Poor morale can bring your business down!
Economic downturns, such as the one businesses are dealing with today, can destroy businesses – they can scare off the customers, promote unemployment and especially have harsh effects on employee morale.
As a manager you need to be able to understand what to do to supply a much needed morale [...]

From 6th April, over 10 million people will be able to request more flexible working rights. The government is currently looking to help all businesses get ready for the change.
There are already around 6 million people eligible for flexible working hours who are parents and carers, but from next week, another 4.5 million will be [...]

Stress can ruin your business!
Stress can be a business killer – around 13.5 million working days are lost through stress last year alone.  By taking some time to understanding what causes stress in the workplace and how to avoid its knock-on effects you might be saving your business a lot of valuable time and money.
Identify [...]

Starting a Business – How to survive…
Starting up a business can be a scary venture and can often not work out because the necessary advice is simply just not there.  Sometimes starting up a business can be a truly lonely, scary and very often extremely difficult experience…
But there are a few steps for small start-up [...]

Cash flow issues – are you keeping one step ahead of them?
You may have thought that starting up a small business might have been easier than it had actually turned out to be – one of the big obstacles for small businesses who have just started up is managing the cash flow.
In order to improve [...]

Relocation, relocation, relocation…
“Escape to the Country” is more than just a day-time programme on the television – according to YouGov around a fifth of business’s owners based in cities day dream about packing their bags and working either for themselves or someone else in the countryside!
Cities have been getting worse and worse for years – [...]

Interviews – what to do?
Although the unemployment rates in the country have passed the 2 million mark there are still businesses in the country looking to hire more staff – not every business in the country is being forced to close its doors.
But how do you know what questions to ask in the interview?  Taking [...]

Is your website working?
You may be feeling as though you have pulled out all the stops for your business but the expected bonuses have not yet knocked on your door.  Maybe this can all be put down to your website?
Too many businesses make mistakes when trying to utilise their online presence but instead of hitting [...]