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    NAA Event Review: Leadership – Feedback in a Virtual Environment

    Giving and receiving feedback is even more important today – 65% of employees want more feedback than they are currently getting… Feedback is a simple but effective tool for improving performance, but it is crucial that it is delivered appropriately. Our new normal of working remotely, and without the usual face-to-face contact, can make this […]

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    NAA Event Review: How To Win With LinkedIn

    The latest NAA webinar focused on the digital platform, LinkedIn, to give attendees a wealth of information on how to get started and get LinkedIn working for them… Paul Limb, Managing Director of ActionCOACH Bolton, presented the webinar. ActionCOACH has a team of LinkedIn Instruct Instructors, trained by LinkedIn themselves, so this webinar was filled […]

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    NAA Event Review: 7 Essential Questions to Answer Before Re-Starting your Business

    Paul Limb, Managing Director of ActionCOACH, Bolton, returned to deliver another webinar and this time focussed on the actions that every business owner should take when re-starting their business… The COVID-19 crisis may still be pummelling your business, but there will come a time when the storm starts to ebb. That’s when you have a […]

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    NAA Event Review: Leadership – Taking Care of You

    Our new normal is constantly evolving. As a leader, it can be lonely at the top and both you and your team may feel even more isolated. It is important that we understand how we can take care of ourselves as leaders to ensure that we are best placed to accelerate our growth… Christine Fare […]

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    NAA Event Review: Managing Stress and Building Resilience

    After the successful “Virtual Leadership” webinar, Paul Limb, Managing Director of ActionCOACH, Bolton, returned to focus on “Managing Stress and Building Resilience” in these challenging times… The onset of this pandemic has seen a number of challenges for employees and business owners alike including changing working practices, the virus itself, worries over job security, changing […]

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    NAA Partner Event Review: Energy Management 4.0 – The Evolution

    This webinar was delivered by Paul Scarborough (Chief Marketing Officer) and Peter Catlow (Director of Energy Cost Management) of Businesswise Solutions, who were joined by Paul Jones, CEO of the Northern Automotive Alliance… Industry 4.0, the 4th Industrial Revolution, is with us right now, is recognised and is being implemented. Less well recognised is the […]

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    NAA Event Review: Simple Software Solutions to Support Working from Home

    As we touched on last month, the NAA has continued to deliver online events with our second webinar this year focusing on software solutions when working from home… Like a lot of companies, this may be the first time you and your staff have worked from home and fortunately these days there are a number […]

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    NAA Event Review: Virtual Leadership – Lead Effectively No Matter Where People Work

    Our third webinar was delivered by Paul Limb, Managing Director of ActionCOACH, Bolton and focussed on leadership and management in a virtual workplace… The principles of leadership haven’t changed, but since the onset of ‘lockdown’, virtual working has become much more commonplace, meaning those principles are having to be applied in different ways. In this […]

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    NAA Events Review: Cyber Security Webinar

    This month saw the NAA return to the delivery of online events, since our first webinar back in June 2019. The move towards virtual events is in direct response to the restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the NAA will continue to deliver online events in the short term… The Cyber Security […]

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    NAA Event Review: AUTO 4.0, The Hartree Centre STFC Laboratory

    It was a full house for the joint networking event and A.U.T.O. 4.0 Project multiplier event… Over the last couple of years, the NAA has been working with partners from Germany, Italy and Spain on the AUTO 4.0 project. The aim of the project was to identify the key skills competencies that will be needed […]

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