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talk to their employees and they don’t want to
RG: When you’re of the mindset that you want to give something without any return for yourself, that’s probably the most effective really adds value to your business, your
KT: Our members share their expertise in the form of a learning seminar and that has the group and put themselves up to share their knowing that they’re not going to get a queue of clients as a result of it, but actually they have bared their soul, if you like, to the group and it makes it much easier for them to establish
Can you share an example that shows the value of this outside experience?
JD: We have a client that is an exhibition Covid hit it had £1m in its order book which
We were working with them at the time on a point-of-sales project as they were looking to get to diversify very quickly, needed a new product and market it very quickly in a very competitive
We moved quickly to bring in a mentor with is now delivering Perspex screens and the
PP: What comes with experience is a gut feeling about what needs to be done and how it
Working with a construction company, the recruitment of civil engineers with the right
I asked why they weren’t recruiting them from the local university and the reply was the course being offered did not teach the use of the university and kept at them to ensure the curriculum they offered was changed and to get a formal agreement between them and the
you know what needs doing and if you just have to make it work, and you’re prepared to take
RG: touches your business is providing help and a
keep your commercial hat on and think we’ve still got those orders? Or do you look it from someone else’s point of view?
If anybody says
they know everything, they’re either deluded or they’re liars. We don’t. We’re learning every single day
the other way is long term, and it shows the
We did it without any prospect of a return but
AT: We’re learning every day and we’re months I’ve spoken to our accountant and often answer, but it was an ear, somebody to bounce
People sometimes ask me, ‘Will you mentor? that to your business or your life, I’m more than
LO: A client owns a care home specialising in helping people with severe mental health 12 staff and during lockdown they were at
because she wanted to help her team but not get emotionally involved but she didn’t know
After listening to her story, I was able to send her a lot of resources for mental health support, not only general support in workers and the psychological effects of what
She put that on the noticeboard and found a lot of people were starting to look at it and it seem a big thing, but it took stress away from her, helped her staff and ultimately helped the people they were caring for because the staff
KT: People come to the Business Network because they think they’re going to get new important reason is the quality introductions together and collaborate to go after national each other’s’ experience and put it together in a
SC: We have a client who was looking to sell posed so many different questions for them in
have conversations with about all the various looking at the things they needed to think about
they were going to have to ask and getting real comfort from knowing they were talking to someone doing this particular thing day in, day
AT: We talked about experience, how But sometimes you hit a problem at work and you’ve had all your experienced people look at it and then someone looks at it with a fresh pair
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