Month: May 2019

Create a routine Routines can make us much more productive in the long run. Even if it takes you time to get into your new routine, if it’s well thought out and provides you with realistic daily opportunities to achieve the tasks you need to, a routine is the way forward. Keep the mornings for […]

In the UK, we have one of the worst records for levels of female entrepreneurs. Alison Rose, CEO of Natwest’s Commercial and Private Banking has reviewed the situation and encouraged some realistic solutions to enhance the UK’s support and funding for female entrepreneurs. Firstly, advancing female entrepreneurship represents a £250 Billion opportunity for the UK […]

 In 2015 The Ministry of Justices’ Dame Sally Coats said, “If education is the engine of social mobility, it is also the engine of prisoner rehabilitation.” but just how effective is educating our prisoners? There are pros and cons to educating our prisoners. Many argue that it costs the Government too much of the tax […]

Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain has gone into administration. It most likely comes as no real surprise to Oliver going on an interview he gave to the Financial Times under a year ago when his company first started to experience some issues. “We had simply run out of cash” he said, referring to the end of […]

With 47% of the UK’s workforce being women, it would seem that there isn’t really any need to balance out the gender roles in our country. That being said, the gender gap still remains evident. For example, in the main occupational groups, the gap is 4.8% and in the skilled trades occupations it is up […]

Mentoring in the UK can sometimes be seen as a British predicament. It’s thought that the UK aren’t very good at utilising our resources when it comes to mentoring and there are few who know why. Maybe it’s because we Brits are inclined to feel like we would be imposing on someone when asking them […]

IOEE Academy Natwest is prepping up for this year’s Great British Entrepreneur Awards and they’re looking for specifically entrepreneurs from the North East. Categories range from the Entrepreneur for Good Award, Scale-Up Awards, Health & Beauty Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Entrepreneurs’ Team of the Year Award and so on. Founded in 2013, the NatWest […]

It is Mental Health Awareness Week and we’re looking at different perspectives on mental health. Over the last few years, mental health and the encouragement of mental health has become more prominent within our society. Apparently, entrepreneurs are more susceptible to poor mental health and here’s the reasons why… STRESS This might seem a little […]

The Mental Health Charity Mind have expressed their concerns over people who work from home becoming lonely and isolated and with 50% of the UK’s workforce predicted to be home-workers by 2020. These concerns arise as Work Wise Week sweeps across the UK and National Work from Home Day lands on the Friday 17th May. […]

Next Friday sees National Work from Home Day sweep across the UK as part of Work Wise Week, a non-profit campaign encouraging employers and employees to share with the world the benefits and methods to work from home successfully. It’s been predicted that by 2020, 50% of the UK’s workforce will be working from home […]

The IOEE has opened a new office in the North East, just outside of Newcastle, to house its digital operations. The office is based at Space@, a collaborative hub for small businesses at the coast in Whitley Bay. The new office will be home to the current digital team as well as two new digital […]