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Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
8 reasons likeable people succeed
Is it possible to be a success in the business world and be likeable?
The work from home revolution
Today is National Work From Home Day, an initiative organised by not-for-profit organisation Work Wise UK. To celebrate this, we have taken a look at the revolution of the ‘working from home’ concept and how it benefits small businesses.
Why you should hire the well traveled
What does racking up air miles have to do with high performance at work?
Five tips to help SMEs identify the right time to adopt ERP software
As a business grows, managing information, processes and operations inevitably becomes more complex.
11 things ultra-productive people do differently
Ultra-productive people achieve more because they think differently.
Are your employees bored?
Gary Cattermole, Director of award-winning employee research consultancy, The Survey Initiative, offers his advice on how to alleviate boredom at work.
Why leaders should coach more often
There are managers who coach and managers who don’t. Leaders in the latter category are not necessarily bad managers, but they are neglecting an effective tool to develop talent.
Recruitment advice from successful startups
When you’re starting a new business, you need to make sure you have the right people around you in order to make your venture a success. But if you’ve never been on the other side of the recruitment process, where do you begin?
The science of successful negotiation
Ever wonder what it takes to negotiate the deal you want? Follow these tips.
Five flexible working mistakes that businesses make…
Flexible working, allowing employees to operate remotely – from home or another location of their choice – can be an extremely smart move for any business that wants to improve productivity.
7 harsh truths that will make you a better entrepreneur
The sooner you recognise and understand these harsh truths, the sooner you can become a better entrepreneur.
The eternal SME problem – Selling to a large corporate
It’s only £1. You go into Poundland and the proposition is clear. All those things you ever wanted and all for a pound. Buying is not a difficult decision and it’s not like you can find it cheaper elsewhere. But is it?
Employee benefits: getting the balance right
Today’s business leaders are waking up to the fact that now, perhaps more than ever before, they must take the welfare and needs of their employees as seriously as they do their balance sheets.
The benefits of temporary recruitment for businesses
If you have everything you really need in your permanent workforce, but have a project that requires a niche set of skills, or require holiday/sickness/maternity cover then bringing someone in on a temporary basis could be highly beneficial.
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