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*Monday reminder for all Catapult graduates!*
At 4pm today, you can join us for your weekly catch-up session!
Looking forward to having a lovely mix of graduates from our four cohort, making it an excellent opportunity for networking as well as bringing your thoughts, ideas and challenges to the table.
You don’t need to come with questions or thoughts prepared for these sessions. Previously we’ve found that hearing others talk through their plans can often spark an idea for your own portfolio career, and it’s always nice to see what others have been up to. This session is also a great place to set accountability for your goals.
Do check out the info on our new Catapult Graduate Community Group – http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/collective/groups/catapult-graduate-community/ where these discussions can continue too.
Looking forward to seeing you at 4pm!
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This looks so interesting Eike Post – unfortunately it’s just reloading for me, rather than loading in full – would you have another link for it?
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WHen I click on edit post it does not load. I tried it many times but then gave up and just posted a comment with the new link.
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Jenny Collins posted in the group The Community
Duncan Dalzel-Job and the wider community 🙂
Just had the privilege of hearing this amazing lady talk.
Claire Haidar
TED talk
Basically, she posited:
We can’t go back to the office. Ever.
The bonds are broken. New patterns are better, and going backwards never works. We should plan to never return.
It will in fact be harder to return to the old world order, than it was to progress to more flexible home working, particularly now we have adapted.
CEOs always liked getting brainpower into the building, but was it ever successful?
The data says no. People aren’t productive in offices – they create communities to replicate the home they left behind and only tend to actively WORK 3-4hrs per day. When WFH like we are now, people work more adaptively around their personal lives, remaining connected to what needs to be done both in the home, and the office, over 15hrs/day. Productive business work tends to be between 6-8hrs. Now that the shif…
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I always love the phrase ”the data says..” She’s impressive, grown her biz quickly from 3 to 30+ staff and the pandemic has sure helped. No issue with that… but she has seed funding to grow further, her primary biz is a platfrom to enable digital/remote working… and so the cynic in me says ”she would say this wouldnt she”. There are so many aspects of the ”old” ways that were inefficient and the panmdemic has given us an opportunity to ref…
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I agree Malcolm Millar – my bet is on a more hybrid approach to offices/ communing going forward
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Jenny Collins Thank you for the summary and really interesting to hear the strength of argument. Whilst my business’s ideals are based on the growth of home working I think it’s good to have a bit of cynicism about the death of the office. Disclaimer: I have office clients too but their projects are about adapting existing offices for the ’future of work’ rather than building more city-centre offices. Developing a workplace strategy should definitely be on a case-by-case …
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It’s a really interesting perspective, however my anecdotal-only experience conflicts in a number of areas. Firstly, whilst many people started off saying WFH is the way to go and they couldn’t see themselves wanting to go back into the office at all, those views as Ben said have evolved into a hybrid being more preferable. “Going backwards never works”, ‘people aren’t productive in offices” are quite strong and definitive statements! I know many people who rely on the water coole…
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*Monday reminder for all previous Catapult graduates!*
At 4pm today, you can join us for your weekly catch-up session!
This should be in your diaries, but if you’d like another invite, please let Lexi Radcliffe-Hart or Claire Moss know and they will get you added! Also, do check out the info on our new Catapult Graduate Community Group – http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/collective/groups/catapult-graduate-community/
If you haven’t joined us for one of these sessions before, this catch-up allows you to talk through your ideas and listen to feedback from other Catapult graduates and the TPC team – all of whom are at varying stages of their portfolio career journey.
You don’t need to come with questions or thoughts prepared for these sessions. Previously we’ve found that hearing others talk through their plans can often spark an idea for your own portfolio career, and it’s always nice to see what others have been up to. This session is also a great pla…
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It’s that time on a Monday when I mention as many of you as possible! Duncan Dalzel-Job P Tim Walters, Ph.D. charlie farr Jenny Collins steven reader Stephen Fleming Alex Pitt Alex Bernice Joan Langley Saira Chaudry Mitch Bradford Katie Blake Drummond Gilbert Eike Post Paul David Mather Lucy Warman Kimberley Matalon Fergus Mellon Martin Kay Matt Ward Luke Rodwell Monsuru Sodeeq Tim Walters, Ph.D. Silvia Janska Jenny Varley Pedro Rangel Anthony Main Cara de Lange Jude Kriwald Nicola Twiston Davies emma reynolds …
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My last Monday coaching course module was today so as of next week I should be abl to join these again Lexi!
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Yay! Brilliant to know. Thanks, Saira!
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Big question: If there was one thing you wished you’d known when you first started your portfolio career, what would that be?
Your answer may or may not appear in a TPC article in the next few weeks
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I would have three:
1) Don’t obsess over perfecting your sales pitch, as most likely you will end up selling something else.
2) Don’t try to do all the client work yourself – work out what you need to do yourself vs outsource to others.
3) Don’t be too keen to say yes in the early days just because you have a bit of free time, as one day soon you will run out of free time and it is hard to extract yourself from those ’nice to have’ commitments.
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1) Proposals can be super simple to get started – an e-mail or word document. It’s about communicating the value, not making it all look like it’s a professional company. If you can provide value, just make it simple and get it communicated.
2) Write more articles – I am still amazed at what some good articles have done for me – they can turn cold leads into instant enquiries.
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3) Don’t try to do too much at once or frequently switch tactics. Value your thinking space and focus on 1-2 key goals or themes each quarter e.g. mastering a skill, building community, getting paid work.
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Silvia Janska you might have some good tips to add to this!
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Oh I love questions like this!!
I wish I’d have had more conviction in my pricing from the get-go. I was SO reactive at first to people who would talk me WAY down on my rates to fit their budget, and would end up working for less than minimum wage for work that other’s would have charged thousands for.
I know now that the right clients really understand the value that your skillset brings them, and if they don’t then its okay to accept that the relationship isn’t t…
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oh boy, it feels like a big question! I promised I’m not primed here but community is amazing for support – for me Facebook groups (before TPC obviously) are a great source of insight, information and support for anyone starting out.
Also knowing what you’re about – getting really really specific about what you do, how and who for. If people don’t know how to talk about you, they can’t sell you! Think – if you told the average OAP in the street what …
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I LOVE this Nicola. In fact, Alex Pitt lets build this into our future workshop! Nicola Twiston Davies we will make sure to credit you
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That is a genius approach- how would you explain what you do to an OAP, a simple enough idea but HARD to achieve. Love it Nicola Twiston Davies!!
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haha thanks Alex Pitt and Fiona Chorlton-Voong – it’s definitely been super helpful for me 🙂 I look forward to seeing my name in lights!
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