Monday 26 July 2010

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT - PEAK CHANGE


Peak Change are a Derbyshire company specialising in the following corporate and personal solutions:

Consulting
Organisational Change


Stakeholder Management Planning and Engagement
Process Improvement and Implementation
Communications Planning and Implementation
Benefits Management Planning and Monitoring
Business Impact Assessment
Business Readiness Assessment
Training Strategy Development and Deployment
Business Change Strategy and Deployment

Project Management

Training

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Practitioner, Master Practitioner
Hypnosis
Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Self-Hypnosis
Time Line Therapy™
Practitioner, Master Practitioner
Business Training events
Based on people and business experience
Engagement Excellence
Adding the Value your Team Deserves
Adding Value to your Interviewing
Change Management Tools
Facilitation Basics

Coaching

Life Coaching
Executive Coaching
Personal Breakthrough Session

Setting Direction
Developing an Action Plan
Removing Personal Barriers
Unhelpful Beliefs, Confidence Issues, Self-Esteem issues, etc.
Implementation of Action Plan
Review and Improvement of Action Plan

Current Developments

Team Values Alignment
Teams can unintentionally pull in different directions from their intended goals. This workshop will identify a team’s values and establish areas for development when achieving a specific goal

“Redundancy Buddy”
Often senior team members who have been made redundant after a period of time face confidence and self-esteem issues. This is a course of coaching sessions focusing on their getting back to work.

Modelling Excellence in Business
Each business has top performers, this coaching programme will identify how they do what they do well and enable these attributes to be transferred to others

LEARNING POINT - ADVERTISING

This weeks learning point was delivereed by Sharon Shirley of Derbyshire Dales Magazine in Matlock:

Before Your Start

Why advertise?
What’s your objective?
What’s unique about you?
Who is the target audience? Based on what?
Developing a budget/ plan

The advert

The Creative Brief
What is the benefit of doing business with you?
Where are you placing it?
For how long?

Measuring results

Do you have a tracking system and is it reliable?
What’s a realistic ROI?

For more information please contact Dales Directories
01629 582973 or 07940 0836 422 dalesdirectories@uwclub.net www.dalesdirectoryonline.co.uk

Monday 12 July 2010

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT - DUCANE ASSOCIATES

Du Cane Associates are based in Derbyshire offering business solutions to companies across the UK

Accelerating business growth

Consultancy, Business Coaching and Interim Management
Focusing on Marketing, Product Development, International Trade

Consultancy services

Consultancy & Facilitation
One off or periodic
Focused on Strategy Reviews, Market Development, Feasibility Studies

Next Steps Business Consultancy

Proprietary consultancy programme
Focusing on Marketing, Market Development, Innovation, Product Development
Short, medium & long term, Concurrent planning

Business coaching

Ad hoc/ Periodic / Ongoing
Focused around Listening, Supporting & Steering

Interim Management


Ongoing support
In Strategic, functional, Cover, exploratory, quantifying
Market Development, Product Line Management, Business Unit Management

Tel: +44 (0)1629 580567
peter.lloyd@ducaneassociates.co.uk
www.ducaneassociates.co.uk
http://twitter.com/du_cane

LEARNING POINT - TAX

Rebecca Harrison of Coleman Bradshaw local accountants delivered an insightful learning point on the confusing subject of self assessments, payment on account:

Payments of Self Assessment Tax are calculated from your Individual Tax Return, towards the current years tax payable figure

Who has to pay them?

Sole Traders and Partners of a Partnership or
When the tax liability for the previous year was greater than £1,000

What do I need to do?

HMRC are currently issuing statements with details of how to pay and the amount due.
If you do not receive a statement shortly check with your advisor the amount you need to pay by 31st July 2010.

Ensure that HMRC receives payment by 31st July 2010 Interest will be charged on late payment.

You can contact Rebecca at Coleman Bradshaw to discuss more how this affects your business on 01629 581681