Small and medium-sized practices are perhaps the most vulnerable to the ‘always on’ culture of overworking. Increasingly dependent on mobiles, Blackberrys, email and internet, it’s easy to get caught up on a treadmill of endless work tasks that diminish your time for leisure, friends and family. In the worst cases this leads to stress.
It goes without saying that good staff relations are essential to maintaining a happy and healthy workplace. Nevertheless, a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development last year revealed that only 37 per cent of employees have confidence in their senior management team and 34 per cent trust their senior managers.
It’s probably one of the least favourite tasks for a manager, but not formally ticking off a staff member when they’re out of line will cause the matter to linger, if not worsen.
All little business is required to keep bookkeeping records to produce at the end of the financial year a set of accounts to show the sales income, business expenses and the internet profit for tax purposes.
Every business is required to preserve bookkeeping records to product at the end of the year (Calendar or Financial) a set of accounts to portray the business expenses, sales income and the internet profit for tax purposes.
What you focus on expands. That is, if you’re worrying about not having enough business, then that’s all you’re going to see and that’s all that will show up.
WARREN Buffett recently seized the opportunity to invest in Goldman Sachs and net a $783 million paper profit. Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary is plotting to buy oil when he thinks the price can’t fall any further and is busy making plans to launch a low fares transatlantic airline.
Start one’s business right with sound controls. Controls are often overlooked upon start of operations thinking that these are to be implemented after one’s operation has grown already, only to sadly realize it’s sometimes too late. Start implementing basic controls in your business now!
In speaking to a lot of people over the last couple of weeks, I’m noticing a paralysis setting in, and quite a bad one at that. A paralysis in the sense of not knowing what to do, or a feeling of well I’m doing everything but I’m not getting anywhere.
Surely any small business owner who spends enough time twittering, blogging, Facebooking, and texting while being LinkedIn should have no trouble generating new business?