If you’ve been told to manage your millennials, don’t go to the garden centre for advice. Yes, they sound like something you’d find between the annuals and perennials but they’re actually a new blossoming of worker taking over the world. This tech-savvy, smart, well informed generation of 20 to 30-somethings are predicted to make up […]
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Once upon a time Human Resources existed only to remind the boss not to hit employees with a rolled up newspaper. Thankfully, today HR is much more about protecting, enabling and empowering all members of staff. In fact, HR is the beating heart of a company: ensuring happiness and safety in the workplace, investing
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At the heart of every successful village is that one place where locals and visitors can come together and enjoy the warmest of welcomes. With its beaches, castles and golf courses Ayrshire attracts tourists from all over the world . . . and in Kilmaurs it’s the Weston Tavern that forms the hub of hospitality.
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What do Daleks, Dragons, Bears and Thunderbirds all have in common? That’s right: they’ve all been brought to life on the silver screen thanks to the bagpipe playing of Lorne MacDougall. Considered by many to be Scotland’s foremost player of the pipes, Lorne is not only an asset to Hollywood as a composer and musician,
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If you’re an independent financial adviser, senior financial planner or investment manager, there’s no need to tell you the deadline has passed for spending old fivers. These flimsy bits of paper – that turned to mush when mistakenly put through the wash – stopped being legal tender this month and now the only way you
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Recently we revealed the findings of a report that showed the proportion of senior business roles held by women in the UK had fallen from 21% in 2016 to 19% in 2017. On the face of it, that’s a rather bleak recruitment backdrop – with as much promise and positivity as Granny Ina’s blackout curtains.
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Imagine for a moment the business world is the plot of a James Bond film, where there are two kinds of bosses. M personifies the good boss, helping 007 by providing good intel, logistical support and joined-up communications. Meanwhile, the super-baddie – take your pick from Mr Big to Blofeld – is the bad boss,
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Braille. Who needs it? In the age of technology, where audio renderings of text are available at the click of a mouse, surely there’s no place left in education for a reading system that relies on fingertips? Well, not only is Braille making a comeback, but a new digital device called Canute has solved the
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When Carly Simon sang that ‘nothing stays the same’, she could also have been talking about our education system. Kids still go to school in the same way they did hundreds of years ago but the way they learn today is dramatically different. Tech-ed up classrooms, revised curricula, and specialist teaching hubs are just some
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If you’re sitting down to read this, stand up now. We don’t mean to sound like a drill sergeant, but being on your feet is good for your health in all sorts of ways. Alas, too many of us spend our working lives with our bahookies glued to chairs and this lack of activity takes
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