Category: Advice

Gary Cattermole and Jaime Johnson are joint Co-Founders and Directors at The Survey Initiative, a leading staff survey provider. Here they discuss how employee engagement can lift profitability and improve staff wellbeing.

The Government announced at the end of 2012 that it planned to increase the various levels of compensation and employment wage rates on February 1 2013. Cat Macdonald of Threedom Solutions Ltd runs you through what you need to know.

Contrary to popular belief, customers are less interested in price than in these six things.

Budgeting is far from an exact science, but is a crucial task which provides a detailed roadmap to keep a business going in the right direction.

The act of ceasing work, and taking retirement, is a huge cliff-edge for many employees. Virtually everything changes overnight: income, expenditure, friendships with colleagues, home relationships and health issues are all suddenly thrown into flux. Often the retiring employee is left to navigate through this tsunami of change without any help from their former employer.

Christopher Shaw, CEO of Platform Black tells us what you need to know about invoice trading

They’re small things, but each has the power to dramatically change someone’s day. Including yours.

Management in all business and organisational activities is defined in dictionaries as the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organising, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organisation (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.

Email marketing is one of the oldest online marketing techniques, but it’s still one of the most effective. The Direct Marketing Association estimates a return on investment of over £40 for every £1 spent on email, nearly twice that of search marketing.

As a responsible company in the 21st Century, regardless of your attitude to human resources, there are some elements of it that you cannot afford to ignore. Your staff are one of, if not the, biggest cost to the business. You want to be sure you are doing everything correctly, legally and appropriately, but at the same time fit for purpose.

SO the New Year is upon us. We all sat underneath the striking clock of midnight and made our resolutions, only to forget or regret them the minute we awoke the next day. Then we rolled back into work on January 2 to that sinking feeling of ‘darn, I need to do my appraisals/reviews and set some objectives for the year’.

Your company is filled with creative employees. Some of them are easy to pinpoint and many others are brimming with untapped potential that can help your business thrive in an ever-changing market.

Are you frustrated with your own impatience and the pace of others? Here are three ways to cope and make time your friend.