Providing your workforce with fruit is a great way to provide a "feelgood factor". Keep feeding the monkeys bananas and maybe they wont notice that they haven't got a payrise or that you have been embezzling their pension funds.

It can be good to get together and do something fun as a team outside of work. Perhaps attend a comedy night. Be imaginative, if your budget doesn't stretch to seeing the real Lee Evans, perhaps consider seeing a 'tribute' act as an alternative.

Get a large faced man to gee up your team with some carefully chosen words of motivational wisdom and watch your profits soar.

Is your drab office bringing everyone down? The benefits of spending just a little money on paint and furnishings will be repaid by a more motivated workforce - and don't forget the importance of making a good impression to clients.

An uninjured worker is a happy worker. Investing in safety is a good way to keep productivity high. By training your own workforce you will help to give ownership and buy in to the process.