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Supplier problems can quickly become business problems. Late deliveries, quality issues, poor communication, escalating costs and declining performance can disrupt operations and put projects at risk. The challenge is knowing how to identify problems early, intervene effectively and recover...

Would you like to gain new business, perhaps via a route which you may not be aware of or may have discounted because you think it's too difficult a nut to crack? If the answer is yes–this book can help you. Why can it help you? Because there are massive opportunities for new and repeat business for SMEs by tendering for UK public sector contracts, framework agreements and dynamic markets with central government, the NHS, local authorities, education and more. And did you know that UK public sector has an SME action plan supported by the Procurement Act 2023?

These days with ever increasing drains on our money via a plethora of ever raising taxes it is important to make every penny count whilst making provision for your future and saving towards it. Did you know it is very easy to save and invest in entirely tax free ways? Even a few pounds salted away tax efficiently can make a huge difference over time whether you want to accumulate and emergency fund and/or a longer term outlook perhaps towards your retirement, to buy a house or other savings goal.

Virtual and hybrid meetings are a daily part of business life. However you probably know just as well as I do from experience how unfocused, frustrating and unproductive they can be. But it does not have to be like that. In A Practical Guide to Running Productive Virtual and Hybrid Meetings, I give you a variety of best practices, tools and techniques to make all your virtual and hybrid meetings planned, organised and run effectively whether you’re the meeting organiser, facilitator, chairperson or attendee.

In this book I will show you in a step-by-step way exactly how I taught myself to narrate audio books so you will be able to do it too.

In this audio book we will take a look at my personal top twenty heritage railways in the UK, including what else there is to see and do in the area in addition to the railway itself. A visit to a heritage railway is a great day out for all.

Here you have a visitors’ guide to Wakefield and the Five Towns. A region of West Yorkshire which has much to offer the visitor whether that be history, tradition, culture, nature, sport or some weird stuff. There’s more to see and do than you may be thinking in and around Wakefield, Pontefract, Castleford, Normanton, Featherstone and Knottingley. I was born in Yorkshire and have lived here most of my life. It is a beautiful county and we do not call it God’s Own County for nothing….! As a native Yorkshireman, I know the Wakefield area (and Yorkshire as a whole) very well.