Archive for tag: Staff
Managing the loss of a key employee
April 5, 2010 ManagementDo your staff-related anxieties betray a lack of ‘readiness’? Ask a small business owner what worries them most in relation to staff or employment issues and one answer crops up again and again: how would I cope with the sudden loss of a key employee? Isn’t this a great metaphor for the ‘growing up’ of [...]
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Building an effective team in a growing business
January 22, 2009 Management“Your team is your greatest asset, and its overall value to your business is much greater than the cumulative value of the individuals within it.” The sentiment behind this well-worn maxim is one that is impossible to resist, and many owner-operators of growing catalogue businesses yearn for that “dream team” of sparky, committed and hard-working [...]
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