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Builders LondonThe Builders London is the principal trade organisation for private sector housebuilders and voice of the home building industry in England and Wales. It is an exciting industry filled with many talented people and organisations, providing sustainable and attractive homes to meet the demands of consumers. There's less face to face with your customers and your salespeople. To maintain your competitive edge, managers, sales leaders and business owners must learn how to quickly and efficiently coach, develop, motivate and retain their top performers in order to drive positive, measurable change. Keith Rosen has developed a proven, systematic process to create a world class team by developing your own coaching skills; the missing discipline among today's leaders. Using a tactical coaching system that is easy to deploy, Keith shows you how to power your sales force to realize their fullest potential. Our member firms account for approximately 80% of all new homes built in England and Wales in any one year, and include companies of all sizes, ranging from multi-national household names through regionally based businesses and small local companies. 1. City: Severn Trent fined for lying to customers data: 10.04.08 Severn Trent has been fined a record £35.8million for fiddling its figures. 2. For many Americans, the boom that wasn't data: 10.04.08 Since World War II, the buying power of most American families grew while the economy did. But in 2007, the median family seems to have made less. 3. Irish town takes lead on renewable energy data: 10.04.08 Dundalk's Sustainable Energy Zone is part of a European Union program encouraging small projects that can be expanded to the regional or national level. 4. Lewis on Heikki data: 27.03.08 5. Finland's foreign minister ousted over scandal involving exotic dancer data: 07.04.08 Finland's foreign minister was ousted Tuesday by his conservative party over a text message scandal involving an erotic dancer. 6. Torch relay chaos in papers data: 07.04.08 Chaotic scenes as anti-China demonstrators disrupt the Olympic relay through London are the focus of UK newspapers. 7. Shannon Matthews faces weeks of questioning data: 19.03.08 Shannon Matthews was kept unaware of the massive search for her as she was held captive in a dingy flat for 24 days, it has been disclosed. 8. Hope Not Hate: MAGIC BUS data: 19.03.08 AFTER 14 days, 1,700 miles and thousands of supporters, the Hope not Hate bus pulled into its final destination yesterday. 9. 'Historic day' in Cyprus as another border crossing opens data: 07.04.08 Ledra Street in the divided capital of Cyprus, a symbol of the country's ethnic partition, was reopened Thursday for the first time in 44 years, raising hopes for new efforts to reunify the island. 10. Robots fly into Antarctic skies data: 19.03.08 A pair of lightweight, robotic planes have made the first unmanned flights over Antarctica's icy expanses. 11. Osama bin Laden 'aide' wins deportation fight data: 10.04.08 The Home Office's plans to deport terrorist suspects were dealt a blow when Abu Qatada, the preacher once described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", won his fight against being sent back to Jordan. 12. Massa wins as Hamilton stumbles data: 07.04.08 Ferrari's Felipe Massa dominates the Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton fails to score and loses the championship lead. 13. 'Anti-gay views' JP investigated data: 07.04.08 An inquiry is underway into anti-gay remarks made by a serving magistrate on a BBC Wales documentary. 14. Al-Qaeda leader al-Masri 'dead' data: 10.04.08 The US says Abu Obaidah al-Masri, reputedly al-Qaeda's mastermind in Afghanistan, has died. 15. Mirror Money: I was a drop-out now I've millions data: 10.04.08 The worldwide credit crunch could tip Britain into a mini recession hitting jobs and house prices, the boss of financial website Moneysupermarket believes. 16. Beckham seeks more glory data: 27.03.08 David Beckham, already the world's most famous footballer, is expected to reach another career highlight on Wednesday by becoming only the fifth player to win 100 caps for England. 17. Accounting firm under fire in collapse of subprime lender data: 27.03.08 A sweeping investigation found that KPMG enabled New Century Financial's "improper and imprudent practices." 18. Sorrell stands by former Clinton adviser data: 10.04.08 The WPP chief concedes that Mark Penn had erred in judgment when he met with a Colombian official but says the episode will not lead to a change in the group's policies 19. Kosovo heartens a Hungarian enclave in Romania data: 07.04.08 When Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February, some ethnic Hungarians in Romania took to the main square to demonstrate in its favor and, by extension, their own aspirations for autonomy. 20. Irish leader quitting amid graft inquiry data: 07.04.08 Denying that he received corrupt payments, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, one of Europe's longest-serving leaders, who played a central part in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, announced Wednesday that he would resign next month. 21. Chinese banks pass on CIT Group data: 07.04.08 Major Chinese banks - including Industrial & Commercial Bank of China and Bank of China - decided not to invest in the U.S. commercial lender because of concerns about the company's ability to finance itself. 22. Despite setback, France to pursue Betancourt's release data: 10.04.08 Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, vowed to push ahead with efforts to free the French-Colombian hostage, even after her rebel captors, the group FARC, rejected a mission trying to reach her. 23. Asian stocks rise on strength of commodities data: 07.04.08 But concerns about the impact of the credit crisis on the financial system lingered, driving banking shares lower. 24. Heather Mills and Paul McCartney divorce: A divorce lawyer's opinion data: 19.03.08 Mr Justice Bennett's judgment will make hard reading for Miss Mills. She was described as a "less than impressive witness" while her account of her contributions to the marriage was, on one occasion, depicted as "devoid of reality". 25. Americans begin to face the pain of an overvalued house data: 27.03.08 Homeowners sometimes lose sight of the fact that their home is only a house to most buyers, especially when prices are falling. 26. Former Kosovo leader acquitted of war crimes data: 07.04.08 The United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague on Thursday acquitted a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a surprise decision that could inflame anti-Kosovar sentiment in Serbia just weeks after Kosovo unilaterally declared independence. 27. Former Norwegian club boss guilty of fraud in Mikel case data: 27.03.08 Morgan Andersen, former director of Norwegian club Lyn, was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence by an Oslo court on Wednesday for forging contracts relating to Nigerian midfielder John Obi Mikel in 2005. 28. Top Stories: Heather Mills' claims on Sir Paul McCartney's fortune were "wholly unrealistic" data: 19.03.08 MACCA JUDGMENT DAY Heather cash claims branded 'unrealistic' by furious judge 29. Fox acts to snap up video ad company data: 10.04.08 Fox International Channels, News Corp's global pay TV unit, buys a majority stake in Utarget, a UK advertising network focused in video and 'subsite' technology 30. Post offices 'being shut by stealth', MPs told data: 19.03.08 Hundreds of post offices have been shut "by stealth" as the Government manipulated its own closure rules, MPs have been told. |