Staff Performance

  • When illness makes your business sick

    New Year’s Eve.  A popular restaurant in London.  It should have been one of their busiest nights.  Instead, the place was half empty and they […]

  • Does your online profile help or hinder?

    “What do you know about our Company?” A basic, starter question in most interviews. Frankly, most candidates can find the answers online while sitting in […]

  • Why school holidays are no holiday

    As a working parent, I know just how hard the school holidays are.  In year’s gone by I’ve spent a fortune on activities and hours plotting […]

  • Are your dress standards fitting or failing?

    If you don’t have a uniform, do you have the right to insist on dress standards?  Is the news somehow less “news” when Fiona Bruce reads it in […]

  • Disability not inability

    Sometimes we can be too quick to jump on what people can’t do, as opposed to what they can.  How should you act if someone […]

  • Corporate Away Days –

    Last year, while on holiday in France, I found myself highly amused by an awkward corporate away day.  As we stood there aimlessly whacking golf balls […]