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Business management

Articles and guides on effective business management and the processes of planning, organising, and and achieving sustainable growth.

Human Resources

Managing workplace conflict: are you ready to mediate?

Workplace conflict is debilitating for any business: so how can you put in place effective steps towards mediation that can increase both morale and productivity?

Entrepreneurs

Letting go: how to hand over the reins of your successful business

Letting go of control can be one of the hardest thing for a manager owner to do but it's a crucial part of any business's evolution: so what steps can make the transition as smooth as possible?

Growth Planning

Building businesses with a start-up mentality

A start-up mentality is what can propel businesses quickly to the realms of successful SMEs: so how can you maintain the best traits when growing into the higher echelons?

Leadership

The founder's dilemma: Managing change

Business mentor David Mellor discusses how to navigate a growing business as it develops.

Entrepreneurs

Tell-tale signs of company heading for failure

Entrepreneur Michael Jackson looks at what the tell-tale signs are for a business on the way down and going off the rails.

Financial Management

Business recovery – What help is available?

Here, we look at the procedures surrounding business recovery, such as liquidation and company voluntary agreements.

Human Resources

Meshing young creativity with experienced heads in the workplace

David Chancellor, partner at executive search firm Tyzack, outlines how management teams can harness the creativity and energy of a younger generation of employee and combine it with those CFOs who have commercial gravitas.

Human Resources

Business Performance and Executive Coaching – Does it work?

We talk to four senior executives about their executive coaching experiences and ask whether the guidance provided was useful.

News

Only 44 per cent of UK businesses last the first five years

While the number of entrepreneurial start-ups making it through five years is only slightly above half, some 75 per cent of British entrepreneurs have refused to lower their expectations of growth, Barclays findings show.

News

Managers and employees not on same page says CIPD

A reality gap currently exists in the capability of UK plc's eight million managers, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Growth Planning

The 17 steps to set your business up for recovery

While times remain tough, an eventual economic upturn is inevitable, and it may come sooner than expected. GrowthBusiness finds out how you can be prepared.

Growth Planning

Fast forward with interim managers

Northern Rock and a Staffordshire-based building services company appear to have little in common, but both have benefited from the specialist expertise of interim managers, writes Patrizia Rossi.