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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

By Clare Friel, Friel

Friel was founded back in 2018. When the company I worked for went into administration, I found myself in no man’s land. Even though at the time I felt like my world was falling apart, in fact everything was falling into place.

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