Jane Galsworthy from GrowthAccelerator, the coaching service that helps ambitious businesses achieve high growth, looks at how small and medium sized businesses can foster ‘intrapreneurship’ to maintain their competitive edge as they grow.
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Tackling the problem of resilience
Resilience has long been touted as an essential capability for bouncing back from leadership setbacks.
How to manage irrational employees
Everyone has their own biases. But strongly-held biases, especially those based on false information, can be lethal to a company.
Preparing for a New Era of Growth
The economy appears on the brink of an upturn. Global opportunities are increasing and there are clear signs that overseas investors are looking hard at UK businesses once more.
Five ways to describe yourself in business
The business world has always been plagued by more than its fair share of meaningless jargon. Maybe it’s the twitter effect, but the number of snappy-sounding but vacuous phrases has grown.
The art of delegation
Better management of your time and your employees’ time leads to a more engaged work culture, which is key to making sure your business thrives.
Turning your staff from obedient partners into active participants
You can tell the people who run businesses and have trouble engaging certain members of staff: they’re the ones with large red marks on their foreheads from slamming them repeatedly against desks and walls.
Tips on how to Deal with Change
Dealing with change can be difficult, it happens to all of us so understanding it; can make it a lot easier. Everybody deals with change in different ways. Janice Haddon, Managing Director of Morgan Redwood, reveals her top tips on how to deal with change in a positive way…
Growing pains? How to keep your business small and stressful
As the economy turns the corner, the era of enforced fiscal prudence may be coming to an end. But, as many business owners prepare to put the champagne on ice, a critical question remains: have UK businesses forgotten how to grow? John Rosling, CEO, Shirlaws (UK) Ltd, outlines how if you want to stay small, focus on profit. But if you want to grow, focus on asset.
SMEs still do not understand Auto Enrolment
The vast majority of business owners are unprepared for Auto-Enrolment (AE), have no idea of the costs and almost half do not even understand it, according to new research from Clifton Wealth.
Alcohol and Drugs – to test or not to test?
Over my career in Human Resources this question has been raised again and again. Can we test our staff if we think they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol?
Five principles of good PR campaign evaluation
November has arrived and the year 2013 is drawing to a close. As it does Johnny McGinley shares his top 5 tips this month for evaluating Public Relations campaigns.
Wind, rain or snow, it’s off to work we go…
Emma Hamnett, Senior Associate at Clarke Willmott LLP, discusses who employers can approach the difficult subject of employee absenteeism due to adverse weather
6 steps to a great LinkedIn profile
Somewhere along the line you started treating it more like a resume. It’s time to fix that.
Business Matters podcast 31st October 2013
Managing Editor Richard Alvin talks to Philip Letts from the Blur Group about peer pressure and ‘jobs for the boys’ when it comes to procurement.