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Top Ten Tips For Start Up Companies In Respect Of Shareholders' Agreements
You are about to launch a new business with your close friend, and have dealt with some of the main issues of setting up a business, such as: read more
Why Do People Resist Networking?
Every year, there is more and more evidence of the success people have when using networking activities to help grow and promote their businesses. This is thrilling for me, but I still see so many people who, for some reason or another, continue to resist becoming involved with networking — one of the most cost-effective, highest outcome things they can do, especially as owners of small businesses! read more
Success Isn't an Entitlement…It's Earned
Everyone wants some degree of success. Everyone may have a different personal definition of success, but I've never met anyone who didn't want to be successful in or at something important in his or her life. This is a good thing, because I believe that everyone's entitled to pursue success…but: Success itself is not an entitlement. read more
How Flexible Working Is Changing The Face Of Business
Flexible working is changing the face of businesses all over the globe. Here, successful mumpreneur and business owner Nicola Bird, founder of JigsawBox.com explains how she has found a way to not only spend quality time with her children, but also make a healthy six- figure income. read more
Don’t Follow The Crowd In Business… Get Your Head Out Of The Sand!
Do you ever feel that you are too busy to plan for next year as you are busy worrying about this? You are not alone. Many business owners spend too much time in the business rather than seeing the big picture. read more
Has Performance Support Come Of Age?
The big question on everyone’s lips is: what can we expect workplace learning technologies to look like in 2013? The answer is a performance support solution. While this might not be a new answer (but rather an old answer marrying together a new technology with a new approach to business) the argument for performance support is stronger than ever. read more
Five Business Reasons To Invest In Developing Your People
Once a business has hired people, whether it’s as little as two or as much as two hundred, giving employees the opportunity for development is a must. Why? Put simply, developing your employees effectively helps to improve the success of your business - both the individual and the business benefit - it’s a win-win situation. read more
Dealing With Difficult People
In the words of the late Maurice Line; “Some people are born difficult; some achieve difficultness, and some have difficultness thrust upon them” read more
How To Build Effective Matrix Teams
Many organisations are finding that work now cuts horizontally across the traditional vertical silos of function and geography. They need to serve customers who want a single point of contact across the organisation, they need to manage multiple locations and run integrated supply chains and business processes and the old ways of working cannot cope. read more
Cracking The International Market
What do Dyson, Thomas Pink, Sage and Pręt-á-Manger have in common? All are successful UK businesses in several overseas markets, and not by accident. Each has mastered the '4 C’s' as I call them: custom focus, corporate culture, the concept and the chiefs who run the business. read more
