{"id":7554,"date":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasjardineandco.co.uk\/its-good-to-talk\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:02:25","slug":"its-good-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjardineandco.co.uk\/its-good-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s good to talk"},"content":{"rendered":"
We know it’s good to talk. We are based at The Guild<\/a> a coworking space in the beautiful Carlisle city centre.\u00a0 Up until COVID our main business involved face to face contact with businesses large and small.\u00a0 During Lockdown One we adapted to the new online world of Zoom ,Teams etc.\u00a0 A brief respite during the Summer meant that we had the joy of actually talking to people face to face. Then Lockdown Two brought us back to the online world.<\/p>\n This week has really brought home how much we and other businesses have adapted.\u00a0 We now all know more than ever that you have to talk and share your day with other businesses.<\/p>\n Our new normal is intense.\u00a0 Like most SMEs we are probably working more concentrated hours than ever before. Some of this is good news and some not so good.\u00a0 Answers to the following questions can have both a positive and negative impact on your life or on your business:<\/p>\n The real danger of social distancing is that a cry for help or a shout of joy often goes unheard.\u00a0 We know one of the main benefits of coworking is the ability to share the good and the bad.\u00a0 Sharing this with fellow businesses just makes it better still.<\/p>\n We have found that we can now get some of this back online.\u00a0 You don’t have to feel alone in the wilderness and you can share your joy outside of your room.<\/p>\n Like many other businesses we have taken our established business relationships online.\u00a0 Knowing who you are dealing with helps online relationship work.\u00a0 We are working with a great business team who will launch a brand new product next year.\u00a0 We were approached by an old business contact to write submissions for honours awards.\u00a0 Knowing the team meant we could run phone interviews immediately and capture great stories around the nominees.<\/p>\n We are also working with a new business introduced to us by a fellow associate.\u00a0 Here trust in the go between has meant we have all committed a significant amount of time to a project before any of us have met in person.<\/p>\n Our final thoughts go to this week.\u00a0 On Monday we held an ONIT<\/a> Zoom meeting with our fellow Guilders<\/a>. ONIT has been running for many months and it is now an online meeting of businesses (Guilders) connected with the Guild.\u00a0 The agenda was simply how do we deal with our wellbeing?\u00a0 We all laughed. We all reflected and most importantly we all shared our ups and downs.\u00a0 Trust amongst a group of businesses that have shared the same experiences allows us to take on this new normal. We owe a personal thank you to Mondays group who just made our life that much better.<\/p>\n This week we also launched our first two Action Learning Groups for the BEIS<\/a> funded Peer to Peer Network <\/a>\u00a0 facilitated by our Jacqui Jackson<\/a> and the talented Tina Cook<\/a>. This is where businesses can really share and work on solutions for their businesses with fellow business leaders. These groups will run through to March next year.\u00a0 We are already really impressed with the level of honesty, trust and care our businesses are showing.\u00a0 In Cumbria our cohorts<\/a> and those of Cumbria Chambers<\/a> are now full.\u00a0 If you want to join the Cumbrian Peer to Peer Network<\/a> there are still paces with groups led by Entrepreneurial Spark<\/a>, the Leadership Secret<\/a> and Skills for Care<\/a>. Just contact Helen at the Cumbrian LEP<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n It’s always good to talk.\u00a0 The very act of saying out loud what you are thinking releases pressure from your brain.\u00a0 We are sociable animals.\u00a0 So please use what ever medium suits you AND get out there and talk.<\/p>\n If you want to know more contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Its good to talk, to share the day We know it’s good to talk. We are based at The Guild a coworking space in the beautiful Carlisle city centre.\u00a0 Up until COVID our main business involved face to face contact with businesses large and small.\u00a0 During Lockdown One we adapted to the new online world… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,163,118],"tags":[95,155,45,174,175,176],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe new normal is not Shangri-La BUT it’s not Blade Runner either…<\/h2>\n
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Questions, the good, the bad and the ugly can feel lonely without peers<\/h2>\n
How we shared online…<\/h2>\n
Trust is so important<\/h2>\n
Peer to Peer, a place where it is good to talk<\/h2>\n
Final Word<\/h2>\n