Nurture your team’s creative talent to boost productivity
By Adam Smith
Adam Smith dissects how, with the right facilities and structure, business owners can nurture their team’s talents, improve productivity and build an ideal working environment.
Tag: Talent
Want to keep your best staff for the future Better make sure you pay them correctly
Whether you’re a small business with only a couple of employees, or an established medium-sized firm with a staff count in the hundreds, payroll is a core operational component that you cannot afford to get wrong.
SME bosses predict growth despite worries over management skills
By David Craik
British businesses in the SME space are bullish about growth prospects over the next two years, belying the “war for talent” that is currently being fought between ambitious growth-orientated firms.
Technology is key to supporting and retaining talent
By Nick Hogan
With many business leaders seeing recruitment as strictly a HR function, Nick Hogan, head of human capital management at Access Group, discusses why companies should be investing in technology to prevent losing their most talented employees.
Nailing your interview process to find ideal talent
Have you ever interviewed a potential candidate, finalised the job offer and induction process only to realise you’ve made a poor hiring decision If so you are not alone and you’ll know how frustrating, time consuming and costly it can be.
Lack of management talent threatens business growth
By David Craik
In 2012 the Institute of Leadership and Management announced that business were being held back by a lack of management skills. SMEs are back on the acquisition trail but the lack of highly skilled managers still persists. This could threaten businesses’s long-term growth.
2to3days: Giving talented women the platform to work part-time
When women go on maternity leave their skills are often parked up and under-utilised for months or years on end. Now, 2to3days has emerged and is connecting employers with these new mothers
The Happiness Index: Monitoring staff and client sentiment to increase revenues
On its website, The Happiness Index, featured in the Everline Future 50 this year, explains disruptive technology as that which “shakes up its market or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry”. This is what the company is setting out to do in its field.
Indian billionaire investor Tej Kohli: Nurturing the next generation
By Tej Kohli
Tej Kohli, technology entrepreneur, international businessman and chairman of Kohli Ventures, suggests the ways that businesses can attract and nurture the talented young.