Category: Opinion

So-called “boomerang” employees — those who leave and then return — will become an increasingly valuable source of talent over the years ahead.

In this article, leading sales expert Andy Preston explains that with the current economic climate, it can be tempting for employers to look to sharp, quick fixes and cuts as a remedy to their financial challenges. However now, more than ever, it is important for businesses to take a longer-term view and ensure they retain and motivate their key talent.

In the wake of yet more racial abuse aimed at ex-professional footballer Stan Collymore on Twitter, I ask whether social media is doing enough to police itself?

Klaus Allion, Managing Director at ANT Telecom, outlines how investing in a unified communication system that integrates lone workers can make your budget – and your mobile workforce – go further and work harder.

Auto enrolment legislation was first announced in 2008, as a way to get the UK saving for retirement. All ‘eligible’ employees must now be automatically enrolled into a pension scheme in an effort to help our future pensioners to maintain a decent standard of living.

In less than a week, the world will turn its attention to the athletic spectacular of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

From 2014 the government proposes to extend flexible working to all employees in an effort to promote economic growth through a strong and efficient labour market having undertaken a consultation exercise in 2011.

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman has claimed the following as his favorite equation: success = talent + luck but great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck

Come January each year, I set myself goals to do ‘this’ and cut down on ‘that’, whilst the gym is bursting at the seams with like-minded people also trying to reverse the damage. Yet within a few months and I realise that these short-term fixes do not work and it is strict routines and disciplines that I really need.

Research has shown time and time again that employee satisfaction leads to employee loyalty, which leads to customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. A strong solid business and growth naturally follows.

If your properties are delivering a positive cash flow each month – fantastic, that’s just as it should be. But if you are just about breaking even, or worse still, losing money then you need to consider why, i.e. what are you doing wrong and what can you do to change it.

To motivate your team to achieve the highest levels of performance (and create an extraordinary organisation in the process) here are the qualities you should model every day.

Home-finder aggregator Zoopla’s decision not to renew its sponsorship deal with football club West Bromwich Albion at the end of the current season, is a unique example of a brand taking a tough stance when so many take a passive view said, crisis communications expert, Richard Merrin