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As 2021 winds down and the world slowly returns to some semblance of normality post-pandemic, it’s hard for some of us to go back to a world where work stayed at work and home stayed at home. For many of us, strict lockdown restrictions threw that separation out the (office) window, throwing efficient time management […]

According to experts in the leadership and management field, agile leadership is really about applying the principles of agility to your management style to create an environment that is suited for agile teamwork and to help to shape an agile organisation. The concept of agile leadership isn’t a new one. The agile workstyle stems from […]

As a business owner, it’s quite possible that you wear a lot of hats. As a result, you may find yourself needing to be ‘always on’ so that people can reach you at any time. You may also not want to switch off and unplug completely for fear that you miss something important or lose […]

According to a recent survey, 89% of participants believe that effective communication in business is essential. Eight out of ten people rate their own businesses’ communication as average or poor. Why is good communication so crucial within businesses? Well, research shows that organisations with employees who are connected through effective communication show increases in productivity […]

Did you know that around 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of their existence? Approximately 45% fail during their first five years, and 65% during the first ten years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more. So, how do you build a business that avoids that […]

As an entrepreneur or business owner, failure is pretty much inevitable. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs this world has ever seen have made public failures. But these same entrepreneurs say that their failures were their biggest drivers of success. Failure happens, it’s what you choose to do with it that truly counts. The way […]

What do jiujitsu and running a business have in common? We know it’s a strange question but hear us out. The most important concept in jiujitsu is leverage. Leverage is what lets you throw an opponent, sometimes twice your side, to the ground with little effort. Leverage is all about minimum input and maximum output. […]

Most popular for its business to business (B2B) marketing capabilities, a LinkedIn company page allows you to reach the decision-makers within the businesses you want to target, as four out of five LinkedIn users are responsible for driving business decisions. This makes LinkedIn the ideal platform for your business to market and network from. There […]

Recently, the number of people working remotely in the UK reached over 17% of the population, with 5.6 million people mainly working from home at the end of 2020. Whether managing a virtual team is part of your new norm or having a virtual team is the basis of your business, managing your team’s productivity […]

One thing that all 5.5 million entrepreneurs in the UK have in common is the age-old adage that ‘time is money’. Time wasted is money wasted. The biggest way that business owners can waste money is by falling into common time-wasting traps. Throughout our workday, there are so many opportunities to get side-tracked by spending […]