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Criteria for selecting a supplier
Critical factors you should consider when searching for potential suppliers for your business – including whether to choose single or multiple sources of supply.
Shortlisting potential suppliers
How to shortlist reliable suppliers and choose the right ones that could meet the needs of your business.
Choosing suppliers for your business
Critical factors to consider when choosing and evaluating suppliers for your business.
Improve your supply chain efficiency
How to integrate modern technologies into your supply chain to improve efficiency and streamline your business relationship with suppliers.
Paying your suppliers on time
Understand the importance of paying supplier invoices on time, the impact of late payment to suppliers, and how to sign up to the Prompt Payment Code.
Build strong supplier relationships
Practical tips to help you establish and maintain a good relationship with your suppliers.
Carry out supplier due diligence
What due diligence checks should you run on prospective suppliers before you enter into contract negotiations with them.
Managing supplier relationships
Key considerations around working with suppliers, including building and managing a successful relationship based on mutual gain.
Developing supplier relationships
Best practices to help you manage supplier quality and performance, create strong service level agreements, and end supplier relationships.
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.
Skills and training for company directors
Extra training that may be needed to fulfil the duties of a company director.
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.
Monitor staff correctly and lawfully
How to monitor your staff in accordance with the law and best practices.
Penalties for improper staff monitoring
The right and wrong way to monitor workers, and the penalties for improper staff monitoring.
Core skills all businesses require
Core skills your business needs to function successfully in areas including leadership, finance, and personnel.
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.