Sophie’s advice for new year’s resolutions
It’s 2018, and in the dawn of a new year many of us are busy working on our New Year’s resolutions. A new year can be a good time to strive to improve ourselves, personally and often professionally as well. So, I decided to give some thought to the changes I can make to my life […]
Onboarding with feathers – 4 tips from the other side of the desk
Everything is going great, you’ve exchanged a few messages via the dating website and you arrange to meet up. Profile picture and write up ticks all the boxes and you seem to have a lot in common. It’s the big night and you expect the potential partner to more or less resemble what they portrayed, […]
TELCA Awards 2017
On the 28th of July 2017, a handful of the Swans ventured down to the TELCA Awards. It celebrates the very best third party intermediaries within the UK energy industry – it’s basically the Oscars for energy consultants. A mix of 600 energy consultants, brokers, suppliers and industry experts attended the awards this year, hosted at […]
Life is like a box of chocolates… no, really
Firstly, I have to apologise – this isn’t a scientific discovery about how eating chocolate will help you find meaning and purpose in your life. Or is it…? I’d love to be a polymath like Leonardo Di Vinci or Galileo, swanning around the renaissance era being excellent at art, science and architecture but I’m not […]
Being a Swan: The Sequel
When I relocated last year, from Norwich to Sawbridgeworth, I had decided that it was the right time for me to experience new things. I loved my job at Indigo Swan, but I took the chance to throw myself into my new ‘Sawbo’ life as an opportunity to find a new job, and hopefully some […]
Train your monkey – 5 tips on prepping for a big pitch, speech or presentation
If you are anything like me you are more comfortable at a desk in front of a spreadsheet than on a stage in front of a crowd. I used to shy away from public speaking as much as possible, even staff meetings would make me panicky. It’s such an essential skill to have, so I’ve […]
Working together – how Norwich is fundraising for mental health
1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Sometimes, being able to start a conversation is the first step to getting help. Throughout 2016, we raised over £6400 to support 3 local MIND charities – Norwich & Central Norfolk, Great Yarmouth & Waveney and West Norfolk. […]
Fingers & feathers crossed again…
Having won the Unsung Hero and Consultancy of the Year award at the Energy Live Consultancy Awards (TELCAs) in June this year, we are delighted to have been announced as the UK’s Energy Services Firm of the Year by Finance Monthly in their Global Awards. In addition we are also finalists at the prestigious Energy […]
Should I stay or should I go now?
It’s 1976; in a small disused railway warehouse in London, arguably one of the finest exports of the punk movement are being formed…..The Clash. Both the Clash and the punk movement rapidly gain popularity and by 1982 mohicans and safety pins move out of the subculture and into the main stream. The song ‘Should I […]
Run Swan Run
10 km, 6.2 miles, 12,040 steps. That is the distance I’ll be running on Sunday 7 August around our fine city of Norwich alongside 3,000 others. It dawned on me earlier this year that I will soon be turning 30, and this informational nugget didn’t fill me with joy. As with most 20-somethings I had […]