Inspiring and motivating your team: three key leadership beliefs
Our beliefs drive our knowledge, understanding and our actions. What you do and the way you do it will reflect your beliefs. As team leader, you cast a big shadow – your team will adopt and mirror your beliefs and behaviours to some extent.These
Living Wage Week: the benefits of paying a living wage
By Kerry Johnson. Living Wage Week is running this year from 2-8 November, and to celebrate we’re looking at how the living wage works and how it benefits both employers and employees.The Living Wage campaign was launched by East London parents
Appraisal: what are appraisals and who benefits from them?
What are appraisals? Appraisals are the process by which staff and managers set aside dedicated time, usually once a year or so, to look at how things have gone for the individual over the past year, and to plan for the year ahead. It
Top tips for motivating staff
Get the best out of your staff and increase productivity with our top tips on motivation: thank them for their efforts praise them for work that is well done criticise them constructively and only in the context of their performance
Finance in plain English: demystifying financial accounts
From Howard Exton-Smith. Successfully managing a line function or business unit such as a department or division involves a range of skills embracing tasks, resources and outcomes. Whilst your staff may be your most valuable resource, fortunately they are not counted as an
On my toes: ballet shoes and bobby pins
By Lauren Scally. My passion for dance Just like many other little girls, I had a dream to becoming a ballerina. So, when I was three years old, I took classes and found a love for ballet shoes and bobby pins
Five practical (and easy) mindfulness exercises that take less than five minutes
What is mindfulness? Everybody is talking about it, but it isn’t new. Mindfulness and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy have been effectively used to treat anxiety, stress and depression for a number of years now. It is so effective that it's the NICE (National
Tattoos in the workplace, are they really taboo in 2014?
By Sally Pearman. Every few years there are a flurry of media stories about tattoos in the workplace and these tend to regurgitate the same messages: that tattoos and body modification aren’t professional, aren’t corporate, and that they give out a
Five tips on writing great web copy
Any good web writer knows that the more you write, the less they read. As early as 2006 researchers did eye tracking studies following users' eyes with lasers to see how they look at a screen. These studies showed two things: users don't look at much;