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Core skills all businesses require
Core skills your business needs to function successfully in areas including leadership, finance, and personnel.
Foundation degrees - benefits for your business
Foundation degrees can help to improve your employees' skills and their contribution to your business.
Find out more about Foundation degrees
If you think that Foundation degrees are for you or for your employees, then there are a number of options available to find out more.
Skills and training for directors and owners
The key skills needed by business owners and directors and how these skills can be developed.
Manage asbestos in rented business property
Responsibilities for managing asbestos in commercial premises, and who exercise them.
Fire safety in rented business property
Key responsibilities for tenants and landlords under fire regulations for commercial property.
Electrical safety in rented business property
How responsibility for electrical safety in commercial premises is determined.
Gas safety in rented business property
Division of responsibilities between landlords and tenants for gas safety checks and maintenance.
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
Funding for design projects
Find funding support for your design project to help improve processes, products or services
Energy performance in rented business property
Measures that landlords of commercial premises must take to comply with energy performance of building requirements.
Fire drills and training
How fire safety training should effectively inform employees and give them an understanding of what to do if a fire breaks out.
Use innovation in your business
Guidance on using innovation in manufacturing and business operations, and the benefits of using artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0 technologies and open data in business
Fire risk assessment
Carrying out a fire risk assessment and putting in place appropriate measures to ensure the risks are minimised.
Fire safety equipment and evacuation plans
You must be able to detect a fire quickly and have means of escape and equipment to fight the fire as appropriate.
Duties of the appropriate person for fire safety
How the responsible person must have a fire risk assessment in place and minimise risk using a fire management plan.
Fire safety responsibility
All businesses and commercial premises must have a designated person responsible for fire safety arrangements.
Fire safety: record, review and revise
Keeping and maintaining records of fire safety procedures and testing fire safety equipment.
Delegation skills for business owners and directors
Why effective delegating of business tasks can be efficient time management and how to best go about it.