Woman’s Hour

This morning I was on Woman’s Hour with Jenny Murray. The other guest speaker was Laurie Cohen, who has written a book tracking women’s thoughts about their careers over 17 years and finding out if their career aspirations have come to fruition. Jenny asked me why I had always known I wanted to run my […]

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Hearing vs Listening

Hearing vs Listening… Hearing and listening aren’t the same thing. What do you mean, Tom, you may ask? Listening skills are important in business… Actually, scratch that: IN LIFE. Yet there are still so many of us who fail to listen properly. (Myself included.) Hearing occurs with or without your consent… Like that aggravating mutt […]

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Making the best of a bad situation

A valuable life skill: making the best of a bad situation. I am a Social Media apprentice. Being an apprentice involves completing an NVQ course for college (which equals two A levels, if you were wondering.) For most people this means going into college once a week or once every two weeks to complete work […]

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Recruiting Leaders In Your Business Using Uncommon Sense

When hiring new staff for your business, how often do you recruit with a view to recruiting leaders of the future? I was at a networking event last week at MMU (“no really Carole – you …networking??  Don’t believe it” I hear you say)  Actually I hosted an event at MMU for the Chamber this […]

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Trying to hire the right staff? Read “Think and Grow Rich” Today

Have you read Napoleon Hills Book – Think and Grow Rich?  If not you have missed out. Go buy it – or in fact – drop in to beResources  office in Spring Gardens in about a week and ask me for one – my FD and me have written a foreword for the book and […]

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