Should Employers Provide Financial Education for Staff?

15 / 08 / 2018

Do any of your employees continually carry debt on credit cards, depend on overdrafts or lines of credit to make ends meet, use one form of credit to pay for another, hide spending from a partner or use credit to pay for essential living costs? These are all early indicators that someone may be heading for financial difficulty. Over the...

Get it Noted

08 / 08 / 2018

Yesterday I was reminded of a salutary if painful lesson. You can never keep too many good quality notes. A few years ago I bought my office from a builder (Thomas Betts & Co). The office was in a derelict state and needed a lot of work. Some of our conversations were recorded in writing – but some weren’t. The...

Are You Feeling Perky?

01 / 08 / 2018

Just because you are a small or medium enterprise doesn’t mean you can’t treat your staff to company perks. Simple, sometimes slightly quirky, ideas can help you attract and retain the best staff by boosting morale and demonstrating to staff that you value what they do. Offering staff perks, benefits or incentives is a way of attracting, and retaining, talent....

Developing Employee Responsibility

25 / 07 / 2018

The workplace has changed out of all recognition in the last 20 years. Back then, people were expected to take and act on orders without question. But today, employees don’t want to be the passive recipients of orders. They want to be more involved. What can you do to involve the team, encourage them to take responsibility and to perform...

Leaving it Too Late

18 / 07 / 2018

It was no surprise that once the tribunal fees were abolished that there would be a huge increase in applications to tribunal. Dealing with employment issues is complex enough without the fear of every Tom, Dick and Harriet lodging a claim. You can do a lot to minimise your risks. My view has always been: recruit carefully, express and communicate...