Posts by: David Lomas

talent retention

Is Talent Retention as Crucial as Talent Recruitment?

Businesses need to attract and recruit good people to be successful.  The risk is that they place too much emphasis on hiring and not...

clean air zones - exhaust

Will Clean Air Zones Affect Future Fleet Business?

The UK Government’s air quality plan is controversial. It is inflaming opinion from different sides. Environmental lawyers are accusing...

county court judgment

Can You Avoid County Court Judgments?

Registry Trust’s figures for 2017’s first quarter show a sharp increase in County Court Judgments (CCJs) against companies in England...

business processes

Can Business Processes and Procedures Help Your Survival?

Businesses fail all the time. Around half of UK start-ups fail within five years, according to the insurer RSA, with survival rates lower...

credit control payment

Should Effective Credit Control Begin Early?

Payment culture can come as a shock to some businesses. SMEs and those businesses operating in areas where cash-flow issues are endemic,...

selling your business - man reflecting

Selling Your Business: Why is Timing Crucial?

In his 1977 memoir about the Vietnam war, Dispatches, Michael Herr describes how the longer you serve, the greater your risk of being...

Virtual reality

Can Virtual Reality Boost Your Business Strategy?

Research and development is essential to growth for many businesses, allowing them to bring new products to market, or to keep up with, or...

Who is Responsible for Your Employees’ Financial Education?

Your staff come into work and they get paid.  What could be simpler? Obviously, there is more to it than this. Employers have a duty of...

employee lateness

Employee Lateness: What are Your True Costs?

The costs of employee lateness can be considerable, estimated at around £9 billion to the UK economy annually, according to a Heathrow...

business networking

Business Networking: What are its Mentoring Qualities?

What is business networking for, exactly? The danger is that it veers too far in one of two directions.  Either it is too...