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Bonfire night. Make your business sparkle

Posted by Oliver Corrigan on Nov 3, 2014 8:30:00 AM
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Remember, remember the fifth of November gunpowder treason and plot.

Bonfire Night is almost upon us and there is a smouldering glow of excitement gathering in the air.

 Whilst firework displays and throngs of people rallying round huge bonfires ensure the night sky sparkles on the fifth of November, how do you get your business to sparkle with similar vigour and excitement?

 Get invited to Carrwood events.

Make your workplace shine

Whether you work from home, have a traditional office set-up or spend some of your time working in a shared office, you can make your office sparkle and shine.

No we don’t mean plastering glitter on the walls or making employees wear sparkling platform boots and afro wigs so the office resembles a 1970s disco!

Simple measures such as ensuring your working space is tidy and clutter-free will help you feel more relaxed and motivated to work.

As YesandYes.org advises, cleaning up your mess will make a work space look prettier making us feel better and, “When we feel really good people want to spend their money with us.”

So what are you waiting for, get sorting out those papers which are stacked untidily on your desk and make your business sparkle!



Mingle with successful contemporaries

Here at Carrwood Park we can’t overstress the importance of networking in the contemporary business arena. A record number of people are now working from home in the UK. While the benefits of homeworking are multiple, it’s not uncommon for businesses operating from a home environment to effectively ‘lose their shine’.

What we mean by this is how ‘sparkle-enhancing’ is merely having yourself –and a dog or cat if you’re lucky – for company day in, day out?

Moving into a shared working environment in which you are surrounded by like-minded and successful entrepreneurs and where networking is there for the taking can prove invaluable in giving your company some sparkle.

Expand your circle of contacts by escaping the solitary of a homeworking environment and jumping on the many networking opportunities that are there for the taking, such as getting yourself a hot desk in a co-working centre.



Nurture innovation by hosting training days

Whether you’re a two-man band or a multi-departmental enterprise of 100 plus employees, everyone benefits from some good old-fashioned training.

Take your business by the reins by arranging regular training days or business planning days. Choose an appropriate venue that has a well-facilitated meeting room and is easily accessible for employees and guests to travel to.

Invite everyone who is associated with your business, including employees, contractors and even clients, to your training event.

If, for example, you run a web design company, inviting employees, freelancers, clients and even potential clients to a web design training day will help your company be seen in a professional light. Not only will providing employees or outsourcers with valuable training help nurture innovation within your own company but inviting clients and potential clients to such an event is likely to muster prolonged and new business.

In short, regular training days held at a professional, stylish venue can add some much-deserved sparkle to your company.

As Northern Lights: Public Relations and Marketing advises:

“Once a year we hold our business planning day. We pay for an outside facilitator to run the day and question and challenge us. We pay for our key freelancers to join us so they are part of the team.”

“We look for opportunities for team members to develop their skills outside of work.”



Work on your business acumen

Business acumen is widely referred to as being “keenness and speed in understanding and deciding on a business situation.”

Strong business acumen accelerates efficient strategy execution and seeing it’s nearly Bonfire Night and we’re feeling sparkly, efficient strategy execution helps a business sparkle.

You can develop your business acumen by reading business books and magazine and gaining an understanding of fundamental business vocabulary and concepts.

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As well as self-teaching yourself a solid business acumen through books and other literary sources being acquainted with leading business individuals will help develop a strong business acumen. Again one way to do this is by being present in places where networking is there for the taking, such as a co-working centre.

Take your business’s ‘sparkle’ by the reins and enjoy the growth that comes hand in hand with a sparkling business by hiring a meeting room or a workstation at Carrwood Park’s co-working centre in Leeds. 

 

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