Hiring the wrong Sales Person
February 11th, 2009

New research by Silent Edge, UK Sales Performance Consultancy, has shown that it costs companies approximately £82,500 if they hire the wrong sales person.  Silent Edge are working in conjunction with Cranfield Business School.

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Holst Group Strategic Partner achieves Top 50 Place In Sunday Times Fast Track League Table
December 15th, 2008

Shilton Sharpe Quarry (“SSQ”), the specialist international legal recruitment consultancy with offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and an associated office in New Zealand, has been ranked number 45 in the latest annual Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table published this week.  Fast Track 100 ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest growing sales over the last three years.

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Dr Edward de Bono to act as European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation 2009
December 9th, 2008

The European Union has designated 2009 as the “European Year of Creativity and Innovation”. 
The objective is to raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation as keys to achieving a wide range of personal, social and economic goals, and to stimulate a broad-based policy debate on how creativity and innovation can be better promoted. 

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McQuaig Interpreter Training – Day 2
December 1st, 2008

Book your place on
Day 2 of our McQuaig Interpreter Training

4th December 2008
Portland Place, London.

Trainer: Dave Stent

Click here for more courses
or call 0800 043 3950

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The Holst Group attends Think on Your Feet® Global Conference
November 4th, 2008

Tokyo & Hakone, Japan, 2008

For the 5th year running, The Holst Group has attended ‘TOYFNET’ – the Global Conference for Think on Your Feet®.  With partners from 14 countries represented, Managing Director, Iain Chalmers, presented to the group on business growth and various strategic partnership models from The Holst Group’s 24 year history.

TOYFNET is an innovative collection of organisations brought together each year with the simple objective to make connections, communicate and collaborate.  The common theme between all members is Think on Your Feet®, a unique training course that literally trains delegates to ‘think on their feet’!

This year’s event was also facilitated by Rebecca Stewart, The Holst Group’s lead trainer for ‘The Communicator’s Toolkit’ including Think on Your Feet®, Writing Dynamics™  and Dynamic Speaking®.

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Diversity guru tells law firms to focus on promoting inclusion
October 20th, 2008

Recruiting a diverse workforce is easy but top City law firms are falling down when it comes to creating an inclusive atmosphere where lawyers from all backgrounds want to stay and build their careers.

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The key to interview success – a firm handshake?
October 1st, 2008

Some interesting new research has highlighted the impact a firm handshake has on interview success.  We know that the first few minutes with someone has a disproportionate influence on us in terms of an ultimate decision.  This research shows that even a handshake can subconsciously influence us.

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The Holst Group to support the European Year of Creativity and Innovation in 2009
September 26th, 2008

The European Commission welcomes the news today the European Parliament, meeting in Brussels, has announced that 2009 be designated as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

The Holst Group will facilitate creativity training events throughout 2009 based on the world’s leading creativity and innovation guru – Dr Edward de Bono.  Dr de Bono is the world’s undisputed ‘guru’ of organisational innovation, creativity, strategic leadership, and problem solving. Since 1970 his exclusive techniques have brought astonishing results to organisations worldwide. Individuals from a wide range of cultures, educational backgrounds, occupations and age groups have used de Bono’s tools to great success.

The Holst Group is proud to be Dr de Bono’s first Partner in Europe and pleased to be supporting this EU initiative.

See the EU press release here

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Successful charity bike ride
September 25th, 2008

Ian Shaw, one of our Consulting Partners completes his charity bike ride raising £5,329.15.00

Ian and Steve arrived at John O’Groats on a damp July day and can now add it to their list of tall stories to tell.  During their journey they laughed a lot (mainly at themselves) but it wasn’t quite the fun time they expected, mainly due to the appalling weather.  They had rain on 8 out of 9 days, some very high winds and below average temperatures. 

They received some great support on the way round from many people and their final sponsorship total raised was:

£5,329.15.00

This exceeded their expectations and they would like to thank everyone, once more, for all the sponsorship which will make a real difference to someone’s life for many, many years to come.

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HR leaders brace themsleves to tackle City crisis head on
September 22nd, 2008

City HR chiefs are rallying their troops to fight the biggest crisis to hit the financial sector in 79 years.

Senior practitioners insisted they were concentrating on getting the most from staff to help their firms through the meltdown.
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