intime PROFIT: June 2013

Kentish business has proved many times that when a few stout hearted entrepreneurial men and women get together to share views and support development ideals - success thrives.

Kent

is a veritable warren of networking groups who gather at often unearthly hours of the morning to meet and exchange current business concerns. To mix metaphors – they level opportunistic playing fields to create a common song sheet from which they all can sing.

And no better a song sheet could there possibly be than that supported by the IoD in collaboration with Clive Emson and Rochester Cathedral (applauded by intime PROFIT) to present the London Welsh Male Voice Choir in concert at Rochester Cathedral on Saturday 29^th June (conceptually pictured below).

Based on themes originating in Welsh Valleys, rehearsed tirelessly in London, ‘Working Man’ and ‘Stout Hearted Men’ are just two of LWMVC’s rousing harmonies to be enjoyed in Rochester’s iconic cathedral on the banks of the Medway from 19.00 on 29^th.

Where The Medway was said to have been the dividing / deciding factor between Men (and Women) of Kent and Kentish Man (and Maiden), it was also the crucial conduit to create, support and drive trade in the region.

‘Stout Hearted Men’ is one of the choral components of the operetta The New Moon, a collaboration of the music of Sigmund Romberg and the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II.

This begs the question – can nothing succeed without help, support, collaboration, advice – a corporate shoulder to cry on or understanding pat on the back?

Well, Gilbert had Sullivan and Benjamin Britten had the voice of his beloved Peter Pears.

If you have a great day at the office, is there somebody back at home who truly understands the passion and emotion of your business. Conversely, if you are on a negative spiral, who do you turn to for support and guidance?

In Kent, there is a resource to which business owners and managers can turn. It’s one that understands the draining emotions of business management and offers guidance to and through the components of business growth. That’s what the businesses of

Kent

with whom we already work seem to think.

Sharing thoughts at the intime PROFIT Seminar

These business owners have sought and found solace in talking with an intime PROFIT Partner through a series of One-to-One meetings; they may have joined like minded people at our Business Growth Seminars; or perhaps they use our Marketing support services.

Seminars offer a friendly environment at which just 15 or so people can either sit back and listen to the speakers and other delegates, or participate as much as they want – opening up to problems, sharing ideas, discussing the pro’s and con’s of this approach or that.

There is no single solution. If there were, we’d all have bought that book and be millionaires … this time next year Rodney ! Whether you take the Del Boy approach or that of Simon Sinek, there’s always something of value to learn.

But of course, the whole moral of this story is that it’s not one or the other that is right or wrong, but the collaborative efforts of a room full of stout hearted business minds as, last month for instance, they consider the wisdom of Simon Sinek’s ‘Start with a WHY’.

This relatively simple business philosophy became a pivotal moment for last month’s attendees. Here’s a snippet of what Simon’s WHY is all about. Take a look and you’ll understand why pens were scribbling and light bulbs were metaphorically sparking across the Whitehead Monckton Boardroom:

This was part of a presentation on creating an Elevator Pitch, a succinct introduction to you, the business owner / manager as you are given a 60 second platform to win corporate hearts and minds.

It’s a powerful tool, particularly if you frequent or are about to enter the world of Kentish Networking.

Intime PROFIT Seminars offer the opportunity to network, but also equips you with the tools, techniques and confidence to network profitably. The structure and formality of a textbook Elevator Pitch may be right for some and perhaps right for others – just not in an Elevator.

Simon Sinek’s pivotal WHY helps us to understand WHY it is customers and clients do business with us. In understanding this and discussing the strengths and weaknesses in the context of our own businesses, we truly get to understand our own WHY, our own corporate raisons d’êtres.

Seminar exercises then help delegates to communicate this, verbally, casually, formally, in writing, in an advert, a website, an e-mail and even a tweet.

Like Romberg and Hammerstein; Gilbert and Sullivan; Britten and Pears – intime PROFIT and you collaborate, draft and rehearse our corporate songs until we too find ‘perfect pitch’.

For your chance to tune up to a ‘perfect pitch’ and discover more tools, techniques, ideas and skills to help grow your own business – join us at the next intime PROFIT Seminar on Thursday 11^th July in this month’s host Boardroom at Duncan Lawrie in Wrotham. If you are joining us for the first time remember, your first Seminar is FREE.

PLEASE NOTE: you can not just turn up. Please call / e-mail to request your place. Places are limited and if you secure an invitation but find subsequently you can’t attend, please do call so that your invitation may be taken up by someone else.