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| Shaylor Group CEO, Stephen Shaylor, presents the awards |
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Shaylor Group PLC 'Site-Link' day at Aston Villa FC a huge success
Monday, 16 November 2015
Monday, 19 October 2015
The 2015 Finance Directors’ Forum aboard P&O's Arcadia a great success
This
year’s Finance Directors’ Forum was held aboard the P&O cruise ship Arcadia
from the 7th to the 10th October and proved to be a great
success. And I was delighted to be on-board and a part of it representing
Shaylor Group plc.
The
opening night’s keynote address was given by ex-Newnight and University
Challenge heavyweight, Jeremy Paxman, and focused on The UK Political
Landscape. Humorous, witty, entertaining and followed by a typically prickly
Q&A session (albeit somewhat tongue-in-cheek), it was the perfect way to
start the Forum proper. His banter with Justin Urquhart Stewart (in the circle
of the theatre) was a joy to behold.
These
Forums are well known for being busy and concentrated affairs, and this year
was no different (with delegates kept focused from 7.30am to 10.30pm to ensure
that benefit is maximised for taking precious time out of the office in
addition to the CPD accreditation).
Day 2
started with an excellent presentation by Virgin Atlantic Airways FD, Liz
Collins, entitled ‘Building a Finance Centre of Excellence the Virgin Atlantic
Way’, which demonstrated the steps taken to streamline the finance function and
deliver a leaner, more commercially focused organisation. My schedule followed
this up with the workshop, ‘Leading The Finance Function During Uncertain And
Volatile Times’ delivered by Tim Pullen of Telefonica UK.
The
keynote address on Day 2 was ‘Courage, Vision and Values’ by Roz Savage MBE, the
solo women’s ocean rower who not only rowed across the Atlantic Ocean (3,000
miles) to raise environmental awareness, but followed this amazing feat of
endurance by then rowing across the Pacific (8,000 miles) and the Indian Ocean
(4,000 miles). I was also fortunate enough to attend Roz’s ‘eVALUEation’
interactive workshop on the same afternoon before I, myself, delivered a
presentation on being an Interim/Equity Finance Director.
Around
the presentations and workshops were a number of meetings with suppliers, so
many new contacts were made and hopefully much business will result from this
opportunity (from both sides) to explore and discuss opportunities in this
captive environment.
Our
Forum Facilitator, the irrepressible Justin Urquhart Stewart, opened up the
first main session of Day 3 with an interview of/audience with Mark Hesketh, UK
& European Finance Director of Standard Life plc, with the working title of
‘Setting A Standard In The Finance Function’. Justin’s questions about Mark’s
time at RBS resulted in some surprising and positive comments regarding working
with Fred Goodwin.
Following
this, the Day 3 Keynote Address was given by Jas Hawker, past Commanding
Officer of the Red Arrows and currently a Director of Mission Excellence (and
organisation focused on improving clients’ execution – closing the gap between
what gets talked about and planned, and what gets delivered). This was an
enjoyable session that mixed lots of anecdotes and footage of the Red Arrows in
action with some key pointers on how to lead a world-class and highly
performing team in the corporate world.
Perhaps
the finest presentation of the event was reserved for later that afternoon when
Justin Urquhart Stewart gave his presentation, ‘Post General Election Economic
Update – What It Means For You And Your Organisation’. Irreverent, amusing,
fast paced but also interesting, relevant and cutting through the nonsense so
often reported in the media to give the real bottom line. An amazing hour that
seemed to fly past in minutes – top class.
My
pre-dinner day ended with a very useful one-to-one coaching session with Aim
Higher Leadership, with a post-dinner keynote given by Austin Healey and aptly
titles ‘The Rugby World Cup (Amongst Other Things)’.
Day 4
was all about packing, disembarking the Arcadia in Southampton and driving back
up the country reflecting on what had been packed into the previous 3 days (and
the meeting and business that would be inevitably be done in the weeks that
will follow).
And a big
thank you must go to Richmond Events for their excellent organisation once
again.
Friday, 11 September 2015
Monday, 7 September 2015
CIMA FOC Leadership Event in Cannock on 16th September – ‘Can I bury my grandmother in the garden: the dilemma of leadership’ - joint event with the Chamber of Commerce
Working
life is full of surprises and none more so when we are asked something rather
bizarre. Our experiences as managers, colleagues, advisors and leaders expose
us to challenging conundrums where we are often asked to advise, take a
position or solve an almost unsolvable problem.
So what
do we do as a leader when we are faced with these challenges? We often sort it
all out in some way or other or we make a mess of it all.
What is
the role of a leader and, more importantly, what is their purpose? When faced
with the mountain of work, the targets of success and the moans of the staff,
what is the true function of leadership? How can we do it best and what makes a
difference to the business?
...and
at the same time find out if Granny can be put to rest in the back garden.
Date: 16 September 2015 - 18:30
Location: Roman Way Hotel, Cannock WS11 1SH
Price: Free
Buffet
served on arrival
To
reserve your free place email julie.witts@cimaglobal.com
Speaker Details: -
Dr
Philip Lloyd-Williams is the founder of Lloyd-Williams & Associates, a
business he established with the clear purpose of making business more
successful by developing their people.
What
differentiates Philip's approach in doing this is his personable style and his
ability to make individuals think differently and deal with issues and
challenges that others fear to address. He is pragmatic in his approach and
understands the reality of commercial expectations.
Having
worked as a solicitor and strategic director in a number of large
organisations, Philip understands the complexities and challenges of effective
leadership and has managed a variety of challenging and high profile services.
As a result he has a real life and pragmatic approach to the challenges of
business and people in organisations.
Friday, 14 August 2015
Monday, 13 July 2015
Shaylor Group appoints West Midlands Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants as new Finance Director
Shaylor Group is delighted to
announce the appointment of Paul Hooper-Keeley, West Midlands Chairman of the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), as Finance Director.
A highly experienced Finance
Director, Paul brings with him over 30 years experience in both PLC and private
sectors. In addition to the finance, commercial and operational experience
gained across numerous sectors, Paul is also the current Institute of
Director’s West Midlands’ Ambassador for their Chartered Director qualification
(being the 25th person globally to be awarded this Chartered Director status in
2000) and CIMA Chairman for the West Midlands Region. Paul has held Finance
Director positions at Board Level for over 19 years and for the last 11 years has provided interim Finance Director services
across the UK, with an excellent track record in all financial disciplines,
along with strategic planning, leadership and team building skills.
Speaking of his new role, Paul
commented “I am delighted to be joining such a well-regarded business and look
forward to helping Shaylor Group maintain their momentum in becoming the pre-eminent
name for quality construction projects throughout the UK”.
Shaylor
Group CEO Stephen Shaylor added “Paul’s appointment comes at an exciting time
for Shaylor Group, having recently secured a string of new high profile
contract awards and framework agreements. We are thrilled to welcome Paul into
the business and I am personally looking forward to working closely with him to
ensure our continued growth and success”.
Shaylor Group was formed in 1969 and is £70m second generation family
owned principal contracting business. Shaylor Group’s core areas of expertise are
general contracting, repair & maintenance works and specialist
refurbishments and fit-outs. It has
particular sector experience in education, healthcare and retirement, custodial
and justice, industrial and commercial, leisure and retail, transport, heritage
and maintenance. The business has offices in Aldridge, Birmingham, central
London and the South West.
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