Top tips on how to manage your staff – avoiding common mistakes
Here, Simon Joyce, director of Anchor Vans, explains how to avoid common mistakes when you manage your staff.
Employing & managing staff
The latest guides on employing and managing full or part time staff effectively as a small business owner or sole trader, brought to you in partnership with Sage. Contains advice on employment law, health and safety at work, recruitment, training, redundancy and disciplinary information, employee rights, workplace regulations, and much more.
This section provides expert and in-depth advice articles on all aspects of staff management and human resources legislation. Our aim is to help UK small businesses to hire great employees, manage them effectively and look after them properly.
Other key topics covered in this employing staff section include team management, employee motivation, legal rights and responsibilities, managing absence, maternity pay and leave, taking on new staff, induction programmes, communication, workplace policies, flexible working, job descriptions, employment contracts and related information.
We also provide information on HR tools, templates and resources specially targeted at SMEs as well as suitable training courses and workshops that can help you get the best out of your staff to make a more efficient, more profitable, happy and productive company.
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Here, Simon Joyce, director of Anchor Vans, explains how to avoid common mistakes when you manage your staff.
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
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Employing & managing staff
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Employing & managing staff
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Employing & managing staff
Seven in ten small businesses say high absenteeism rates are impacting their profitability and productivity.
Employing & managing staff
As more and more employees prepare for their summer break, we take a look at what businesses need to do to get ready for the holidays.
Employing & managing staff
Karen Meager and John McLachlan, co-founders of Monkey Puzzle Training, discuss how to set the right tone when broaching sensitive issues with staff.
Employing & managing staff
ScS has teamed up with the mental health charity, MIND, to help the nation reduce their stress from their sofas!
Employing & managing staff
Karen Meager and John McLachlan, co-founders of Monkey Puzzle Training, discuss how to set the right tone when broaching sensitive issues with staff.
Employing & managing staff
ScS has teamed up with the mental health charity, MIND, to help the nation reduce their stress from their sofas!
Employing & managing staff
Here, Shahzad Ali, managing director of Get Licensed, explores how training yourself can bring success to your business.
Employing & managing staff
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Employing & managing staff
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Employing & managing staff
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