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What is the role of a business consultant?  A business consultant is an expert in all aspects of business management.  Their role is to use accomplished business skills to offer expert advice and guidance to businesses and organisations, to improve business performance. Having identified strengths and weaknesses, they focus on how a company can resolve issues, maximise strategy, add value and increase profits. They work across a wide range of specific areas which include Team Structure, Financial Performance, Staff Retention, Succession

Attract, engage and retain the best candidates – It all starts with the interview and creating the right impression. Honesty and integrity are really important here.  If you are a start up with little to no foundations or if your business is stuck, going backwards or on its knees, no matter what state it is in, honesty must prevail here. When you are really keen on someone have you ever noticed yourself overselling the opportunity your business has to offer?  That you

Staff Retention – What Does it Truly Take? You may feel like the biggest budget wins the best staff. But if employment decisions boil purely down to cold hard cash, then you’ll always lose to the highest bidder. So, is staff retention all about the money? Let’s have a look at the main reasons people leave a company… • Uncompetitive salary and benefits • Poor management and leadership • Low morale and poor company culture • Poor communication, feedback and recognition • A lack of training and development

In our last blog, we looked at the heavy rates of attrition that are unique to the recruitment sector and walked through ways you can attract, onboard and retain the best talent (without having the biggest budget). But… there is much more to add and (as usual) the world turns quickly. When it’s time to hire, future planning and financial planning need to be adopted or you can find yourself in uncomfortably warm water further down the line. Looking at the recent