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15/12/2022 No Comments

4 Simple Steps to Recruiting Quality Candidates


Do you find it difficult to attract the right kind of employees? The fact is most businesses don’t do enough to attract the right people. In a market like this, when potential employees can have their pick of multiple job offers – you need to... Read More

08/12/2022 No Comments

How Well Do You Know Your People?


  If you struggle to keep your staff motivated, effective, and engaged, there is a powerful solution to your problem. When you take an honest inventory of the state of your staff and determine how well you’re doing, what are your results?Â... Read More

01/12/2022 No Comments

Six Characteristics of Healthy Teams


When it comes to your employees, do they work as a cohesive unit, or are there factions, backbiting, slacking off, and complaining? There is an important principle a business owner must understand if you want to create a work environment where people... Read More

20/10/2022 No Comments

Is It Time To Hire A Business Coach?


In current circumstances, when revenue is down, and business owners are looking to trim expenses, it might seem inappropriate to consider increasing expenditures by hiring a business coach. However, if you invested £15k per annum in coaching and th... Read More

13/10/2022 No Comments

Delegate, Delegate, Delegate


Do you find yourself spending a lot of your time doing menial tasks that don’t help your business move forward? The management consultant and author Peter Drucker once remarked that, when it comes to a company’s overall performance, the â... Read More

29/09/2022 No Comments

Stop Pouring Your Money Down the Drain


If your money isn’t stretching as far as it used to, chances are you’ve allowed “budget creep” to infiltrate your company’s resources.  Here’s how to eliminate that problem — fast! It’s an issue that negativel... Read More

11/08/2022 No Comments

5 Best Practices for Recruiting in an Employee Job Market


In this article, I look at 5 best practices for recruiting in an employee job market. Over the past 15 years, we have seen significant changes in the job market. The crash of 2008 led to a spike in unemployment and fewer open vacancies. Gradually ove... Read More

04/08/2022 No Comments

A Four-Step Recruiting System To Hire The Right People


Recruiting is like fishing. The businesses that get the best people are the ones that get a lot of fish on the deck so they can be choosy. We want to have a whole lot of people coming to us who really want this job so that we can be the buyer choosin... Read More

28/07/2022 No Comments

The Costs & Consequences Of A Poor Recruitment Decision


Poor recruitment decisions often occur when there is pressure to fill a position quickly, and therefore corners are cut during the recruitment process. While there is always a risk when hiring a new employee, a robust recruitment & selection appr... Read More