Published: 23 Feb 2023
Working in partnership with Leeds Beckett University, we have commissioned The Retail Institute at the university’s Leeds Business School, to produce a series of useful guides to running a business for all our members.
The 11 guides will be available for TSA members to download from the website here https://www.tsa-uk.org.uk/members-area/. The first guide, Good Mental Health, is already available.
Business guides aid decision making
The diverse range of topics included encompass all aspects of managing a modern business. The guides cover everything you need to know, from building a brand, to finance, productivity, digital marketing, business resilience, sustainability and much more.
The guides contain top tips and recommendations of best practice in every area of business. With some academic content included, the guides also provide practical checklists, models and questions for you to apply and consider in order to support and guide your decision-making.
A healthcheck for businesses of all sizes
The guides are aimed at any size of business, at whatever stage of development it’s at. The guides are ideal for all our ‘time poor’ members, who are looking for effective, yet easy to implement, solutions. Whether you are just setting up a new business for the first time and need to put systems and processes in place, or you have a more established firm and you’re now looking to healthcheck existing practices or introduce new ideas.
Each of the 11 guides has been authored by a different expert in that particular field. These range from human resources and marketing specialists to experienced practitioner academics. Each one provides top tips on strategy and implementation, as well as suggestions for further reading and other helpful resources.
Sam Roberts, Director at Met Geo Environmental Ltd and our Technical Committee Chair, has spearheaded the production of the business guides. He says,
“We have been delighted to work together with The Retail Institute at Leeds Beckett University, one of the UK’s leading academic research centres, to provide these in-depth business guides. One of our vision statements at TSA is, ‘TSA will help you build a better business’. These guides are designed to do just that and we hope our members will find them informative, practical and helpful.”
