Ensuring your part-time staff have their fair share of bank holidays, calculated properly, means you can sit back, relax and be happy in the knowledge your whole team can make the most of their bank holidays.

The 30th June 2021 is the closing date for your employees to apply for the EU Settlement scheme, so we thought we’d give you a friendly reminder to ensure you don’t miss the deadline.

5 questions to ask yourself before up-scaling your business

It’s essential that you review the resource and skills in your team as part of your progression plans. Here are some questions you should ask yourself before you embark on a phase of growth.

In a small business or start-up everyone’s contribution counts. That doesn’t mean that poor performance isn’t still swept under the carpet. Maybe managers are busy dealing with more pressing issues. Or they know the performance conversation is going to create conflict. Whatever the reason, if poor performance isn’t addressed, it can quickly impact the rest of your team’s delivery and morale. Here are some tips to help you proactively manage poor performance.

No matter what business you’re in, we all have employees we would like to see improve their performance. As a leader, you can (and have to) make this happen by sharing constructive feedback. Pointers on things they need to differently, and positive feedback where you want them to keep repeating a behaviour, are both key to getting the most out of your team. 

Times have definitely changed 

We used to think about flexible working as helping team members manage regular caring responsibilities or to give better work life balance.  Now, due to COVID-19, we’ve all had to adjust our ways of working. Businesses are starting to see the benefits from a people and a financial perspective. However, despite all of this some organisations still struggle to make it work.

If you’re making redundancies in your organisation you should always check the redundancy costs before starting a consultation process, to ensure your business case stacks up.  Get in touch if you need help, email: info@pmp-hr.co.uk or call: 0333 0433239