Setting up a charity, building a values-based culture and developing young people with Giles Miskin
Update: 2021-07-26
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Giles Miskin, Founder of The Colour Works and The Colour Works Foundation talks about his entrepreneurial journey and how he is using his business as a force for good plus:
- Navigating dramatic career changes - from working in further education to plastic widget production and on to people development and organisational culture change.
- How he went about setting up a charitable foundation to complement his core business
- Transforming people’s understanding of themselves and their relationships through a powerful personality profiling tool
- Making a dramatic difference to young people’s confidence by giving them a deeper understanding of their personal talents and gifts
- How his business vision, model and team has been evolving to meet rising demand
- The importance of becoming dispensable as a company founder by building a team to complement your skills and allowing yourself to ‘get out of the way’
- How he worked with his team to shift the business online in response to Covid
- Balancing a focus on KPIs and numbers with less tangible shared culture and values
- The importance of interdependence and diversity, humility and social justice
You can find out more about Giles’ work at The Colour Works and TCW Foundation
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