Today’s guest blogger is Ed McConnell with HUB International, discussing best practices for organizational resilience. HUB International provides a wide range of business and personal insurance options including liability, health, life, and more.

Typically, about 80% of small businesses in the U.S. will survive their first year, but only half of the 400,000 new businesses that open their doors annually will still be around five years later.[1]

Consider the following statistics: Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Tim Lane founder and director of Park Lane Recruitment based near Manchester UK.  Park Lane Recruitment is a specialist recruiting firm in the technology space with niche areas of cybersecurity, fintech, space and defense IT, as well as generic IT sales, tech and managerial.  Tim is also an NPAworldwide Board Director with responsibility for the EMEA region and a 30+ year veteran of the recruiting industry.

Everyone has always had to learn to perform their job. Throughout the industrial ages and periods of time in history. From the beginning of industry to the dawn of the internet, the latest training has helped create the best employees. You would think therefore that there was always new teaching for new periods of time.

Far from it. Read the rest of this entry »