Category: Opinion

Businesses up and down the UK take strategic recruitment decisions every day, whether it’s choosing the right person to hire in a senior management position or the latest employee at a ‘McJob’, people’s lives are altered based on a yes or a no. This same process applies to taking on apprentices.

There are plenty of legendary bad business decisions: Blockbuster passing up the chance to buy Netflix; Kodak sitting on the digital camera; New Coke.

This isn’t about your logo but about the interior design, the style and impact of the interior of your business premises.

The value of storytelling for businesses has never been greater.

It is needless to say that in the last decade, workplace outlooks and behaviours have changed drastically.

We live in a world of stories. And storytelling can help us explain our business and make it resonate with our audience.

All of your forward momentum depends on the things you learn and how well you learn them.

The only generation that has grew up with the progression of this rapidly growing phenomenon are millennials, so we need to take on their skills and trends.

Nobody particularly likes change, particularly when the outcome is unkown, and with Brexit Article 50 now being triggered, the UK’s exit from the European Union is now closer than ever.

Did you know telling stories at work could increase productivity, team spirit and even your bottom line? No, neither did we. Copywriter and stories specialist Kate Philbin explains why stories are important and how you can tell them properly.

The majority of the nation’s most successful profit making business owners admit to having an ‘extremely cluttered desk’, suggesting that Albert Einstein was right when he said: “if a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”.

I’ve always said that anything that gets more young British workers into skilled professions, especially apprenticeships, is a good thing, but I can’t in good conscience support the Government’s new Immigration levy.

If planet Earth had been created one year ago, the human species would be just ten minutes old. Putting this into context, the industrial era would have kick-started a mere two seconds ago.

The start of the tax year can be an important time for reviewing your business and making some lasting changes that will help it thrive in the future.