Category: Opinion

If you have room in your head for only one nugget of leadership wisdom, make it this one: the most powerfully motivating condition people experience at work is making progress at something that is personally meaningful.

As the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow grows looms large, Dr Graham Jones of Top Performance Consulting reflects on the achievements of the world’s best sport performers and their coaches and the lessons that business leaders can draw from them.

Graham Ewart, Managing Director of Direct Healthcare Services, gives his top tips for enhancing your public speaking skills.

Pity the poor PM. Not only has it been revealed that he’s woefully under-paid in comparison to his civil servants (although admittedly he may not actually need the money) but he also had to earn his meagre wage yesterday afternoon by handing out P45s to many of his close colleagues, a task which more richly-rewarded captains of industry often delegate to a hapless HR manager.

Monday 16th June marked the start of the first ever London Technology Week, a five-day festival showcasing “London’s role as the digital capital of Europe.” 30,000 people gathered across the capital to attend hundreds of events, hearing from some of the world’s most prominent tech entrepreneurs and business leaders.

The Queen’s Speech earlier this year surprised many by the number of bills included. For the Forum of Private Business, one stood out. The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill contains a range of measures to support small businesses. Alexander Jackman picks out the main clauses and highlights the battlegrounds in the months ahead.

With an estimated 61 per cent of UK adults using social networking sites, social media is the most popular online activity for internet users, and it is no secret that this offers excellent opportunities for business growth.

With the World Cup final this weekend and everyone talking about Germany’s amazing 7-1 win over the host team Brazil last night, many people reflecting on what went wrong for the England team.

One of the most overlooked aspects of being a leader is the inherent need for personal courage.

No matter how much drive you have – there is one thing that will always beat it when it comes to business success.

Suppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the shop. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on fuel? What would happen to your productivity?

Cloud computing has been touted as an IT game-changer for over 10 years, but it’s only now that businesses have become comfortable enough with the model that we’re starting to see real innovation in the market.

There is nothing wrong with having ambition as an entrepreneur; it is what drives us all to get out of bed. We want to make our businesses as successful as possible, and in many cases people want to expand overseas as quickly as possible.

As a result of today’s change in the law, every employee now has the right to request flexible working hours, and to have their request considered seriously.