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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 candidates – to see whether they’ll be a good fit in terms of skills, expertise and personality. However, a common mistake that interviewers make is to turn their interview into an interrogation…
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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 deals. Either way, it’s easy to neglect the importance of this skill in our everyday working lives. Negotiation skills are key to success, no matter what your profession. Why do you need…
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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 your management career, there’s always room to learn and improve. Whether you’re an established manager or still trying to make your way to the top, there are essential team leader skills that…
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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? A profit share scheme is when the profit a business achieves is allocated amongst its employees and paid as one lump sum, commonly on an annual basis. How much an employee will receive…
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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 client base. This isn’t something that will happen on its own, it takes an investment of time and effort on your part. The best business comes from repeat customers; they trust you…
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Paving the Way to Leadership: Develop your Skills
Do you feel you have what it takes to be a manager? Have you found it difficult to make the move into leadership? You’re not alone, many ambitious professionals looking to progress to management roles find themselves held back by the fact that such jobs require candidates with a certain level of experience. However, there…
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Why Emotional Intelligence is a Key Leadership Skill
Having a high degree of emotional intelligence is an important skill for any leader. The ability to understand and manage the emotions of those around us, as well as our own, can have a huge impact on how we work with others and how others respond to us. In this respect, having a high level…
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Our Top Work-Life Balance Tips
Achieving a work-life balance is pretty high up on a lot of people’s list of priorities. What is the point in working really hard every day if we don’t like what we do, have the time to enjoy ourselves and can’t make the most of the lifestyle that we work for? If you are happy…