Humblebrags - May 2024

Our steadily growing community voted recently on the core values we wish to adopt in our activities.

It was a resounding result based on the principle that LinkedIn work on 8 Pillars which we wanted to mirror.

From the small groups of 40+ people we came up with ten values and created a Poll in our closed WhatsApp group.

The Top 3 Values are:

Supportive Collaborative Community

July sees us reach our 1st Birthday so we're going to be organising something special and inclusive to celebrate. Watch this space for more details as the collaboration with Ann MacGillivray steps in.

What are the Humblebrags this month?

Attendees of our event get the opportunity to share their successes, be that an event, news, awards or product launch. It is lovingly termed our 'Humblebrag' section. And Well, there's lots!

Host, Wendy, launches new website and discount for members

Making Conversations Count is no more! Technically not true as the fabulous podcast is very much on any of your listening platforms and the best selling book is on Amazon but...

As this is the 20th year in business for Wendy Harris it was time for a refresh and our very own 'unbland your brand' guy Tom McCrorie was the perfect partner to collaborate with.

Konpasu is a Japanese term for compass which aligned very nicely with leading conversations.

Focusing on training for office based teams or individuals, you can choose from telemarketing, telesales or LinkedIn blends of applying speaking techniques to your business activities.

Find out more at konpasu.co.uk 25% discount to all attendees - simply message Wendy to claim your discount and book your session.

Did you know you can book a tour of Prestwick Airport?

Lorraine Eivers FCIPD met Allan Mackintosh at one of our events, where Allan shared he also runs tours of the airport. Lorraine booked a tour for her husbands birthday and said this about their experience:

It is so interesting and informative, Allan delivers the tour with such knowledge and humour.

You can find out more information and book your airport tour at www.prestwickaviationtours.com?or alternatively interested parties can contact Allan Mackintosh directly on 0776 416 8989 or email [email protected]

Nutritionist releases eBook with 6 top tips

Highlighting the most common things Fiona Brannigan sees in her clinical practice so you can start today to increasing your energy levels. For your copy just send a DM to Fiona and start making the changes to live a more energetic & vibrant life!

Allneeds launches business support to mark 25 year anniversary

Margaret Milton joins AllNeeds and is set to offer business support to encourage the local economy. Can't wait to learn more about how this will help us.

AI & Systems expert launches MS CoPilot and gemini workshops

Learn about AI and its practical application to your business on this workshop.

Or are you a HR Manager looking to learn how to utilise MS Co-Pilot

Both of these workshops have been designed and tested ready to give you the best springboard to success.

Plus Carrie Fogarty won the award for Member of the Year at her local Vision BNI (Newton Mearns) chapter. Voted by the members to show their support and recognition of all she does.

Award winning Garage owner attends for the 1st time

Daniel Maguire runs Rds autocayr in Ayr and meets people from all walks of life and business in his garage. Since Daniel is always listening to what people need he is well placed to match people up to solve problems. Members of BNI Magnum - Ayrshire voted him Member of the Year for all he does to help others.

Ayrshire IT Firm supply Google's local office

Proof that you don't need to be a London player to work with top brands like 谷歌 . Being experts and trusted goes a long way towards being the pick of the crop. Congratulations to Craig Hume and the team at Utopia Computers

Local Amateur astronomer / astrophotographer is featured in Ayrshire Magazine

Tom McCrorie featured on page 30 of the March/April edition of Ayrshire Magazine under the Headline:

To the Moon and Back

Tom is an avid amatuer astronomer and he takes photographs of space from his back garden is Troon.

Space is Tom's passion project and he is in the final stages of launching an app. There'll be more news on that in future newsletters!

Students vote lecturer their Supportive award

Iain Fergus was nominated under the "Super Support (Teaching)" category in the GCU Students' Association Teaching Awards 2023/24

It's wonderful when your students (or clients) make you feel wonderful, isn't it?

You can read about Iain and all the nominees over on the GCU website.

It felt especially special to Iain as he only teaches part time and this reinforces that he does make a difference.

Business Awards UK vote Octavis best newcomer

Business Awards UK voted Octavis 'Best Newcomer Consultancy' for digital services consultancy with merged web design and cyber security.

Megan Popescu ?? explained that they identified a potential breach for cyber criminals to hack clients through their websites and created a fix.

Great to be in Ayrshire!

Join us at the next event on 20th June, we'll be back at our regular venue SimpsInns Potting Shed in Irvine from 9.30am until the chat stops...

Register your interest to attend and LinkedIn will give you the option to save to your calendar plus send you a reminder.

Our Birthday celebrations are coming together nicely so if you're not attending The Open on 18th July mark yourself as busy for local networking with us.

See you soon,

Wendy Harris

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