We booked an extra guide for our caving trip in Swaziland this year. Why did we do this? Surely one guide for a family of four would be enough? It’s because our older son has learning difficulties. With additional support he can do almost anything. Generally my husband and I help him. But not this time. Let…
Is your Bid Production process neat and aligned like this sushi, with your bid perfectly finished and ready to go? In the final stages of a large bid, although we might fantasise about the component parts all turning up complete and on time, the documentation team merely doing final checks to bring everything together, the finance team simply carrying…
There were concerns before Brexit. The road looked straightforward, but who really knew what was ahead. What happened was a surprise for all of us … with help from Namibia here is a story about the range of emotions on the Brexit road so far, and two things that might help you as a leader in the days ahead. …
“I’m currently sitting on 4 tenders, all of which are 40,000 – 80,000 word responses, all of which need a fairly large piece of estimation and I’m the bid team, pretty much the whole bid team.” This comment was made to me by a bid professional recently. He was finding it hard to sympathise with the challenges of leading a…
Does it feel 250 million years since you last took a look at what you most genuinely want to achieve? What you yearn to accomplish, or at the very least, give a go? So many of us have lost touch with these things. Our reasons are many and various, recession, disability, parenting, redundancy, divorce, others telling us it’s too…
It can be wearing when enthusiasm fails and you only see the problems in a bid. When the parameters, pressures and requirements expressed in the tender seem a massive problem, with a focus only on price. It can feel like being in a tunnel rather than a creative, exploratory, innovative approach to improvement. And yet, as an experienced Bid…
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