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Paying work-seekers
The payment guidelines you must follow when operating as an employment agency or employment business
Charging transfer fees to hiring companies
Employment agencies and businesses and using transfer fees fairly.
Employment businesses - protection of the work-seeker and the hirer
Steps the employment agency or employment business must take to ensure both parties are aware of what is required of them
Employment agencies providing additional services and goods
Rules and legal requirements for employment agencies that provide additional services or goods to jobseekers
Mentoring versus coaching
The differences between coaching and mentoring and how your business might benefit from one over the other
Clarifying mentoring roles
The importance of clearly defining all aspects of the mentoring relationship
Mentoring types
Different types of mentoring, including one-to-one, group and remote mentoring
Mentoring programmes: monitoring, evaluating and reviewing
How to monitor and assess your business mentoring programme
Mentoring: resolving problems
Planning for the situation where a mentoring relationship breaks down
Diversifying our farm - Cavanagh Free Range Eggs (video)
Farm diversification example with Cavanagh Free Range Eggs, who successfully diversified their farm to create a business
Skills to Succeed
Helping employers develop the skills of their workforce
Tax help and support for landlords
Help and support from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for landlords
Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
Starting a successful business - The Present Tree (video)
In this case study, Catherine Cunningham, founder of The Present Tree discusses how she started a successful business
Blacklisting of trade union members
Description of the law that prohibits the blacklisting of trade unionists
Energy efficiency in your hotel
Save money, enhance your reputation and help the environment by making your hotel more energy efficient through best practice environmental techniques
Recycling waste in your hotel
The benefits of recycling waste in your hotel, and consideration for starting a recycling scheme including which materials are suitable for recycling
Get started with VAT
What Value Added Tax is, how it works, different VAT rates and who needs to register
Creating a screen tourism experience - Clearsky Adventure Centre (video)
VAT returns
How to submit your VAT return, signing into your online VAT account and VAT fuel scale charges