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Ros Beattie, Area Centre Manager
Jodie Newman, The Business Allotment
Ros Beattie is the Area Centre Manager for The Business & Technology Centre (btc) and Chells Industrial Units in Stevenage. These sites are managed by the largest enterprise agency in Hertfordshire (Wenta) and the two centres are currently home to 106 local businesses in total.
Jodie launched The Business Allotment to help SME business owners grow their businesses. The Allotment offers a range of 2 to 3 hour practical modules covering the fundamental business building blocks such as strategy and marketing, along with a range of skills-based topics required by business people, from presentation to management skills.
Ros joined Wenta in 2009, bringing with her extensive experience in business centre project management. Having overall responsibility of the two sites, her role involves being responsible for the letting of the office/workshop space available, conference facilities, building maintenance and health & safety aspects of the sites and future strategy.
“My two watch words are creativity and practical,” says owner Jodie Newman. “The modules are packed full of original content you can’t find anywhere else, with great tools you can take away and use in your business that day.”
Accelerate your business growth Management Development An aspect of development which is often neglected is the development of supervisors/team Leaders and Managers. So often these people are currently doing the job and then inherit a level of responsibility – often without any training or development at all! Is it any wonder that so often this ends in disaster; in the new appointees feeling overworked, undermined and then ‘out of here!’ While the staff being managed lose motivation, lose faith in the organisation, and step onto a downward spiral of negativity and disaffection. At Niche Learning Programmes we passionately believe in internal promotion wherever possible; but not the negatives that occur as a result of lack of training. As a result we specialise in delivering training for: • Individuals who are interested in becoming a manager? This will aid your succession plans! • Individuals who are newly promoted to being a manager. This will facilitate their confidence in how to effectively manage a team, maintain motivation as well as be able to address issues and concerns • Training for experienced managers to aid their continued team development, productivity and success!
Ros said: “What I enjoy most about my role is the variety as no two days are the same. My day can range from meeting with potential clients and showing them the great facilities that we have to offer, producing licence agreements, working with the maintenance team and agreeing schedules, right through to training new members of the team. The role can be demanding but when a client thanks you for a job well done this is reward enough.”
Ros is also the host for the awardwinning business networking event, Business BUZZ – Stevenage, which
For information, call Jodie on
is held on the first Friday of every
07966 482 662 or visit
month at the btc.
www.thebusinessallotment.co.uk.
We are proud of our initial FREE consultation, which we would use to acquire a comprehensive understanding of your organisation and its Management Development requirements along with any associated any concerns you may have. Using this information we will provide you with a unique training proposal to achieve your goals. Our management and team development modules include: • Overcoming team conflict through use of Myers Briggs psychometric indicator (MBTI) • Personal development using MBTI
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One-to-one coaching Group coaching Workshops How to be an effective Leader and Manager • Effective Communication Skills • How to coach your team to achieve increased productivity • Team Roles and Team Building
Questions clients often ask: I have branches spread throughout the region as well as outside our region – how can you manage this training to minimise impact upon the company? In this situations I may suggest that we travel to your employees and deliver the training to groupings small enough that we do not compromise’ business as usual’. I need to invest in learning and development for my teams but as I have a small business I cannot let more than 1 person per branch attend at any one time Have you thought about inbranch coaching? In this way we could address the issue with all staff one after the other without major impact to business as usual. Other options could be to deliver the session prior to the day’s work or after the day’s work. Or through an approved ‘script’ delivered by the Branch Manager.
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