Many employees will have heard the term salary sacrifice and this has become increasingly popular over the years with employees sacrificing amounts of salary in exchange for benefits. These benefits typically save the employee tax and class 1 National Insurance on the amount sacrificed and were used for anything for the purchase of laptops and […]

You know how important successful negotiation is to your business and that successful negotiation is a method by which people settle differences. Ideally this process will mean that all parties reach a compromise or agreement while avoiding argument and dispute. So why do so many of us find it hard to negotiate well? And why […]

In their book Decisive – How to make better decisions Chip and Dan Heath put it simply: ‘When it comes to making decisions, it’s clear that our brains are flawed instruments. Whether we rely on complex analysis or gut reactions, the results are about the same’ So, it pays to ‘catch yourself on’ and sense-check […]

Budget 2017 announced that the Government intends to review the rent-a-room scheme, but it currently remains a tax-efficient way of letting out a spare room. The Rent-a-Room Scheme allows owner occupiers and tenants to receive tax-free rental income if you provide furnished accommodation in your only or main home. The current annual Rent-a-Room limit is […]

The most important capacity we possess is our ability to influence ourselves and others. Learn to see every important challenge you face as an influence challenge”. The Influencer: The Power to Change Anything The authors of the Influencer: The Power to Change Anything make the point that complex problems are not solved by silver bullets. Their research found that change […]