As the only national business support organisation, NFEA is well placed to comment on a wide range of business support topics and issues. In this dedicated blog, we’ll share thoughts from our travels, shout about NFEA activity and feedback on discussions and issues within the sector. And we’d love your thoughts too – you can respond back to any of our posts through the site.
You can also visit our news area here for up to date stories on NFEA activity.
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Thursday 29 April 2010 by George Derbyshire
I was asked to chair a conference this week on enterprise coaching. Full marks to Leigh Sear and Dean Marragh for picking up this ball and running with it. Enterprise coaching is a role which has emerged in the last couple of years via the LEGI schemes and was picked ...
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Friday 16 April 2010 by DanL
We've looked at the Election Manifestos of the three main parties and pulled out all the bits we can find concerning small business and enterprise.
This isn't a comparison of the three; we've stayed impartial and are in no way partisan to one party or another. We just want to highlight the ...
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Friday 9 April 2010 by George Derbyshire
We've planned a session on Web 2.0 for the forthcoming ACT Conference on May 18. I confess to being somewhat of a Luddite when it comes to Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, etc, much to the bemusement of my more switched-on friends like Frea O' Brien at Customer First who has used ...
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Tuesday 30 March 2010 by DanL
In the run up to the 2010 ACT conference on May 18, NFEA Chief Executive George Derbyshire calls for action over professional standards. Read the release here.
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Wednesday 24 March 2010 by George Derbyshire
I have learned from experience that the Budget speech is less important than the Budget documents, which this year include a Budget Report of seven chapters, plus four annexes plus fourteen reports and supporting documents. Note that many of the Budget measures depend on legislation, which may or may not occur.
I have quickly ...
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