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Apprentice winner, successful business woman and Business Matters columnist Michelle Dewberry is joining musician and graffiti artist, Goldie, and Ginny Lunn, head of policy and development at The Prince’s Trust in backing to Bebo’s Big Think – Take Your Ideas to the Top, which is looking for young people to put forward innovative and practical suggestions on how to make a positive difference on crime, careers and climate change.
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has launched a six-month partnership with British Airways (BA) to promote its ‘Opportunity Grant’, awarding 100 SMEs 12 business class return flights for a year, set to appear in The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and on Telegraph.co.uk.
Due to greater pressures from work 40% of women who earn in excess of £40,000 don’t feel equipped with the skills to achieve a work/life balance, according to new findings released today.
Businesses that help staff achieve a good work / life balance earn 20% more per year from each employee, according to a recently released study.
Despite being in the midst of some of the toughest trading conditions since the 1990s, it seems not even the economic downturn can dampen the British spirit of entrepreneurialism.
British managers lack the ability to handle poor performance and give feedback, according to over 13,000 employees in both the public and private sectors. Results from a recent survey show managers’ behaviours are rated consistently low when holding difficult conversations with employees.
Over 70 percent of young people in Britain believe there is a lack of inspirational green entrepreneurs for them to look up to, according to research released today by Make Your Mark.
New research, published today, shows that despite spending longer in the office, women are (on average) less productive than their male counterparts.
One of the UK’s leading businessmen Simon Dolan is set to make history by offering budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to speed pitch for investment via social microsite Twitter.
Business Scene, the UK’s fastest growing online business community, has invited companies from across the capital to join them at ‘London Connections’, sponsored by Microsoft and Alliance & Leicester.
More than 200 SMEs from a range of industries are expected to attend, bringing the city’s leading business networking groups together under one roof on the 15th September.
The UK’s top 10 business heroes have been named in the 2009 Barclays Trading Places Awards – a national award honoring men and women who are turning their lives around by choosing to start up a business.
The Government-backed awards recognise business people who are no strangers to overcoming adversity – whether it’s dealing with illness or disability, facing challenging family responsibilities head-on, or turning their back on benefits.
Customers continue to cause headaches for many small and medium-sized businesses in the UK by offering elaborate and far-fetched excuses for the non-payment of outstanding invoices – and it seems the reasons being given for the delay in payment are becoming increasingly creative.
Over 160 of the UK’s most innovative and resilient public and private sector businesses has been announced as finalists in The National Business Awards sponsored by Orange. Organisations shortlisted this year include Diageo, E.ON, Cheapflights, BSkyB, ASOS, The British Heart Foundation, Aviva, LOVEFiLM, Wm Morrison Supermarkets, DVLA and Pearson.
As business owners attempt to cut costs in their businesses and with the huge increase in online business networking, Business Matters looks at whether face-to-face networking really is just a waste of time and money.
New research finds that staff with mobile technology such as Blackberries work an extra 15 hours a week as they constantly check emails even out of the office.
