Is your business ethical?

Is your business ethical?

The recent expose of Amazon which showed a UK fulfilment centre routinely sending returned and unwanted items to landfill brought the topic of business ethics into the foreground again. As we see increasing evidence of climate change, as activists highlight issues...
The dangers of working from home

The dangers of working from home

Whether we liked it or not, over the past 15-16 months we have been subjects in a global social experiment. For years, people had advocated the benefits of working from home and then we got the chance to try it … in fact, it was forced on us. As someone who has worked...
The Art of Delegation

The Art of Delegation

You are busy. Very busy. You have a full inbox and not enough time to deal with it all. Then your boss assigns someone to you to help with the workload but now you have to make time to delegate? New managers and business owners, especially, find it hard to delegate....
Top five tips for chairing great meetings

Top five tips for chairing great meetings

I have always had a really low boredom threshold at meetings to the point where I have been a disruptive influence … not proud of it, but I hate being bored. So whenever I chair meetings, I try to make sure they are to the point and interesting. I have chaired...