Category Archives: Business Advice The Office of Fair Trading (the “OFT”) is clamping down on unfair agreements and is preparing to make an announcement regarding long-term gym contracts in particular. The announcement comes after the Guardian newspaper published an article about the fitness chain LA Fitness (of course, not to be confused with Lester Aldridge LLP!), which refused to...  When you’re starting in business it’s important that you get the essentials right. WSX Enterprise (formerly Business Link) has designed a comprehensive, two day course that provides information and guidance to help deal with the key issues that are going to be fundamental to the performance and success of your business. They are delivered by...  One of the mantras of most managers is that teams outperform collective individual performance. There is lots of research that substantiates that, and in any case it is summed up in that well-known poster acronym: T.EA.M., or Together Each Achieves More. Put another way: teams produce a synergy in which the net output is not... Bournemouth’s Coastal Districts BID (Business Improvement District) Steering Group have published the main projects which they believe businesses want in the BID Business Plan. Attracting more people in the shoulder months (April/May and September/October) for both leisure travel and conferences; creating more events in the town centre and locally across the coastal strip; highlighting the... Control your future…planning is the key! We can be forgiven for blaming the financial turmoil for all manner of reasons why we don’t achieve what we could…whether this be losing weight (comfort eating), not getting fit (gym membership too expensive) or organising our finances better and planning for the future (just live for today). With... |
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