It is said that founding a business is up there with life’s great achievements. As success follows, so do layers of management. When founding our own businesses, we learnt (mostly from our investors) that the trickiest part is the inevitable introduction of new layers of management. At every one of these inflexion points (there are three) the founder gets further from the floor.
With this in mind, we’ve started our founders’ breakfasts. These run regularly, cover a range of management subjects (so far “The Founder as Coach”, “Managing Difficult Conversations”, “Growing the Organisation You Want” and “Letting Go”) and we’ve been joined by founders of 30+ independent hospitality businesses including: Cock and Tail, Crate Brewery, Dinner Ladies, Electric Star Pubs, Fallow, Finks Salt and Sweet, HAM Restaurants, Hawksmoor, Popham’s, Sophie’s, Super 8, and The Wood Street Bakery.
Led by specialist facilitators, the events are lively, informing and there’s always plenty to take away and act on.
Friday 7 March
Connect The Dots – the collective power of relationships, learning and mindset in the hospitality business
with Tricia Taylor.
Tricia is a published specialist in getting the best from young people, We’ve asked her to come and share her ideas with us, since learning that 52.2 % of floor staff, bartenders and chefs are aged 19-24.0900-1230, Roe, Wood Wharf
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
Friday 28 March
Customer Identity: The 3 B’s of Branding
with Ian Henderson
– how to find an emotional connection between your value proposition, however complicated, and your audience and how to use it to inspire and guide all your communications ads, social, video, digital, events, content. With Ian Henderson, chair of AML. 0900-1230, Crate, Hackney Wick
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
Friday 16 May
Moving into Multisite
with hospitality industry dynamo Chantal Wilson
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
Friday 20 June
The Founder as Coach
with Matt Driver
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
Friday 11 July
Managing Difficult: How to handle difficult situations, difficult conversations and difficult people
An introduction to the skills that underpin effective and honest conversations. Including: types of conversations we avoid and why, how to speak directly with care and how to create psychological safety. The workshop will help participants know how to prepare for a challenging situation to make it successful, understand the impact of avoiding conversations, know why conversations go wrong and how to fix them, and prepare for real conversations ahead
with Sarah Cartwright
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
Friday 26 September
Being at Your Best
with Phil Hayes
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
Friday 21 November
Title TBC
with TBC
hold the date 🙂
£245.00 (which can be used as a credit against future bookings)
contact helen@thewatershedgroup.co.uk to book
FOR
FOUNDERS
COST PER EVENT
£245 +VAT
WHERE
LONDON
TIME
9am - 12.30pm
NEXT EVENT
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