Happy New Year from the QED Consulting Team.

Welcome to the first E Bulletin of 2010, we hope you all had a lovely break and are now ready for the year ahead.

What better way to start the New Year than with the January edition of QED Consulting’s E bulletin. Now that the snow is thawing and the roads are clearing, now is the time to get into those profitable business resolutions! To start the New Year we would like to:

• Invite you to QED Consulting and Doncaster Business School joint event - ‘The Horses Mouth’
• Invite you to join us at the QED Monthly seminar and networking lunch on the 27th January 2010.
• Introduce you to Mathew Miles with his first QED Article titled ‘Pull a personal best’
• Give you 10 inside tips on how to Manage Change – By Jeremy Thorn

Objective Setting – Pull A Personal Best in 2010

What works in one area of life quite often can be repeated to good effect in another.

I like sport, in particular swimming, biking and running. I throw them all together and compete in Triathlons. As part of my first Tri in 2008, I bought ‘Triathlons for Beginners’. I studied the advice given regarding equipment, Training, race day and all the bits in between.

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Top Tips for Managing Change
Part 2 – 10 Top Tips

Managing change is an essential part of any manager’s role. Making improvements without change are clearly not possible. But deep change is rarely achieved without a sound understanding all the dynamics of the sort of change you want to achieve, and the probable obstacles you may face, as we discussed in Part 1 of this article.

Here are some tips that may help you further.

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Welcome to the Coaching Cafe

During November and December of last year, QED also piloted a series of new awareness sessions, designed to benefit individuals and demonstrate how QED can support.

The Coaching Cafe‘s ran with the help of a well known international coffee retailer in a Sheffield branch, and drew interest from a number of sectors, such as financial, local government and retail. All this was conducted in a relaxed and informal coffee shop setting, which proved part of the success. But what are they?

The Coaching Cafe, works from a central theme, titles of the three sessions so far have been:

• Are you a Player or a Spectator?
• It’s a Customer’s Life
• The Art of Feedback

Backed up with some tangible statistics, the sessions discussed an overview and the common pitfalls of the subject matter, but also allowed the individual attendee to air any challenges they are facing, and in return acquire some coaching from an experienced coach, that would prove useful from the moment they walked back into their work environment.

The feedback that was provided by the attendee’s was that it proved “valuable” and “insightful”, and “made me think about the problem in a different way”.

QED Consulting will be launching the Coaching Café next Month – Look out for further information in the February E Bulletin or for further information regarding the Coaching Café please call Laura Whapplington or Scott Pearson on 01302 761 222.

QED Consulting Events

LUNCH AND LEARN IS BACK!

Talent Management Free Seminar and Networking Lunch

What is Talent? Where is it in your business? Is it in the right place? In the long term, today’s learners are tomorrow’s leaders. What can we do to shape tomorrow’s leaders today? Our Talent Management seminar will show how talent management and succession-planning impact on achieving the business mission. Explore concepts of: Talent Management, Succession Planning and Outline the four stages of developing talent management and succession plans.

The seminar will be held at our Doncaster offices, 27th January – Registration at 11:45 for a 12:00 start. We look forward to welcoming you all. If you would like to attend or find out more about our seminars please contact Laura Whapplington on 01302 761 222 or follow this link to register your place today!

QED Consulting and Doncaster Business School annual event

Important diary date for the 8th February 2010: QED Consulting and Doncaster Business School annual event is back as mentioned in December. The financial and banking crisis has affected all of us in 2009. Will 2010 bring more cheer to hard pressed businesses and the public sector or will the gloom continue, spiced up with stories of super taxes on bankers’ bonuses? Come and hear two contrasting views of the picture and get the latest information, straight from the horse’s mouth. We have brought together two great speakers for this event and it promises to be a lively and controversial discussion.

For further details and to reserve your place please follow the link or call Laura on 01302 767 899 or email to Laura

Calendar dates for December

21st Jan - National Hugging Day

25th Jan - Burn’s Night

26th Jan - Chinese New Year – First day of the Year of the Tiger. Kung Hei Fat Choy!

27th Jan - Holocaust Memorial Day & QED Consulting Talent Management Seminar