Stay With Me: How To Keep Hold of Your Best Workers
Jill Whittaker OBE, Managing Director of The Executive Development Network, discusses why employees deserve a clear path towards career progression and shows how apprenticeships can pave the way.
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What Does Your Business Branding Say About You?
By Julie Mott
Any company that cares about recruiting and retaining top talent should constantly evaluate its hiring strategy, says Julie Mott, managing director, Howett Thorpe.
Why ‘Soft Skills’ Were Essential on My Journey as a Successful Entrepreneur
By Aiman Kabli
In the business world, there is often a focus on developing ‘hard skills’, these are the skills that we generally imagine when we think of a successful entrepreneur. We imagine someone with incredible technical, analytical, and management skills but the image we have created in our minds of the successful entrepreneur is only half complete.
Employee Engagement in the Experience Economy
Today’s job market is dictated by its workers. The level of competition for the brightest and best is so fierce that those making up today’s top talent are able to name their price and motivational incentives, with a variety of job offers usually on the table. With organisations competing against each other more than ever before to attract and retain the most suitable candidates, the importance of the Experience Economy has been highlighted, with employee engagement at its core.
How Can Small Businesses Avoid Customer and Fraudulent Chargebacks
By Gary Prince
Chargebacks are becoming increasingly frequent for small business owners, leading to a weakening financial state. Heavy fees are imposed on enterprises, decreasing your credibility in the eyes of your payment processor. And for many SMEs, figuring out a way to manage chargebacks effectively can be challenging.
How Personalisation Can Improve the Employee Experience
By Alex Hind
Personalisation is becoming a sought-after advantage in the workplace. Employees no longer accept a generic experience that doesn’t support them on an individual level.
Why Your Web Host Matters: Is It The Key To Improving SME Site Performance?
The SME scene is booming in 2022. With more online entrepreneurs than ever before, getting a site up and running amongst a myriad of competition can be tricky.
As we step into a digitally dominated future, site performance is the key to small business success. While UX/UI design, site SEO, and CX personalisation demands drive the online strategies of tomorrow, business leaders must also consider their web hosting platform in their battle to the top. As of 2021, 1.2 billion hostnames were registered online. Prioritising a web hosting solution has not only become vital in maintaining a robust online presence but investing time and money into professional platform hosting comes with a vast number of benefits ranging from improving site loading speed to boosting a company SERP score.
Three Tips for Success When Starting Your New Position as a Team Manager
By Staff writer
After you get a promotion into a manager role or move into one after a hiring process, you’re often overwhelmed by a range of emotions. While excitement at the prospect of this new position comes to mind, so does an innate fear of overstepping and a general uneasiness about whether you’ll be accepted in this new role.
How to Mold Top-Performing Employees
By Staff writer
When it comes to running a business, it’s always important to invest in quality talents. After all, your employees are crucial to helping your business get to where it needs to be.
Smart1 Recruitment: Going the Extra Mile with Mike Harper
By Emma Ames
Recruitment has been the number one challenge for many businesses across the UK in 2022. Real Business sat down with Mike Harper from Smart1 Recruitment to discuss how he and his wife are working to make a difference in the world of recruitment by going the extra mile for both their candidates and their clients.