As a friend of directors, partners and business owners, our magazines have one very simple aim, to help you run your business better.
The Winter/Spring 2020 issue is themed…
2021 Spring | Suffolk Director Magazine
Carole Burman & Charlotte Bate, MAD-HR
“Being a good HR professional is a bit like being a chameleon – you adapt the mantle that best suits the people you are with. We have learnt how to fit whilst remaining authentic and comfortable with who we are.”
Although not specifically aimed at directors and owners of start-up businesses, the magazine content, advice and tips we share with our readers have one common goal, to help you run your business better, no matter how long you have been trading.
Our articles come from leaders of local businesses such as: Ensors Chartered Accountants, Birkett Long Solicitors, and MAD-HR, as well as Conatus Financing Solutions, Compass Point Recruitment and Source One Consulting; all who know first-hand the reality of running a business based in Suffolk and are willing to share their knowledge.
We also work in collaboration with the main business support networks in the county; the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, IoD Suffolk, the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and MENTA.
Our lead interview in the CULTURE issue of Suffolk Director business magazine is Carole Burman and Charlotte Bate, Directors of MAD-HR.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
Our lead interview in the CULTURE issue of Suffolk Director business magazine is Carole Burman and Charlotte Bate, Directors of MAD-HR.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
With the effects on trade of the continuing and varying levels of disruption brought on by lockdowns, the last 12 months have been incredibly challenging for SMEs across the region. As well as that, there has been the physical and psychological impact on all of us as individuals, as we try to cope in this new COVID oriented world.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine Spring 2021
By Pat Lewis, Source One Consulting
Since day one at Source One Consulting, recession proofing our business has been seen as a core competency to ensure that we are not only sustainable during an economic downturn, but every day.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
Our lead interview in the CULTURE issue of Suffolk Director business magazine is Carole Burman and Charlotte Bate, Directors of MAD-HR.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Phil Budd, Business Growth
Coaching can be perceived as fluffy and non-substantial, but in a year that has brought challenges of all shapes and sizes, many businesses are seeing it as far from that.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Jonathan Perlmutter, Birkett Long
Brexit has complicated trade between the UK and EU and finding ways to master new processes and surmount the barriers are presenting opportunities to gain a competitive edge.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Julian Campbell, University of East Anglia
A Senior Leaders Apprenticeship – funded by an employer’s Apprenticeship Levy, or an Executive MBA programme could be the next positive step you could take in developing your career.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine Spring 2021
As well as funding cancer research, GeeWizz charity supports young people with high dependency disabilities, life limiting illness and cancer.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine Spring 2021
By Wendy Smith, P Paralympian and Performance Coach
Motivation is like the holy grail that everyone seeks yet no one really knows where to find it. However, before we go searching, perhaps we should start by working out what motivation actually is.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Rebecca Thurlow, Compass Point Recruitment
At Compass Point Recruitment, we feel that culture is up there with the top things we look for when conducting any piece of recruitment.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Jackie McKellar, Consultant, Yarmouth Stores turnaround
One of the impacts of the global pandemic is the growing focus on the UK and local businesses and the role they play in the community and their cultural integration.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine Spring 2021
By Tarnia Robertson, Ufford Park Woodbridge
Culture is an integral part of any business and can make or break an organisation. It is what people say about you when you’re not listening.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By James Crosby, Cory Brothers
Augmented and fed down from the top, Cory Brothers already had an exceptional culture throughout the group. Yet since the start of the pandemic it has improved further, and in many different directions.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By James Potter, Superstructures
I see culture as part of the Vison, Mission, Culture triangle. Without any one, a business has no common set of goals and no agreed standards for how to service clients, look after employees and plan for future growth and development.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Fiona Portway, Bay Tree VA
Since joining Bay Tree VA, my role has evolved from being a virtual assistant to a broader, managerial role which includes shaping the team with the right skills, experience, and personalities.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
New Anglia LEP has been at the forefront of the region’s efforts to combat the economic effect of COVID-19, and a diverse range of sectors are benefiting from the £10m package of measures available to support businesses.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine Spring 2021
By Owen Williams, West View IT
When I started my career back in the mid-2000s, we measured IT success by how quick we were; to respond, to fix, to get you back up and working.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Stuart Robertson, Doctorgolf Academy, Ufford Park
By its definition culture is the ‘ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people, group or society’, and having spent all my adult years involved in a sport that has such distinct and strict rules, I would say they have shaped our culture here at the Doctorgolf Academy.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Malcolm McGready, Ensors Chartered Accountants
Employee share schemes can be an effective means of incentivising staff for the long term; giving them a stake in the future of the business so that they benefit if it does well.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Charlotte Bate, MAD-HR
Might this turn out to be the year that the concept of company culture finds its way higher up the priority list?
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
By Kevin Ward, Conatus Financing Solutions & Conatus Bookkeeping
Although I have come across many people who scoff at talk of how important it is to have a genuinely positive culture within a business, I believe it is vital.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
TIM PASSMORE, Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner
During his career, Tim has been an intensive livestock producer and a self-employed agricultural and rural business consultant. He was Leader of Mid Suffolk District Council prior to his election as the PCC for Suffolk in 2012. He is currently standing as a candidate for re-election in May 2021.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
JANE CATTERMOLE, Founder & MD, Bay Tree VA
Jane Cattermole is Founder & MD of Bay Tree VA and heads up a team of experienced remote-working executive assistants and office managers who provide bespoke support to businesses and individuals nationwide.
We spent five minutes with Jane and asked her about running a business.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2020
TIM PASSMORE, Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner
During his career, Tim has been an intensive livestock producer and a self-employed agricultural and rural business consultant. He was Leader of Mid Suffolk District Council prior to his election as the PCC for Suffolk in 2012. He is currently standing as a candidate for re-election in May 2021.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2021
JANE CATTERMOLE, Founder & MD, Bay Tree VA
Jane Cattermole is Founder & MD of Bay Tree VA and heads up a team of experienced remote-working executive assistants and office managers who provide bespoke support to businesses and individuals nationwide.
We spent five minutes with Jane and asked her about running a business.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine, Spring 2020
2021 Spring | Suffolk Director Magazine
Carole Burman & Charlotte Bate, MAD-HR
“Being a good HR professional is a bit like being a chameleon – you adapt the mantle that best suits the people you are with. We have learnt how to fit whilst remaining authentic and comfortable with who we are.”
2021 Spring | Suffolk Director Magazine
Carole Burman & Charlotte Bate, MAD-HR
“Being a good HR professional is a bit like being a chameleon – you adapt the mantle that best suits the people you are with. We have learnt how to fit whilst remaining authentic and comfortable with who we are.”
2020 Autumn/Winter | Suffolk Director Magazine
Peter Wilson, Group MD, Cory Brothers “I’ve always lived by my dad’s advice; to treat everyone as your equal. My ambition is based on an understanding that you can get on without having to tread on others to do it”
Summer/Autumn 2020 COVID-19 Special Issue | Rebecca, Suffolk Director
Rebecca Thurlow, MD, Compass Point Recruitment “I’ve thought about the word I would use to describe the COVID-19 pandemic and that’s ‘scary!’ Especially in the early weeks, it was very scary on so many levels, both privately and professionally. But the positives have been more than I expected.”
2020 Winter/Spring | Suffolk Director Magazine
David Dodds, Joint MD, Sackers
“We have a responsibility to make sure that as little as possible of the material we take in goes to landfill. We charge a gate fee per tonne and our job is to make sure extraction and recycling is done efficiently and economically.”
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