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Events for Entrepreneurs by Brian Chernett

My theme this week in our blogs has been ‘entrepreneurship’ and with this in mind we have three conferences coming up which support our passion for leadership development, supporting the entrepreneur and championing the growth of the SME sector. When? Wednesday 8th September 2010 Where? Old Billingsgate, London What? Fresh Business Thinking LIVE! Running a […]

Lessons from Cycling (and goats) … on Life and Leadership by Sue Knight

In the drama and crisis of Formula One, Wimbledon, and the World Cup football (well we can’t avoid analysing that again can we?) it might be easy to overlook that another gargantuan sporting event started last weekend. Unless of course you are a cyclist (which I am) – in which case you will know that […]

Developing an Unstoppable Mindset by Joe Adams

One of the CEO members of my experiential business learning group recommended that we invite along guest speaker Erick Rainey (pictured below). Erick is a very professional speaker and talked on the subject… “Get the Edge”. We learned that Erick spent 21 years performing in theatre, circus and films, focusing exclusively on any and all […]

Develop your digital vision of Leadership by Steve Songaila

Pathfinding is just one of the critical elements a leader brings to his or her organisation. For example, developing new markets, designing products and services, new ways of organising the business etc. I meet many senior executives within my clients, within the business world at large and within industry events. We talk about the latest […]

Buying a business during an economic downturn

The Issue: “Should I buy a company during an economic downturn?” The advice from members of The Academy for Chief Executives was: * We certainly shouldn’t generalise about the best time to buy a company. There are advantages to purchasing a business during an economic downturn and if the synergies are right then timing can […]

Reducing Executive Stress Levels

Academy Group 26, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from Bristol and the South West) recently had stress management expert Sue Firth talk to them about ‘Stress Management for Executives and CEOs’.  From a thorough knowledge of the theory, Sue delivers very practical tools to understand, identify and reduce stress levels in […]

Partnership Conflicts in Business

The Academy for Chief Executives, a leading provider of experiential business learning facilitates groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of experiential learning. Part of membership is ‘The Board You Could Never Afford‘ where members take their issues to the table and discuss with their […]

Make Your Website More Effective

Leaders Forum 9, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from NW London, Herts, Beds and Bucks) recently had web/internet expert Graham Jones talk to them about ‘why they should scrap their corporate website’ The key points about making your website more effective were… Your website is not your brochure – your website […]