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Sales promotion examples
Methods you can use to promote and price your product or service including vouchers, deals, discounts, free samples and loyalty schemes
JobStart
Employer incentive scheme to help people aged 16–24 and 50-64 years old at risk of long-term unemployment enter the workplace.
Employing and supporting older workers
How employers can embrace the benefits of employing older workers and meet their legal obligations and challenges of an ageing workforce.
Five top tips to promote an age-diverse workforce
How employers can create a workplace that is inclusive to workers of all ages to give them a competitive advantage in recruitment and retention.
Ageing workforce: challenges for staff and employers
How employers can identify and address the challenges of an ageing workforce.
Avoid common mistakes in sales forecast
The key things to avoid when drawing up a sales forecast including wishful thinking, not making it achievable and moving goalposts
Advantages and disadvantages of using commercial agents
The advantages and disadvantages of using a commercial sales agent including cost effectiveness, sales skills and experience in new markets versus a lack of control.
Unfair dismissal: employee eligibility
Employer consequences if you dismiss someone unfairly.
Retain and retrain older workers
How employers can make efforts to retain staff to secure key skills and experience and how retraining older workers may be beneficial.
Types of employee dismissal
The different types of staff dismissal and unfair dismissal claims.
Sales agents and distributors
How sales agents and distributors can help you access new markets and boost your business. Learn the differences, advantages, and strategies for selling through them.
Recruiting older workers
How employers can recruit fairly and avoid age discrimination when taking on new staff including older workers.
Unfair dismissal
Reasons that automatically constitute the unfair dismissal of an employee.
Fair dismissal
You must have a valid reason for dismissing an employee - understand the reasons that constitute a fair dismissal.
Retail selling
How to successfully sell within a shop environment including portraying the right image to customers and building rapport
Cashflow forecast examples
How you can use cashflow forecasts to plan for borrowing and for peaks and troughs in your business cycle.
Whistleblowing: Right of complaint to an industrial tribunal
If an employee is dismissed for making a protected disclosure, they may bring a claim to an employment tribunal.
Whistleblowing: Exceptionally serious failures
How workers are protected when reporting an exceptionally serious failure in the workplace.
Whistleblowing: Qualifying disclosures
The types of disclosure that are eligible for protection from dismissal.
Dismissals relating to industrial action
How to ensure that you dismiss an employee fairly for reasons relating to industrial action.