The UK water industry faces a significant workforce challenge. An ageing workforce, rising regulatory expectations, and increasing technical complexity demand new skills and ways of working. However, recruitment still focuses on fitting people into established roles rather than redesigning roles to attract broader and more diverse talent. These options can help. Flexible working by design, […]
How to Stay Calm While Building Your Business: Essential Tips
Image via Pexels Entrepreneurship sounds thrilling — until you’re staring at an empty spreadsheet, three open tabs of competitors, and a bank balance that looks like a countdown timer. Every founder hits this wall: the unknown feels endless, and the pressure is real. But resilience isn’t born out of luck; it’s engineered through mindset, systems, […]
Mastering the Art of Attracting and Nurturing Skilled Talent: Best Practices for Recruitment Marketing
Image via Pexels In today’s competitive business landscape, attracting and retaining skilled individuals is paramount for organizational success. Recruitment marketing plays a pivotal role in this endeavour. This article from Katie Conroy of Advice Mine explores the best practices that businesses should embrace to excel in their recruitment marketing efforts. Let’s see Katie’s take on […]
6 Ways to Eliminate Business Debt
Image via Pexels You can barely keep up with your monthly expenses, and your business debt has you on the verge of bankruptcy. However, there are ways to help reduce your debts and regain control of your business finances. As an entrepreneur, you know maintaining financial health is crucial as you try to build your […]
Four Essential Tips for Entrepreneurs
This is a guest article by Katie Connolly of Advice Mine, a company specialising in helping you grow and develop in your personal and professional life. Never Give Up Many new entrepreneurs worry about failing. That’s a big fat WRONG. If you haven’t failed at something, there’s a good chance you’ve never tried it. Facing […]
Small Business Funding
Competing in a competitive world means having the right tools, techniques, and interpersonal skills. Windmill Insight Solutions can help get you there! Contact Bob Windmill today! +44 7554 994855 Photo provided by Pexels The Art of Launching a Small Business and Getting It Funded If you’ve been thinking about starting a business for a while […]
Guest Article – Great Investments for Small Businesses
Photo by Pexels Running a small business can be difficult financially, as there is often less capital to play with when you’re looking to grow. Being smart with your money and investing it where it counts is crucial for these smaller enterprises as the safety net is smaller with less room for error. Knowing which […]
Managing Business Money – The webinar questions
A while back I wrote a blog post about me experiences of recording and delivering a webinar on the subject of “Managing Business Money” for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. This was what could best be described as an interesting experience, one involving trips to London, a live video screen the size of my […]
The Cherie Blair Foundation – A webinar experience
Getting started: A happy chance I first found out about the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women following a chance conversation with a foundation mentor on a train. As a great believer in the power of mentoring, and using it to to develop high performing people and teams over a 40 year career, it seemed natural to explore what the […]
Elevators Stories: prioritising the punchline
Taking your chance How often have you bumped into a person that you really needs to impress only to have them called away halfway through your pitch? Talk about frustration. While you can’t always avoid this, this is a way of making the most of any time you do have in this situation. The technique […]