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"BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL" – ARE YOU SURE?

The simple answer to that is no. In a recent report compiled by BDO, the accountants, and the Centre for Future Studies most of the organisations who took part agreed there would not be a return to business as usual.   The Lamberhurst Corporation has developed a unique business solution to systematically evaluate all of the key aspects of your business and provide you with a clearly defined strategy to ensure your business goals are achieved in the medium and long term. We call our solution 4Sight. 4Sight can be used for risk mitigation and more importantly enables businesses to modify themselves and grasp new business models which will help them thrive in the future.

See our short video describing how 4Sight can help your business.

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Failure to manage risks can have catastrophic consequences for your business.   You need to be systematic in your approach. Understand your key business drivers and the things that can threaten them.  You then need to explore all the likely and less likely but nonetheless potentially catastrophic risks – such as pandemics or acts of terrorism – and think through how you should react under different scenarios.  Do you have the plans in place? Do you have the skills needed to recover?  Do you have the mechanisms to communicate with all your staff if the need arises?

This article focus on two people risks – a pandemic and global terrorism.  It raises key questions about a business’s preparedness for such eventualities and offers advice on how to address them.

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Coaching and mentoring help good executives to meet expectations and get effective results through learning, attitudinal and behavioural change.  It is important to understand when each approach is most appropriate and what can be expected from it.  A coherent process is essential for coaching.  It must integrate with performance management, rewards, mentoring, personal development plans and learning programmes.

The impact of effective coaching and mentoring programmes on the bottom line can be substantial.

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The Corporate Manslaughter laws have started to be applied in the Courts, and the penalties and fines are draconian.  Managers and directors need to review their business’s methods to protect it from the disaster of a fatality, and of a consequent prosecution.  Here are six ways to ensure your organisation is not at risk.

“Prosecutors could be eager to put these weapons to the test.”  Tom Sheffield – Aon

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Larger energy users need to react to the Carbon Reduction Commitment for which mandatory compliance is in force in 2010.  Here are a timeline, an integrated approach to a CRC Action Plan, and recommendations on how finance departments can deal with the legislation.

“The clock is ticking for businesses to ensure that they are prepared for the latest scheme in the battle to reduce carbon emissions.  A failure to do so could result in fines and damage to corporate reputation as league tables will expose those businesses failing in their efforts.”  ACCA Accounting and Business

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