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DOING BUSINESS IN IRELAND
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Dublin City Enterprise Board’s priority is to support job creation through focusing on supporting manufacturing companies and innovative businesses, and enabling companies to export.
Read more →“If you want quality business advice, go to professional business consultants, who have indepth experience in offering practical solutions.”
Read more →It will take a while to absorb this integrated list of actions on creating jobs announced today by the Coalition government.
And as a supplier to the county and enterprise boards I am interested in what is going to replace them, and when.
In a world undergoing change where there are few certainties, it is useful to anticipate and plan for trends. These trends will affect us as individuals and the types of organisations we work with.
Read more →Celtar are proud to be project managing the second Your Business Day event on Friday, 9th of December 2011 in the Science Gallery, Pearse Street.
” We are delighted to be part of this major initiative from Greg Swift, Liam Barry and the team at DCEB” says Billy Linehan of Celtar, “already seeing the lineup it has been called the small business version of the Dublin Web Summit!”
Read more →The objectives of the Corkmeet event are to encourage Cork and Dublin based businesses to meet, to partner and to trade.
Read more →Celtar client Fit For Life is supporting Positive Aging Week in a very positive manner.
Maintaining fitness as we get older makes a very significant difference to the quality of life of an older person.
Read more →There is an intense interest in how we can manage our own destiny in these uncertain times. Look out for further postings on “future thinking”.
Read more →How to Get Started, Implement and Deliver Results
in a very difficult environment.
I see that change management consultants Eddie Molloy, Ian Kierans and the Advanced Organisation team are holding a new training programme for senior managers in the coming months.
Read more →Learn how to use social media to reduce marketing costs by generating more qualified leads
Read more →It is said that the essence of selling is understanding your customer’s needs, and convincing him or her that you’re the best supplier to meet their requirements.
I’ll add – that to sell you need to be in an optimistic frame of mind, seeing opportunities for the customer and for yourself in each sale.
Read more →Keep your feet on the pedal!”
With little cash for job investment the government has made a fairly good stab with the Jobs Initiative announced today.
Read more →It’s been said that if you want to recruit good sales people “hire optimists”. Working with many sales managers over the years, we have debated what makes a “good” sales rep many times.
Here’s a look on the right behaviours for sales people – and the wrong behaviours!
Read more →This new fund is welcomed by Billy Linehan of Celtar business consultants “access to finance is very tight now and every new channel available makes a positive contribution to reviving our economy.
Read more →Targeting future growth is firmly on the agenda at the capital’s largest free event for small businesses next week.
Read more →No need to mention what times we’re in, but one positive event happening before Xmas is Your Business Day, a day of free advice and information from the Dublin City Enterprise Board
on the 9th of December.
A friend, Philip Gillen, has started a new business, and is looking for funding.
Himself and his business partner have shared their knowledge and experience in finding the market opportunity first, and then designing a business around it.
Read more →Rewards, ask not what the company can do for me?
A characteristic of motivated companies is how they use remuneration and reward strategies to align the goals of people with those of the company.
At Celtar we observe that in many organisations staff are rewarded for average performance.
King Cody, Kilkenny hurling manager’s road to greatness Learning from winners Malachy Clerkin talks to Billy Linehan and a number of top managers to find out what makes this serial winner so special Excerpt from the Sunday Tribune, 29 …
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