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Business Fun – MID Comms Summer Ball 2017

Last night we held our MID annual Summer Ball. We do this every year and get all the Store teams, Call Centre, and the Head Office Team together and have a social drink and tons of business fun. This year we hosted at Hotel Football at Old Trafford, a great venue.

The team loved it. Especially as we let them plan it. I give the team a budget and they put the night together. Empowerment of your people is really important. They grow as people and as a team when given responsibility, which is always a must for me.

This year we played loads of different games like Family Fortunes, Krypton Factor, Play Your Cards Right and much more. We had a bucking bronco and a great indoor penalty shootout on the roofless top floor.

A great highlight of the night was our singing waiters. The theatrics they displayed and made the entire room think it was a real argument, and then burst into a superb Italian Opera Performance which was brilliant and comes well recommended for me, for any event.

The Team Really Love The Evening, They All Come Together As One!

As a business, we have 17 sites across the northwest, so this is one of four times a year we get together as a team of teams. Yes, it can be seen as quite a big gesture for any business to organize and fund, to why my response to many other business owners is:

“It’s all relevant based on the scale of economy and business size.”

It doesn’t matter about the scale or the investment into the event as there is always someone doing a bigger event. The point I am wanting to make is about the importance of getting your people together, to make sure they feel valued, have fun, let their hair down and you can keep a real community feel.

The Teams Share Ideas & Collaborate About Different Topics

They share ideas, challenges, goal progress, and support each other with lots of other social topics. They love to see who the rising stars and upcoming talent, they love to tell each other how well they are doing, all of these conversations give the entire business, exciting energy as we go into H2.

I can not tell you how important it is to get together and have some fun. So ask your self these questions, when did you last get your business together?

When will you next get your team together? Ask any of our team they will tell you they like the night.

So if the answer to the first question is a long time, Christmas or even never, then make sure you answer the next question with soon…

Best regards
Danny Simpson
CEO

Danny Simpson – Business Boxing Pride, Passion, Persistence

Stop Competing Start Winning – Pride, Passion, Persistence

For those of you that know me you will know I am passionate about my 3 P’s – Pride, Passion and Persistence.  I love to tell and show people how these words, with there behavioural meanings and disciplines are vital to ensure success in life but more specifically in business.

Boxing is another passion of mine and also a great illustration of my 3 P’s;  as a result I would like to show you how you can apply Pride, Passion and Persistence into your everyday Business and Personal life, and be successful.

I am a HUGE Anthony Joshua Fan, he is an amazing sports personality and in my opinion could be as great a personality as Mohamed Ali. Every so often a rare talent enters their field and achieves great accolades and showcases their profession unbelievably well.  I think of people like Tiger Woods in Golf, Lewis Hamilton in F1, Cristiano Ronaldo in Football, etc.

     

I believe Joshua is going to be that legend for boxing.  Joshua is humble, grounded and has immense pride for boxing, as made him who he is today; passion with a love for winning and persistent, showing a real climb to success through good times and bad.

We watched our new Boxing Champion Anthony Joshua, defeat Klitschko in front of a sold out 90,000 Wembley crowd, and a box office record of television fans.  I believe he showcased the 3 P’s beautifully, as he always does.

Anthony Joshua showed exceptional mental strength, plenty of heart and resilience in the ring that Saturday night

Joshua started as he always does confident yet reserved as he settled into his surroundings, and the fight.  Joshua knocked Klitschko down in the 5th round and we all we thought he might have done it here, but the mighty Klitschko rose to his feet, to fight on.  Klitschko then took Joshua down in the 6th round.  Most of all I believe until this point, Joshua stuck to his plan, and looked confident.  While just like some businesses, Joshua got knocked down, and found himself in potential trouble.

Joshua got up and started to go through a process I believe every champion goes through at some point when competing. He did NOT, and was NOT going to lose right there in front of his 90,000 fans, his team and his watchers.  Pride, Passion and persistence got him off the canvas.

Passion for the sport, his past and his desire to win made him continue on through the remaining rounds.  He figured out what he needed to do to win the fight, whilst venturing into uncharted boxing territory.

Persistence and self belief allowed Joshua keep taking the punches and start to think smart about what his new strategy should be. In Anthony’s mind it was never in doubt that he would win; I believe he would have continued to get up time and time again. Through some tough criticism from the commentary with some people doubting if he could hold on and come back he persevered.

A strong mind, a strong team and the 3 P’s embedded in his way of working I believe was the reason Joshua went onto win, and become a bigger champion.

Consequently don’t allow worry in life or business to creep in when you get knocked down, or knocked back.  We must pick ourselves up, and keep going, reflecting on what happened.  As a result making sure you have the best people around you, with people who support you is also a huge part of winning.  Therefore remove negative vibes, and people from your life, choose winning attitudes and positive mindset, and don’t settle for anything else if you want to win.

Seems like you will always get people who have an opinion, and sometimes doubters, but channel this energy and apply it as focus to your goals, and you WILL SUCCEED…