Networking is like Christianity? What?!

A colleague asked me the other day how we get so much of our business without cold calling. I said to her – ‘Well, you see, I think the rules that apply to networking are a bit like Christianity’. She replied ‘Networking is like Christianity? What?!’ Most of my colleagues think I am slightly off […]

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Lord Davies’ boardroom gender targets ignored by most UK firms

All but a handful of the UK’s biggest companies missed last week’s deadline to set out their plans to put more women on their boards. Only eight companies in the FTSE 100 have announced how they aim to meet the target of 25% women directors set down by the government. Proportion of women on boards […]

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Some good news on the Economy at last with inflation falling against the odds

Well, its about time isn’t it. Dear dear, not good news for the media and doom mongerers. Inflation has fallen – against all predicitons of it going up to 5% it actually fell to 4% in Feb. Quite obviously nobody should be getting overly excited about this – it is still too high, but at […]

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More Mums in Full Time Employment – A Victory for Family Friendly Policies?

Figures out show that there are now nearly 1/3 of mothers in full time employment as against under ¼ in 1996, according to the office for National Statistics. Overall, 66pc of mothers are in some form of work, either part or full-time. ONS statistician Jamie Jenkins said: “Over 15 years the proportion of mothers working […]

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Do you know why 25% of Generation Y employees choose their employers??.

Do you know why 25% of Generation Y employees choose their employers?? In past years pension contributions were a big “seller”. Generation X employees were encouraged to plan for their future and the pension was something often talked about in an interview and was a serious consideration when taking a job. In recent years there […]

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