It can take a lot of hard work to get into a leadership position, if you develop the right skills you can make it a successful role for you and your business. Here are the top attributes that every good leader will concentrate on and nurture.

People Skills. The top three people skills are the ability to communicate, motivate, and delegate. Develop these three skills until you are a master.

Track Record. Develop your track record, your history of achieving results. This enhances your credibility and therefore your authority.

David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce stated today: "Gordon Brown needs to create a framework where businesses can thrive so we have asked in our Budget submission for corporation tax to be cut from 30pc to 25pc.

"UK businesses have to work in an overly taxed and regulated environment, which makes it more difficult for them to compete against businesses from low tax economies. A cut in corporation tax would be a big boost to the competitiveness of the UK."

If your business is trading overseas or even planning to, Liverpool Chamber can ensure that you’re fully prepared. The Chamber’s International Trade Training Programme has been running successfully for a number of years helping our member companies to expand their business globally.

Forthcoming courses include imports & exports for beginners, plan for exports, letters of credit, export documentation and applying for online Certificates of Origin.

Thanks to the new LiveOne20 card, leisure time in Liverpool has never been so much fun – or such fantastic value. LiveOne20 has been created for Chamber members and their employees to take advantage of the best of the city’s lifestyle at minimal cost.

We’ve got exclusive deals for LiveOne20 cardholders with some of Liverpool’s premier names in leisure, entertainment, travel, food and retail so you can enjoy some of the red carpet treatment.

They include huge discounts on seats for top shows at the Empire Theatre, a £50 reduction on Friday room rates at the Radisson SAS Hotel, free membership of the WhizzGo car hire service and two-for-one deals on great local days out with the Your Ticket to Liverpool and the Yellow Duckmarine.

As part of the commemoration of Liverpool's 800th birthday, the Chamber is planning an event at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral to celebrate the role of business and commerce in the city's life.

We are planning an ecumenical event to mark the contribution of business life to Liverpool's 800-year history. This will not be a formal religious service but a broadly based recognition of the importance of business to the lifeblood of Liverpool and Merseyside.

“Marketing is a key concern of small businesses and can often prove to be costly and time consuming," says Keith Mitchellhill of Liverpool Business Associations.

Business Fairs have been developed as an informal but productive networking forum and Liverpool BA’s events have a positive and growing reputation and represent opportunities that businesses large and small cannot afford to miss.

The British Chambers of Commerce have engaged the professional polling company, Populus, to help us build a Voice of Business Panel. The purpose of the panel is to aggregate and amplify the insights of businesses up and down the country in a way that will force the media and decision makers to sit up and take notice of your opinions. The information we gather will also help to shape the BCC's priorities and to serve our members better.