Category: Advice

Success in business is all about relationships. Your network is your most important asset. Treat it that way.

Do all your ideas seem small and boring? Here’s a different approach plus three tips that will get you to the BIG idea.

Avoid the unfocused meetings that murder your team’s productivity.

Should you have a dress code or policy for your staff?

There is such a thing as too much productivity and efficiency, say neuroscientists, at least when it crowds all play out of your day.

Impressive employee benefits packages that are offered by big businesses can help them to attract good staff, and, the positive news is that today it is no longer the case that the best benefits are reserved only for the domain of large companies.

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