Four psychological language tricks to help you win within the workplace November 7, 2016 As the businessman and writer Stephen Covey once said, “proactive people recognise that they are response-able”. They choose their behaviour and know how the right language can move people in the right way. Understanding the psychology of your colleagues and clients is key. Once you understand the lock in people’s brains, you can unlock gates using your [...]
Sainsbury’s to reveal how much its pension scheme has grown over the last six months November 6, 2016 Sainsbury's pension scheme deficit is expected to have ballooned by up to £900m over the last six months when the company releases its interim results on Wednesday. The supermarket's pension hole stood at £390m in March but analysts are predicting that a chasm will have developed. Market expectations are that the deficit will be between £900m and £1.3bn. Read [...]
Women should hold one third of senior executive jobs at FTSE 100 firms by 2020, says Sir Philip Hampton’s review November 6, 2016 One in three senior executive positions at FTSE 100 firms should be occupied by women by 2020, a new government-backed review will say this week. Led by Sir Philip Hampton, the chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and UBM chair Dame Helen Alexander, the review will recommend the new target for FTSE 100 exec committees and the management [...]
MPs want to scrap the pensions triple lock to help millennials November 6, 2016 A group of top MPs have called on the government to scrap the favourable triple lock on state pensions because it favours the baby boomer generation over struggling millennials. The MPs said the promise to guarantee the state pension with a yearly rise in line with either inflation, average earnings or 2.5 per cent, whichever [...]
Tandem is go: Another digital challenger bank has opened its doors November 4, 2016 Tandem, one of a handful of the UK’s digital challenger banks hoping to give the big four a run for their money is opening its doors for business, City PM can exclusively reveal. The Tandem mobile banking app will begin rolling out from today to those who have already signed up, with ambitious plans to make [...]
Yule be sorry! Tips to avoid a Christmas office party disaster November 4, 2016 Have you been bestowed with the honour of arranging the office Christmas party this year? Lucky you. Organised well, your success will elevate you to office hero. Done badly, you may return in the new year to a desk relocation, perhaps next to the toilet, or microwave. To avoid giving your office a party to remember [...]
James Dyson is offering degrees to would-be engineers through Warwick University November 4, 2016 Vacuum magnate James Dyson is doing his bit to solve the UK's engineering skills gap, after he announced his Dyson Institute of Technology will begin providing university degrees to aspiring engineers. The institute will work with the University of Warwick on the courses, in which students will hold down salaried jobs at Dyson while studying for [...]
Mobile pay is still waiting for its “Uber moment” (even among millennials) November 3, 2016 Despite our addiction to smartphones, using them to pay for a new winter coat or that morning coffee has yet to become commonplace – even among tech obsessed digital natives, aka millennials. Just a quarter of those aged between 18 and 35 are using mobile pay and only two per cent are using Apple Pay, the [...]
City PM Unregulated podcast: If I could just tell you one thing – Innocent co-founder Richard Reed November 3, 2016 This week we're joined at the London School of Economics by Richard Reed, the co-founder of Innocent, to talk about his new book, If I Could Just Tell You One Thing, a compendium of advice from 62 of the world's best-known thought leaders. He talks about why he and his co-founders launched Innocent Drinks – and why [...]
Q&A: The challenges faced by SME exporters November 3, 2016 Encouraging small British firms to sell their goods and services overseas is a key plank of government policy, and there is now a range of organisations devoted to helping them do just that. Official figures, however, show that only 5 to 10 per cent of UK SMEs are currently engaged in export. We spoke with Allan [...]
