Making family friendly work for you – 5 mistakes and how to avoid them

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Family Friendly is an employee and business benefit If you struggle to get the very best people to come and work for you.   If you believe your employees aren’t giving their best, or are stressed because their working life and domestic life don’t work well together.  Or if you … Continue reading

How to accelerate workplace experience – for new or inexperienced staff

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Experience is often essential, but it takes time! One of the most valued attributes an employee can bring to the workplace is their experience.  In a fast changing world where employees are more likely to move from job to job for a number of reasons;  sometimes great knowledge and skill … Continue reading

The Followers’ Guide to: What your Leader wants

Do Followers know what their leaders want? Today, a search on Amazon.com showed 98,516 results for “leadership”.  A further search for “followship” came back with a mere 39 results.  I searched again for “team player” and received over 101,000 results, although “team player” wasn’t quite what I was looking for.   … Continue reading

When navel-gazing can be healthy

As a young manager it was drummed into me that I focus on my customers and the services or products I provided to the customer.  It didn’t occur to me to question the philosophy in those days, after all the most senior people in the business advocated it and I certainly cared … Continue reading

Young Entrepreneurs – Start–up and Start-thinking

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur you may be wondering if the new government initiative which has been widely promoted this week is for you.  You may be considering whether the loan system is just what you need to begin to build your dream.    Although the start-up loan scheme may … Continue reading