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Managing your team
Discover the skills that make for successful team management.
Staff monitoring: reasons and methods
What workplace monitoring is, why monitor staff, and the methods you can use for surveillance.
Staff monitoring: deciding if it is justified
Using an impact assessment to determine if staff monitoring is justified and ensuring that you meet legal requirements on privacy.
Staff security and monitoring employees
How to ensure the safety of your staff and the rules to follow when using surveillance in the workplace.
Set up staff monitoring policies
Writing staff monitoring policies, particularly on the use of computers phones, and business vehicles.
What does importing involve?
Dealing with suppliers, controlling risk, handling import paperwork and foreign currencies.
Plan your import objectives
Setting goals and deciding your import objectives.
Assess your skills and resources for importing
Finances, personnel and other resources for importing.
Review your import readiness
Import planning and strategy, product, skills and finance checklist.
Negotiate the right import deal
Negotiating the right import terms, planning ahead and reaching a clear agreement.
Are you ready to import?
Ensuring you have the right strategy and resources to benefit from importing.
Challenges of exporting
Challenges of exporting include market research, export paperwork and financing.
Choosing the right export markets
Focusing on export market opportunities that suit your strengths.
Assess your skills and resources for exporting
Exporting demands extra time, money and skills.
Manage export contracts and logistics
Understanding export contracts, delivery and payments.
Plan your export market entry strategy
Choosing the right distribution channels and ways of promoting your product in overseas markets.
Use the right export support services
Government help for exporters and other sources of information and support.
Preparing to export
Assessing whether you are ready to export and planning your approach.
Export checklist: review your export readiness
Export readiness review: planning, marketing and export procedures.
Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Information about when you can, or need to, account for VAT on your tax return if you're a UK VAT-registered business.