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Advice on growing your small and medium sized business, SME, in the UK. Hiring and managing staff and finance plus marketing all on one website
What office space is the best fit for your business?
Your kitchen table might have been where your venture first spread its wings, but you can’t stay there forever. Whilst many successful businesses start from home, for the majority of startup owners, the time comes when they have to let their businesses fly by moving into a proper office space.
Catch ‘em, Keep ‘em
Using Facebook, Twitter & other digital platforms to reach your target audience
Are you killing employee motivation
There are events and circumstances that make us feel happy and appreciated. But unfortunately there are also many that kill our motivation.
4 Hacks to Make You a Strong Negotiator
Price negotiations are all about gathering leverage, long before you actually deal.
Bad weather – how to handle it from an HR perspective
With the sudden cold snap last week, many employers may have found themselves without some of their staff, or a few of them coming in late – something that those in the North of England may well have been experiencing for weeks!
12 ways that great leaders are different from the rest of us
Set yourself apart as a great leader by emulating and cultivating the following traits of genuine leadership.
Dealing with transport strikes
It can be hard enough to run a business at the best of times, without coming up against the disruption caused by industrial action on public transport routes. With three bus strikes happening in London throughout February, it’s a useful reminder to business leaders that their employees need to be ready to take any eventuality in their stride.
Tips for UK Businesses Dealing With A Strengthening US Dollar
The strengthening US dollar is wreaking havoc on US exports in the same way a strengthening sterling thwarted UK exporters in the summer of 2014.
3 ways to become super productive
Do you feel like there are never enough hours in the day? Read this to make the most of your time.
A safe inward journey
Britain is open for business to foreign investors. But faced with a complex matrix of regulations and cultural sensitivities, overseas businesses seeking to internationalise their business to the UK need strong professional advice to ensure the journey – for both the business and its migrant employees – goes inwards and upwards. James Townsend examines the role of immigration in inward investment.
Exit stage right: 4 steps every entrepreneur considering a business sale should take
Richard Phelps, Managing Director, Barclays Wealth & Investment Management, guides entrepreneurs through the crucial pre-exit stage of a business
Is your misplaced work ethic damaging your team and your career?
Ever had a great idea – but not followed it through? The most common excuse is “Too busy”, or “Not enough time”.
Five ways to boost efficiency and make your enterprise a Size Zero
More than a decade into the world of digital business and following a deep global economic recession, organisations are discovering new ways of operating that challenge many long-held assumptions.
Tips for going eco at your next exhibition
With huge amounts of energy and resources required to deliver on such short lived projects, exhibitions might appear in direct contradiction to the concept of environmentalism.
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