Each month we’d like to share what we’re up to at SK Chase. In February: No one received any flowers to the office this Valentine’s Day. But if you were given a gift voucher from one of our lovely customers, we hope you have a brilliant time when you use it! February also means that [...]
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News in February
Posted in Business Culture, Personal, Personal development, seasonal, Uncategorized, tagged gift voucher, personal context on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Initiating is Valuable
Posted in Business Culture, Personal, Personal development, Uncategorized on February 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
‘Poke the Box’ Our company values are to be courageous, fair and true to all. The whole team went on a values workshop to agree on measurements of these values. One of the measurements was to read a book on personal or professional growth per year and share our learnings with the team. One of [...]
News in January
Posted in Business Culture, Uncategorized on January 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Each month we’d like to share what we’re up to at SK Chase. In January: Although Christmas feels like a distant memory now, we have all been reflecting on this time to see if there is anything we can do better. It’s our busiest time of year (around 30% of our clients’ yearly gift voucher sales [...]
Space – The Final Frontier
Posted in Business Culture, Equal opportunities, Personal, Personal development, Uncategorized, Working Mothers, tagged Space on January 1, 2012 | 9 Comments »
I am “the frame” A couple of months back I was reading an article about family life and came across a quote from a mother that really got me thinking. It read “When you become a parent you’re no longer in the picture, you become the picture frame”. At first I thought, “Yeah, I can [...]
News in November
Posted in Business Culture, Uncategorized on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Each month, we’d like to share what we are up to at SK Chase. In November: We are all getting ready for Christmas! We have two new recruits called Jenny & Jerry who are working in Service Delivery helping hotels & gift voucher buyers with any queries they may have. Jenny is here full-time and [...]
Are We Living Our Values?
Posted in Personal, Personal development, Uncategorized on November 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Our new financial year starts today, 1st November, as does the implementation of a project that the team has been working on together since the beginning of this year – relating to our values. Back in February we together agreed a new set of values; to be courageous, to be true and fair to all. [...]
News in September
Posted in Business Culture, Equal opportunities, Personal, Personal development, Uncategorized on September 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Each month, we’d like to share what we are up to at SK Chase. In September: Ben & Dani are hosting SK Chase’s table at the AA Hospitality Awards in London next week. We’re getting ready for Christmas! Ensuring our Fulfillment Partner JEM has plenty of gift voucher stationary & stock for each hotel & [...]
From 70 to 0 – The Art of Making an Impact with Clients!
Posted in Business Culture, Personal, Personal development, public speaking, Uncategorized, tagged impact on September 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A few weeks ago I attended the “How to Make an Impact” workshop with Ed Percival from www.edpercival.com. It’s a two day workshop and the main goal of the training is to learn how to use my voice and body language as an instrument to connect with my audience and for me to leave an impact with [...]
News in August
Posted in Business Culture, Uncategorized on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Each month, we’d like to share what we are up to at SK Chase. In August: Jan, Ben and Catharine went to visit JEM Marketing (our fulfilment partner) and really enjoyed meeting the team there and seeing how our clients’ vouchers are actually fulfilled. We have had some fantastic feedback from our partners and clients [...]