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| MY STORY: DAWN GIBBINS |
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PROFILE - DAWN GIBBINS MBE
Dawn Gibbins is an entrepreneur with a difference. After an early bohemian backpacking lifestyle, Dawn set up a company from home that today has grown to be a world leader, with offices in 30 countries and 12 manufacturing plants around the globe. Along the way she has won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year Award and been voted Most Influential Person in British Manufacturing.
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| COACH OF THE MONTH: SARAH ALEXANDER |
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COACH OF THE MONTH
Each month we ask a leading Business Coach to share their methods with the3rdi.co.uk.
This month Sarah Alexander, a performance coach with 10 years' experience.
Sarah is an expert in intuition and speaks regularly on the radio on this subject. Sarah specialises in working with entrepreneurs to help them build successful and rewarding businesses through using their intuitive guidance and spiritual intelligence.
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| WORKING MUMS: SURVIVING THE RETURN TO WORK |
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Amanda Alexander, Founder and Director of Coaching Mums, is mum to two boys and a highly qualified and professionally accredited ICF Coach. Founded in 2003, Coaching Mums is a company devoted to teaching working mothers around the world how to break out of pressure-cooked, guilt-ridden vicious circles. Coaching Mums enables women to create success on their own terms, ditch the guilt, manage the pressures of modern life, manage their time better, enjoy their family, feel good about themselves as a mother and as a woman in their own right.. and have a lot more fun! .............. read more |
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Mary T Clary and Roy Sheppard have together written a book called "Venus, the Dark Side",
which investigates the existence and behaviour of manipulative women.
When they approached the3rdi.co.uk with an idea for an article about dangerous women in the workplace we invited them to let us hear their views.
Once you have read the article you can share your views with us at www.youcubed.co.uk.
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| BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE |
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| This month I wanted to address the subject of investment. Not the "give your business away" type of investment required to secure external funds from business angels nor the stocks and shares/bulls and bears, hedge-fund, fat-cat banker bonus investment . That's for your trusted independent financial advisor to guide you on and if you are one of the fortunate few that are in a position to be considering such activity then I wish you all the very best of luck. I'll be looking at investing in YOURSELF and your people........... read more |
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| WOMEN FOR WOMEN ....CYCLE CHINA |
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Diane Kolomeicuc is a senior manager with Barclays Premier Banking.
Next October Diane will be taking on the biggest challenge of her life: to cycle 280 miles across China in just 5 days.
At the3rdi.co.uk we will follow Diane as she trains, prepares and raises funds for this epic challenge!
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| WOMEN AND WEALTH - A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN |
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Are women embarrassed about wanting to be wealthy?
Jane thinks so but has the answer! Create wealth and then do something with it!
Jane Kenyon, founder of Well Heeled Divas and Girls Out Loud project gives us her views. .....read more |
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| BUSINESS FINANCE...TAX PLANNING AND SAVINGS |
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Due to the ever changing tax legislation and commercial factors affecting your company, it is advisable to carry out an annual review of your company's tax position.
Pre-year end tax planning is important as the current year's results can normally be predicted with some accuracy and time still exists to carry out any appropriate action. We outline below some of the areas where advance planning may produce tax savings. ....read more |
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| EXCELLENCE IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING |
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Early in September I was driving along in the sunshine, listening to the radio when I heard that Britain had won a gold medal at the skills Olympics. I had never heard of the skills Olympics and so set out to find out more.
The competition is more correctly called the World Skills Competition and this year 900 competitors from 51 countries tested themselves against tough international standards to reach the pinnacle of excellence in their chosen skilled trade......read more |
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| THE COPENHAGEN SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE |
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The headline in my newspaper last week read - 500 corporate giants demand "Save Planet". In considering climate change I picture huge plumes of polluting smoke rising from industrial chimneys and assume that much of the blame for the rise in global temperature is down to big business and that they have little interest in reversing this process. ............ read more |
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| ETHICAL LIVING AND THE NEED TO SAVE ELECTRICITY |
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Will our energy consumption kills us?
It's possible, but doesn't have to be probable.
Our energy consumption is basically what's been causing climate change. Most of our energy sources release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this, in turn, helps to heat up the planet.
But not all energy was created equal. Some energy sources are greener than others and many don't release any carbon dioxide at all. Plus, if we reduce our energy consumption we also reduce our C02 emissions. But it doesn't have to stop there. It is now possible to generate your own free energy to power your house. ............ read more |
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| WEALTHY WAYS TO THE TOP WITH AMANDA STEADMAN |
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Everyone has different concepts of what it means to them and therein lays the definition challenge! I have worked with many people on this subject and it normally boils down to 'being comfortable, financial freedom, primarily having choices and being able to do what you want to do, when you want to do it.
My two key questions to you this month are;
What does wealth mean to you? and
How do you know when you've got there?........... read more |
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| JAN TCHAMANI AND THE RED TENT PROJECT |
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Jan Tchamani is the Project Director of The Red Tent (Heart of England), a women's group in Birmingham.
The Red Tent is for all women, and provides creative and therapeutic events, support, advice and friendship. Jan recently left behind her career as a senior school teacher and is establishing herself as a journalist, life-coach and events organiser.
In this article Jan shares a week in her life and explains how she is developing her project at the same time as coping with a life-long mental health challenge...
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| MARIE-CLAIRE and HOW TO BECOME A MONEY MAGNET |
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Making money isn't meant to be hard work. If it is starting to feel like an uphill struggle, take some time out and ask yourself a few questions. Are you happy doing what you are doing? If you weren't doing what you're doing, what would you choose to do instead? What could you give up that is no longer making you happy?............. read more |
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| SIMON BROWN - EVERYDAY WABI SABI |
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WHAT IS WABI SABI?
Look no further for the ultimate in stress free, green, spiritual, healthy living. This amazing subject is simply a new way of seeing the world and requires no extra time or special practices. You can enjoy your wabi sabi living whilst enjoying any kind of life. Originally wabi sabi was applied to creating the ideal environment to meditate. read more |
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| MARIE-CLAIRE INSPIRES AND UPLIFTS |
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Maire-Claire is a passionate transformational coach and inspirational speaker. She has spent most of her working life coaching others to achieve their dreams.
Each month she will bring you tips and tactics on how to live your passion, enjoy loving relationships, feel fulfilled, happy and healthy and to enjoy the life of your dreams. ....read more |
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| BOOK CHAIN - THE MASTERKEY SYSTEM |
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Why do some men achieve great success with little apparent effort, while others have great difficulty or fail completely to reach their ambitions and goals? This is the first question asked in The Master Key System and one that has occupied the minds of philosophers and life-coaches alike.
Charles Haanel wrote this marvelous little book early last century and it gained popularity and notoriety in Silicon Valley as it has been suggested that almost every entrepreneur who made a fortune in recent years did so by studying the Master Key System. Bill Gates is, apparently, a fan.....read more |
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| ARE CHILDREN OF WORKING MOTHERS LESS FIT? |
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On the 29th September the BBC reported that "Children whose mothers work are less likely to lead healthy lives than those with stay at home mothers."
The study was led by Professor Catherine law of the University College Hospital Institute of Child Health (ICH) and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
It looked at the relationship between maternal employment and health behaviours in 5 year old British children. With about 60% of mothers with pre-school children working the study could have profound repercussions.
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The night before my fist class in the Segregation unit in Portlaoise prison, I was my usual calm, unbothered self. Sleep wasn't coming easily though, so I pottered downstairs to make a cup of tea or something. My son was playing a game on the Xbox. It turned out to be Lara Croft flinging her fine form around, Zena Warrior, princess style, slicing zombies at a thrust of her highly trained hand or foot and climbing impossibly sheer rock faces. I was beginning to be her, as I watched her fearless never tiring struggle to get…… wherever she was going. I went to bed. And slept............. read more |
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You may or may not have heard of 'Reiki', you may have no idea what it is nor even have any idea of how to pronounce it (Ray-kee). This may be the first time you have ever encountered Reiki. On the other hand, you may be familiar with Reiki, you may have received Reiki, or perhaps you may even be a Reiki Healer.
There are many things in existence that we as individuals and we collectively, as the human race, have yet to experience or discover, but they exist nonetheless. Reiki serves as just one example of this. It was in existence before you started to read this piece just as it will continue to exist when you have finished reading, regardless of whether you ever think about it again again. .... read more |
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