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Managing from Home: How to Lead A Team Remotely

Managing from Home: How to Lead A Team Remotely

By Sheryll Thicke, Internal Quality Assurer (IQA) at Busy Bees Education and Training supports the delivery of Management and Leaders..

3 expert tips for reaching your business goals in 2021

3 expert tips for reaching your business goals in 2021

Founded in 2004, Write From The Heart is a family-run business specialising in personalised gifts and keepsakes including frames, clot..

UK workers are driving a digital-first revolution

UK workers are driving a digital-first revolution

By Paige Erickson, Managing Director, EMEA, Workfront, an Adobe company  We’re now one year on from the ‘great home-workin..

Smart business practices for when we’re out of Covid

Smart business practices for when we’re out of Covid

By Anthony Lamoureux, Chief Executive Officer at Velocity Smart Technology How smart businesses can re-imagine working to thrive To se..

The Navigational Leadership Style

The Navigational Leadership Style

By Dr. Elizabeth R. Moore, PhD, Academic Lead for Professional Development And Director of MBA in Leadership at The University of Law ..

5 leadership lessons every manager must learn

5 leadership lessons every manager must learn

A managerial mindset doesn’t always come easy, but if you’re lucky enough to have secured a top position in y..

Why an employee-centric company culture is important (and how you can implement it)

Why an employee-centric company culture is important (and how you can implement it)

Your staff are your company’s most important asset, so it’s important you make them feel valued if you want to achieve gre..

Business leadership and management: 5 tips for building a successful company

Business leadership and management: 5 tips for building a successful company

By Margo Marrone, Co-Founder of The Organic Pharmacy Any workforce needs a strong leader to inspire them, push business growth, and ac..

Monitor, measure and inspire your workforce in real-time

Monitor, measure and inspire your workforce in real-time

By Ben Williams, Co-Founder, Loopin  The Covid pandemic has accelerated changes that we were already seeing in workplace culture ̵..

Ways To Allow Employees To Have A Healthy Work-Life Balance

Ways To Allow Employees To Have A Healthy Work-Life Balance

Covid-19 and lockdown has certainly had an impact on every one of our lives; last year most businesses were forced to rethink their pl..

Hygiene now over four times as important as customer service, according to hospitality customers

Hygiene now over four times as important as customer service, according to hospitality customers

  54% of Brits deem cleanliness and hygiene to be most important to them post COVID-19 98.7% of the public less likely to visit ..

5 tips for leading teams through pandemic fatigue

5 tips for leading teams through pandemic fatigue

By Andrew Duncan, Partner and UK CEO at Infosys Consulting 2020 was, in many ways, marked by action. The global pandemic and the resul..

5 ways to refresh your technology stack for the next normal

5 ways to refresh your technology stack for the next normal

By Andrew Duncan, Partner and UK CEO at Infosys Consulting In my last article, I outlined key steps for leaders to energize and suppor..

Communicating corporate vision to employees

Communicating corporate vision to employees

  Vision is about what the organisation wants to accomplish; and leadership uses it to inspire, clarify, and focus their people. ..

Bridging the gap between consumer experience and employee experience

Bridging the gap between consumer experience and employee experience

By Duncan Casemore, CTO and Co-Founder, Applaud User-experience experts map out customer journeys down to the minutest of details; whi..

A growing demand for low volume manufacturing

A growing demand for low volume manufacturing

By Chris Ford, Managing Director at Ford Aerospace. Covid-19 placed immense pressure on all aspects of manufacturing, from supply chai..

Long Covid: How to support your employees

Long Covid: How to support your employees

Supporting employees’ health will be an integral part of business policy and many will be wondering how to return to work efficiently..

Top tips for lift safety when returning to work

Top tips for lift safety when returning to work

Almost a third (31%) of Brits want their professional life to return exactly to the way it was prior to the pandemic, shows a YouGov p..

Staying true to your business idea

Staying true to your business idea

By Ben Fletcher, CEO and Founder of Velocity² and Fast Growth Icons When pitching out your business idea it can be discouraging if you..

How to build rapport in 23 seconds

How to build rapport in 23 seconds

By Raimond Volpe founder and CEO at Dynamo Selling Have you ever met somebody and gelled straight away?  Or, have you ever met somebod..

Is Wind Energy the Future for Meeting UK Business Energy Requirements?

Is Wind Energy the Future for Meeting UK Business Energy Requirements?

By Jack Johnson Senior Outreach Executive,Medaiworks Now that the world has placed a greater focus on the effects we have on the envir..

How first jobs have changed across the generations

How first jobs have changed across the generations

Roles in retail among Gen Zers have overtaken the traditional paper rounds favoured as first jobs by millennials through to baby boome..

How HRs can identify burnout

How HRs can identify burnout

By  Alex Hattingh, CPO, Employment Hero There are three broad symptoms of burnout: exhaustion (mental and/or physical), cynicism (wher..

5 ways that leaders can protect their own wellbeing

5 ways that leaders can protect their own wellbeing

By St. Albans, Hertfordshire There is no denying that the last 12 months have posed some of the biggest challenges that business leade..

Better Data = Better Communication

Better Data = Better Communication

By Elliot Hogg, Senior Solutions Consultant, Validity Effectively communicating with customers and prospects is crucial in building, r..

OFFICE WORKERS IN THE UK HAVE RECLAIMED 257 HOURS THANKS TO DITCHING THE DAILY COMMUTE

OFFICE WORKERS IN THE UK HAVE RECLAIMED 257 HOURS THANKS TO DITCHING THE DAILY COMMUTE

Following the government’s recent announcement setting out a roadmap out of lockdown many workers will now be looking ahead to a..

Time to re-shape the world of work? – 59% of employees will look for a new job if their work values aren’t accommodated

Time to re-shape the world of work? – 59% of employees will look for a new job if their work values aren’t accommodated

Well over half of employees (54%) are considering leaving their job in the next 18 months Almost two in three (65%) employees rank hi..

How burnout is affecting our mental health and how to manage it

How burnout is affecting our mental health and how to manage it

By Andrew Cooke, Strategic Director at Bruntwood Works:  While the country continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s another ..

EASE OUT OF LOCKDOWN WITH GOOD NUTRITION

EASE OUT OF LOCKDOWN WITH GOOD NUTRITION

 There is no doubt that over the past 12 months, people have been enduring immense stress, with The Centre for Mental Health predictin..

Twenty-Eight Years On – A Few Words on the Best HR Practices for Small Business

Twenty-Eight Years On – A Few Words on the Best HR Practices for Small Business

By Karen Lebsanft ,Kurrajong Kitchen I’ve proudly built a brand for the last 28 years and have seen people come and go at all levels. ..

High-performance data management is critical for delivering business results with cloud data and AI platforms, says MIT Technology Review Insights

High-performance data management is critical for delivering business results with cloud data and AI platforms, says MIT Technology Review Insights

A new report by MIT Technology Review Insights explores how decision-makers from leading organizations excel by deploying advanced clo..

Good at playing video games? You might also make a good leader

Good at playing video games? You might also make a good leader

Video games can be used to assess the capabilities of aspiring managers by recruiters, according to a new study from the Rotterdam Sch..

UK Employer Reporting Obligations – Taxable Benefits

UK Employer Reporting Obligations – Taxable Benefits

By Adam Dunnett, Director at ZEDRA The Coronavirus pandemic has had a long term impact on working life, with employers providing speci..

BUSINESS BEHAVIOUR – how to behave post-COVID

BUSINESS BEHAVIOUR – how to behave post-COVID

By Katriina Tahka ,CEO – A-HA – A Human Agency Business etiquette is imperative for creating a positive impression on thos..

How HR and IT teams can collaborate to support a high-performing distributed workforce

How HR and IT teams can collaborate to support a high-performing distributed workforce

By Adam Harding, Chief Technologist for Digital Workspace, Softcat Without question, 2020 was the year of the remote workforce, with m..

Will Workers Quit if Forced to Work from Home?

Will Workers Quit if Forced to Work from Home?

Rishi Sunak has made the news recently with his assertion that workers not allowed to return to the office may “vote with their feet” ..

How young people can benefit from a nudge in the right financial direction

How young people can benefit from a nudge in the right financial direction

By-lined to James Herbert, founder & CEO, Hastee Following the UK’s very recent and muted lockdown anniversary in March, the reali..