Leadership can make or break a business. Good skills can result in a workforce pulling together to overcome challenges, or help a business achieve ambitious goals. This part of The Knowledge Hub offers a diversity of information on leadership including interactive content about famous company founders, how to be creative and leadership styles.
Six Key Employment Law Developments in Q2
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Alan Price outlines the key employment law developments business owners need to be aware of in the coming months, including reporting on gender pay gaps
Why Business Owners Should Learn to Love Failure
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Building a successful business depends on embracing failure from the start, not fearing it. Here's how to create a fail-friendly culture in your company
How to Find and Maintain Work-Life Balance
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Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is notoriously difficult for entrepreneurs. But it's not impossible. Here's how you can find your perfect balance
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Being an Entrepreneur
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Entrepreneurship is often depicted as a life of luxury, but making a success of it takes blood, sweat and tears. Here's how to be a successful entrepreneur
Tackling Changes to Reporting Lines
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With more and more businesses changing their reporting lines, how can you avoid employee conflict when you change your business structure?
How to Improve Your Productivity
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It seems we’ve hit an all-time low in productivity levels in the UK and, as a result, are more stressed. What’s holding us back and how do we escape it?
5 Ways for Small Businesses to Keep Staff Happy
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Employee engagement experts, Best Companies, provide advice on the ways SMEs can build a loyal workforce
10 Business Blogs to Follow in 2016
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Business blogs are becoming more mainstream, so we've hand-picked 10 of our favourites to give your bookmarks folder a spring clean
Morning Rituals of Highly Successful People
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Is your morning ritual setting you up for success? See how some of the most successful people structure mornings to get the best start to the day
How to File for Bankruptcy
— Read More — How to File for BankruptcyFiling for bankruptcy is often a last resort, but it's important to be prepared ahead of time. We cover the various stages involved in declaring bankruptcy
What’s an Individual Voluntary Arrangement?
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We explain the steps to finding an insolvency practitioner who'll help you get an Individual Voluntary Arrangement.
Are Your Christmas Staff Workers or Employees?
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Recruiting temporary Christmas staff? Here's a guide to understanding the difference between who's a worker, and who's an employee.
The Careers of the Founders
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What's a Creditors' Voluntary Arrangement?
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We dive into Creditors’ Voluntary Arrangements and the steps you need to take.
Back of the Cab: Our View on The Apprentice
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Fan of BBC's The Apprentice? Fleximize is too! We reveal our thoughts on the new season and the next 18 candidates looking to prove their business know-how
Registering Your Trademark
— Read More — Registering Your TrademarkIf you've got your small business set up, you need to safeguard it with a trademark. Here's everything you need to know to protect your business today.
Should You Patent a New Idea?
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Protecting a new idea, invention or design with a patent can give you a competitive edge in the market by preventing copies. We share how and when to apply
What is Trademark Infringement?
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Trademark infringement: What is it? Have you seen someone with a similar or identical mark? Then you may need to take action...
Defences for Trademark Infringement
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Have you been accused of trademark infringement? Are you facing a threat of proceedings? Don’t panic - there may be a defence.
Launching Your Own Personal Training Business
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To launch your own personal training business you will need to make sure you can deliver a quality service yourself, or hire a partner. Here's how.
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