Copyright © 2001 Freddie Meynell. All rights reserved.
Revised: April, 2006.
Institute for Independent Business
Useful Guides for Independent Businesses
- These 21 guides, on a range of subjects directly affecting independent businesses, are designed to help you find ways of saving costs and running your business more effectively. Simply click on the subject heading to view the complete article. For additional assistance or advice, contact the Institute for Independent Business for a free meeting.
- 1. Breaking through the reading barrier
- How to pitch a training manual to the intelligence level of the prospective users.
- 2. Can you measure up on quality?
- What the ISO 9000 quality standard is and why you need to be accredited.
- 3. Do you need an office in Europe?
- Using a local expert to establish a working relationship with a synergistic company in a foreign country.
- 4. Do you suffer from 'Desk Stress'
- How to exercise effective work control and personal time-management.
- 5. Fighting fatigue on the job
- How to pace yourself to produce maximum efficiency and more reliable decisions.
- 6. Free service settles disputes the 'win-win' way
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and how it could help your company.
- 7. Handling anger in business
- How to 'cool down' angry employees or customers and get your own way.
- 8. Heading off sexual harassment charges
- 10 rules for cooling down sexes at work to avoid a charge of sexual harassment.
- 9. How much do your products really cost?
- How to take into account the variables in marketing a product.
- 10. How to save your business with Cash Control
- How to set up and operate effective control of a Debtors File and reduce cash leakage.
- 11. Improve your cash flow with barter
- How bartering goods and services can help you to survive hard times and reduce your overdraft.
- 12. Learn to say 'no' gracefully
- Dealing with employee and customer situations in which you must be negative, but in a positive way.
- 13. Pilot your company through the tangle of EC Legislation
- Obtaining and using PHAROS software to help clients navigate the tangle of EC laws and regulations.
- 14. Reinvigorate your business with TCC
- How a Total Customer Care programme can rebuild morale, increase productivity and profits and raise the quality of your people, processes and products.
- 15. Reducing costly work hazards
- What the newly adopted EC regulations for Health and Safety will mean to you.
- 16. Should you limit your liabilities?
- The pros and cons of operating in business as a self-employed sole trader, in a partnership or as a Limited Liability Company.
- 17. The right grant for your company
- What grants are available and how to obtain them.
- 18. When office humour is no joking matter
- How humour in business can be good as well as bad in coping with difficult situations.
- 19. When you need an 'interim manager'
- How an interim executive can provide you with the skill you need and a 'board of directors' and cost-effective specialised short-term experts.
- 20. Winning in the Small Claims Court
- Presenting a successful case without the time or expense of a lawyer.
- 21. £60 billion annual bonanza available to British businesses
- How companies can save on their sourcing costs.