What’s your WIFT?
W.I.F.T. stands for 'What's In it For Them' and is vital to engage people influential to your success. Whether you are employed or self-employed, it is even more important now than ever before in a highly competitive market to clearly, briefly, and explicitly express...
Solid Brexit Advice
Always keen to stay in touch with fellow businesses, I attend networking events and one of those is with Essendon Networking. Roger Eddowes who runs Essendon Networking of Essendon Accountancy Practice based just outside of Milton Keynes has written some solid...
IR35 Webinar By REC
Great Webinar by the REC the other day on #IR35, #Brexit and the Governments Good Work Plan. You can access the REC’s Brexit Hub https://www.rec.uk.com/news-and-policy/policy-and-campaigns/brexit For more details on the Good Work Plan and IR35, please see the links...
Personal branding
Did you know that you are a brand, and a unique one at that? People are brands and brands are like people. There may be lots of human beings around, but there’s only one of you. You’re a one off, at least until cloning is legalised. Personal branding – marketing...
A Coaching style of management
Making time to reflect is invaluable in a fast-moving world. Coaching is a useful way to do this, and this can take place in different forms. Having a coach – having someone who acts as a confidential and objective sounding board who helps you to think, learn, grow...
IR35 – April 2020
In my profession it is important to be knowledgeable about employment law and the Conduct Regulations. This week I attended a training session held by the REC on IR35 and the introduction to the Private Sector in the proposed month of April 2020. Do you have...
Meaning at work for talent
Oxfordshire has high employment, so there is a lot of competition for quality candidates amongst different employers. The fact that many employees are sitting in their jobs because of austerity and uncertainty isn't new news - it has been covered extensively in the...
The positives of uncertainty
There is a lot of ongoing uncertainty about. But it does have some positives. While on holiday in Sicily one year, I awoke to hotter than expected June air and the smell of smoke. Mount Etna the volcano erupting I thought. It wasn’t. My husband and I headed to the...
Becoming unstuck
Do you ever feel stuck? In a meeting? With a project? In a relationship? With your career? When facing a big life changing decision or uncertain change? Not a nice feeling, is it? It can be very debilitating. The good news is that feeling ‘stuck’ is common, normal and...
Career crossroads
Major career crossroads occur at the following times: redundancy or the option on voluntary redundancy or early retirement; a ‘landmark’ birthday, especially 30, 40 and 50; planning to or having children; working in ‘young’ industries such as advertising and the...
To Be or Not To Be IR35?
I always enjoy the REC’s (Recruitment Employment Confederation’s) webinars and this week was no exception on the IR35 legislation that has been run out to the Public sector and the results, now pending the Private Sector. Speakers on the webinar were: Karen O’Reilly –...