On 18 July every year, Nelson Mandela International Day is observed worldwide as companies, organisations and individuals join in a global movement to honour our former president’s life’s work and to change the world for the better. It is a great opportunity for companies and individuals to ask: “What can we do to make the world better?” Discover great tips for ensuring your company makes an impactful contribution, get inspired with our extensive list of ideas and find out what the benefits are for your company…

If you are an entrepreneur then you no doubt carefully look at your company's profit or loss statements to analyse how the company is doing. Your balance sheet and annual reviews and the reflected profit and profitability seem the obvious way to determine the health of your organisation. What many do not however know, or focus on, is all those other, non-financial performance measures that may give you an even better understanding of the future potential of your company. These non-financial performance measures are all those things which are not expressed as a monetary value and instead focus on other aspects of the business. The benefit is that often, unlike lagging measures like profit, these non-financial performance measures may actually be a better predictive tool for gauging the future success of your business.