How Much Does Stress Cost You?

Mark Hedberg, DrMedVet MRCVS   Ask anybody about stress in their job and you’ll get responses ranging from eye-rolls to the classic dry humor that Britain is famous for. Long hours, high stress situations (emergencies or unplanned extra work!!) and poor pay (the UK National Minimum Wage is less than £12,000/pa after tax1) combine to […]

Why Your Employees Are Leaving you – and What You Can Do To Stop Them!

Laura Kemp  Ever found yourself left frustrated wondering why your best employees are often the ones that leave? It is important to retain good employees for so many reasons. Financially it is costly to recruit a replacement.  Not only do you have the costs of potentially placing an advertisement on internet job boards or in […]

Three Ways to Maintain Your Focus

Laura Kemp Remember why you chose your career path Keep motivated to progress forward by remembering the very reasons why you chose your current job role. Was it because of the financial rewards that were possible, or perhaps the potential career prospects? Often it is far too easy to get tied down with the small […]

The Cost of Poor Management

Mark Hedberg, DrMedVet MRCVS Have you ever had a bad boss, or known someone who’s had a bad boss? Certainly – bad management is such an old story that nobody is really surprised anymore when another article or paper comes out talking about the effect of bad management in the UK workplace. Just how widespread […]