Todays meeting – I suppose its the start of the summer holidays, some members are getting away before the children break up and thus no surprise a few of us are away. I was travelling on my motorbike in the cool morning so could not have been happier to miss all the traffic works in Slough!
We had two very interesting talks from Elaine Robinson and Ash Taylor.
Elaine gave us a background on her tutoring business and the business sector it sits in. She works online as she believes this is particularly good for the ages of the children she works with – with so many children now getting private tutors its is a growing industry. In the areas around the networking group there are plenty of Grammar schools who need children to pass the 11 Plus, and perhaps the only way to get through this is with some additional help from outside school. Some 27% of children now get tutored and this is growing every year.
Ash is now heavily involved in leadership development and has seen the improvements in companies that have spent time and money training managers to properly manage the people around them. There are so many people who have been promoted into managerial positions on the basis of doing well at a current job, they then get thrown into the new role with minimal if any raining and left to get on with it! Hardly a surprise when things go wrong!
Most of the time people leave an organisation because of other people, not the actual job. So Ash sees it as his goal to make people realise how they can improve the whole of a company by training managers effectively.
Looking forward to the next meeting on August 7th
