Happy New Year and we wish you the best for 2012 which is forecast to be eventful. I’m not sure anyone really knows what will happen this year but I hope that the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics will be great national occasions and will bring some cheer.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1302/looking-forward-to-2012
Fiona, her sister Charlotte and our son Euan took part in the Great South Run. The race was in its 22nd year and took place on Sunday 30th October in Portsmouth.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1314/great-south-run-2011
Our ninth event in Milton Keynes for Interims and Freelancers. Arrive 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start. The agenda is:
Group Purpose: To meet other Interims / Freelancers in an informal environment; to share best practice; to facilitate collaboration.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1171/iim-mk-local-node-tuesday-6th-march-2012
Thirteen of us met at the National Badminton Centre on Tuesday evening. Richard Kotulecki (Strategy and Operations specialist) led a lively session on Best Practice LinkedIn. The tips and tricks that I wrote down can be found here.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1169/iim-mk-local-node-tuesday-6th-december-2011
With thanks to Joe Espana of Performance Equations (http://www.performance-equations.co.uk/
Imagine your people highly engaged, feeling valued, motivated, taking ownership for their business issues, managing differences and talking to each other rather than about each other – what difference would this make to morale and productivity?… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1129/employee-engagement-managers-accreditation-programme
I’m not naive and I know from personal experience that everything is hard work at the moment but I am fed up with the media’s perpetual and apolocalyptic headlines. So here’s an article that provides some respite!… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1112/business-confidence-rises-despite-economic-fears
My old school ‘Class of ‘81’ held a reunion in June in Yardley Hastings. Early on in the process of organising the event, we decided that it would to too boring if it was just us so we extended the invitation to partners, staff and OWs from all years.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1089/school-reunion
Fourteen of us met at the National Badminton Centre on Tuesday evening. Richard Smith (now of BK Cornerstone) presented an interesting and thought provoking session on selling skills. It was aimed at helping interim managers in their dealings with customers and interim agencies.… Read more
http://www.stonac.co.uk/1064/iim-mk-node-tue-13th-sep-2011