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Gerard Burke offers tips for turning underachievers into star players</description>      <link>http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/leading-by-example.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/leading-by-example.html</guid>      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Business</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Five steps to honing your culture</title>      <description>Are your staff in tune with your culture?</description>      <link>http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/five-steps-to-honing-your-culture.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/five-steps-to-honing-your-culture.html</guid>      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:11:08 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Business</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Inductions</title>      <description>You’ve found the right person for the job and you want them to hit the ground running. Why spend time and money on staff inductions? The answer is simple. It costs much more to replace staff then it d...</description>      <link>http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/inductions.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/inductions.html</guid>      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:26:30 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Business</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Creating a culture</title>      <description>A business culture is built on its values and beliefs and gives a clear signal of your business identity to your customers and employees – creating one will not happen overnight and tends to come stra...</description>      <link>http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/creating-a-culture.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://dev.growingbusiness.co.uk/creating-a-culture.html</guid>      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:45:45 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Business</category>    </item>  </channel></rss>