Management Skills in the Music Business

I have recently had the pleasure of working with an extremely talented vocal coach, Dane Chalfin at the Leeds College of Music.
Dane wanted to improve his effectiveness in giving feedback to his students so that he could more powerfully influence the development of their vocal talents.
In my first session I taught Dane a basic feedback [...]

Marketing Enterprise 5th December, London

A one day workshop looking at strategies and techniques for marketing enterprise projects.
Using both the Change Cycle of Prochaska and DiClemente and the Enterprise Coaching Model this one day workshop will help you to develop ways of marketing enterprise programmes.
The day will focus on marketing enterprise in communities with lower than usual levels of enterprise.

Developing [...]

Segmenting the Enterprise Market

I am often horrified at just how poor many enterprise professionals are at segmenting the market for their services.  It is as if they believe that the ‘enterprise’ segment is already sufficiently well defined to enable them to engage efficiently and effectively.
In my experience there are great returnsto be had from spending some time in [...]

Well being and Enterprise

For a long time now I have been an advocate for enterprise development as tool of personal and community wellbeing.  I have seen it work so often.  However enterprise is so inextricably entwined with entrepreneurship that it is difficult to really engage health professionals (who arguably lead on ‘wellbeing’ in the UK) in the potential [...]

A Truth About Enterprise and Entrepreneurship?

So here is my contribution to Enterprise Week.
DO NOT START UP YOUR OWN BUSINESS – UNLESS YOU HAVE TO.
Not the message that is usually put out, especially by national, regional and local government, but after 25 years of running and supporting small businesses, that is my best advice.  Don’t do it – unless you [...]

Enterprise Week 2008

I am always glad to see Enterprise week come rolling around – every November – regular as clockwork – a neatly planned and managed government backed campaign delivered largely through public and third sector organisations to encourage people to start businesses. 
The irony of it is wonderful.  We, the salaried from the public purse will encourage you [...]

Away from Here – insightful?

I’m so sick, sick, sick and tired
Of working just to be retired
I don’t want to get that far
I don’t want your company car
Promotions aint my thing
Name badges are not interesting
It’s much easier for me see
To stay at home with Richard and Judy
Awayaway oh oh oh away from here…
Awayaway oh oh oh away from here
Awayaway oh [...]

Nourishing Enterprise

Britain is facing a “new kind of poverty” with many parents unable to nourish their own families – not through lack of money but lack of knowledge, according to Jamie Oliver.
“This isn’t about fresh trainers or mobile phones or Sky dishes or plasma TV screens – they’ve got all that. It is a poverty of [...]

The Imperative of Local

Enterprising Politicians?

So we are in mire and the politicians decide that now is great time for them to incentivise employers to create jobs.  The promise of £2500 if we take someone who has been unemployed for at least three months into employment. 
No doubt there would be some takers but, I suspect, not as many as they [...]