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The Influencing Leader
Continuing our examination of Leadership and the effective 21st century leader, we have reached the stage where the Leader has successfully gathered their team. They are the right people, with values that are congruous with those of the...
Creating a High Performing Team on Simple Principles
In our article on Leadership in the 21st Century, we talked about what type of leader is likely to succeed and keep their organisation at the top of its game. We proposed that this should be a leader who is authentic, honest and open, not...
Everyday Leadership in an Uncertain and Changing World
A recent report in the journal “People Management”[1] highlighted the interesting fact that by far the most popular and enduring topic in business books is that of Leadership and Management. And that these topics still attract the most...
Change Management and Managing Change: Dealing with Challenging Behaviours
Change projects can often continue over weeks, sometimes even months. From an HR viewpoint, the focus of managing the change is on how the workforce is adapting to new working situations, new colleagues, and sometimes even a completely new...
Contractual Change: TUPE
Change Management and Managing Change – Harmonisation and Achieving Harmony When any major and significant change takes place in the structure of a business that involves merging with another business, via a takeover or the re-awarding of a third...
Changing a Contract of Employment
Making Contractual Changes In our article on “Change Management and the Management of Change” we referred to times when an organisation needs to make a fundamental change that is likely to affect a contract of employment or alter the “statement of...
Managing Change: Redundancy
In our recent article on “Change Management and the Management of Change” we talked about the varying situations in which change occurs, the majority of which are positive and are necessary because of a healthy, growing business. However, there are...
Change Management and Managing Change
What do we mean by Change Management? Change is an act or a process through which something becomes different. This definition can also be applied to business. The main reasons for business change fall into the following broad categories: Looking...
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Future-proofing by Judicious Pension Planning
The irony of the pension scene lies in the fact that we never know we need it, until we do, although the golden olden days of perks-packed employment packages is now past its comfort zone. According to a recent survey, around 30% of British employees are unhappy with...
What Is A Workplace Pension?
Nearly half (40%) of 18-30 year olds consider their knowledge of pensions to be poor or very poor and three in five (60%) don’t know what a workplace pension is according to research by workplace pensions provider NOW: Pensions. Two in five (42%) justified their...
Auto enrolment penalties see sharp increase
Auto enrolment penalties see sharp increase Stark new figures from The Pensions Regulator have revealed a sharp increase in the number of fines dished out to SMEs that fail to address their auto-enrolment obligations. The number of fixed penalty notices given out...
Is Auto Enrolment Non-Compliance An Option?
In its latest quarterly update covering June to September 2016, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has revealed they have seen a distinct rise in the number of fines for pension non-compliance with 3,728 fixed penalty notices issued, compared to 861 the previous quarter....
Auto-enrolment: What Is It and What Do I Have to Do?
Auto-enrolment: What Is It and What Do I Have to Do? With UK employers now legally required to provide an employee pension scheme, here's a detailed step-by-step auto-enrolment guide. Nearly half of employers required to set up a pension scheme for their staff in the...
One in five employers missing auto-enrolment staging date
One in five employers missing auto-enrolment staging date One in five employers is failing to sign its employees up to an auto-enrolment pension scheme, putting them at risk of hefty fines from The Pensions Regulator, according to figures released by AE master trust...
Thank you to all who visited us at the Business Show 2016
Well what a fantastic few days we have just had exhibiting at the Business Show at the London Excel Arena, a great location and great event. Thank you to everyone who took time out to see us on our stand, it was good to speak to each and every one of you. If you...
More than a fifth of small business owners offer no employees benefits
More than a fifth of small business owners offer no employees benefits Small businesses are suffering a staff brain drain with nearly one in five workers quitting each year for new jobs blaming poor employee benefits, according to research from Pure Benefits. The...
Regulator issues football club with a series of fines for Auto Enrolment non compliance
Swindon Town Football Club (STFC) was issued with a compliance notice on 18 August 2014 directing it to automatically enrol staff and pay contributions but failed to comply by the deadline of 17 October 2014. As a consequence, The Regulator issued a £400 Fixed Penalty...
Over 50% of accountants are unable to answer auto enrolment queries
Over 50% of accountants are unable to answer auto enrolment queries According to recent research by The Pensions Regulator, over half of accountants quizzed stated that they are only partially able to answer auto enrolment queries from their clients. The research...