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• Check out this series of award winning Basic Management Skills Articles.
• A primer on Learning Organizations exploring the concept of personal mastery, the role of teams and the value of systemic thinking.
• This site includes a great little self assessment test to help you assess the innovation level of your organisation.
• The Financial Management Training Center gives you a chance to develop your finance skills with their free on-line training courses in financial management,
• Here's a short free on-line slideshow of tips for public speaking.
• The Institute for Global Ethics promotes public discourse and practical action around ethical issues.
• Are you involved in implementing organisational change? Check out this paper exploring the Background and Theory for Large Scale Organizational Change Methods.
• Need to locate a UK-centric web directory? Then try out UK pages.
• The DTIs site on achieving best practice in your business contains useful information relating to best practice transfer. Includes a free downloadable book with self assessment questionnaires.
• Aimed at councils, the Employer's Organisation has loads to offer you wherever you work. Check it out for help with people management and organisational change.
• Partnerships with People aims to help organisations encourage high performance working through progressive employee relations practices. Free downladable resources including worksheets and video case studies.
• A charitable institute, PSI undertakes and publishes research studies relevant to social, economic and industrial policy. Thought provoking stuff.

• Here's a hypertext Dictionary of International Trade and Business
• So you want to know a bit more about issues of social exclusion? At OPM you can find papers on 'managing for social result'. Go on, have a look.
• A short article from the Journal for Quality and Participation on how to bring a spirit of creativity into your work life.
• Here's a free -on-line text on Managing Innovation: Cases from the Services Industries.
• Interested in building an enabling workplace? The Civil Service's site has good, plain English advice on equality good practices.
• Freelance Work Exchange provides access to a wealth of freelance jobs and resources. Visitors can receive a FREE report on the top markets, a course of market tips and a twice-weekly Freelance Job Report.
• Want to prepare for the future? See Global Change for insight into new and upcoming social and business trends. Thought provoking information on everything from motivating people to developing proactive business strategies.
• The Work Foundation exists to improve the productivity and quality of working life in the UK. It offers, among other useful information, a report on work-life balance.
• This UK site will give you information on developing a quality organisation. Includes a free PDF file that suggests tools and techniques to assist in both continuous improvement and re-design activities.
• Trading internationally? Here's a simple chart of world currencies
• Business as an Agent of World Benefit (B.A.W.B.) will link you to those who see their businesses as part of a larger whole. Attracting leaders at all levels who make different choices about materials, packaging, manufacturing methods, community engagement, and the way they treat their employees, these organisations are the pioneers of 21st century business.
• Here's a free text on ethics management.It's straightforward and practical rather than philosophical. Must be worth a look!
• Leader-values is a meeting place on leadership that emphasises multicultural, transnational issues.
• B2BToday.com one of the largest business to business related search engines in the World.
• Hmm ... an organisation with a vision to create business which makes equal sense to staff, shareholders and society. It's time has come!
• Here's an independent think tank that researches the changing relationship between social values and economic imperatives. Good source of insights into equality, enterprise and equity.
• In 'An Overview of Organizational Learning', Peter Senge responds to some common questions about organizational learning.
• Bartleby.com offers free on-line reference text to help with your command of the English language. Check out their Thesauri, Dictionary and text on English usage.
• Catch it while it's here, the Academy of Enterprise is a limited life organisation, with interesting things to say about creativity, innovation and enterprise.
• An on-line cashflow calculator.
• Executive Planet provides information to support you in international business culture and etiquette.
• Learn about the value of Communities of Practice in organisations by reading this Fastcompany article, "The People Are the Company".
• An interesting free systematic management text combining a novel and a process for improving management performance, this one is offered by Tesseracts who also share other resources such as a PDF on problem solving.
• Check out this international site for help with finding Training Classes, Materials, Certifications and Providers.
• If you're running a small business why not get some free advertising from the UK Small Business Directory.
• Peer Resources is Canada's leading authority for mentoring, coaching, and peer helping. Why not pop by and gain some inspiration on how to develop peer networks in your own organisation?
• Need to convert documents to PDF or HTML but don't want to download a converter? Then check out goBCL.com's offer of quick and free document conversion.
• Are you jobsearching? How about building a free on-line CV with a personalised URL and no ads!
• International trade glossary.

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