International Business

Tips & advice to help you improve your performance

 

The Effects Of Globalisation On Business

What’s the current and future impact of globalisation on business? How does globalisation affect businesses and what response should we offer? We’ve seen such a growth in globalisation and its tentacles will only keep spreading as we go through the 2020s (more…)

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How To Gain More Ownership And Commitment Through Autonomy

One of the fundamental human needs we have at work is the ability to control our own approach to tasks. If we are simply ‘doing a job’, it is not surprising that our motivation will soon atrophy and die. What is it that makes us…

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Inside The Mind Of Richard Branson & What We Can Learn From It

What makes us who we are? Naturally, it’s a mixture of our genetic makeup and our nurtured experiences. Some of our responses are based on our genes, but many of them are learned as we go along in life, conditioned in the main by who…

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What Is The Best Change Management Strategy?

Incoming employees, departing bosses, new software, company merges, new initiatives… these are all changes in a company that cause both employees and processes to go through transitions. These changes can lead to stress, a host of unknowns and chaos to break out in the workplace.…

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How To Make Decisions That Will Affect Your Team

Making a decision can be hard enough when it comes to yourself, but double as difficult when it comes to decisions that affect other people. However, a big part of a manager’s job description is doing just that. (more…)

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How To Keep Calm When An Employee Messes Up

As a manager, your employees’ wins are your wins, but also, their fails are also your fails. It can be extremely frustrating when your employee makes a mistake, especially if you feel that they should have known better. (more…)

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How To Manage Your Teams Performance

One of the biggest determinants of your success as a leader is the performance of your team. You are not just required to delegate tasks and monitor quality, you are in charge of the way they work on projects, how fast they are able to…

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Graduate Research Reveals A Massive Pay Incentive

We’ve trained close to 200,000 managers at all different levels here at MTD and I’m always fascinated to understand the path that they have took to end up where they are. Some are graduates, some not. (more…)

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Are You Conducting International Business Effectively?

Today, the majority of businesses are doing work on a global scale. Even if your offices are in the UK, it is likely that your products are available online; therefore, clients from around the world can purchase them. (more…)

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The 2 Biggest Corporate Social Media Blunders (And How To Avoid Them…)

Social media advances have made it easier and faster than ever to communicate with clients. Previously, companies had to put out press releases and wait for them to be picked up by outlets that would then report the news to consumers. (more…)

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Managerial Lessons From 3 “Activist” CEOs

More and more CEOs are in the news lately, but not only because of their smart business decisions. Increasingly, the CEOs of large companies are making a name for themselves by standing up for social causes. (more…)

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Is It Ever OK To Be A Micromanager?

Micromanagers have a bad rep in today’s corporate culture. Employees complain when their boss looks over their shoulders all the time, or don’t trust them to make their own decisions. (more…)

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