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Training & Development Hatrick
Sternfenster won the Training & Development Initiative category at this year’s G-Awards – the third year in a row that the award has been...
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Come On England – Southgate The Saviour
Sternfenster’s Mike Parczuk reckons despite too many soundbites and a lack of real gumption in the Labour Party, England winning Euro 24 will put the smile back on workers faces and hunger in their bellies to be more productive at work.
Parczuk writes: “Liz Truss losing her seat was the highlight of the recent general election for me. As for everything else? I’m not so sure. It will soon be politics as usual and unfortunately that doesn’t benefit us as a country.
There are three main reasons why.
Preaching to the simple denominator
Firstly, all political parties fought campaigns that ultimately boiled down to soundbites. They were appealing to a generation of voters who need to have big ideas summarised into short easily digestible clips that could be distributed quickly.
Being concise and clear is good. Stripping away detail so you pursue a populist agenda isn’t so good. What we need in this country are big ideas that will benefit all of us. We want less red tape to help grow the economy. Instead, we are still bickering over boats in the channel and dredging up Brexit.
Labour will fail
This leads me on to point number two, which is that we are already seeing a raft of headline announcements that are more about short-term gains than long term stability.
For example, Labour are planning to build 1.5 million homes over five years. Sounds big, yet isn’t much more than what we are building now. And ministers are already getting their excuses ready: ‘We can’t build a prison in 24 hours’. ‘The government has inherited the worst set of circumstances since the second world war’.
Their desire to be re-elected in five years’ time promotes soundbite policies and doesn’t address the bigger picture.
We really do need to put the ‘great’ back into Great Britain, which leads me on to point three.
England won their semi-final with the Netherlands on Saturday with a stunning later goal. Yet, all I heard was how England have been too cautious in this tournament.
I know from how people came to work on Monday morning that winning makes a big difference to their frame of mind and productivity.
It is this we need to tap into. As a nation, we need to stop viewing our glass as half empty and to develop a positive can-do attitude.
And that starts with companies like yours and mine. Not only is the window industry a barometer for how well the economy is performing, it is also a bridge between homeowners and the construction industry, feeding into a multi-billion-pound machine that helps drive the economy in the UK.
We are the ones who keep that machine going. It is up to us to invest in our people, in our factories, in product development and in our customers. A general election is a once in a five-year event – we are the ones who keep the economy moving day to day.
No, we can’t build prisons in 24 hours and the markets are still recovering from that awful mini budget in October 2022. However, with less regulation we can innovate and stride forward, building a country where we can all benefit from our success.
Article written by Cathryn Ellis
14th July 2024