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How To Grow The Skills Of Your Staff

It can be difficult to manage a business effectively. As a manager or owner of a company, many employees will look to you for direction, and…

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5 Steps to a Successful Promotional Campaign

With the Euros 2016 in full swing, and global events like Rio 2016 and Russia 2018 just around the corner, it’s time to ask yourself how…

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6 tricks of successful day trading

Day trading means market position that is available only for a short period of time and the traders open or close the deals in the same…

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Can small businesses benefit from video conferencing?

Video conferencing is back in full swing among enterprises looking to utilize technology to the benefit of their employee’s efficiency and their final bottom line.

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Rise of the entrepreneurial state

Britain is innovating like never before – but so are policymakers, creating a hothouse in which to nurture the fertile shoots of enterprise and lead the…

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Employee share schemes: complicated by design

The design of an Employee Share Scheme for an SME is, or should be, a simple exercise: yet all too often it becomes lost in complexity.

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How to lead change you don’t agree with

David Cameron decided he couldn’t do it; he couldn’t lead a change which he had passionately campaigned against.

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10 tips for businesses holding events

Your business may be an experienced holder of events or planning one for the first time. Whatever the situation, there are several nuances that can mean…

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A happy employee is a productive employee

As workload pressures grow, employee wellbeing has become the subject of more research. Learn how to grow loyalty, reduce absences, and gain productivity.

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Why mentoring is good for your business

“The key to this business is personal relationships” Dicky Fox, the great mentor to Jerry Maguire, wisely told him in the 1996 film. The greatest business…

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The five ‘W’s of Digital Transformation

During creative writing class at school, do you remember when your teacher told you to use the five ‘W’s to structure your story? I can think…