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The Manager’s Toolkit – improving my finance & marketing knowledge!

Paddy Radcliffe looks pensive Hi there.  It’s me Jackie Allen again.  I’ve been the Programme Administrator on The Manager’s Toolkit which we’ve been running over the past month.  After Module 1, Managing People Effectively, I was really looking forward to Module 2, Managing the Business Effectively.  Over the first two days, Adam Campbell and Alexander Mackenzie took us through loads of fascinating insights into motivation, communication, coaching and handling conflict to help us to do our jobs better back in our owner managed businesses.  I’d reflected quite a lot over the couple of weeks in between the modules and I knew some managers were participating in only one of the modules so in my marketing and programme administrator role I was really interested to understand how the two sessions fitted together as an overall development programme and was glad to have the opportunity to sit in on both.
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The Manager’s Toolkit is great!

Hi I’m Jackie and I’m the Programme Administrator on The Manager’s Toolkit programme run by Gerard and the rest of the Your Business Your Future team.  I’ve been busy sorting out the bookings and administration for the programme over the past few weeks.  Because it’s the first Your Business Your Future programme, it’s been really hectic and exciting getting everything together and waiting for the bookings to come in.   Pretty amazing to get a room full of participants from a standing start – just over a month ago Your Business Your Future was still only a big ambitious plan with ideas for names being frantically whizzed around on emails.  Once we’d booked the dates and issued the marketing materials, and the website went live ,it all became very real!
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