Fresh

Wednesday 9th June 2021

The fresh opportunities of small-scale property development By Ritchie Clapson CEng MIStructE, co-founder of propertyCEO Property development is a broad church, and there are plenty of pews for those happy to sit in the small-scale section. Sure, building a new housing estate may be beyond you, but if you can manage a doer-upper—finding a tired two-up-two-down…

SEK

Monday 7th June 2021

WHY EMPLOYING DISABLED WORKERS IS SUCH A GREAT INVESTMENT… Since 2017 SEK has been delivering the Let’s Get Working project. This project, led by Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA), in partnership SEK and RBLI, supports people with disabilities and long- term health conditions to access the labour market. . Participants work with a dedicated Employment…

EcoBusiness

Eco-Business: Improving The Environmental Sustainability of Your Business  Is your business doing everything it can to reap the benefits of sustainable practices? Kamal Marwaha, Managing Director and Lead Business Analyst at Fluidity Business Analysis, explores the benefits and potential routes to a more eco-friendly business model.  WHY SHOULD MY BUSINESS BE MORE ECO-FRIENDLY?  The impact…

Kitchen

Friday 4th June 2021

From kitchen to supermarket By Richard Horwell, Brand Relations  Business ideas can be conceived anywhere, including kitchens. Up and down the land there are recipes that have been handed down through generations, there are recipes adapted from dishes experienced abroad, and there are recipes that were created from scratch (by design or by accident). Some…

3 Steps

Three steps to help your team reconnect By Craig Bulow, Corporate Away Days After the long months of lockdown restrictions getting back to the office and reconnecting face to face will be exciting for many of us when it finally happens.  The detachment and remote working caused by the pandemic could make some people feel…

Inspire

Wednesday 2nd June 2021

How to inspire when you give feedback to your team members By Kyle Murtagh, Toastmasters International  MasterChef contestants, actors auditioning for a role, and pretty much everyone who has had a driving lesson – they all have something in common. Each of them has been nervous prior to performing a task, then relieved that the…

SIP Oil

Sunday 30th May 2021

SIP Case Study: How Loch Associates Group can help prepare your staff to return to work after Covid Loch Associates Group are currently working hard to help clients prepare their workforces for returning to the workplace post Covid-19. Our recent work with SIP Speciality Oils and Fluids provides an interesting insight into the most successful…

SaaS

Saturday 29th May 2021

SAAS investment platforms – to build or to buy? By Chantelle Arneaud, Envestors Always-on, digital investment platforms allow companies to easily promote their investment opportunities to investors who, from the comfort of their home, can discover and evaluate deals. These platforms remove many of the barriers and challenges that offline promotion presents while enriching the…

Returning

Wednesday 26th May 2021

As an employer, can you decide whether employees can work from either home or office? By Amanda Hamilton, NALP Slowly but surely we are getting back to some kind of normality and the question arises whether or not you, as an employer, can force your employees to continue working from home if they don’t wish…

Personal

Thursday 20th May 2021

Managing our personal responses as business moves out of Covid By Sid Madge, Meee When you first heard about Covid did you predict it would have such a massive impact on our business and our personal lives?  I’m a great believer in ‘micro-moments’, the ability to change our life in any moment and to use these…

Gerald Ratner

Wednesday 19th May 2021

Gerald Ratner was the unlikely inspirational speaker at the Kent B2B Show in Ashford this week. The multi-millionaire, who built one of Britain’s most successful jewelry chains in the 1980s, lost everything when he confessed his gems were “cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn’t last as long.” In an interview with Kent Business…

Underperformance

Thursday 13th May 2021

Managing the performance of a workforce in its entirety requires an understanding of the performance profile of all individual members of staff within it. The scope of this endeavour can be daunting to employers, particularly when the total number of staff is large. However, with appropriate systems in place, the processes of training, performance and…

Digital Twins

Monday 10th May 2021

Digital Twins and the Circular Economy: Our 1st Virtual Business Soundbites session On Wednesday 16th June, three leading academics at Kent Business School will take the floor to explore how innovations in business science are driving increased productivity in our first virtual business soundbites session. Dr Catherine Robinson will give an up-to- date overview and…

Flexi Work

Unless you have changed your model to working from home, then flexible working requests are likely to become more commonplace if you are asking staff to return to work in the office. Employees with more than 26 weeks’ service have the right to request flexible working. Flexible working could mean flexible start and finish times or…

Retail Demise

Friday 7th May 2021

What the demise of Debenhams and other high street retailers means for early-stage investing By Chantelle Arneaud, Envestors Since 2007 online shopping has been growing with a particularly sharp rise in 2019. It now represents just under 30%[i] of total UK retail sales. Clearly, the sharp increase was influenced by the pandemic. Yet, regardless of the…