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Networking Seminar With Will Kintish
So, you’ve agreed to go to a networking meeting and now you’re looking for some quick and easy tips to ensure you make the most of this opportunity. Well, thankfully, you’ve come to the right place! Here at People Matters we might not be experts on networking, but...
How to prepare for a not networking event
When you’re self-employed, you’re never really “off duty”. No matter what you do, it’s not going to be your typical 9-5 working situation. Not only do you have the work to do, or the staff to oversee, but you need to think about marketing, and budgets, and product...
How to tackle networking nerves
Let’s kick this off by assuming we can all agree by now that, if you’re in business, networking is a good idea. The reasons are obvious. That out of the way, let’s say something else that’s obvious, but we rarely remember. Very few people, when presented with the...
3 Reasons You Should Be Networking
Business is always about people. It doesn’t matter what you make, what you sell or what service you provide, ultimately you are in the business of people. Which means every single one of us needs to be able to network. For many, the word “networking” may...
Masterclass: Networking with Will Kintish
WHAT People Matters HR Are pleased to announce a half day networking course with Will Kintish. Will is an international speaker and trainer who has written a number of books on networking which have been published worldwide. Will has personally helped thousands of...
Seminar: The Importance of Rewarding and Recognising Your Staff
WHAT The next in our series of seminars focusses on the importance of rewarding and recognising your staff. This will cover a variety of topics from why recognition and reward is important, all thr way through to some of the best ways to achieve that recognition. Our...
Basic Steps for Effective Decision Making
We all know that running a business requires people to make decisions. The better the decision, the better the outcome. Therefore, it’s important that their decision making skills are up to scratch. However, decision making isn’t always something we are taught how...
Why the best decisions aren’t the perfect ones
Being the decision maker, whether that’s in a group of friends, in your home life or at work, brings with it an element of control. If you decide what happens, then you’re likely (in theory, at least) to be choosing the outcome that works best for you. Control means...
What Communication Tools Should You Be Using In The Workplace?
Everyday we communicate with a variety of different people, for a variety of purposes, and in a variety of different ways. When it comes to communicating in the workplace, are you making sure that you are always using the right medium for contacting the person you...
Top 5 Communication Skills
As you’re no doubt aware by now, we will be holding our next People Matters HR Seminar* on 25th June 2019 at Bury FC. The theme for this talk will be communication, more specifically, How communication can help your business, with Will Kintish as our guest...
Are You Making These Communication Mistakes?
As you’re no doubt aware by now, we will be holding our next People Matters HR Seminar* on 25th June 2019 at Bury FC. The theme for this talk will be communication, more specifically, How communication can help your business, with Will Kintish as our guest speaker....
What is Communication?
All of us are good at communicating, aren’t we? I mean, we all do it every single day. So, with all that practice, we must all excel at it. However, you can’t help wondering if that was true then there would be no such thing as misunderstandings. Perhaps then...