From the monthly archives:

February 2012

Linkedin Training Update – London, Colchester, Kent and beyond

Do you have a Linkedin account but don’t know how to use it? In the coming months I’m running Workshops on how to use Linkedin for Construction Professionals new to the platform, and those who want to use it properly. Here are the latest details and information about how to book. Current Workshops Our first [...]

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Why would an architect specify an unsafe automated gate?

Last week’s Gate Safe Summit at the RIBA was an eye opener. I knew about the dangers of automatic gates, especially to young children, not least because I’d seen the news items and heard about the campaign from my client, Richard Jackson. But even with what I know about architects and their ways of working, [...]

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Learn to use Linkedin: A workshop for Construction Professionals in London 22nd March

Thanks for your responses to my enquiry about interest in a ‘beginners and improvers’ workshop on using Linkedin. The response has been really good with interest shown by over 135 people across the UK and several more overseas. All in less than a week! The most popular location (surprise, surprise) was London so I’m planning [...]

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Designing an Automated Gate? What you need to know.

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The Gate Safe Campaign was set up after automated gates in separate incidents in England killed two children in the Summer of 2010. Since then there have been a further three near misses. Jacksons Fencing (a client of mine) carried out a survey of automated gates last spring, which found that 88% of automated gates [...]

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The Business Case for Looking after your People

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Yesterday I was able to attend the Constructing Excellence in Essex event at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. The event was entitled Better Skills for Better Business, you can see the flier for the event here, but I wanted to post today about Liz Lake and her attitude to staff. Liz Lake is a Landscape [...]

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