Archive for the 'Management' Category

Retaining key staff – some tips

Your people are your greatest assets.  Of course, unlike many other assets, these ones have legs and sometimes, unfortunately, they use them to walk out on you!  Retaining key staff is one of the most frequent challenges that we come across in our work with ambitious owner managers.
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Posted April 18, 2012 by gerard. with 0 Comments

12 ways to build a better business in 2012

By Gerard Burke, founder and MD, Your Business Your Future
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Posted December 13, 2011 by Victoria. with 0 Comments

In praise of Number 2s

We hear much about the need to encourage more people to take the entrepreneurial plunge and start a business.  Leaving aside the argument about whether encouraging more start-ups is the most effective way to stimulate growth, I wonder whether more entrepreneurs is really what the country needs.
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Posted December 9, 2011 by gerard. with 7 Comments

Even booming businesses can benefit from the Better Business Programme (and so can marriages!)

“Participating in the Better Business Programme (BBP) was the best business decision I’ve made in nine years,” says Paul Tomlinson, managing director of Mirus IT Solutions. Within six weeks of the first sessions, Paul had made significant changes to his business and his whole attitude to work has been transformed.
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Posted November 8, 2011 by Victoria. with 0 Comments

A little MORE conversation

We all know that people are our greatest asset – and, for many of us, managing our people is also our greatest challenge.  After all, very few owner managers go into business so that they can manage people!
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Posted October 11, 2011 by gerard. with 0 Comments