All things Purple - Number 5!

Hello crazy week of many miles meeting some amazing people and doing some brilliantly #purple things! Each week is an adventure and every week I learn something new that helps me be the best version of myself! My Purple Story is one of growth and at the ripe old age of nearly 52 finally finding myself and understand what makes me tick! It has taken a while and a lot of self-awareness but that is what purple is all about - learning and growing - one step at a time to become #futurefit not #pastperfect!

So what am I covering this week....

• Bloopers, Bloopers, Bloopers
• Congratulations to the ASMs graduating from the IVC Evidensia UK Dare to Develop programme
• More Cracking the Sales Code
• My kick ass bunch of storytellers
• Compliance that does not have to cost the earth
• Purple Person of the Week - a special one

Bloopers, Bloopers, Bloopers

We have been busy building our digital content ready for the launch very soon! In true purple fashion though we always have fun and this time around whilst filming at Woodland Grange by Make Venues we laughed a lot more than we should probably have done!!!! Have a giggle at some of our #bloopers! Thanks North Star Digital for a cracking job!

Let's graduate from Dare to Develop

Every week working with the ASMs and ADs from IVC Evidensia UK I feel like I have made a set of new friends for life! This week was no exception and Richard Tudor-Thomas finished with a beautifully facilitated feedback circle with 22 delegates giving each other tear inducing praise #joyful! Not forgetting our visitor for the day Dan Symonds who came to play the #purple way for the day and I think loved it as much as we did!

The team loved the sessions so much we are going to do some informal check in sessions so that we can keep the connectivity alive! This fills me with joy as it is what we do - we help drive learning and performance change through people! Huge love for Jennifer Steel who brought everyone "Frogs" to eat and "Monkeys" to play with #iykyk!

More Cracking the Sales Code....

?? Ready to Supercharge Your Career and Smash Your Targets? ??The buzz from our 'Cracking the Sales Code' workshop with Hospitality Data Insights (HDI) is still echoing in our ears! ?? Raf Zbiciak nailed it with his "mind-blowing" testimonial, and we're thrilled by the excitement and enthusiasm that filled the room.

But wait, there's more!

Building on the overwhelming success of our previous events, we've upped the ante and booked TWO new dates!

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My Kick Ass Storytellers....

Back when I set the business up in 2018 it was just me and now as we near our 5th birthday party (are you coming??) I can take a step back to focus on working ON the business rather than IN it as I have the most amazing team of changemakers and storytellers! Allowing someone else to care for your baby is never easy (being a parent I can say that) but with Purple Story (The Home of Operational Excellence) a shift has happened! I have been working to ensure we protect what we do and how we do it and I am delighted to say this beautiful bunch of purple people have earned my trust and respect to be #purple! I cannot grow the #purple brand to be as big as my inspirations BrewDog or Gymshark unless I find time to focus on the strategy (nudged by my wonderful number 2 Lynda Merryweather )! Watch this space for incredibly exciting things happening......

But for now, please give a huge purple cheer for the Purple Storytellers who I am very very proud to call my team Richard Tudor-Thomas Andy Goram Jonathan Saunders Verity Milns Emma Sedgwick

Compliance that does not have to cost the earth....

Induction training for compliance can be a costly endeavour with unproductive hours spent on due diligence training that becomes tick box! Last year I undertook a survey that asked how many hours does a new starter have to spend on compliance training via e-learning! The answer was over 60% said between 5 and 7 hours!

In my simple language, with NI baked in, this is something like ￡70 cost of time just to get this done and the likelihood is they won't recall it anyway!

In a world where sales are hard to come by, cost becomes more important and I was always taught for every ￡1 you spend you have take ￡5 in sales - which basically means for every new starter you need to factor an additional ￡350 in sales just to cover their induction!!!! #DOH!

Well STOP IT right now as there is another way

SIDEWAYS was founded by John Mason to make life easy fun and less costly through his ingenious knowledge sharing platform where basic training takes less than 3 hours to complete and is FUN!!!! Using bite sized videos...... I could go on and on about SIDEWAYS but instead why not book a demo with the founder himself who is back in the UK for 4 weeks in September and October! Message me for an introduction and join the likes of Pizza Pilgrims and Rosa's Thai who use this to drive real performance change in their business! PS we at Purple Story (The Home of Operational Excellence) use this for our digital training hence I am a super fan!!!!!

My Purple Person of the week!

This is a shameless shout out for someone that is blowing me away every day as an incredible human being and I get to call him my son! Corey Hunt has his own #purplestory but my version is the fact that I would be lost in Purple Story (The Home of Operational Excellence) without him! Corey is a blue preference which means he is a brilliant sounding board for all things logic and reason!!!! Over the past few months he has been building me spreadsheets and models in his own time that help me ensure I am focussed on my cash flow! As an entrepreneur this is critical to remove any stress (or at least lessen it)!

This week he turned 26 (which makes me feel super old) BUT I am proud that I get to build a business with this kick ass individual at my side! #thankyou

So, another edition is complete and I cannot quite believe this is the 5th edition and we are over 1200 subscribers - help me push this out there and gain even more......

Please do come and celebrate with us on October 19th in Manchester at 4pm - bring your team and come and play the #purple way and see what we are all about! If you don't ask for a ticket you don't get and we think the more the merrier and it's on us!!!!!