by Jill Poet | May 23, 2012 | Community, Environment, Ethics, General, Marketplace, Workplace
Adding Social Value – an opportunity for small businesses and community organisations. One of my friends is a senior procurement officer with a local council. I asked her recently how her department were implementing the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 in...
by Jill Poet | May 1, 2012 | Community, Environment, Ethics, General, Marketplace, Workplace
We delivered another training session this weekend – our first two day course. We booked the delightful Latimer Place in Buckinghamshire and the only real disappointment was the rather dismal weather! We only had a small group but what great delegates. Moving to a...
by Jill Poet | May 1, 2012 | Community, Environment, Ethics, General, Marketplace
I attended a local business breakfast event on Thursday and was particularly impressed with the presentations from Mark Potter and Rachel Johns of national construction company Morgan Sindall. Rachel is the Framework Manager and she began by giving some information...
by Jill Poet | Feb 27, 2012 | Community, Ethics, General
I have just attended one of Paul Dunn’s Inspire! seminars – and my goodness, it really was inspiring! Paul Dunn has been dubbed the “Wizard of WOW” and there certainly were lots of wows! Wows that will help businesses grow with speed, but in a way that also adds...
by Jill Poet | Feb 24, 2012 | Community, Ethics, General
I was delighted to present a discussion on CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility – at the official launch of Versatile Training CIC last night. I was particularly pleased to do so because I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with social enterprises – but...
by Jill Poet | Jan 18, 2011 | Community, Environment, Ethics, General, Marketplace, Workplace
In my work with SMEs, I invariably find that the sustainability journey is very much top down: that is, it is led by the owner / managing director who has personal aspirations in that direction. Similarly, I find it virtually impossible to profile the type of company...
