Why staff training is important

Why staff training is important

The right mix of people is essential, but it doesn’t stop there. Developing your team through training enables you to get the best out of your employees – let’s look at why staff training is important for every business.

Of course, the most obvious benefit of staff training is that it enables your employees to do their jobs more effectively – [...]

February 15, 2015

Improving your business personality

Improve your business’ personality, a bit at a time

When you’re working to improve your business, your focus is usually on the big things. Big decisions, big contracts, big hopes, big pressures, and often some big leaps of faith. It can be easy to think that these are the only things that matter, but the small things often make a massive difference in the long term.

Of course, the little [...]

September 26, 2014

Effective recruitment

Effective recruitment and team retention

For many business owners, the secret of effective recruitment is an elusive one. Skills overlap, personalities clash, and you can spent far too much of your time recruiting, and not enough getting on with the job. But there’s a solution.

Psychometric Analysis is a specialist service offered by Agenda, and can transform the way you look at your team. It’s probably [...]

August 29, 2014

Improving team performance

Improving team performance

For many businesses, a little planning and a few straightforward processes and the solution to improving team performance. So if you want to get your people to achieve more, and feel better about doing so, it could be simpler than you think.

Even the most finely-honed, icy-cool team has room for improvement. It doesn’t matter whether it’s composed of cogs and [...]

August 11, 2014