Newsletter
from Robert Craven,
Keynote Speaker, Author and MD of
The Directors' Centre
December 2006

Greetings...

Robert has just finished a successful series of seminars for Barclays. This was probably the best 'tour' to date. There were more people than ever attending and their feedback was outstandingly positive. There will be a further twenty seminars in Spring 2007! Robert will be taking a well deserved rest later in December!

Christmas is on its way!

With the New Year ahead, its a great time to reflect on how the last year has been and where you are going to go in 2007. There has never been a better time to 'get your ducks in a row'!

Before we get to X-mas 2006, there's still a load to do including...

• The 'Grow... Sell... or Retire' event with Barclays, ACCA and the Welsh Assembly
• The 'Fattening The Turkey' event with Avondale.

Regards

Robert, Lesley and The Team at The Directors' Centre.

New Seminars

• A special invitation: Let's Talk - Grow, Sell Or Retire... Two-thirds of owner-managers want cash out of their business when they leave it yet they make few/no plans. Most get next to nothing. You need to act now to avoid a miserable retirement! Related article: Escape Options.
• A special seminar on grooming for growth - Fattening the Turkey. Related article: Time For A Sharp Exit!  Options To Get Out Of Your Business!
• A free business growth seminar - Are Growing Pains Keeping You Awake At Night? - with our friends at the Jelf Group PLC - Wednesday 31st January at the Madejski Stadium, Reading.

Business Awards !

Enter the Fast Growth Business Awards - the search is on to find the UK's best mid-market business! We'd love another one of our clients or newsletter readers to win another gong!! Keep us posted. Enter by 15 December.

Consultant of the Month

Introducing Mike Pagan, our coaching expert. Clients who work with him get tools that work, take control of their business and make more money. Find out more.

Article of the Month

New Year's Resolutions - A Bunch Of Fives - One to read and inwardly digest as we head towards the season of new promises and declarations for our businesses. (Originally from Dec 05!).

November/December Articles

• I Want My Life Back - What is it about running your own business that turns you into an obsessive workaholic?  What goes wrong? asks Robert Craven (Start Your Business Mag, Oct/Nov 06).
• Enjoying Life To The Full - Robert Craven started out selling cheap sheets in a London market. Today he is one of the UK's leading speakers in entrepreneurship. Movers & Shakers feature (Making Money Mag , Dec 06).
• Taking Your Solutions To Market - 'I’ve just been to a marketing seminar all about increasing profits in your business. I’m not normally a great fan of these sorts of events...' (BMS Blog, Nov 06).
• Escape Options - Nearly every business owner who expects to reap the rewards of their hard work with a big pay-out will probably get next to nothing. (Start Your Business Mag, Dec/Jan 06).

Regular Features

• Book in to a free Business Surgery - an opportunity to talk to one of our consultants about what you are trying to do with your business, and what's holding you back. Related Article: Consultants: It's Good To Talk
• Free articles and reports - free stuff
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• Kick-Start Your Business and Customer Is King
• Free Business Surgeries
• The New Service Plan
• Fast Growth Business Awards
• Fattening the Turkey
• Let's Talk - Grow, Sell Or Retire...
• Let's Talk... webpages and testimonials
• Avondale Group
• Robert Craven

ABOUT ROBERT CRAVEN, MD of The Directors' Centre

Robert Craven works with ambitious directors of fast-growing businesses who feel that they could be doing even better.

• As a keynote speaker his style is challenging, honest and goading; free of business school hyperbole, he makes his audience think.
• The Financial Times describes him as 'the entrepreneurship guru'.
  
• Mentoring and Coaching - The Directors' Centre team work with a select number of Managing Directors to help them grow their businesses. Phone Robert direct to know more on 01225 851044.
  
  
  For more details go to the Directors' Centre website.

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