Human Resources

As a business owner, you try to focus on building your business and turning a healthy profit so that the company can prosper - but have you thought about your managing skills? Being an excellent leader is, of course, about more than just numbers and marketing strategies and your...

As a project manager, there are a lot of critical decisions and responsibilities that fall on your shoulders. One of these is choosing the right team for your next project. After all, your project’s outcome is only going to be as successful as the people working on it. But...

If you think the only way to motivate your workforce is with a big paycheck, you might want to think again. Of course, money is an important factor, but there are many other ways you can ensure your team members are happy. If you’re able to keep your workforce...

We all want to move our businesses forward and achieve more. But the question is: how? It begins with leadership...Building leadership capacity Firstly, for an explanation of leadership capacity, head to http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/198058/chapters/What-Is-Leadership-Capacity%C2%A2.aspx. While there are no set rules regarding building leadership capacity, in this section, we are going to take...

One of the biggest issues that every business will face is coping with employee sickness. Even if a worker takes just one day off to get over a brief illness, the effect will certainly be felt across the company. The other employees who work closely with the individual will...

When it comes to growing your business, one of the most important aspects to being able to grow and scale successfully is by you having a dedicated team. This is not as easy as simply having a few people and getting them to go off to work - it...

Business owners often have quite a bad reputation when it comes to looking after their employees. I’m sure that you will be able to name a handful of large corporations who have been in the media recently for treating their staff badly. It shouldn’t be like this of course,...

In order to have a team that's as one, most modern entrepreneurs have their work cut out for them. Maybe it's because of the numerous working options these days, like remote working, but for others, there are still those age-old concerns when it comes to the internal processes. As...

When you wake up every morning and head to work, you never know what the day will have in store for you. Whether you work in a risky environment or not, you always need to expect the unexpected. You can be a responsible employee and employer by considering the...

It can be hard to manage the human factor when running a business. Your employees are much more than hamsters in a spinning wheel, keeping their responsibilities ticking over from day to day. But of course, that will be the basis of their contract, the surrounding architecture that keeps...