Rebecca Pain, business development manager at communications agency theblueballroom gives some useful advice to businesses
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
Strategies to use the strengthening GBP-EUR rate to your advantage
David Johnson, director of foreign exchange specialists Halo Financial, examines how business can make the most of the strengthening Pound.
The best way to eat an elephant (Goal setting)
“The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time!”
Keeping Calm in a Crisis
Stress is a tricky thing – it means different things to different people. And what is motivating to one person can be stressful to someone else. Put simply, stress is an emotional reaction to physical, psychological or emotional demands that are placed on us.
Seven steps to managing your career
Author Clive Leake of Whow! Leadership (www.whowleadership.com) has more than 25 years experience as a senior business coach and leadership development specialist. Here Clive explains the seven key steps to managing your career.
How to better manage your stress levels
When it comes to wellbeing advice, one of the most common recommendations from our colleagues, managers, friends and family is often to better manage stress.
How to set goals you’ll actually achieve
Do you fail at achieving your most significant goals? Chances are, you are missing these vital strategies
Building A Winning Team
Often I find myself comparing the highs and lows in business to those of the sports arena (much to the delight of my team!) and I see many similarities in the ways success is created and maintained. I also think there is a lot that the business and sporting worlds can learn from each other.
How to plan for harmonious holidays
I am going to assume your holiday year starts on the December 1 when I talk about a count down. If it’s the beginning of April apologies, bear with me and save this article for nearer the time!
Help For The Little Guy: Audit Exemption
The annual accounts audit is something many companies dread, even if everything is above board and by the book. It can be an expensive and time consuming process, and one that gets in the way of day to day business being done.
How Technology Can Improve Small Businesses’ Bottom Lines
In today’s highly competitive market businesses face working challenges which shouldn’t be underestimated.
Six top tips to secure government contracts
The public sector has always been a viable target market for business. Yet it’s a commonly held view that challenges have always existed for SMEs, who are the lifeblood of the British economy, to effectively compete for government contracts.
Football punters in London suburb make most of their luck
When it comes to placing a bet on any sport, accumulators are notoriously difficult to get completely right.
Renewable Energy on a Large Scale
Regardless of whether the business in question is a start-up or a large, established company, the very real issue of the cost of energy can end up taking more from the budget than it needs to. In order to keep an office running, energy costs can really rack up.
Expecting productivity from an unmotivated team won’t work
In a society which puts ever increasing pressure on us to perform, succeed by beating all previous targets and then get back to work again, employees might be forgiven for asking what exactly is in it for them?
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