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How to build and manage an effective team
How building successful teams and effectively managing teamwork can benefit your business
Advantages of effective teamwork
Teamwork can bring many benefits to your business helping you to solve problems, generate new ideas and pursue opportunities
What can cause a team to be ineffective?
Reasons why teams may fail to work and achieve their business goals
Steps to building an effective team in the workplace
Factors you should consider when building teams to successfully achieve business goals
Team management tips
How to effectively manage your teams and encourage harmonious teamwork
Here's how we run a social enterprise - Loaf Catering (video)
How Loaf Catering operates as a social enterprise, generates income and engages with the local community
Business banking
How to choose and manage a business bank account. Debit and credit cards for your business. Using payment cards to buy and sell goods or services. Accepting online payments. Foreign currency and exchange risks. ...
Research and development
Understand the importance of research and development for the success of new products, services and ideas
Sales and marketing for start-ups
Guides on how to maximise sales and how to deploy marketing to attract customers to your startup business
Protect your business ideas
Guides on how to protect the unique and innovative aspects of your startup idea and intellectual property in your new business
Hire staff
Guides to help you when employing staff in your startup business and the legal responsibilities you have as an employer
Selling
Preparing to sell. The sales process. Choose and manage a commercial agent. Forecast and plan your sales. Spotting market opportunities. Increase your market share. Identify potential sales channels. Overview on selling to government. ...
Pricing
Competing fairly. Price indications. Price lists, estimates, quotations and tenders. Price your product or service.
Checklist: set up as a sole trader
A checklist of things you must do, and organisations you must make contact with, to set yourself up as a sole trader
Checklist: set up a business partnership
A handy checklist of steps you must take when you are initially setting up your business partnership
Checklist: set up a limited company
A useful list of things you need to do to when setting up a limited company and organisations you need to contact
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Operational risk
Understand the sources of operational risk and how to minimise the impact of operational problems in your business