There is no ‘I’ in team but there is in community

You are bringing together a group of talented individuals that are going to work together towards a common goal… like winning the World Cup (we wish). The components that have to come together to succeed are complicated. It is not as straight forward as an employee having the fear of losing their job, or even that different people are motivated by different things… money, recognition and sense of achievement. The key to successfully managing a team of this nature is more about building a community than traditional managerial motivators.

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Huntercombe Event – Quantifying the Unquantifiable

Nina will be challenging the barriers to ‘Outcome Measures’ and successful implementation at the forthcoming Huntercombe event – Quantifying the Unquantifiable on Wednesday, 7th July 2010.

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Addiction to Change

Along with the rest of the country I too am caught in the grip of the election media frenzy. From morning till night we are presented with manifesto promises spiced up with reports of the latest timely scandal. It’s a lot to take in and in the chaos of the hype I remember little of the detail, if asked for the predominate theme of this election I would immediately reply ‘change’.

I know the opposition is there to oppose but this heady focus on the need to change has made me question, do we want to change for change’s sake?

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Corporate Engagement with Social Media

Achieving the balance of engaging the consumer and building a relationship through the product lifecycle could be groundbreaking for businesses and individuals but many companies are still scared of giving the consumer a voice without control and so levels of adoption are limited.

Is it as simple as they would have to consider how they collate ideas from the public? How they screen these ideas and how they can keep the consumer involved through development & launch without their competitors taking their ideas and bringing them to market faster & cheaper?

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NPD Strategies Conference

Cheeky Monkey are pleased to announce that they will be the corporate sponsor for the forthcoming New Product Development Strategies conference to be held in Vienna, Austria on the 7th & 8th June 2010.

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It Pays to be a Monkey

Cheeky Monkey have been profiled in the business section of today’s Manchester Evening News.

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Channel M Business Review – 11/03/10

Nina joined Andy Crane for the Channel M business review on Thursday. Topics for discussion included the new McDonald’s work experience initiative, John Lewis bonus’s and British Airways.

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When does tough talking become bullying?

So this week we debated at length if Gordon Brown was a tough talker or a bully, where is the line and how do you know if you have over stepped it?

For me this was a tough question as I am a well known tough talker and many times I have had to consider if I crossed the line. So have I?

Undoubtedly throughout my career yes several times. Does that make me a bully? No.

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‘LEAN’ on the Consumer

Understanding consumer values, their decision making process and how they spend their disposable income is going to become the foundation for business strategy and management policy in 2010.

Add to that the fact that in a standardised world where things are increasingly similar the world over, people are the difference and employee engagement is going to make the difference.

Lean working is about understanding and meeting the needs of the consumers more effectively. For most organisations it will be about meeting those needs in a better, faster and right first time way – eliminating waste, reducing costs, enhancing value.

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Nina Talks Business

Nina joined Andy Crane to talk business on Channel M. Topics of the day included the recession, British Gas price cuts and rising debt. If you missed Nina live on Thursday night catch up now.

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