Category: Opinion

John Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer at Ellipse discusses how to confidently and sensitively handle bereavement in your workplace and identifies some of the behaviours you should avoid when supporting a bereaved employee.

Whether your business is in food, retail, manufacturing or professional services you can’t fail to have noticed the need to develop your own talent within your organisation to be able to grow.

The UK’s most northerly regions have suffered over the last century from the decline in primary industries such as coalmining and shipbuilding but their long coastline and blustery climate are forging new employment opportunities in the fast growing renewable energy sector.

Jason Womack talks us through how to make the most of meeting time.

The Office’s David Brent always tried to ‘provide the laughter’ in his workplace. Although it didn’t often work, perhaps he was onto something?

Matt Jones, Media Director of Advertising agency, Studio Tri explores the technology, and what it means for brands.

Income distribution in almost all industries has become highly skewed. For many years, the “80:20 principle” was a good rule to go by; that is, the top 20% of earners make 80% of the income.

In my last column for Business Matters I spoke about how small businesses can compete with the large corporates and hire the right people to drive their business forward. But this is only part of the journey.

Have any of your customers been mis-sold any of your products or services? Perhaps the answer depends on what is understood by the term “mis-selling”.

Ahead of next month’s Budget, national business organisation, The Forum of Private Business is urging the Chancellor not to leave businesses out in the cold and to follow through on his recent comments and deliver a Budget that encourages the business investment key to a long-lasting recovery.

With a week to go before the Chancellor George Osborne delivers his spring statement, or Budget, to the House of Commons. We asked some of the countries leading entrepreneurs to open their own red briefcase and tell us what they’d be announcing if they were in charge on March 19th

Feeling stuck? Here’s a tried-and-true method to jump-start the creative process.

We all dread the over-aggressive networker, but being a wallflower is no fun either. What style of networking will work for you?

Simon Cowell’s decision to ask Cheryl Cole to return to The X Factor as a judge has put a spotlight on the issue of rehiring former employees and some of the issues which need to be considered when doing so, according to an employment law specialist.

How big is your marketing budget? Does it contain all the activities involved in producing profitable income? How a marketing budget is compiled, largely depends on how “marketing” is defined.