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If you want the job, prove you can do it!
How many times have you taken on a new member of staff, only to find they are not capable of doing the job? As a practice we are frequently helping clients to manage poor performers out of the business. People who came across really well in interview, but when it came to it, their ability…
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Try Before You Buy?
When taking on new staff, employers have a choice as to whether to give a probation period or not. And if they do put a probation period into the contract of employment, they can (within reason) choose how long to make the probation period. As advisors we generally recommend a 6 month probation period, but…
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Business Continuity – Plan for the Unplanned
Business continuity, disaster recovery, whatever you call it, it has to happen. 2011 saw many disruptions to businesses both here in the UK and abroad. How prepared were the businesses, how did they recover and could you do the same? Do you take the view that it will never happen to us and then bury…
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Will the Olympics sink your business?
With only 494 days until the start of the Olympics, have you started planning to protect your business? Having the Olympics in London in 2012 has given many businesses an opportunity for growth they would not otherwise have had. However, if your business is based in or around any of the Olympic sites, will you…
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BNI – Change Management
Whoever you speak to in business, they are going through change, or know someone who is going through change. Whether it is increasing or decreasing staffing levels, finding more cost effective ways of working, offering new products and services to old customers or offering existing products and services to new customers, companies must change and…
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Job Sharing
For most employers, a job does not shrink just because an employee applies for flexible working and as a result many employers are resistant to job share arrangements. The truth is, that for many employers job sharing is just too scary. It is not the way things have traditionally been done and it is a…