ByBeverley Powell
Beverley Powell is a highly qualified Leadership Associate: Organisational development, Inclusion, Coach and Mentor with a proven track record in embedding organisational change. She can design and deliver credible and engaging equality and diversity training that is relevant to the current challenges that a company or organisation is facing. She is able to design specific…
ByRasheed Ogunlaru
My Top 10 Step Guide to building an effective network that serves and empowers BME staff. Whether you seek to establish a strong network for the first time or are looking to add impetus, engagement or effectiveness to build or develop an existing one you need to be strategic, effective, creative – and also authentic,…
ByRasheed Ogunlaru
Progressing in your career or business is a lot like being an athlete. To really progress you need drive, dedication, hard work, belief and to put in many hours of training and development to survive and thrive. You need to have the right mindset, approach and strategy. As a life / business coach I’m fascinated by…
ByRasheed Ogunlaru
It’s interesting to note that one of the main reasons we choose to become our own boss is to reduce the stress, unhappiness and structure of being employed and gain more freedom, balance and pleasure. Yet what can so easily happen – if you’re not really careful – is that you step out from a…
BySue Ellam
What would happen if our creative lives and businesses had to exist under the threat of a mental illness diagnosis? “Dissent is essential for progress” – Thomas Eddison “My work is more important than what you think of me” – Brene Brown “Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believes…
BySue Ellam
I think that playing games, rather than being a waste of time, can actually teach us valuable lessons in running our business. Business is a serious affair – yes? So many things to think about – sales, marketing, revenue, employees, taxes, legal issues – and the list goes on! We can get so immersed in…
ByCatherine Green
Before I got pregnant I had all these ideas that I could have my child and carry on my life as normal. After all, that’s what other women in my social circles were doing. I knew that my mum and mother-in-law had both taken a few years off work while their children were pre-schoolers. And…
ByCatherine Green
My business is getting off to a slow start this year, but that is alright, actually. I started 2015 with high hopes for a productive year. I was full of excitement at the return of my writing Muse, a mysterious entity that seemed to desert me during pregnancy with my second child back in 2013,…
ByRasheed Ogunlaru
September has arrived and it’s back to business for you and your venture. This autumn stretched between now and Christmas is often the most important, busy and lucrative season of the year with many businesses generating the largest part of their annual turnover in this quarter. So with this in mind here are my top…
BySue Ellam
I wanted to explore the meaning behind the word ‘ethical’ in this day and age, and how some companies manage to slip through the net using marketing tactics. I have recently read articles praising companies who are considered the most ethical – there is a list of these illustrious and successful business ventures of 2013,…
BySue Ellam
I feel that every business has a life of its own, and we need to get out of the way and let it manifest. I know that when I first had the idea for my own business I was extremely naïve as to what it would entail to get it up and running. I thought…
BySue Ellam
I have spent a lot of time on social media over the past few years and am often amazed at how many people ask for advice from the masses on the most fundamental aspects of their business. The problem with asking for advice on an open forum on subjects like – what do I call…