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Meet your local Be the Business champion, Vicky Goldby
New Cornwall Hospitality Leaders Network programme lead Vicky Goldby talks about her own entrepreneurial success and why businesses in Cornwall have such potential.
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Be the Business launches new national mentoring programme for ambitious SMEs: Mentoring for Growth
A new nationwide mentoring programme, Mentoring for Growth, has launched and will see senior figures from some of the UK’s biggest companies paired with ambitious SME leaders.
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What we can learn from German productivity strategies
German productivity outstrips that of its economic rivals partly due to its emphasis on vocational training, a fact-finding visit to the European country learned by meeting family-owned "Mittelstand" companies.
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Cornish hospitality industry features on BBC
Fifteen Cornwall managing director Matthew Thompson was interviewed alongside a member of his staff and Be the Business CEO Tony Danker as part of a BBC interview looking at how tailored training programmes can help employees up-sell products.
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Be the Business welcomes chancellor’s focus on UK productivity
Chancellor Philip Hammond's of a package of measures to boost the UK productivity, delivered in his speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, as been welcomed by Be the Business.
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Infographic: July 2018 key economic and productivity stats and headlines
Want to know what kind of job skills the most in-demand workers will have in the future? Look no further than our monthly infographic where we reveal all – alongside an interesting comparison with G7 countries, insights on salary transparency and all of the last month's important news developments.
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Productivity review: Be the Business response to government call for evidence
Be the Business has responded to a government call for evidence on how to enable less productive businesses to learn from, and catch up with, the best. The consultation was launched by the chancellor at the Spring Statement in March 2018 and closed in July 2018.
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Less than one per cent annual productivity growth is far less than Britain needs
Be the Business has responded to the latest ONS figures showing productivity growth annually of 0.9 per cent in Q1 2018, compared to the same period in 2017. Quarterly productivity fell by 0.4 per cent in Q1 2018 when compared to Q4 2017.
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Infographic: June 2018 key economic and productivity stats and headlines
Our monthly digest of the salient statistics, trends and headlines includes a look at the impact of this summer's World Cup in Russia, the current state of play for UK scale-up businesses and some key quotes from the Bank of England and CBI.
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Cornwall businesses learn from easyJet revenue diversification strategy
A conversation with easyJet auxiliary revenue director Andrew Middleton highlighted many interesting insights small business owners could gleam from its operations – despite the company, one synonymous with aviation and British travel, having thousands of staff.
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Infographic: May 2018 key economic and productivity stats and headlines
Our monthly digest of the salient statistics, trends and headlines includes the our own research on business attitude to the evaluation of management practices, how the job market is looking and why stress in the workplace continues to be a problematic theme.
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Sir Charlie Mayfield welcomes additional funding for Be the Business
Be the Business, a new private sector-led organisation dedicated to improving the UK’s productivity, has welcomed the chancellor’s announcement of an additional £5.6m to improve firm-level productivity.
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Productivity decrease should act as a wake-up call for UK business
Following the publication of new figures showing a decrease in national productivity, Be the Business has stated that with a more competitive business environment post-Brexit, firms must make improving performance a bigger priority.
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Overconfidence on productivity is hampering British performance
New research from Be the Business has found that the vast majority of British bosses rate their skills highly relative to their peers. In turn, they invest little time in making their business run better.
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Infographic: April 2018 key economic and productivity stats and headlines
Our monthly digest of the salient statistics, trends and headlines includes the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) latest productivity stats, automation fears and nationwide thoughts on the use of meetings.
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British business leaders announce further plans to boost firm-level productivity at Bank of England
The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has chaired a meeting of UK business leaders who have announced a new set of commitments to help UK firms improve their productivity.
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Strongly led firms are the productivity winners
The strength of management practices in foreign-owned firms operating in the UK is demonstrating the impact this can have on overall business productivity, new research shows.
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Leading businesses and University of Strathclyde launch Productivity through People to enhance Scottish SMEs’ growth prospects
The University of Strathclyde's business school is launching a new 12-month programme that supports SMEs to improve their business performance and help them better engage with their employees.
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Spring Statement: Productivity underpins the UK’s future growth prospects
Be the Business, a new private sector led organisation dedicated to improving the UK’s productivity, has welcomed the chancellor's call for evidence to enable less productive businesses to learn from and catch up with the best.
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Productivity growth not sufficient, warns business productivity group
New figures have highlighted an increase in national productivity, but Be the Business believes that after a decade of under-performance, UK businesses must do better in the years ahead.
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Today’s Budget shows the need for “fresh ideas” to tackle productivity
Today’s Budget confirms that productivity is not just a topic for economists, it determines the prosperity of every family in Britain. The price of our low productivity is now locked into our country’s growth prospects.
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Budget briefing: Transforming UK productivity
Ahead of the Budget on 22 November, the Productivity Leadership Group is calling for government and business co-investment in productivity to close the UK’s performance gap.
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Productivity Leadership Group responds to new ONS productivity statistics
Productivity Leadership Group responds to new ONS productivity statistics.
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How good is your business really? Raising our ambitions for business performance
The "How Good Is Your Business Really" report was the output of the Productivity Leadership Group’s research which has been the foundation of be the business and the productivity movement.
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