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Tag: Training
New hotel gives staff training unique work hard, play hard twist
Leonardo Hotels has finished refurbishing its first Edinburgh-based establishment. But before opening its doors, additional emphasis was placed on staff training.
Salaries rise to combat skills shortage across the UK
With the skills shortage across the UK putting pressure on companies to recruit the right staff, it’s perhaps not surprising that permanent starting salaries rose at a sharp and accelerated rate.
Why do new recruits leave a business?
By Lee Biggins
When you bring new recruits into a company, you fully expect them to fit in and have a positive impact on the direction and success of your business. So it usually comes as a shock when one leaves so quickly.
How returnships can benefit your business
By Staff writer
It doesn’t matter how qualified or experienced you were beforehand, after a long break you may be asking whether you can pick up where you left off. That’s where returnships come in.
Four tips for engaging your millennial employees
By Staff writer
Millennial employees are widely misunderstood. They can be highly valuable and useful but employers must be willing to meet them halfway.
Scottish businesses must utilise innovation culture to build companies of scale
By Graeme Smith
Amazon’s Graeme Smith explains why the innovation culture in Scotland makes Edinburgh one of the best cities in the world to target the digital economy.
How to avoid the scale-up pitfalls successfully
By Staff writer
When I started SmartPA in 2011, I wanted to see results straight away. It took me a while to realise that if I wanted to grow the business successfully, I needed substantial time to identify and tackle those pesky scale-up pitfalls.
We can only innovate and grow if we have the right skills coming into business
The CIPD has reported that we are ‘sleepwalking into a low-value, low-skills economy post-Brexit?. Simply put, we don’t have the right skills and it’s produced quite a gap between the UK and other countries.
UK leaders must improve pitching skills to win new business
When it comes to showcasing your business with pitching skills, you may want to be aware that 90 per cent of firms use Microsoft PowerPoint.