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Last time I covered the acronym “BUSINESS”. The post received a few good comments so this time I’ll cover: Mentor…

One of the most thrilling moments of a growing small business is the moment you hire someone to work for you. Not a contractor…

I’ve been busy for the last while and let my blogging both here and on my site slide. So thanks to Barney Austen’s post last week I decided it was time to get the keyboard clacking again. I’ve also had a lot of acronyms spring to mind recently and have decided to use them in my blogging. So with that in mind here is my first one…

Have you ever seen people screaming at their staff in times of stress or talking down to suppliers who are meant to be working to achieve the same goal as you? I have seen this and it’s pretty ugly…

For many a year (before I actually grew up) lots of things irked me – none more so than worriers – now we all worry over certain things but I am referring to those people that worry about everything…

How prepared are you? Whatever it is we do in our lives we have to be prepared. You would think this is a very basic statement and that well, sure we all know that, don’t we?

The small business owner (or free-lancer) is often the sole person responsible for time management, tasks, projects, deadlines, paperwork and what seems like five million other responsibilities that can have a tendency…

If you take the time to turn can’t into can, you and your team will reap the rewards.

Are you a people pleaser? Do you go out of your way to be nice to everybody in the hope that they will like you? Does it work for you? Or are you so busy pleasing everybody that you’ve no time to notice whether they do or not?

A “Blame” culture is all too prevalent in organisations in Ireland. But it is not just up to the Owner or Managing Director to instill a healthy culture in an organisation. Everyone has a personal responsibility…