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Top Tips: Managing your People
Here are a few of our favourite pointers for good people management: Maintain Good Communication Employees want to be kept in the loop about ongoing projects, goals, and deadlines, so it’s essential that you communicate well with them and inform...
Top Tips: Managing Change
Change…….to make or become different, to take or use another instead of, to give up or get rid of (something) in exchange for something else; an act or process through which something becomes different. Change means many different things in...
What’s the Value in Values?
To what extent do we hold ourselves accountable for our values? A young relative of mine was recently travelling on a bus when a group of laughing schoolkids, having finished drinking from a can, screwed up the can and threw it out of the window in...
Get Ready for the World Cup
The Rugby World Cup has just kicked off in Japan and excitement is mounting around trying to predict the likely winner. Can anyone stop the All Blacks? How will the Northern Hemisphere teams’ performance fair against their Southern Hemisphere...
Writing a Vision Statement
In our recent blog article on vision and mission statements, we gave a few examples of the excellent ones from well-known brands. We talked about the way in which they live that vision and mission in their brand. We looked at how that has a...
Vision, Mission, Values and Culture – Does This Add Anything Meaningful to the Bottom Line?
An article in Forbes[1] last year, headed ‘The Importance of Having a Mission-Driven Company’ stated: “Employees who fall in love with their work experience higher productivity levels and engagement, and they express loyalty to the company as they...
HR Strategy – How Do You Know It’s Working?
So far in this series we’ve written about what should go into an HR strategy and why, what HR levels of experience and expertise can help put together and implement the strategy, and the subject of implementation itself. The final subject...
Now You Have Your Hare – Implementing the Strategy
In our recent article on how to put together a good HR Strategy, we mentioned the famous – infamous, even – quote from Mrs Beeton on how to make Jugged Hare: “First, catch your hare”. Next step, how to cook it. Or in HR terms, how do you put your...
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Petaurum Solutions wins Employment & HR Specialist of the Year
We are pleased to announce that we have won the Business and Industry Today Magazines prestigious award as their Employment & HR Specialist of the Year! Below is the article published in this months edition. "Here at Business and Industry Today we are delighted to...
Pension Fear for SMEs
As reported on this news page in December last year, according to a report by employee benefits adviser Helm Godfrey, things haven’t got much better, with small and medium-sized businesses continuing to be at risk of choosing unsuitable pension schemes because of a...
Pensions Auto-Enrolment Need not be like Drawing Teeth
Pensions auto-enrolment need not be like drawing teeth The process of responsible pensions’ provision can be a ‘nightmare’ to some specialist employers, highlights Mark Dyer of Petaurum Solutions, but with the three years’ restaging cycle upon us, the doors have been...
Accountants letting SMEs down on auto-enrolment advice
Almost half of accountants admit to not knowing enough about auto-enrolment despite nearly two-thirds of SMEs turning to their accountants for advice about the pension legislation. A report by employee benefits adviser Helm Godfrey has raised concerns over the lack of...
TPR Re-Enrolment Guidance for Employers
TPR Re-enrolment guidance for employers TPR have just launched their new online content giving guidance to larger employers on their re-enrolment duties. An introductory page provides an initial overview of the steps, along with timings of when employers should aim to...
To Comply, or Not to Comply…It’s Not even a Pensions’ Question!
To comply, or not to comply…it’s not even a pensions’ question! Compliance is certainly a warm and cuddly word that contains a wealth of potentially terrifying consequences, while highlighting that employers will face enforcement issues on the Pensions Auto Enrolment...
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....