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Bad Work Habits That Are Limiting Your Potential
Isn’t time to get rid of bad habits that limit your potential?
The highs and lows of purchasing distressed debt
When a company’s financial predicament is such that it is facing insolvency, there is normally a significant impact on its equity, as its perceived viability falls. These assets can then be purchased at a heavily reduced amount by ‘distress debt’ investors.
Bereavement in the workplace… the role of a trustee
In his latest article, John Ritchie, Chief Executive of Ellipse, looks at the crucial role of life scheme trustees – often appointed from a company’s senior staff – when a colleague dies.
10 reasons you must take time out in your business
Most business owners, directors and senior managers spend all of their working days, and sometimes several hours each day of their personal time, dealing with the hurly-burly of day-to-day business life.
7 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make on LinkedIn
It’s not just for finding a job.
Get their trust, return their business
There is a deceptive misconception in business. Many seem to believe that when someone buys from us we automatically have their loyalty.
10 ways to build rapport and engage your audience
We’ve all experienced the difference between a speaker who makes us drift off and a speaker who has the ability to grab and hold our attention. The difference is simply rapport and engagement. Some speakers have it – others miss it completely.
5 skills you must have to succeed
You may think of leadership skills as something that belongs to corporate culture, but they’re just as critical to any entrepreneurial business.
A need-to-know guide on music in the workplace
With stress levels rising in workplaces over the last few years, it’s no wonder that music is seen as a perfect solution to ease the tension and lift staff morale.
Interviewing made easy…
Research shows that poor interviewing has a negative correlation between assessment and performance. Simply put the interviewer would have achieved better results by flipping a coin. Here are tips to make your interviewing more professional and effective.
Bookshelf: What Business Can Learn From Sport Psychology
How are the best athletes in the world able to function under the immense pressure of competition? By harnessing the potential of their minds to train smart, stay committed, focus, and deliver winning performances with body and mind when the time is right.
5 Top Tips to help cut the cost of compliance for your small business
Despite government efforts to reduce the amount of time and money spent on keeping up to speed on regulation changes, there’s no escaping the fact that compliance costs are on the up.
Influencing: The new science of Leading Change
Learning how to motivate and enable others to change their actions maybe the most important skill you will ever acquire.
Under pressure.. strategies for coping with overload
With almost half of UK managers working an extra day of unpaid overtime per week leading UK Business Coach, Marielena Sabatier, looks at how UK business leaders can create strategies for working more effectively in high pressured environments.
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