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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.
Managing your team
Discover the skills that make for successful team management.
Top tips for saving water in your business
Tips on how to engage your business in saving water and practical tips for minimising water use
Skills and training for company directors
Extra training that may be needed to fulfil the duties of a company director.
Leadership skills for business owners and directors
Skills that directors and business owners need to develop to be effective leaders.
Strategy skills for business owners and directors
How strategy can help your business, and how to use SWOT and gap analyses to determine business strategy.
Using a sales agent
Advice on using an outside agency to sell your products and services, and the legal issues this can raise.
Types of director, their duties and employment status
Detailing the different types of company directors, their duties and employment status
Choosing a director
Check that directors you plan to appoint have the right skills and expertise
Appointing and paying company directors
Dealing with company directorial appointments and deciding on how to pay them
How to recruit directors
How to find and recruit company directors
Effectively manage your company directors
Ensuring your directors perform to the best of their ability by using inductions, appraisals and training courses
Create your sales plan
How a sales plan will help you to sell your product or service
Environmental review staff interviews
How to talk to key people in order to understand the environmental performance of your business
Online selling
How your business can successfully use the internet to sell its products or service including creating an online shop and marketing online
WEEE user responsibilities
What your business must do when you are disposing of your waste electrical and electronic equipment
Water use authorisations
When you need an authorisation or licence for taking or storing water from a surface or groundwater source
Advantages of water efficiency in business
Some of the financial and non-financial benefits of taking a sustainable approach to water use in your business
How to analyse water use in your business
How you can assess the cost of your business water use by analysing how much water you use across all operations
Distance selling
The rules and regulations on distance selling (eg phone, mail order, online) and how to do it effectively.