Small Firms Association

Treasa Doran of Vodafone, Vanessa Tierney of Abodoo and Helen Quinn of the SFA talk about Smart Working. It is clear that employees are embracing smart working / flexible working arrangements but how can it benefit the small business owner? This podcasts talks about how Smart Working benefits businesses who embrace it. This ranges from attracting new staff, improving productivity and reducing costs. It can increase the work/life balance of your existing employees and it benefits the environment too. If your business is considering on introducing Smart Working listen in and learn how it can benefit your business and how you can address the challenges it may present.

Lianne Kavanagh, Community Development Manager of Iconic offices talks about the flexibility of co-working spaces and how it differs from the traditional serviced office model.

Brian Smyth talks about the impact of mis-communicating in the workplace and how good communications unites everyone in the workplace, improves employee engagement and that real communications is the life-blood of every company.

Carol Ann Casey of CA Compliance talks about how businesses can effectively manage those difficult conversations that can arise in the workplace. The key takeaways from this podcast is listen attentively to an employee's concerns, have key policies and contracts in place as well as being prepared in advance for the meeting.

Brian Smyth of Maybe International talks about how the financial reward and recognition system can go wrong and offers some advice on how businesses can recognise the real value of what an employee is doing in itself, along with the great things they are doing, rather than thanking or rewarding them for something they have done for the business.

In this podcast Brian Smyth of Maybe International gives advice on how businesses can co-create the workplace culture with their employees by sharing the company vision in a genuine and convincing manner. This will make it easy for employees to connect with the vision and welfare of the company and as a result become more invested and productive as a result.

In this podcast Brian F Smyth of Maybe International provides an alternative view to the traditional training model. He discusses the benefits of coaching and how a coaching mindset can enable people to not just learn passively but to learn through discovery.

In this podcast, Carol Ann Casey of CA Compliance talks about how small businesses can effectively deal with bullying in the workplace.

In this podcast Helen Quinn, Executive with the Small Firms Association, shares 5 tips that small businesses can use to create a job description that will grab potential candidates at hello.

Helen Quinn, Executive with the Small Firms Association, talks about how the Grow, Scale, Succeed campaign will give small business's the tools to recruit the right people, keep their employees engaged and embrace Smart Working. Smart Working is the combination of technology with agile, flexible working arrangements so that employees can work remotely