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The Best Time To Start A Business Is During An Economic Downturn
The thought of starting a business now would seem to many a bad idea indeed. These are the days of austerity, surely we need to keep our heads down, take stock of what we have and bide our time until this is over.
7 Ways To Make Your Presentation Message Stick
You’re one of 50 speakers at a major conference. This is an opportunity to shine and put your business on the map… so how you can be sure that your presentation will stand out – and, even more importantly, that the delegates will remember your message?
Are you a Joker, Destroyer or Interrogator?
Being angry is natural. It happens. It is part of life and part of being human, and being clever humans, we have developed different ways of disguising and communicating that we are angry.
Shut Up: Talk Less—and Get More Out of Your Employees
You already know not to find fault with your team member in a meeting, bark orders at your staff, or correct an employee in front of a customer.
What comes first: the weapon, or the animal?
In an age where the sales sphere is dominated by the tools of the trade, are we in danger of neglecting the core focus of the sale: our customers?
So what’s’ reasonable’ when considering the duty to make reasonable adjustments?
I am working with several clients currently who have employees who for one reason or another can no longer do the job for which they are employed.
How to put innovation at the heart of everything you do
Jane Galsworthy from GrowthAccelerator, the coaching service that helps ambitious businesses achieve high growth, looks at how small and medium sized businesses can foster ‘intrapreneurship’ to maintain their competitive edge as they grow.
Tackling the problem of resilience
Resilience has long been touted as an essential capability for bouncing back from leadership setbacks.
How to manage irrational employees
Everyone has their own biases. But strongly-held biases, especially those based on false information, can be lethal to a company.
Preparing for a New Era of Growth
The economy appears on the brink of an upturn. Global opportunities are increasing and there are clear signs that overseas investors are looking hard at UK businesses once more.
Five ways to describe yourself in business
The business world has always been plagued by more than its fair share of meaningless jargon. Maybe it’s the twitter effect, but the number of snappy-sounding but vacuous phrases has grown.
The art of delegation
Better management of your time and your employees’ time leads to a more engaged work culture, which is key to making sure your business thrives.
Turning your staff from obedient partners into active participants
You can tell the people who run businesses and have trouble engaging certain members of staff: they’re the ones with large red marks on their foreheads from slamming them repeatedly against desks and walls.
Tips on how to Deal with Change
Dealing with change can be difficult, it happens to all of us so understanding it; can make it a lot easier. Everybody deals with change in different ways. Janice Haddon, Managing Director of Morgan Redwood, reveals her top tips on how to deal with change in a positive way…
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