Welcome to the web blog of Celtar, a management consultancy company based in Dublin, Ireland .The MD, Billy Linehan, is a business adviser and professional business mentor. How we meet your needsProjects• Assisted company “in recovery” from recent years of poor sales, new focus on strategy – and how to implement it• Chair and act as secretary of monthly management meetings• Introduce staff centred performance management systems, train managers • Advise MD on board matters, and communicating with shareholders• Train management team on “High Performance”
What a time we live in! COVID-19 has brought challenges to all business owners in their enterprises and their personal lives. At Celtar business consultants we have experience of working through a few recessions (early 1990s, 2001, 2008 and now 2020) so we share a longer term view with clients. We have never encountered anything like [...]
Billy Our calendar is filling up with business mentoring sessions, quality management meetings, directors and management meetings, interview panels, strategic planning sessions and having conversations for action with new clients.
Billy Probably one of the most intelligent sources of research on entrepreneurship that I have come across in recent years emanates from the Kaufmann Foundation based in Kansas City, USA, says Billy Linehan of Celtar
Billy 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.
Billy Learn how to use social media to reduce marketing costs by generating more qualified leads
Billy 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.
Billy 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 August 2010 “Billy Linehan of Celtar business consultants is a board member of the Institute of [...]
Billy Work placement programmes from FAS and IBEC These programmes from FAS and IBEC appear to be similar except for the branding. The IBEC Gradlink is open only to companies who are IBEC or SFA members. Whilst the FAS scheme is open to all companies and offers a work placement programme for non graduates as well as graduates.
Billy Are the days of growth finished for Daft.ie, will the housing sales and rental market now be controlled by home buyers and home owners? This new service will allow both estate agents and private sellers to put their property as an overlay on Google Maps.
Billy There is no real choice . . . . . . vote YES to show our commitment to a shared ambition for the citizens of Europe Yes, I am strongly in favour of voting YES in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in early October. Why? In no particular order – the Irish people have benefited from being members of the European Union through [...]
Billy The right way to implement a CRM system Wouldn’t it would be great if we could just buy a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, switch it on and find that it does everything that we wanted it to without changing any settings? Well unfortunately that just doesn’t happen in practice and you need to follow a process [...]
Billy What! Writing about sales letters in this era of digital marketing? Advice for Irish SMEs Yep, the art of writing sales letters still has value – a targeted well thought out and customer specific letter stands out from instantly disposable email. To a customer it demonstrates that an effort has been made in communicating with them, that [...]
Billy Celtar Update – Enterprise Ireland’s Current Support It’s not the best of times for Enterprise Ireland, the Irish state’s lead body for supporting businesses from SMEs to prospective Irish MNCs. Rightly there is a focus on support for exporting companies, though there is less concern shown about import [...]
Billy Social networking and health A article based on research into personal happness was published a couple of months ago in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).Most peope are searching for personal happiness in their lives and this piece might give us a lift and show us where to find it in these days of slowdown, credit squeeze and recession. [...]
Billy A year of challenge This year will be a challenging one for many of us; in fact survival will be the objective of many small businesses. Here I have gathered ideas and approaches – which are being implemented by clients – to demonstrate that proactive actions can have positive returns. Many of the ideas are as much about [...]
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