“Stimulating the Entrepreneurial Mind” – win cinema tickets now!

Hot off the press from the HEEG conference at the University of Greenwich on 15th June; Working Knowledge director James Lott led a workshop entitled “Stimulating the Entrepreneurial Mind”. Following the topic of the conference “Towards the Entrepreneurial University. Are we getting there?” the workshop proposed some simple approaches to stimulating an entrepreneurial mindset.

As part of the workshop delegates were invited to submit a solution to the Sheep and Wolves puzzle which is attached to this post; see below. The prize for the first winning solution received is a pair of tickets to a cinema showing of your choice. Solutions please via email to James at james.lott@twkg.net. Good luck!

Download your copy by clicking the link here: Sheep and Wolves puzzle

Achieve your student numbers and protect your SLN with a Short Course this summer.

If you have not quite reached your student number then delivering a short course this summer could protect your SLN. The problem that you might face however might be organising such a course for the numbers you need this late in the academic year.

We are running one day events for a number of our partner colleges this July to deliver for them WWO L1 in a single day. Each event accommodates up to 120 students and for one college we are running the event twice in order to guarantee the numbers they need.

We still have capacity to deliver three more events in July. For more on this story go here

Prizes galore at ‘The Mix’

Winner's statuette

You’ve been labelled as a ‘NEET’*. You are one of 895,000 16-24 year olds in the same situation**. You don’t do ‘education’ or ‘training’ and you haven’t got a job.  Pretty depressing, probably. That’s where ‘The Mix’ comes in – a programme designed to help young people appreciate their talents, improve their skills and build their confidence. How does it work? The approach is not complicated; give young people something unexpected to do, watch curiosity overcome reluctance, help them with technical support when they need it and let their natural talents emerge.

For more on this story.. go here.

Working Knowledge create bespoke programme for Nottingham City Council Property Division

Nottingham City Council develops new strategies for its Design and Property Services Division with help from Working Knowledge.

Working Knowledge was invited to create a bespoke programme for the property division that would address the planning of a number of internally focused projects using cross-discipline teams.

Using scenarios around carbon reduction, data management, better use of facilities and whole area management the delegates were assisted through the creation of effective and sustainable strategies that they could take back to work the next day and use as templates for activity.

To find out more about our Management Education services click here.

Customer Retention for small businesses

The East Midlands Development Agency commissions Working Knowledge, as part of a consortium, to create and deliver a series of workshops focused on Customer Retention for small businesses.

The workshops were part of a wider strategy developed by EMDA to concentrate on what had been identified as their four key economic drivers:

• Skills – enabling people in work to develop higher level skills
• Innovation – increasing investment in research and    development especially within SMEs
• Enterprise – improving rates of company formation and    survival
• Investment – improving levels of investment in particular    within the fast growing service sector

The Customer Retention Workshops Programme was designed to provide a high quality, targeted offer to build the customer retention capacities of micro and SMEs operating in the East Midlands. Assisting them to retain their customers more effectively increases the likelihood of their on-going growth, profitability, wealth generation and survival.