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Or improving Employee Engagement as us HR types like to call it! There are thousands of articles available online, based on a range of different philosophies; some very practical and based on common sense, others a bit wackier! Here are…
Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your business and time-consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand: Pays you back in employee productivity, a successful employment relationship, and a positive impact…
There are thousands of articles available online, based on a range of management and leadership gurus and different philosophies, but here are a few of our favourite pointers for good people management: Maintain Good Communication Employees want to be kept…
Time flies from those early days when you set-up your business and take-on your first employee; but have you paused to think about whether you have appropriate governance and compliance in place around the employment issues facing you now and…
A cautionary tale for the small business owner…(based on real-life) So, you wanted to start a business. You took it from concept to reality, after producing operational and financial plans to satisfy ‘the powers that be’ (bank, tax and clients).…
Working more than 7-8 hours a day can stress people out, weekends are the only time when most working men and women get to spend the whole day with their families and loved ones. Refreshing your mind is really necessary…
Knowing whether your employees really enjoy going to work is a question worth asking. The degree to which employees are engaged with their job has a direct impact on their productivity, loyalty and absences. This can in turn affect company…
The first thing to understand is that clashes of ego in the workplace is a reality. We can either live with it, ignore it or deal with it. We are often faced with conflict from early on in our careers…
Checklists, whether simple or complex, are great tools to improve effectiveness and efficiency. They help get important tasks accomplished to improve business performance. Business Beetle has compiled a list of reasons why checklists can help boost your business efficiency and…
With the World Cup around the corner a recent survey that found that almost half of SME owners and managers in the UK are concerned that the World Cup will have a negative impact on their business. A report by…