Top tips to ensure proactive success:

• Have in place well designed policies and procedures to cover all business needs and eventualities and ensure every part of your business is operating like a well-oiled machine.
• Prepare comprehensive job descriptions for every employee and evaluate regularly.
• Set objectives / targets to provide focus for all parties on what needs to be achieved both short and long term and give feedback regularly.
• Give praise for work well done and deal with instances of poor performance before they become a major issue.
• Keep up to date with the latest employment legislation? And, always ensure you are exercising your duty of care towards the welfare and development of your employees.
• Communicate with your employees and keep them informed, engaged and focussed on your strategic goals. Also, take a bottom-up approach that allows employees to voice their concerns and ideas.
• Provide opportunities for training and career progression wherever possible.