Category: Management and Leadership

Why Your Hiring Strategy Should Focus More on Potential than Experience

When you’re looking to hire new talent, you’ll probably have a good idea about the type of person that will fit into your…

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REVEALED: The Pros and Cons of Working From Home

Remote working has been growing in popularity for a number of years, however, no one would have foreseen how quickly it was to…

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Conducting Video Interviews: Red Flags That Show a Candidate Isn’t Right for Your Business

Business leaders know that hiring the wrong candidate for their team can be costly and have a negative impact on other employees. That’s…

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How to Keep Your Sales Team Motivated While Working from Home

Since the initial lockdown back in March, many sales teams have continued to work from home and are planning to do so for…

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How to Motivate a Millennial Sales Team

Motivating a sales team of young millennials can be a challenge. For managers, it’s important to be able to understand and relate to…

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The Importance of Inductions for Your New Graduate Hires

We’ve all experienced first-day nerves but sometimes we forget what it feels like to come into a new environment. For new graduate hires…

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How to Retain Graduate Talent

Recruiting high-calibre graduates is on the agenda for many growing businesses who want enthusiastic and intelligent trainees to buy into their company vision…

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Hiring Tips: Interviewers Should be Delivering their Best Sales Pitch Not an Interrogation

When recruiting new talent for your business, you’ll want to use your interviews to find out as much as you can about potential…

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Essentials for Success: Winning Negotiation Skills and Techniques

What is negotiation? For many, the word will strike up images of wheeler-dealers haggling over second-hand cars or perhaps business bigwigs signing huge…

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Essential Team Leader Skills for Management Success

For some, progression to management is a super quick process whereas, for others, it takes years of hard work. Wherever you are in…

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What Kind of (Football) Manager Are You?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many of us dreamt of scoring the winning goal in the champions league final, making a match-saving tackle or even just putting on…

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The Generation Gap: Millennials in the Workplace

“I’m a millennial.” But what does that mean? That you’re lazy? Entitled? Spoilt? There have been, over the past few years, many public…

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Attention, Wholesale Professionals: We Can Put You on the Fast Track to Management!

Do you think you have what it takes to be a good manager? Are you ready to lead? Do you love working within…

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3 Management Lessons You Can Learn From Sailing

Our CEO Agnes Butterworth has just returned from a sailing holiday in Croatia and she learnt some lessons along the way. Here's her…

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What is a Profit Share Scheme and Why is it Better than Commission?

Many businesses are now opting for a profit share scheme in place of the traditional commission structure. What is a profit share scheme?…

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A Team that Plays Together Succeeds Together

When you take the time to think about it, the realisation of just how long the majority of us spend with our colleagues…

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Building Client Relationships: 5 Ways to Keep Your Clients Happy

If your company depends on customers or clients, the key to being successful is making sure that you can grow and maintain your…

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Our Business Manager Opportunities Explained

Is it time for a new challenge? We have a range of management roles available throughout the UK for driven and determined electrical…

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The Power of Influence: 6 Tools to Get Anyone to Do Anything

Our Talent Development Manager, Sophie Finlay, looks at Dr. Robert Cialdini's theory The Psychology of Persuasion and shares her top tips on how…

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Attitude Can Make or Break Your Success

We all want success, right? Being able to monitor attitude is a vital step that we can all take towards reaching our full…

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