Mark Blunden of Augmentas Group hosts a free workshop, that will focus on providing sales advice to those that struggle with sales themselves or have staff adverse to engaging with customers and potential clients. For full details and booking information, please visit http://www.augmentasgroup.com/free-sales-workshop-sales-non-sales-people/ ...
What are The Top Ten Challenges for Growing Businesses?
I’ve been in business for more years than I care to remember and after a while you get to spot the same issues coming around time and time again. Coming from an accountancy background those issues are often financial but, of course, the majority of business issues cut across most, if not all, areas...
Strategic Focus – Do You Know Your Vision and Have a Plan to Get There?
Strategic Focus – have you created your business plan to monitor progress and set deadlines and goals to ensure steady growth? Does your staff buy in to your vision? Do they even understand what your vision is? Do YOU even know what it is? For this challenge I’ve turned to Simon Whitbread. I’ve known Simon for...
It may just be Man-Flu but that doesn’t stop it hurting…
Firstly a massive thank you to the attendees of The Boardroom Network Solent meeting last Friday for the reception given to my reading from last week’s post in my “Two minute warming”. Much appreciated and an encouragement to make sure the humour gets no better going forward… Funny old week really unless you’re me sitting here with lungs that feel...
What if being silent got you more noticed?
In a noisy world we are in danger of forgetting just how powerful silence is...
Get up and Talk – take the 5 day presentation challenge
If you have a voice in your head saying ‘ I am rubbish at public speaking’ – then good news – I am about to give you the liberating power of shutting that voice up! Just test yourself out - follow these 5 days of challenges and get things moving - action is the best...
Why we like The Boardroom Network
Member Blog by Dan Carey of Business & Management Wessex http://businessandmanagementwessex.org/why-we-like-the-boardroom-network ...
OK so it was Brexit
What does the leave vote actually mean in HR terms for my business? There will undoubtedly be some staff that are upset because they supported ‘Remain’ and others who will be nervous about the future and whether the vote will have an effect on their employment rights and rights to work in the UK....
Someone Hacked My Kettle
This might be a headline that becomes more and more common over the next few years! The growth of the internet of things and today’s Hampshire Enterprise Circle visit to amicus its have happily collided in the heading here. Do you pay any attention to your own or your business’s cyber security? How seriously...