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The New Normal
There are very few occasions in business when you have an opportunity to step back, draw breath and review what has been before and what needs to come next. I do believe that many business owners are now at that point, have just been there or will very soon be arriving at that apex. Many…
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Your Company Values Matter More Now, Than Ever Before
What are company values? It is relatively rare that small and medium sized businesses have clearly written and well communicated values. However, with an increasingly geographically spread workforce, company values, ‘the way things are done around here’, are more important than ever before. To quote Gino Wickman in his book Traction, Company values are ‘a…
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Education
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a minework can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of…
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PeopleTalk
Available to Read Online PeopleTalk is our Client newsletter. Produced quarterly and sent to our clients, it is a 12 page colour publication which is packed full of useful HR content. For the first time (in a very very long time), we are giving you the chance to grab yourself a copy, but you need…
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Costa Del Home
As an employer, in the next couple of weeks there is going to be a significant shift of responsibility from the Government to you! As I said last week, you need to take the decisions which are right for your business, but you also need to act legally, fairly and in compliance with your policies…
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A different kind of workplace
On the 14th July the government announced new legislation that would come into effect on the 24th July making it mandatory to wear face covering in shops across the country with hefty fines to ensure compliance. Whilst there is still inconclusive evidence as to the general effectiveness of face coverings in preventing the spread of…
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What does TikTok mean for the Workplace?
Now I admit I am not the youngest member of the team, but I have found it impossible to escape the rise of TikTok. Up to a couple of months ago I would have asked ‘what’s that’? Another Social Media platform that means nothing to me and you may well be saying the same. So,…
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What is the biggest RISK to all employers?
The biggest risk to all employers is often the desire to ‘DO THE RIGHT THING’ Now, that may sound like a very strange statement because it is generally taken that all employers want to do the right thing. However, as an HR practice we are often left picking up the pieces when having done ‘the…
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Black Lives Matter
Photo credit / explantion: (Great Uncle) Michael Leigh wearing a T-shirt designed by (Uncle) Neil Mandel in 1990/91 as part of his Young Enterprise business project. It appears that we still have not learnt the lessons. Over the past few weeks many of us will have seen the horrifying video of George Floyd, an African…
