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RSS FeedWelcome to week 9 and the final 8 are awoken with the larks and head to St Pancreas station, home of Europe’s longest champagne bar, which is supposed to be impressive apparently. Anyway, the team’s task this week is to bring British sparkling wine to the forefront of the nation’s psyche. Good luck with that, [...]
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The Apprentice – Episode 9, “Well and truly corked”
Category: Recruitment, The Apprentice
Tags: Alan Sugar, BBCApprentice, British sparkling wine, Episode 9, The Apprentice
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How to fire somebody, the right way – Part 2
In the first part of how to fire somebody the right way, we looked at the appalling methods some managers dismiss their staff, be it via email, an answer machine or even social networks. We also looked at why it’s vital to keep your reasons for dismissal as factual as possible. In this 2nd and [...]
Category: Human Resources, Recruitment
Tags: Firing somebody the right way, HR, Managing staff, Recruitment guide
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The Apprentice – Episode 8, “Has Britain got talent?”
We are going all arty for this week’s task as the teams are tasked with finding a couple of ‘street’ artists and selling their work to the uber-trendy mob of the east end of London. With her fantastic efforts in sprucing up charity shop furniture from a couple of weeks back, Gabrielle has grasped the [...]
Category: Recruitment, The Apprentice
Tags: AlanSugar, BBCApprentice, The Apprentice
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How to fire somebody, the right way – Part 1
Dismissing an employee is never a nice task. It can be as stressful for the employee being fired as it is for the manager doing the firing. There are plenty of horror stories of the methods in which some people find out how they have lost their jobs. And of course most people who get the boot [...]
Category: jobs, Recruitment
Tags: HR, Recruitment
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10 Tips for Managing Difficult People – Part 2
Last week we looked at the first 5 of 10 tips for managing difficult people: Coaching, attitude, maintaining eye contact, consequences and keeping a record. In the 2nd and final part, we look at another 5 tips which should help you deal with that awkward member of staff, hopefully without your blood pressure going through the [...]
Category: Human Resources, Recruitment, Recruitment tips
Tags: Awkward Staff, HR, Management, Managing
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The Apprentice – Episode 7, “Smell the Strategy”
Its business by numbers again, as this week the teams will be buying more junk and selling it onto a junk-hungry pubic who will seemingly buy anything. Jade has stepped up or rather ordered to do so by Alan, and taken charge of Phoenix and bird-nest barnet Nick grabs the helm over in Sterling. This [...]
Category: Recruitment, The Apprentice
Tags: Alan Sugar, Recruitment, The Apprentice
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10 Tips for Managing Difficult People – Part 1
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at 10 management tips to motivate your workforce. Unfortunately, as you know, not all staff can be motivated and one of the biggest challenges you will face when managing people is dealing with a difficult employee. You’ve ensured the working environment is as good as you can make [...]
Category: Human Resources, Recruitment
Tags: difficult employees, HR, Managing, Recruitment
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The Apprentice – Episode 6, “Goodness gracious meatballs are dire”
Welcome to the 6th week of The Apprentice, and would you believe we are halfway through the present series? This week’s lesson of how to do business kicks off with the Lord disturbing the contestants having a lark about and informs them they are heading north of the border, where they will be selling gourmet [...]
Category: The Apprentice
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The Apprentice – Episode 5, “A Million Spacehoppers For a Fiver”
Last night’s episode left a little bit of a disappointing aftertaste, akin to the injustice of Andy Dufresne from the wonderful Shawshank Redemption; the wrong person was fired or sent to prison, I’m sure that metaphor worked in my head. Anyway, let’s have a quick recap of the night’s fun and frolics. Given two days to come [...]
Category: The Apprentice
Tags: Fitness, HR, Recruitment, Sith Sugar, The Apprentice
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10 Management tips to motivate your workforce – Part 2
Welcome to the 2nd part of our top 10 management tips on how to motivate your workforce. Last week we looked at how management feedback, the working environment, keeping poor performing staff, leading by example and finding out what makes your staff tick, all play an intrinsic part in keeping your staff motivated. In this 2nd part, we [...]
Category: Human Resources
Tags: Motivating Staff, Rewards, Staff Retention, Training
