Peter Lawrence from Human Capital Department hosts an online masterclass: The people management challenges of Brexit for SMEs.

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Every Tuesday at 12.30pm you can watch an online business masterclass delivered by one of our adviser members. This week, Peter Lawrence hosts:&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.enterprisenation.com/events/event/?id=8aaab444-9de9-e811-a978-0022480132b8">The people management challenges of Brexit for SMEs</a>.

Top 50 Enterprise Nation Advisor &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Help small businesses&amp;nbsp;throughout the employee life-cycle; from Recruitment to Employee Exit .&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Check out our website: www.humancapitaldept.com or linked-in and facebook page and follow us on Twitter @hcdept or just send me an email: peter.lawrence@humancapitaldept.com&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For a free trial of our HR software follow the link below:&lt;/p&gt;

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HR Consultant [& MD of Human Capital Dept.]

An adviser to help you tackle the Brexit people management challenges

Every Tuesday at 12.30pm you can watch an online business masterclass delivered by one of our adviser members.

The people management challenges of Brexit for SMEs

Live masterclasses are available for free for Enterprise Nation members or £10 for non-members.

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People management & development support for SMEs. Personnel management, human resources management or human capital.

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I've watched the TV serialisation and want to get into the book to understand the context and facinated by the mind manipulation (that is HR!)

Julian Richer of Richer Sounds who seems to be an authentic voice at a time of PR and hype.

Establishing our HR consultancy business and getting it to a stage where we can draw a reasonable salary.

Working out in Qatar and Oman as an expat implementing world class people management and development processes, and seeing the results for individuals and the whole organisation.

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Hone sales skills. These are critical to business success, especially in the early days.

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Most businesses start as one man or one woman bands. At this level the person has create employment (a job for themselves) but to grow the business you need to employ people and move from technician to owner/manager, working on the business rather than in the business. Strategic advice is essential to achieve this.

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&lt;p&gt;In my early career&amp;nbsp;I was national sales manager and&amp;nbsp;board director&amp;nbsp;within private and publicly&amp;nbsp;owned businesses,&amp;nbsp;before forming my own consultancy practise in 2003,&amp;nbsp;where it was my aim&amp;nbsp;to bring professional support for meticulous planning and development&amp;nbsp;to other independent companies. I&amp;nbsp;became a full member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Levitt Group in 2006,&amp;nbsp;becoming&amp;nbsp;Chartered in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since 2003, I have worked with Royal Warrant holding businesses&amp;nbsp;allied to the construction industry&amp;nbsp;in manufacturing, wholesaling&amp;nbsp;and services,&amp;nbsp;whilst also working with non-Warrant holding companies in the retail and leisure sectors.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 2012&amp;nbsp;Enterprise Nation invited me to help support members like you through&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;accredited Growth Voucher scheme;&amp;nbsp;this work saw me recognised by those clients who had benefitted from my support and in 2015 I was honoured to be named, &amp;#39;One of Britain&amp;#39;s Top 50 Small Business Advisors&amp;#39;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 2013&amp;nbsp;I was invited to join an executive board&amp;nbsp;to support the management and shareholders of that company as an NED and more recently&amp;nbsp;I became an ambassador for a financial services firm which&amp;nbsp;works together with me to support business owners expand and ultimately sell their businesses. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Throughout the many years my practise has been running,&amp;nbsp;I have received some truly wonderful endorsements&amp;nbsp;which have all been generously written by my clients, all&amp;nbsp;of whom I&amp;nbsp;can now count as friends. If you believe my experience and skills can help you with the&amp;nbsp;hopes and desires you have for your business and you would like to read these endorsements, I&amp;#39;d be happy to share them with you, so please get in touch.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Away from work,&amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;m a keen&amp;nbsp;yachtsman and dinghy racer (unfortunately, due to&amp;nbsp;time and my age I&amp;#39;m prevented from doing this other than for the fun/challenge of it!).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Best wishes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nigel Davis, MCIM Chartered Marketer&amp;nbsp;(07963-187091)&lt;/p&gt;

Voted 'One of Britain's Top 50 Small Business Advisors'

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