Links

Recommended web sites:

• www.cca.org.uk
  The professional body for customer contact, with over 800 corporate members this represents over 3,500 senior practitioners, employing between 20%-30% of the total contact centre population within the UK market. Around 10% of people employed in UK contact centres are working in a CCA Accredited centre. By providing a unique blend of professional services CCA delivers membership packages encouraging the continuous professional development of contact centres, and the people employed within them.
• www.bgateway.com
  Business Gateway is a partnership with Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Executive and Local Authorities. Our mission at Business Gateway is to support economic development in Scotland. By bringing together a range of key services Business Gateway delivers an effective one stop shop to help you grow or start your business.
• www.womenintothenetwork.co.uk/page/support/scotland.cfm
  Scotland's main economic development agency, funded by the Scottish Executive. Provides business support in the regions of Ayrshire, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh and Lothian, Forth Valley, Fife, Glasgow, Grampian, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire and Tayside.
• www.glasgowmentoringnetwork.co.uk
  Glasgow Mentoring Network (GMN) is a best practice organisation, which aims; “To inform and advance the development, design and delivery of mentoring programmes in the city.”
• www.cipd.co.uk/coachingatwork
  An excellent site provided by CIPD for those who want to deliver high quality people management
• www.fsb.org.uk
  With over 200,000 members, the Federation of Small Businesses is the largest organisation representing small and medium sized businesses in the UK.
• www.toastmasters.org
  Toastmasters offer a proven way to improve your communication skills. By participating in a fun and supportive Toastmasters group, you'll become a better speaker and leader and gain confidence to succeed in whatever path you've chosen in life.
• www.learndirectscotland.com
  • At the centre of a whole network of courses and places to learn in Scotland. Can put you in touch with course providers – in person or online. Can help you to decide what course you should do and where to find it. Can give you general information on learning and advice on child-care and funding.
• www.centreforconfidence.co.uk
  The Centre for Confidence and Well-being aims to support individual, organisational and cultural change. We aim to do this mainly through the dissemination of learning from the growing discipline of Positive Psychology. As well as our web resources we organise conferences, workshops and networking events and act as consultants to interested organisations.
• www.achievementspecialists.co.uk
  Achievement Specialists life coaching diploma course is based on the "The Life Coaching Handbook". Everything You Need to Be an Effective Life Coach' by Curly Martin, which is the bestselling seminal work on life coaching written specifically for life coaches. The life coaching diploma course was the first life coach training course in the UK to be fully accredited by two external bodies and is still the only life coach training course accredited by both the European Coaching Institute and the Open College Network. Our founder Curly Martin is the only life coach trainer and life coach training provider to be invited to contribute and interviewed by the Radio 4, In Business Programme on life coaching. For the record, Curly Martin has never been an employee or nor has she been trained by any UK Coach Training organisation.
• www.businessballs.com
  Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organisations, run by Alan Chapman, in Leicester, England
• www.tree-of-knowledge.co.uk
  Deliver motivation to schools by developing courses and resources, designed by teachers for teachers, helping to support the demands of our changing curriculum.
• www.bethhodgephotography.com
  Are you are looking for a professional Scottish female wedding and portrait photographer who is fantastic with babies and children? Struggling to find a special events photographer for balls, presentations and other corporate occasions in and around Glasgow? Or perhaps you want the mummy of maternity and makeover photography to work her magic on you…look no further!
• www.virtuallysorted.com
  A dynamic new concept, Virtually Sorted was established in spring 2005 in Glasgow. Offering a bespoke virtual PA service for both companies and personal clients. Its director, Caroline Melville, organises everything from video shoots to project-managing kitchen installations, and all our staff project a friendly, professional image for your company.
• www.scottishschooloffloristry.co.uk
  The Scottish School of Floristry operates a relaxed timetable of events, workshops and demonstrations tailored both for florists and for those with a keen interest in the top end of floral design for the home. Anyone looking to immerse themselves in the more creative aspects of working with flowers will be delighted with the experience and training now available at St. George's Studios in Glasgow.
• www.universalcomedy.co.uk
  Formed as a Company in 2004, Universal Comedy provides ‘Comedy Workshops’ and ‘Developmental Skills Training Courses’ for young people and adults experiencing the negative effects of short to long-term physical ill health.
• www.cottoncandycorsage.com
  Be seen sporting the hottest handmade fashion accessories... Corsages are exquisite brooches to be worn wherever your heart desires. Experiment - take control. Adorn hair, shoes, dresses, bags, sleeves, belts, coats even boots!