Author name: Marco Soares

Have you ever experienced the roller coaster ride of business? That horrible cycle where things get big you think you just about cracked it and then it gets too complicated and you shrink back down again.

This week, what you can do to retain your existing talent and to attract new talent into your business. This week I want to talk to you about the importance of having a solid Employee Value Proposition. Now, your employee value proposition is a similar concept to that of a Customer Value Proposition. In other

When you walk into your office is it like this? Or like this? This week I want to talk to you about energy and how incredibly important it is that you are a radiator in your business and not a big old drain – Hiya Georgie What’s the difference? A radiator is somebody that radiates

Remember the good old days when you had a vacancy and all you had to do was this. And then this would happen. Well, unfortunately, it feels like it’s a little bit more like this now. In the UK, many businesses are finding it really challenging to be able to attract the right talent into

People arriving late for meetings, team members not doing the things that they say they’re going to do, sloppy work being consistently produced… What are you going to do about it? This week I wanted to explore some of the common challenges that a lot of business owners face. People not being fully prepared for

This week on “Mind Your Own Business”. Finding your sweet spot. I want to share a cool concept that I created to help my clients understand strategy more effectively and it’s called “the sweet spot”. It’s all about the effective allocation of your company’s resources in order to be able to create sustainable competitive advantage

This week on “Mind Your Own Business” the importance of pacing yourself when it comes to setting goals. It’s that time of year, where everybody is talking about the goals that they’ve set themselves, their New Year’s resolutions and I just wanted to share a concept with you that I think is really relevant to

This week, we’re talking Management Information or M.I. Now come on stay with me I will keep it top level and interesting, I promise It is really important that you have a specific M.I. pack that you’ve agreed with your finance team and it’s also really important that that M.I. pack is delivered to you

What goes up, keeps going up. This week on mind your own business I want to talk about increasing costs. At the moment it feels like an assault from every single direction. You’ve got wage costs going up which has been exacerbated by a recruitment shortage. You’ve got material costs going up and that’s been

This week we solve the mystery is the grass really greener on the other side? I had a conversation with the clients earlier in the week that felt that they weren’t achieving the goals that they wanted in their business and they felt that it was time for a change. This business owner was just