelining can work so well.
Stress is a tricky thing – it means different things to different people. And what is motivating to one person can be stressful to someone else. Put simply, stress is an emotional reaction to physical, psychological or emotional demands that are placed on us.
Author Clive Leake of Whow! Leadership (www.whowleadership.com) has more than 25 years experience as a senior business coach and leadership development specialist. Here Clive explains the seven key steps to managing your career.
When it comes to wellbeing advice, one of the most common recommendations from our colleagues, managers, friends and family is often to better manage stress.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) may sound like a concept that is out of reach for many start-ups.
Do you fail at achieving your most significant goals? Chances are, you are missing these vital strategies
The public sector has always been a viable target market for business. Yet it’s a commonly held view that challenges have always existed for SMEs, who are the lifeblood of the British economy, to effectively compete for government contracts.
In a society which puts ever increasing pressure on us to perform, succeed by beating all previous targets and then get back to work again, employees might be forgiven for asking what exactly is in it for them?
