University of Bedfordshire Business School's posts

Many businesses expand into new markets as a result of a variety of reasons - strategic decision, expansion of an existing customer, personal contacts and many others. Stephen James, Director of TradeArc Services Ltd, has many years' experience of business development in central Europe and Poland in particular. He joins Stephen Hyde, Professor in Management Practice, to reveal some success stories - and one or two things that went wrong.

What impact do you have on others? What does that impact mean? How could you change your impact? We are pleased to have our first-ever Impacttologist for this session. Martin Brooks will join Colin Bradshaw, Professor in Management Practice, in H202. Come and join the discussion and boost your career chances!

Starting up your own business is always challenging. But how tough is it in the competitive world of estate agency?Join the discussion with Professor in Management Practice Colin Bradshaw and Venessa Afonja, who runs her own local property consulting business.

Just how difficult is it to be successful in the world of broadcasting? Learn a few of the important dos and don'ts in this special session.

Join the discussion with Professor in Management Practice Stephen Hyde and the multimedia journalist, Josef-Israel Obeng.

Topic suggested by Markus Haag - and a great one. Join Professors in Management Practice Stephen Hyde and Colin Bradshaw (an industry expert) for what is bound to be a lively and thought-provoking discussion.

Steve McAteer, CEO of Wenta, the start-up business advisory service, joins Stephen Hyde, Professor in Management Practice to discuss the trials and tribulations of starting-up a business and possible sources of support.

Managing the relationships between staff and between management and junior employees is challenging. Doing the right thing isn't always easy or obvious. Caroline Plummer, Regional Manager of ACAS (the Government-funded arbitration service) joins Stephen Hyde, Professor in Management Practice, to discuss and share some examples.

The car trade is notoriously cut-throat. So how do you achieve success? Elly Ambrose of AmKon Training Services which specialises in training in that industry, joins Stephen Hyde, Professor in Management Practice, to discuss and share some stories.

Knowing what impact you have on others and how to avoid predictable clashes of personality can really help in business. Judy Oliver, MD of Clarity 4D, joins Stephen Hyde, Professor in Management Practice, to discuss this and share some stories from their experience.

Mark Collier, MD of Re-Mark-it, joins Stephen Hyde, Professor in Management Practice, to discuss his remarkable career as a scrap metal dealer and the lessons he has learned along the way. Mark is quite a character and this will prove to be an entertaining discussion about a business most of us know very little about as well as the trials and tribulations of making a start-up business a success.