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Business resilience starts with the awareness of potential risk. It is built around strong organisational cultures, the promotion of emergent leadership, and investment in safe and secure workspaces and operations. With a job lost every 20 seconds since lockdown in March though, it became evident to us all that one of the main risks to business sustainability and continuity lies in the potential loss of talent, and the major disruption to operational continuity and internal resourcing capacity this brings.

A Management Review Meeting is an essential part of your Management System! But why is it so important and what can you do to ensure you run an effective meeting?

If you’re finding things hard right now, you’re not alone. The coronavirus pandemic is affecting every area of our lives.  You might be feeling frustrated, low, worried, anxious or concerned for yours or your loved one’s health.  Whilst these are all common reactions, we each respond differently to such events and it’s important now, more than ever, that you to take care of yourself and ask for help if you need it.

Back when things were ‘normal’, Sentinel Partners began their journey to certification but with lockdown putting physical visits on hold, we had to quickly adapt our services in order to continue to deliver a high level of service.   How would our new clients find this new dynamic way of working with us?

As the Government’s furlough scheme is set to end at the end of October, our Business Development Specialist, Stacey Humm, talks about her experience of furlough and gives her top tips for anyone returning to work shortly.

You may find your business’s insurance facing rate increases as the insurance market becomes more challenging. Why? Insurers are looking to balance their books with either reduced capacity, pulling out of some risk areas, and/or revisiting terms and conditions. This is known as a ‘hard insurance market’, but what does that mean?

The care sector has been gradually facing a hardening insurance market as fewer insurance companies are prepared to provide cover. In recent months some of the main remaining insurers have withdrawn leaving the situation even more difficult. On top of this the insurance industry in general is seeing a sharp rise in premiums and a reduction in the cover they are prepared to offer. This is bad news for the care sector, already under pressure from the impact of Coronavirus.

Recent months have seen various sectors of the construction industry hit by a rapidly hardening insurance market, with premiums increasing 2, 3 or 4 times, cover reduced, restrictions imposed and in worst cases insurance has become unavailable. Everyone from architects & surveyors to contractors and suppliers are under pressure.

The insurance industry is experiencing its hardest market in 20 years, with premiums increasing, breadth of cover being restricted, policyholders being asked to comply with harsh conditions and some businesses struggling to obtain insurance at all.

This pandemic has affected quite literally, every aspect of our lives. There’s no doubt the UK Government have made some difficult decisions during this year, but how do you organise the utter chaos it has created? We’re going to liken the similarities between a situation the country is all too familiar with currently, and a topic you might not know much about…