Feb 04
Every year, there are over 36 million working days lost because of accidents at work and work-related ill health, according to The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. There are also around 350 deaths every year due to accidents at work, 1,000 deaths in work-related accidents on the road and 12,000 early deaths because [...]
Feb 04
Slips, trips and falls are the most common type of accident in the UK – 16-19% of all accident claims are for slip compensation. If you slip or trip at work and injure yourself, you may be entitled to claim slip compensation. However, as an employee or an employer, you should do everything you can [...]
Sep 15
Over two million people in the UK suffer accidents at work every year, according to HSE statistics. A study by the Labour Force Survey showed that this includes around 300,000 injuries which are serious enough to be reported, representing a rate of one serious work accident per 100 workers.
What many people don?t realise is that [...]
Sep 13
A recently published study by the Achilles Group highlights a key issue faced by many businesses. When top level executives at small to medium sized businesses were asked to identify the biggest business challenge they face, 40 percent said that finding and retaining the talent necessary to sustain and grow the business was the number [...]
Sep 11
Recent statistics show that workers in their twenties change jobs every two years. The percentage of people now working as ?free agents? is over 28 percent and growing each year. Free agents include contractors, independent professionals, temporary and part time workers, and freelancers. Another 17 percent of the work force express the desire to be [...]
Apr 20
Most sales managers figure they’re an excellent judge of character and can spot sales talent from a distance of 500 feet, if not farther.
I used to think that too. That’s why a lot of my earlier hires were done after a 15- to 30-minute interview and a brief assessment of what my stomach was telling [...]
Apr 20
There’s one sure thing about trying to teach pigs to fly ? it annoys the pigs and frustrates the teacher. As a former sales trainer, I shared many of the same frustrations. I was often asked to use my “wizardry” to turn water into wine?to train the untrainable ? and it just doesn’t work.
Square Pegs [...]
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