There are a few changes coming into effect in the next couple of months that may affect some of the basics of how you employ people within your business.  This is a brief overview: Changes to the employment statement of particulars: All workers/employees will be entitled to receive a written Read More

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Uniquely blending an understanding of personal motivation with organisational engagement feedback, our innovative new approach enables employers to better understand their people in order to raise organisational performance and create employee satisfaction in the workplace. motivate2engage are tackling the shortfall in the success of many employee engagement programmes by launching Read More

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Employee engagement is merely about having happy people in the workplace right…? Wrong!  Engaged people can be happy, but happy people are not necessarily engaged.  And if they are not engaged your business can be significantly disadvantaged… So, what does engagement mean?  There is no single definition, but a common Read More

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Do you ever stop to wonder why it is that you just don’t ever seem to see eye to eye with a particular colleague or one of your staff.  Or you have found yourself trying to make up ground with a client who you somehow managed to upset, but you Read More

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Although the UK is a nation built on the backs of small businesses (5.3m in 2015, 99.3% of the total business population to be precise) it’s fair to say that most people don’t actually work for themselves. But should they? It wasn’t something I contemplated doing a few years ago, Read More

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Recently I watched a programme about television in the 1970’s and along with a few reminiscences of children’s programmes (yes, I was a child of the 70’s – the Wombles were a favourite), I was struck by the tone of some of the programmes which made me think ‘we just Read More

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We tend to recognise a psychopath as sensational murderers such as Hitler, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson or even the more recent Joanna Denehey; but do we ever stop to consider that right now in our workplace we might share our coffee breaks with people who could potentially be just as Read More

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Before July 2013 anyone could freely take an employment dispute into the Employment Tribunal arena, essentially for the price of the stamp needed to register the claim.  But with the Tribunal system steadily backing up with more and more claims, the Government stepped in and introduced in July 2013 the Read More

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In recent months there has been a furore in the press, by politicians, trade unions and others about the rising use of zero hour contracts.  But what is this about and why all the fuss? What is a zero hours contract?  This is where an employer hires an individual to Read More

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As a business leader do you firstly employ the right people who then shape the company and its success? Or do you firstly identify what you set out to be, and achieve this through the people you go on to hire..? I believe that hiring the right people is critically Read More

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