Organise Your Own ‘Oscars’

Just back from hosting a company day in the North East which culminated in an ‘Oscars’ ceremony that recognised some great individual performances from the past year. All voted by their peers, the winners included ‘Best Manager’, ‘Most Innovative’ and ‘The Biggest Unsung Hero’. It was a great way to round off a Performance Review session.

You might not want to go down the route of ‘Oscars’ (to be fair, it wasn’t ‘over the top’ at all), but what could you do to FORMALLY recognise great individual performances in your business?

Think back. When was the last time you actually did it?

Seth Speaks

‘New’ Media vs Newspapers

More money was spent advertising online in the the

Andy Becomes A Star Writer!

I’ll be writing a regular column for the Sheffield Star’s new monthly Business Magazine from next week. Called ‘Compete Or Get Beat’, my column will be a regular look at current business isssues and as ever will contain the usual thoughts, ideas and humour(!!).

It’s going to be distributed with The Star throughout South Yorkshire, and directly to businesses in the area.

If you’re from outside the area, don’t worry, I’ll ensure that there’s a copy or a link to the article each month, so you won’t miss out!

Delight in Doncaster!

A great turnout at the very impressive Keepmoat Stadium last night for the Business Link South Yorkshire event.

Here are the slides from my session.

Feel free to download and use them. Remember, it’s all about ACTION!

How Do They Account For This?

Royal Bank of Scotland employees have received a warning from a main board director that they face disciplinary action unless they open a bank account with the Edinburgh-based group.

As an employee of RBS apparently you MUST now have an account there! No if’s,no but’s – That’s the rule!

How would you feel?

Imagine if every business forced their employees to do this – Stella Artois workers would struggle to get up for work each day after a night of having to drink their product, London Underground workers would presumably be banned from taxis, and as for any Andrex employees who tried to use a public toilet, it just doesn’t bear thinking about!

Surely a company must be confident enough in its own products and services that it doesn’t have to force its employees to use them!

Leading In Lancaster!

Back from presenting to a great bunch of business leaders at Lancaster University School Of Management.

We had a great morning with some excellent contributions from the participants.

Here are the slides.

Have a look at the downloads section of the website – there’s some good stuff there reinforcing many of the isssues we discussed. Remember…it’s about ACTION!

The World’s Greatest Presentation Contest!

Came across this site, slideshare.net

Pick Up Some Tips At Ascot!

Andy will be presenting at the Institute Of Sales And Marketing Management event at Ascot on May 2nd.

For more details visit the ISMM website.

It’s open to all -

You’ll definitely pick up somesales and marketing tips to help your business become a real winner!

See Where Business is Heading

Here’s a great article from Business 2.0 highlighting their tips for success in 2007 – Businesses that they think will make it big this year.

They tipped Google, You Tube and My Space in the past when they were just insignificant start ups. Whether they’re right or wrong is not the point. Just see what these

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