7th October 2024 – EG Magnetics Group is set to showcase its comprehensive power magnetics portfolio again at this year’s Engineering Design Show (EDS), which will be held on the 9th and 10^th October at the Coventry Building Society Arena. This will be the second time all five specialist magnetics companies will present together on one stand (Stand D4), following the acquisition of AGW and Avon Magnetics last year.

With expertise spanning across various sectors and applications, the EG Magnetics division is a formidable global force, boasting 1,100 employees, manufacturing operations in five countries, and direct representation in major global markets. The expanded portfolio supports the design of efficient power architectures for a diverse range of applications, including portable electronics, mains-powered systems, renewable energy solutions, and electric vehicles.

Visitors to the stand will have the opportunity to explore the complete product offerings from AGW, Avon Magnetics, ETAL, SIGA Electronics and Talema. Each will showcase their customisable magnetic components and transformers, which are tailored for industries such as aerospace, defense, medical technology, telecommunications, and automotive.

Commenting on the group’s presence at the event, Stefan Ruuth, Sales Manager BA Magnetics at ETAL said: “The past year has been transformative for our division as we solidify our position as a leading player in the power magnetics market. EDS 2024 will be a landmark event for us, providing the ideal platform to highlight the strengths and capabilities of our five world-class manufacturers.”

For more information on the show visit https://www.engineeringdesignshow.co.uk/.

AuditBoard, the London-based cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, compliance and ESG management, has announced the launch of its ‘Agents of Change’ podcast, hosted by Richard Chambers, former CEO of the Institute of Internal Audit.

In this engaging podcast series, Chambers, who is currently Senior Advisor, Risk and Audit at AuditBoard, engages with leading professionals from the audit and risk industry to discuss what it means to be an innovator in the field.

In upcoming episodes, Richard Chambers will speak with chief audit executives from firms such as McKinsey & Company and Advance, as well as other industry experts to discuss topics including the strategic use of AI in internal audit, strategies to attract and retain top talent in today’s dynamic environment, and how internal audit can deliver value beyond its traditional roles. They will also discuss unconventional approaches to risk management and ways internal audit can survive in the age of perma-crisis.

“I look forward to having conversations with risk visionaries and discovering how they’ve made a meaningful impact on their organizations and the industry at large,” said Richard Chambers. “With the risk landscape constantly changing, these conversations are more relevant than ever. I hope the podcast will serve as a valuable connection point for risk professionals and shed light on the road ahead.”

The podcast is a must-listen for all C-level executives looking to gain valuable insights from some of the world’s leading enterprise risk leaders. You can listen to and download the podcast at: https://open.spotify.com/show/03PsN7SQDF9VzCCchOuMKb

During the holidays, e-commerce and online businesses will experience a surge in orders. Even during the last holiday season, US businesses received orders of US $254 billion. Apart from such increased sales comes the massive responsibility of managing the deliveries before the holiday so that customers can receive the orders on time. If delays occur, it can ruin the expectations of the customers and the cherishes of the holidays. 

Whether it is fair or not is a separate discussion, but one late delivery or bad experience can ruin the business’s reputation in the industry. Thus, to help your online business survive and boom, ensure that your system can handle the holiday delivery rush. Learn how dispatch delivery management systems can streamline your operations and enhance customer satisfaction. Let’s explore some deciding factors in this regard:

How to Ensure Your System Can Handle the Holiday Delivery Rush?

To ensure that your delivery system can handle the rush during the holidays, an understanding of your whole delivery process from production to shipping is necessary. Here’s how you can ensure quick deliveries and satisfy the customers during the holiday season:

Request Customers for Early Orders

During the holiday season, customers expect to receive orders on time before the holidays start so that customers can enjoy and cherish their happiness. However, to reduce operational stress, you can request that customers order early and on time. You can promote the early orders by:

• Offering discounts and special promotions before the holidays start.
• Providing customers with exclusive products ahead of the holiday season.

Holiday Deadlines 

Get in touch with your delivery partners and decide on a deadline to place the orders so that these can be delivered ahead of the holiday. Display the deadlines on your social media handles and websites to promote transparency and set clear expectations for the customers. Prominently displaying deadlines will prevent the last-minute hassle for customers and streamline the delivery process. To display shipping deadlines:

• Add a banner on your website’s homepage for clear visibility.
• Post on your social media accounts to reach a larger audience.
• Follow the email marketing procedure. 

Warehouse Management

Warehouse management lets you keep the stock in hand, and this proactive and strategic approach can instill customer confidence in your business. Analyze the number of orders received during the holidays of the last few years and manage the warehouse inventory accordingly. Businesses can predict the number of orders during the holidays through a comparative analysis and perform exceptionally well during rush hours through warehouse management.

Moreover, always have an extra stock in hand to avoid the last-minute rush and stock outs. You can improve the performance in rush hours through the warehouse management system by:

• Investing in warehouse management software to get real-time inventory updates.
• Regular audits are performed to find out if the actual stock is compatible with the system data.

Choose a Reliable Shipping Partner

Selecting a reputable shipping partner that can fulfill your business’s orders in time is crucial. InstaDispatch is one such reliable shipping partner that not only ensures timely deliveries but can also offer multiple additional services such as automated label printing, route planning software, cloud-based dispatching, back-office management, warehouses, and more. This partnership can reassure you and your customers about the smooth delivery process. 

Get Ready for Holiday Rush Hour Deliveries Through InstaDispatch

InstaDispatch – delivery tracking software offers multiple features and attributes that can help your business fulfill orders during rush hours:

•   Route Optimization— Route planning and optimization will help you save time and effort to improve productivity and reduce operational costs.
•   Real-Time Alerts— To keep the customers satisfied, real-time tracking alerts will help them find their parcels!

·   Digital Proof of Delivery— Delivery riders can capture the pictures, scan barcodes, and add timestamps through digital proof of delivery to save time and effort.

The latest Influencer Marketing Trends report from Europe’s leading Influencer marketing platform Kolsquare, has shown that UK brands are paying influencers less due to a saturated market whilst also seeking to show more diversity, inclusion and equality in their campaigns.

In the UK, influencer spending will remain high in 2025 with brands spending an average of £848K a year and just over half (51%) planning to increase their influencer marketing budgets in 2025. With increased competition causing a drop in influencer costs, brands want better value from their partnerships and there’ll be a movement towards choosing a select few higher-quality KOLs (key opinion leaders).

Ethical conduct and transparency are key and half (49%) of UK brands prioritise compliance with corporate ethics when selecting influencers. 94% of brands insist on ethical behavioural codes for influencers. They realise that audience fatigue means they must seek more authentic and meaningful collaborations in response to a demand for more thoughtful and sustainable content.

Across the board, marketers are using data insights to give them an edge in a competitive space. Kolsquare’s Key Account Manager Alix Dumarest, says: “ Brands today know that intelligent use of data insights will give them the edge. They are also demanding more from their influencers and despite a rise in budgets, influencer fees will continue to fall.”

Brands have chosen influencers dedicated to a certain network, i.e. TikTok or Instagram. In the beauty sector, they put entire budgets into TikTok and only used Instagram to do mass gifting campaigns that generate stories as they require less effort from influencers and lead to sales. However, this trend is now reversing. 

“Brands that have dropped Instagram are now returning to it. It’s a safe haven,” says Alix. “They know they’ll have a clean brand image and maximum control. There is a much greater understanding of how they can drive impact – many big brands are still struggling to understand how TikTok does this. Due to regulatory uncertainties, TikTok is losing popularity.”

Alix also explains that Kolsquare’s listening module is becoming increasingly popular. “Marketers want to know which of their competitors are a threat. They are interested in share of voice and rankings. They analyse the highlights, content, and top influencers of competitor campaigns as well as their own.” 

In the UK, Facebook is used by 72% of brands and the shift towards Instagram (used by 71% of brands) continues. The UK also has the highest level of regulatory compliance in Europe with 76% of brands sticking to regulatory standards.  

To read the full report, click here: https://www.kolsquare.com/en/free-ressources/influencer-marketing-trends-in-2025

The new book from Master Coach Clare Norman is published on 17^th October.

‘Cultivating Coachability: How to leverage coaching readiness so thinkers can optimise value’ is Clare’s third book, and joins her previous bestseller ‘The Transformational Coach’.

In this pioneering and sometimes provocative guide, Clare explores the coach’s influence on the coaching experience from start to finish. With clear guidance, accessible advice and supportive practices the reader will gain transformative skills that will shift responsibility for creating value from coach to thinker and, in organisations, the task of screening for coachability to the coaching custodian.

Have you ever started coaching someone despite feeling uncertain about their readiness? Do you wish your clients would immerse themselves into deeper thinking?

It’s frustrating and unfulfilling when clients don’t leverage the potential from coaching. It can feel like you’re working harder than they are, striving to create value on their behalf. But remember: your job isn’t to create value from coaching – it’s to be a catalyst for it.

As a coach, your role is to manage the process, enabling the thinker to access their inner wisdom, connect the dots for themselves and find their own answers that resonate with their personality, context, motivations, beliefs and values. For this to happen, the thinker must be ready and willing to take on the responsibility of creating value and achieving results – they need to be ‘coaching ready.’

Through Clare’s rich experiences, relatable case studies and holistic strategies, this book will help you discover how to redefine the coaching experience, develop truly engaged thinkers and reignite your passion for transformational coaching.

Like her previous bestselling, highly reviewed and highly regarded book, ‘The Transformational Coach’, Clare’s new book is full of practical advice.

‘Cultivating Coachability’ will empower readers with valuable mindsets and skills to support their coaching effectiveness and ensure that the thinker (the person being coached) will extract maximum value and realise their desired outcomes from coaching sessions. It provides powerful new ways of thinking and transformative skills that will revolutionise how coaches ensure the readiness of their clients.

It is written in a friendly, accessible, supportive and non-judgemental style by an author who works at the coal face of coaching, and truly understands the challenges that coaches face in their day-to-day work.

With over 20 years of coaching experience, Clare Norman is a Master Mentor Coach whose purpose is to enable people to feel truly seen for who they really are, emboldening them to find their voice and express their needs in service of a more caring world.  With that end goal in mind, Clare is on a mission to encourage coaches to be more vocal about coachability, expecting more of coaching custodians and thinkers alike such that those thinkers are coaching-ready. With an international following of both her coaching peers and senior leadership, Clare is making a difference to the world of work via the professional application of coaching.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clare Norman is author of ‘Cultivating Coachability’ (to be published October 2024) and founder of Clare Norman Coaching Associates. Clare is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a Master Mentor Coach and a Certified Coach Supervisor. She has a Masters in Training and has received multiple awards for ground-breaking leadership development. For over 25 years, Clare has focused on maximizing individual, team, and organisation effectiveness, enabling people to express their needs, in service of a more caring world. Clare’s two previous books are ‘The Transformational Coach (2022)’ and ‘Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide (2020)’. For more information see: https://clarenormancoachingassociates.com/

BOOK DETAILS

Title: Cultivating Coachability

Author: Clare Norman

Pub Date: 17th October 2024

ISBN 13: 978-1-915483-49-2

RRP: £17.99

Format: Paperback; 234 x 156 mm

Extent: 160pp

Category: Coaching management

Global cybersecurity leader AlgoSec has launched its newest Security Management platform version, featuring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology that provides an application-centric security approach and a clearer picture of risks and their impact. With this new release, the AlgoSec platform enables users to accurately identify the business applications running in their complex hybrid network and leverage intelligent change automation to streamline security change processes, thus improving security and agility.

“Security professionals are overwhelmed with a barrage of alerts that provide no context between critical threats and minor issues,” said Eran Shiff, VP Product of AlgoSec. “By mapping applications, security teams can understand their criticality, automate changes and prioritise alerts that truly matter, saving countless hours through automation.”

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 50 per cent of critical enterprise applications will reside outside of centralised public cloud locations, underscoring the complexity that network infrastructures face. Today’s networks are 100 times more complex than they were 10 years ago, and the pace of deployment and development at which security teams are expected to work is 100 times faster. AI-powered application discovery enhances a security team’s ability to detect and respond to threats in real time. An application-centric approach automates change management processes, identifies security risks and mitigates risks before they impact the network infrastructure.

“In today’s evolving cyber landscape, it’s essential that we rapidly identify and prioritise threats as they occur,” said Robert Eldridge​​​​, Security Solutions Director of Natilik. “AlgoSec’s AI-powered platform helps us deliver proactive network visibility and risk mitigation to our clients, keeping them ahead of potential threats”.

Securing hybrid infrastructures relies on four pillars that are essential to AlgoSec’s platform update:

• AI-driven application discovery – Advanced AI feature designed to automatically discover and identify the business applications that are running by correlating them to security changes that have been made.
• Intelligent and automated application connectivity change – New enhancements allow security professionals to directly adjust existing Microsoft Azure firewall rules for new application connections. Additionally, there’s added support for application awareness in Check Point R80+ firewalls.
• Reduce risk exposure and minimise attack surface – New features focus on tightening security posture and minimising potential vulnerabilities. It streamlines Microsoft Azure Firewall rule management by identifying and recommending the removal of unused rules. It reduces risk exposure by automatically generating change management tickets to eliminate overly permissive rules. Additionally, it ensures compliance with the latest ASD-ISM regulations.
• Better visibility across complex hybrid networks – AlgoSec has enriched its capabilities to support visibility of network security devices including: NSX-T Gateway Firewall, Azure Load Balancer and Google Cloud map and traffic path (in early availability).

To learn more about updates to the AlgoSec Security Management platform, click here.

AlgoSec will demonstrate the key capabilities of release A33 during its upcoming annual AlgoSummit user event. To register, click here.

Partou Bumpkins Day Nursery and Pre-School in Whaddon has been shortlisted for Outdoor Learning Environment of the Year at the prestigious National NMT Nursery Awards.

The award will be given to the nursery which has, in the view of the judges, “created an outdoor ‘living classroom’ that inspires and excites children.”

Partou Bumpkins is rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted for the exceptional levels of childcare and early years education it provides to families throughout Royston.

The nursery’s outdoor learning environment, Nature Rangers, invites children aged three and above to immerse themselves in the wonders of nature.

Nestled within a spacious grassy area featuring a classroom, known as ‘the cabin,’ Nature Rangers integrates all seven areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Children engage in a wide array of activities across distinct areas such as a large sandpit, firepit area, mud kitchen, bug houses, herb garden, mud mound, obstacle course and a bird lookout house.

They are encouraged to explore freely, fostering a child-led approach to learning which is central to Partou’s ethos across the 106 nurseries it operates in the UK.

Amy Chipperfield, Partou Bumpkins Nursery Manager, said: “As a team, we are passionate in our belief that children should have endless opportunities to explore and learn whilst being in a safe and happy environment.

“Nature Rangers is designed to empower children by fostering confidence and creativity through a blend of structured safety protocols and open-ended, nature-based activities.

“We are over the moon that the outdoor environment we have crafted has impressed the judging panel for such a high profile national award.

“It is a shared success for the team members, families and children at our beautiful nursery.”

Samantha Rhodes, Partou Managing Director, said: “Partou Bumpkins is run wonderfully well by a long-standing nursery team that boasts strong relationships with families and children throughout the local community.

“As Nursery Manager, Amy began her journey at Bumpkins almost 12 years ago as an unqualified practitioner before gaining her qualifications and a wealth of experience whilst working in several different roles.

“The depth of knowledge she has built up over this period goes a long way to explaining why the nursery is so highly regarded locally and nationally.

“Nature Rangers is a shining example of what can be achieved by creative thinking, professionalism and an understanding of the individual needs and interests of young children.”