Category: Advice

We held a seminar the other week on saying what you mean without getting into hot water. We wanted to share some ideas with our clients about how they can recruit to their teams, speak to their staff and run their businesses without fearing discrimination and harassment claims in this ever changing, discriminatory legislative environment we call work.

Not every communication needs to be sent via email. Here are three types of emails you should never send if you want to be focusedon work and not your inbox

The days are get longer and warmer and you’re probably already counting how many there are left until the Summer holidays. But what could you do in the meantime to give your business bookkeeping its annual dose of polish, then make that task a regular part of your weekly hour spent on your books?

That interview you had right before you made the job offer? It’s not enough. Here are four things you must do on a new hire’s first day.

Nobody would ever intentionally sabotage their own based business, but oftentimes, we do things that we have no idea are going to hurt just that – our livelihood. Here are six things that you might be doing that you should re-evaluate. It’s never too late to stop, so, get back on track ASAP!

Stephen Archer, Business Analyst and Director of Spring Partnerships says, “The retention of your key talent is vital which means employees need remain engaged, motivated and therefore more loyal. Here are some tips for companies on how to do that successfully.”

During this tough economic time, it is crucial that businesses keep a tight control on costs to be successful. and taking out the right insurance cover is vital in order to be able to trade, but Paul Gardner, Sales & Marketing Director at Prescott Jones Insurance Brokers says that it is essential to seek independent advice from a reliable insurance expert to keep premiums as low as possible.

This may seem like a dumb question to many, but Stuart Cook suggests that he has encountered many businesses that exist and flourish very successfully without spending any of the managers’ time thinking about Strategy and its implementation.

If you get an opportunity to pitch your business to investors, following these five principles will help you secure funding for your growth.

You’ve planned and prepared your presentation, or training workshop, in detail. You’ve anticipated every eventuality. You arrive early, get set up and are no more than five minutes into your presentation when it happens – someone in your audience starts to throw out unsolicited comments. These are the type of comments that aim to catch you out, to make you look bad. You’re being heckled. What do you do? How do you handle the heckler?

It’s all very well coming up with a killer business idea but if you can’t get it in front of the right people it will never amount to much. Kate Russell looks at the online options for getting your business in front of a mentor or investor willing to look at your proposal.

Stress is epidemic in society, particularly in the workplace at the moment. It appears that it is worse than ever before, but why is this? We have more mod-cons and we’re richer than we’ve ever been. Yet I often hear people telling me they’re ‘so stressed’ and then listing all the many things they have to do, which of course is the reason for their stress, or is it?

Do you know how to make lemonade from lemons? Here are six powerful ways to turn bad days into good ones.

Most of the people who work for you wouldn’t dare admit that these incentives don’t work nearly as well as you think they do.