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Category: In Business
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
Getting to grips with a culture of misconduct
From football to banking to care homes, it’s no surprise that ethical leadership and misconduct continue to grab the headlines. Here, Alex Swarbrick, Senior Consultant at Roffey Park, considers why the meaning of ‘ethics’ and ‘misconduct’ can seem hard to pin down and even harder for organisations to get to grips with.
7 stress killing tips
Stress can be a killer–in more ways that one. Take some simple steps to kick stress out of your life once and for all.
5 ways to keep the upper hand in your negotiations
Perhaps the best way to begin is to make sure we all understand what negotiation actually is.
Three things that guarantee someone won’t buy from you!
Almost every businessperson says they want more clients, or they want to sell more products. Either way, we are all looking to build our businesses and make more money.
Tips to get more productive
You have more important things to focus on than, um, focusing. Get back on track with these tips.
How can businesses ensure cashless customer payments are secure?
You would think that most customer-facing businesses will already be catering to customer demand for cashless payments, or will certainly be considering taking the leap towards accepting credit and debit cards.
Grow 2014 Live
Watch the live feed from the Grow 2014 event where industry experts will show you how to boost your business with your first foray into TV advertising.
Humanising change and preventing change fatigue
Are you suffering from change fatigue? Not sure? Here Steve Hearsum, development consultant at leadership institute, Roffey Park, looks at what change fatigue is and what you can do to avoid it.
How to tell an employee what they don’t want to hear
Have to give an employee bad news? Here’s why you should welcome the awkwardness–and how to overcome it.
£45,000 raised for social enterprise projects thanks to Crowdfunder & Santander
Twelve South West social enterprises are to benefit from £10,000 match funding from the Santander Social Enterprise Challenge, run in partnership with rewards-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder.
Entrepreneurs & Poets
We rarely hear the words ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘poet’ in one sentence, and any permutation of the two together (think ‘entrepreneurial poet’ or ‘poetic entrepreneur’) feels like an oxymoron.
The mental health threat to your business
Mental illness is much more common and costly to employers than most realise. One in five adults will experience a diagnosable mental illness in any given year and more workers are absent from work because of stress and anxiety than any physical illness or injury.
Why invest in career planning?
The perfect career won’t just happen – we’re all responsible for our own destiny. Linda Jackson, managing director of 10Eighty, explains how you can start planning yours.
Every Business needs a Geek on the board
It’s great news that the economy is improving. Wherever you look, pundits are lining up to say how much better the economy is doing and that the good times are set to roll again.
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