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Coaching company shows food producers how to grow their own

Posted by Laura Rutherford on 5 April, 2011
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PETERBOROUGH-based coaching company Your Total Coach has launched a new ‘Grow Your Own’ coaching course aimed at companies in the fresh food sector.

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NorthLight helps Froglife create its own videos

Posted by Laura Rutherford on 26 March, 2011
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NORTHLIGHT Media, publisher of Peterboroughbusiness.co.uk, is helping Peterborough-based conservation charity Froglife to create its own videos for YouTube.

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Executive coaching can transform your business

Posted by Martyn Moore on 14 February, 2011
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A PETERBOROUGH-based training expert claims that more and more organisations are using executive business coaching and seeing results that drop straight to the bottom line. Keith Nelson, managing director at Your Total Coach, (left) told Peterboroughbusiness.co.uk, “Organisations that use coaching as an effective tool and strategy build high performance teams and achieve better results.”

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Small business organisation tells government how to encourage apprenticeships

Posted by Laura Rutherford on 7 February, 2011
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THE Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging the government to lift the barriers to employment that stifle job creation to enable them to take on apprentices of all ages. More than two thirds (69 per cent) of apprenticeships take place in small businesses that have fewer than 50 employees. The FSB believes that the [...]

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Peterborough businesses come together to realise skills vision

Posted by Martyn Moore on 3 December, 2010
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PETERBOROUGH companies have met with educators and skills providers to shape the skills vision for the city. The first Peterborough Skills Summit took place at the Marriott Hotel on November 30 and was attended by more than 120 delegates, despite difficult travelling conditions.

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Security firm tells apprentice Daniel, ‘You’re hired!’

Posted by Laura Rutherford on 30 November, 2010
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FORGET the TV boardroom antics and the back biting among ambitions candidates – when it comes to hiring new staff, one security firm has taken on its own apprentice. Secura-Cam, based at Yaxley, has strengthened its already successful team with the appointment of 18-year-old Daniel Bailey.

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Classic car bodyshop offers official accreditation

Posted by Martyn Moore on 17 September, 2010
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A CAR bodyshop specialising in the skills and craftsmanship associated with historic vehicles has been officially credited by one of the UK’s leading awarding bodies.

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