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Core skills all businesses require
Core skills your business needs to function successfully in areas including leadership, finance, and personnel.
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.
Manage workplace absence and sickness
An overview of the basic principles of managing absence and sickness effectively.
Leading your staff through change
Using communication skills to reduce disruption during periods of change
Employee absence as a conduct issue
How to manage an absence problem as a conduct issue where you may need to take disciplinary action.
Absence and sickness policies: what to include
An overview of what to include in absence and sickness policies.
Managing absence and sickness: five things you should know
Top tips to help employers effectively manage unexpected workplace absence.
Benefits of an absence and sickness policy
Productivity, morale, and staff retention can be improved with clear workplace policies on absence and sickness.
Employee absence due to bad weather
Flexible working and other issues you may have to tackle during bad weather.
Sources of leadership training
Forms of training available and where to get them
Employee absence due to conflict at work
How to manage staff who are absent because of disputes or other conflicts in the workplace.
Employee absence as a capability issue
How an employee's illness can affect their ability to perform their job.
Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
Becoming an effective leader
Strategic focus, change management and other leadership skills, and how to acquire them
What motivates employees?
Interesting tasks, flexible working, recognition of achievement and other motivators
Childcare support for your staff
Informing your staff of available financial support for their childcare costs.
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)
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