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Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
Blocks of shared parental leave
An employee taking shared parental leave (SPL) can split their leave into up to three separate blocks instead of taking it all in one go
Keep shared parental leave and pay records
You must keep shared parental leave and pay records for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Shared parental leave and pay
Employers' duties in relation to shared parental leave and pay and how to best manage these new rights for your employees
The right to shared parental leave and pay
Employees may be entitled to shared parental leave (SPL) and statutory shared parental pay (ShPP)
How shared parental leave and pay can be taken
How an employee can take the shared parental leave and pay
Employee notification of shared parental leave and pay
The employee must give you written notice of their entitlement to shared parental leave and statutory shared parental pay
When shared parental leave can begin
Detailing the steps to allow shared parental leave to begin
Contact and work during parental leave
Your employee can work up to 20 days during SPL without bringing it to an end
Safer ways of working
Reducing the health and safety risks of specific work activities
Health and safety
Guidance on health and safety basics, writing a health and safety policy, providing health and safety training, setting up a health and safety management system, managing the welfare of people and safer ways of working
Financing growth
Explore different options for financing growth in your business - from bank finance and equity to grants and crowdfunding
How to grow your business
Guidance to help you explore the different ways of growing your business, such as franchising or buying another business, increasing your sales and market share, achieving efficiencies to boost profits or using IP to grow
Leading staff through growth
Guidance to help you manage change, including change of your organisational structure, recruit staff and directors, and lead and motivate your staff
Manage business risks
Discover best practices in managing your business assets, monitoring and minimising risks to your business, and creating effective business continuity and crisis management plans
Growth through international trade
Key considerations to help you import, export and purse growth internationally
Growth through strategic partnering
Guidance on different partnering options for your business, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and how to work collaboratively with another business or institution
Managing the welfare of people
Protecting your employees from risks and looking after their health and safety needs
Growth through strategic sourcing
Understand the importance of strategic sourcing, how to outsource, and choose and work with reliable suppliers to ensure the success of your business
Assessing current performance
How to measure your business performance, set the right targets and assess whether you should grow your business