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Hosted by Iain Chalmers, Managing Director of The Holst Group, the bi-yearly meeting had a varied agenda with delegates taking part in discussion groups. The impact of the credit crunch on business and industry was top of the agenda.

Local estate agent The Wilkinson Partnership has been hand picked by Cartus as the best independent estate agent in Leighton Buzzard to represent Home Sale Network.

Writing Dynamics™ shows you how to: Get the reader's attention, ensure your key message is understood, save you and your reader time. Our three-stage writing system helps you PLAN using creative thinking; DRAFT in record time and EDIT for impact.

Globalgolfers.com to launch new campaign to add a new dimension to their international events. New country licensee's are now being considered for all Asian countries to link up with our UK, European and African partners

As the warnings keep on coming about the state of our planet, Optima, the UK's market leading partitioning specialist has vowed to completely cut waste to landfill out of their operations through recycling by 2010.

Northern Ireland has been a market that many insurance companies were not interested in, but an insurance broker Kent can now arrange ex offenders & household insurance & jml Insurance has set up a Northern Ireland classification on their website

It is very hard for a person with a criminal conviction getting insurance in the UK. jml insurance.co.uk have been acting as introducers for the past 9 months to Delite Insurance who specialise in acting for clients who have convictions.

CIPD (The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development) Chiltern Branch held a very successful meeting in Gerrards Cross on the 16th June. Delegates had enjoyed the evening so much and have suggested a follow-up session in the very near future.

Disruptive Ideas –Leandro Herrero’s new book – shows organisations that all you need is a small set of disruptive ideas or powerful rules to create big impact.

Major installation for VERCO Oblique workstations

www.holstgroup.co.uk includes: Free Software •Case Studies •Edward de Bono Video •Trainer Bios •Client Quotes •News/Resources •Training Courses - Six Thinking Hats & Lateral Thinking, Psychometric Assessment & Communication Skills.

For a limited time, Goldmine and ACT users can upgrade to ProspectSoft CRM at a huge discount. ProspectSoft CRM offers integration with a range of popular accounting software, offering tailored solutions to match individual business needs.

After ten years Procession plc asserts their declarative language has come of age and that their disruptive technology will revolutionise the IT industry’s business model, including increased agility into complex business processes.

The UK now has numerous rental properties and jml Insurance who act as introducer to a couple of major rental insurance providers have just been appointed an agent to sell Rentshield Direct rental insurance

CSA-Romania opens its office in Bucharest

As there are now numerous buy to let properties in the UK, it is vitally important to have the investment property suitable insured. jml Insurance has just added a dedicated buy to let section to it’s insurance website for Landlords

In Redesigning Pharmaceutical Sales Forces, Leandro Herrero shows that when confronted with the need to rationalise resources, ‘back-of-envelope’ restructuring should be avoided.

Based on de Bono ’s Six Thinking Hats® & Lateral Thinking. A tool for structuring personal thinking & provides a quick & easy means to generate, capture, process & disseminate output in PowerPoint.

Difficult people in the work place or as customers are becoming more and more common and jml Training is offering a 2008 update of their course on “Dealing with difficult people”

Mark Fritz to teach at IFL – Stockholm School of Economics

Zurich Insurance have carried out a survey on tenants & found that tenants are gambling on the fact that they need not take out insurance on their personal possessions. It is quite a gamble as many could have a least £10,000 of personal belongings

Endsleigh Insurance offers a full range of commercial business insurance products that can now be found at jml insurance.com. Endsleigh have also cut their travel insurance rates by almost 20 per cent is great news for anyone planning a holiday

Computer Troubleshooters, a global franchise specialising in computer service and repair for small business and residential users, has launched a new franchise in the Bucks.

Disruptive Ideas – the forthcoming new book by Leandro Herrero – shows organisations that all you need is a small set of disruptive ideas or powerful rules to create big impact.

Leandro Herrero - a leading organisational consultant and CEO of The Chalfont Project Ltd – will be hosting a workshop at eyeforpharma’s 6th Annual Pharma Conference - Sales Force Effectiveness Europe 2008 in Barcelona.

Leandro Herrero - a leading organisational consultant and CEO of The Chalfont Project Ltd – will be a keynote speaker at eyeforpharma’s 6th Annual Pharma Conference - Sales Force Effectiveness Europe 2008 in Barcelona.

After a face-to-face meeting, Microsoft has now acknowledged the legitimacy of the prior art claim of Procession plc, the developer of original and innovative People & Task Driven and Goal Directed software in its Task Orientated Applications.

The new CSA Associate office will be located in Moscow, Russia, and will offer its extensive portfolio of celebrity speakers and experts

The 2.2.2.0 release adds JSR-168 compliance - allowing you to run the shopping cart in a portal manager (online demo available). Also Customer Notifications for bulk mailing of segments of your customer base. UPS Shipping Module integration etc.

New Leaders Wanted – Now Hiring! – Leandro Herrero's book showing modern organizations how to find truly new leaders (with new skills and new leadership styles to create extraordinary business success) - is now available as an Adobe Ebook.

A completely new training workshop designed around Dr Edward de Bono’s proven creativity and innovation tools. Generate new ideas, pick the best and decide which to implement.

Development Plan Documents are not being produced as quickly as expected and the Government is now intending to link Planning Delivery Grant Funding to the preparation of Sound Development plans over three years

Insurance prices are going down on car hire excess insurance, car key loss insurance and other products at jml Insurance from December 2007. A 5% saving on their range of policies should prove very popular to the consumer.

Don’t leave a vacant or underpinned property without insurance cover advises Delite Insurance Brokers who have over thirty years insurance experience say you will probably need specialist insurance cover.

National Stress Awareness Day on the 7th Nov is an important day for employers & employees.Days are shorter, many people become stressed in the winter. Organisations must ensure that work is a positive experience as business target need to be met

The official opening of the Six Thinking Hats® Room, sponsored by The Holst Group, at the Royal Mail’s Innovation Lab (iLab).

Established in 1997 jml Training headed by Dublin born Gráinne Suter offers training courses for the Irish market.. Ireland is one of Europe’s multi cultural countries & with the growth of business it is paramount to have reliable training.

Bullying is more likely to occur during periods of organisational change and uncertainty or where there are stringent quality targets and tighter budget targets.

Coaching is particularly useful as a learning and development intervention during times of organisational change where employees need to fit in with new structures and cultures.

jml Training have ILM certification on four of their courses at an English Council. There are over 90 candidates who will receive their ILM certificates in October 2007

Project leadership and team skills play an essential part in developing an organization that is fit to meet the demands of the future.

meetingminds has teamed up with International Titles, who will represent their books in foreign rights discussions at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2007.

Rentright.co.uk have conducted a survey of tenants to establish what type of property they rent, how they found their rental property and the service that they received when looking and whilst renting their current rental property.

Personal Loansx is a trustworthy online personal loan organizer, which functions in alliance with reputed high street lenders.

Giunti Labs has launched eXact VLW™ (Virtual Learning Worlds), a revolutionary authoring environment, to create, manage and deliver 3D objects, artefacts and scenes within collaborative virtual learning worlds.

Procession plc has published a paper which sets out why the proposed BPEL4People application development tool fails to fully recognise the business requirements for software in order to reflect how people actually work.

KonaKart v 2.2.0.4 is a new release of the free java shopping cart software which now includes support for AJAX enabled One Page Checkout, Advanced Search Engine Optimization, DB2 and MS SQL Server

Technology has improved efficiency in the office, but we have become increasingly static as more functions are achieved without leaving the desk. Being able to increase output may impress the boss but not if it's at a cost to health.

Serious games, mobile learning and virtual learning worlds were the key themes at the ‘Training in Action’ conference, held in Sestri Levante, Italy, and hosted by Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of learning content management solutions.

Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions, has been honoured by both the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) and at the Learning Impact Awards (LIAs) in Vancouver, Canada.