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
A Four-Step Recruiting System To Hire The Right People There’s a well-known metaphor used by Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, that to build a winning team, you have to get the right people on the bus. But in my experience you have to the m... 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
21/07/2022 No Comments
Is A Lack Of Focus On Recruitment Hurting Your Business?
I know it sounds like a dumb mistake now, but when you’re insanely focused on winning more business, it’s easy to forget about how you are going to deliver it. We had landed so much work that we just couldn’t handle it anymore. We c... Read More
14/07/2022 No Comments
The 7 Big Recruitment Challenges for Employers Right Now
Recruitment impacts every single aspect of the company. Hiring and nurturing talent is fundamental to growth, positive results, and ultimately business success. Zig Ziglar put it this way – “You don’t build a business. You Build People. The... Read More
