Julian’s Business Tips

Unless you’re the manager! A group of talented individuals can only produce the best team performance if it is well managed. How are you managing your talented individuals? With the Olympics in full swing, and the memory of England’s success at the Euros fresh in our minds, I thought I’d talk about teams again. A […]

Julian’s Business Tips by Julian Berry… I was going to write something about the election this month, but I couldn’t think where to start! I could look at the different parties’ approach to business, I could speculate on the likely outcome – but I felt we would all be heartily sick of hearing all that by

To make progress, we need to set targets, goals, and objectives – call them whatever you like – but to be effective, they should be SMART. Let’s work through the SMART acronym (there are some slight variations in the meanings, but they all end up in the same place). I’m going to use a non-business

I was in a meeting today with some senior directors talking about future digital strategies. One of the directors surprised the whole room, when they said, ‘We need to do less…’ Well, that was unusual! I’ve always understood that if you’re not moving forward, then you’re actually going backwards in a digital world. But then

I’m writing this as Mollie King, radio presenter and former pop star, is finishing an amazing 500km cycle ride across the UK, raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for Comic Relief. You will be reading this in the April edition of The Listing, the month that hosts the London Marathon – a similar challenge where

As I watched a gritter on my icy journey to work last week, I was reminded that just as an icy road can be treacherous with unseen black ice to catch out the unwary, so the road to success also has hazards to spoil the progress of the inexperienced traveller! In life as in business,

You may have heard the phrase, ‘As a business owner, if you want to grow your business, you need to spend time working on it instead of just working in it’. But what does that mean – how do I know whether what I’m doing is right? Working ON your business involves long-term tasks like