Category: Advice

As an entrepreneur, you have a lot on your plate. Staying focused can be tough with a constant stream of employees, clients, emails, and phone calls demanding your attention. Amid the noise, understanding your brain’s limitations and working around them can improve your focus and increase your productivity.

Follow these easy steps, take control and see how much more you can get done!

The report ‘Delivering thought leadership online’ ranks the best and worst firms, and identifies some areas of improvement for consulting firms to focus on in 2013 to engage clients with thought leadership more effectively.

Suzanne Hazelton has a Master’s degree in positive psychology, is an experienced coach and business trainer. She shares 3 top tips to raise your game in business in the New Year.

I am an owner manager of a family business which I set up 30 years ago. The business employs 100 staff including two of my three sons. Now that I have turned 57, my wife suggested I should start thinking about an exit strategy. What issues should I consider?

Businesses are increasingly under pressure to select people that enhance their brand, work hard, bring a return on investment and do not tarnish the company’s name.

The start of the new year is upon us, which means it’s time to think about making a few resolutions to make your life better. So if you’re considering making some pledges for 2013, are there any bad habits you’ve been making with your accounts that you could address to make running your business easier this year?

Making warm and fuzzy promises to yourself doesn’t work. Here’s what does.

The start of a New Year is often the push aspiring business owners need to set up a new company. With the number of new company registrations typically higher in the first quarter of each year than any other. 2013 may see even more companies started than the record 484,224 in 2012 as the economy slowly crawls out of recession.

As we head into 2013, it is a good time to stand still and not only review what the last year has achieved, but plan for the year ahead. 2012 was a rollercoaster of a year for many small business owners, and Tracy Ewen, managing director at IGF Invoice Finance urges business owners to have as clear a picture of what the coming year may bring.

We know the headlines; we are working harder and longer, often in the face of our younger and somewhat idealistic dreams of an early retirement. We are an ageing nation living healthier, longer lives. So the profile of the workforce is changing.

The spectre of an Employment Tribunal is often used as a threat by employees who disagree with the way they are being managed. Certain employees view any form of criticism, whether in an appraisal, or as part of day to day supervision, as being an unjustified intrusion from management and worthy of a censure from the Employment Tribunal.

The growing trend to ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) into the workplace poses the biggest threat to web security this decade, international internet protection expert Smoothwall has warned.

The topic of money is huge and impacts every aspect of our lives and every decision we make. It’s something we think about all of the time, whether we’re conscious of it or not. Your present habits represent your past and until you change those patterns and habits the drama, fear and anxiety most people recognise around money will remain.