For the first time in weeks it was a wet morning and it was nice to be tucked up in a virtual meeting. By 7.30am 25 people were logged in which included Paul Horti a visitor for the second meeting running.
The Performance League
Paul Booth is currently in the lead 20 points out in front.
Education Presentation
Simon Essex provided a thoughtful presentation about being inclusive with your staff; arrange for the same Zoom meetings that you might have with customers also for your staff. Make everyone part of the meeting have a plan …… and also a plan B. Set goals. The purpose is to make staff feel valued. A good presentation.
New Member Induction & Existing Member Renewal
Terry Maylin reported that John Hammond had renewed his membership and is going for the Mark of Excellence. Sarah Bell was confirmed as our most recent member. Congratulations to both.
The 60 Second Round
Sarah Bell was last week’s Oscar Winner and kicked us off. Fortunately, unlike the premiership, she was not performing to an empty stadium.
Richard Reed has now got all of his customer’s money back. His suppliers are apparently advertising for next year. Richard has perhaps suffered as much as anyone in the group from the virus short of catching it. Let’s see if we can get some referrals to him for next year’s holidays.
Stuart Smallcombe boasted the availability of full fibreoptic internet connection wherever or whoever you are. It’s just that the price will vary depending upon how obscure your location is.
Toby Acton’s 60 seconds was a game-changer for the meeting. He owned up to being a hamster trainer, at all times trying to get business owners off the treadmill and working effectively. Simon Essex confessed to feeling like a hamster over the last couple of weeks but yesterday a client approached him looking for a candidate. Simon has unfurloughed himself but still had the time to show us his veggie plot, From Furlough to Furrow! Hamster like Dean Caldon has been coping with his business “going crazy”. John Freeman might not be on a treadmill but he is having to run fast to keep up and Blake Hammond confirmed that they were having to run rather than walk in order to keep up with the influx of business.
Interesting and/or curious commissions included Nick Cooke who is due to inspect a building that suffers from heavy lorries shaking its very fabric. Paul Dulieu complaining of clients who take their advertising an acronym too far; an abbreviation too incomprehensible. Vincent Goode warned of a worldwide shortage of acrylic fibre and Mason Edwards has been restoring confidence in businesses with his “full clean” so much so that he has been described by several as heroic. We all knew that, didn’t we?
Matt Barry illustrated by way of sneak preview the outcome of his collaboration with Brentwood Council as the town tries to open up after the lockdown. We were all impressed including Sarah Bell who accordingly awarded him the Oscar.
Meeting Secretary’s Report
If the 60 Second Round was positively uplifting (and it was) the recorded business was a match. £52,000 of business recorded last month is expected to be bettered this month.
Synergy Team Meeting
The business to consumer group met on Monday and as usual, produced a lively interaction between attending Members.
10-minute presentation by Brian Painter
As always entertaining if sometimes unusual. It is worth recording that Brian Painter took early retirement from his Public Relations Role with British Gas on 31st December 1991. After retraining he has since 1993 been putting people into trances. He even has as long time client who travels to see him from Ipswich on a regular basis just to experience the relaxation of being put into a trance.
Referrals, Testimonials and more…
Plenty of business passed and acknowledged
Vincent Goode announced another social next week. This weeks was a discussion of your 5 favourite films ; turn up next week for something similar but different.
So ended as good as meeting as we have had in a virtual sense.
A thoroughly enjoyable meeting this morning. Lots of laughs alongside Simon’s fantastic education slot and Brian’s extremely relaxing and somewhat mesmeric 10 minute presentation. I’m off to oil my hamster wheel and loom forward to seeing you all again next week! Squeek squeek.
Great input from Simon. We all find ourselves on that wheel from time to time. It’s good to be reminded of that.
Well done Simon for a great Education slot. Very good 10 minutes from Brian who has helped clients of mine in the past . Good lively referral round and great to see the meeting thriving with new members and visitors who hopefully like what they see and will be keen to join.
Great meeting. If anyone can find any acrylic, please let me know! Hope to see you on Tuesday 8pm for another EBF Social. A high level of banter will be enjoyed by all. Looking forward to sharing my Bay City Roller album covers with you 🙂
Great meeting and a hypnotising 10 minutes and insightful ed slot.
Great Meeting as always, brilliant Ed Slot Simon – plus excellent 10 minutes Brian. See you all next week.
The entire meeting from beginning to end had such a good buzz. First class performances from Simon in his Ed Slot and Brian with his 10 minute presentation. And always good of course to see so many referrals being passed around. Nice to see our visitors Paul and Yvonne.
Excellent meeting good presentation from Brian and a very noteworthy Ed slot from Simon. I miss you guys! – OK i mainly miss the breakfast, but I do miss you a bit x
Another great meeting. Loved the Ed Slot and 10 minutes from Messers Essex and Painter..
I miss the breakfast too but as I have now stopped eating breakfast I am not sure what I will do when we get back to physical meetings…
I agree with Nick that there was a real positive buzz about procedings today. I thought the Ed Slot was very well thought out and delivered by Simon and there were some excellent 60 seconds. Glad that Sarah is now fully signed up and I think we will be good for you Sarah.
Congratulation to Brian for his 10 mts and good to see Caroline and Paul were with us, you should do so again some time.
Great meeting sorry we could not get strong enough signal to stay online. Sorry I missed your 10 minutes Brian. Unfortunately we had to be on a secure site early to get our escort.
Great meeting, best bit had to be “scott next followed by alan moller, when Scott finished we moved swiftly on to a visitor, Paul Horti i believe, never mind, have a great weekend all!!
Well done, everyone, for an inspiring meeting. started well with Simon’s ed slot. Thank you for your kind remarks, I was only half way through my presentation, “cut off in my prime,” as they say! Enjoy the week end.n
Wonderful wonderful coping at home . It was good to catch up with some old friends . Excellent education slot and 10 minutes from Brian