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Less than one in five UK managers support hard Brexit

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In advance of the general election, UK managers have made clear what they want to see from a new government. With Brexit on the horizon, just one in five (19 per cent) managers favour a so-called hard Brexit, according to new research from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Of the 801 UK managers surveyed by
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Does the Tory manifesto do enough to help UK SMEs?

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Are the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme set for a makeover? If the Conservative’s election manifesto is to be believed, they might be. The document says the party is considering further incentives under the ‘world-leading’ (hear hear!) schemes, though, tantalisingly, does not hint much at their nature, beyond suggesting that they may
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How to support an employee with mental health problems

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Work-related stress, depression and anxiety are the biggest causes of work absence, accounting for 45 per cent of all lost working days last year. According to the Health and Safety Executive, over 450,000 people experienced mental health problems due to work-place stress in the last year alone. Research from Mind shows that 42 per cent
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Workplace apathy is causing UK workers to look for a new job

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Boredom can affect even the most studious of workers, and worrying new statistics from CV-Library, the UK’s leading independent job board, reveal that boredom afflicts nearly half of UK workers (44.9 per cent) and 54 per cent admit that they have looked for a new job as a result of a dull work life. The
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How To Sell Your Network Marketing Company

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I have seen the last 10 year a lot of mergers and acquisitions. Some because the company was almost bankrupt, some because it was a smart choice.
Industry icon Richard Bliss Brooke took the royal way to sell his MLM company – Life Matters to Young Living Essential Oils and I take my hat off (Chapeau) the way he did it:
Richard commented as follow on the acquirement:
“How and why we made this move”:
Life Matters although profitable and growing was not growing fast enough. Our sales leaders were not achieving the success they deserved. It would have been a long haul to a Billion and although we were all up to the task we randomly discovered something that led to this Pivot.
Young Living Leaders have always been our number one clients in our generic coaching business….Bliss Business.
YL leaders grew more out of our coaching, built bigger businesses faster, sold more books, came to more retreats etc. We started looking at why that was. What was so growth oriented about YL. What we found in a word was Retention. Their retention rate…the percentage of members that stayed on auto ship long term was off the charts. I had never seen numbers like that

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