As the City exodus continues, some former finance executives are making surprising shifts in career direction. It seems that those fortunate enough to have a big redundancy cheque, or prudent enough to have set aside money for just such a rainy day, are seizing the opportunity to set up their own businesses. The Sunday Times (2/11/08) reports on choices as varied as cake-making, plant-selling, supplying kitchen equipment in Kenya to fine art.
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How many of your company's Personal Development Plans included attendance at a Presentation Skills Course this year? And what happens when the individual has attended the course? In most cases the box gets ticked and life goes on. But has it made a difference? Is the individual now actually more skilled at whatever kind of presentation he/she is required to make or do they come back remembering "tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em, tell 'em and tell 'em what you've just told them" and a couple of other chestnuts?
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