Monthly Archives: October 2017

Small Business Agony Aunt: Your pressing questions answered

In this piece, we ask one of Grant Thornton’s Business Growth Advisers your most pressing small business questions. Grant Thornton offers a number of growth services which provide small businesses the opportunity to connect with experienced business people, to support them in achieving rapid and sustainable growth. Our first column features answers from Ian McKinnon.
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Office workers wasting time helping less tech-savvy colleagues

A survey of 2,000 British office workers, commissioned by memory and storage experts Crucial, finds Brits work with an average of four colleagues in their office that are less tech-savvy than them. These colleagues always seem to encounter IT problems at work, distracting 62 per cent of the UK workforce and costing businesses lost time
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How small businesses should structure a video marketing campaign

A corporate video was once an eight-minute message from the CEO of a company hidden on the ‘About Us’ page of a website. Thankfully, those days are over. Videos are now the most effective way for a business to capture the attention of its audiences while enhancing brand awareness and ultimately, improving the bottom line.
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Is arranging your office space by department still beneficial?

A new report ‘Agile Ways of Working: The Great Leadership Disconnect’ from digital consultancy, Red Badger, finds more than nine out of ten (94 per cent) senior decision makers believe project efficiency would significantly increase if enterprises simply re-arranged their office seating plans to promote cross-departmental collaboration between team members. Despite these views, just less
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Supporting someone with cancer in the workplace

Breast and prostate cancers are the most common cancers in the UK, which means someone is likely to work with a person affected by the disease. This Autumn, In support of breast cancer awareness month and ahead of Movember, Dr Steve Iley, Bupa UK medical director UK shares advice on supporting a colleague. According to
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How small businesses should approach mediation

Disputes can be messy, time-consuming and expensive for smaller businesses without the necessary resources and experience required to navigate them efficiently and effectively. Litigation has long been the only solution for small businesses resolving disputes, whether between themselves and individuals or even between businesses. Now, however, mediation has emerged as an alternative method of dispute
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KPIs and why they benefit your business

What is a KPI? A prominent term in today’s corporate cosmos, one could easily assume they only apply to the big rollers, however KPIs or Key Performance Indicators, are a powerful tool for a business of any size. KPIs are a measurable value applied to business objectives, and can be used in all areas of
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