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Motivating staff to make environmental improvements
How to gauge company-wide interest, appoint environmental champions, delegate responsibilities and encourage initiative.
Environmental teams and champions
Advice on choosing the right person or team to co-ordinate and facilitate your business culture change.
Make the financial case for environmental improvements
Carrying out investment appraisals can help to convince management about the viability of environmental improvements.
Ongoing environmental improvement
Plan and collect feedback, set targets, monitor success, change, adapt and re-evaluate to keep on track.
Maintain communication about environmental improvements
Keep sharing ideas, train staff, take time out, be honest if things go wrong, encourage and incentivise.
Changing your organisation's environmental culture
Create a new working culture with shared vision, good teamwork and improved environmental awareness.
Create a strategy to reduce business waste
Taking action to reduce waste - finding the biggest potential savings and developing ideas to achieve them.
Treating and composting biodegradable waste
Permits and quality standards for treating biodegradable waste, including composting and anaerobic digestion.
Reduce your use of raw materials
Cutting down on materials use through correct specification, handling and storage and better product design.
Reduce waste in production
How to analyse business processes to cut waste without affecting your overall efficiency and profitability.
Reducing business waste: six top tips
Tips and guidance on how to reduce business waste and ways to make your business more resource efficient.
Tips to improve business cashflow
What you can do to free up cashflow in order to improve your business.
Assess your business plan to improve your business
The areas of your business that you should assess in order to uncover any problems or potential problems.
How are shares issued?
Issuing share capital and definitions of the relevant terminology.
Making changes to share capital
Companies House must be informed of a change in share capital and of the allotment of new shares.
Paying dividends and paying tax
How and when to pay a dividend to shareholders and how much employee shareholders can reinvest.
Profit reporting: how, when and where?
Reporting deadlines, the form to use and who to send it to.
Do all businesses have to produce formal profit and loss accounts?
What types of business have to produce P&L accounts and why they are a good idea for most businesses.
How to respond to changes in your business market
How to research and understand your marketplace, customers and competitors to improve your business performance.
How to close down your business
What you need to do if your business fails and has to close down or be sold.