Egg to Butterfly: a model to achieve individual and corporate significance

Presented by Nigel Sykes, Warwick Business School
Wednesday 24th March 3.00 for 3.30pm Jackson Lecture Theatre, University of Lincoln


You are warmly invited to join us for an original and stimulating session with Nigel Sykes.  Nigel has developed a way of understanding enterprise and the way we relate and engage in work.  He presents the possibility that we should align work to release talent in a session entitled 'Envisioning Enterprise'.  Thus, the way people relate to each other needs to be re-examined.  We will be given permission to move from an over-reliance on striving for successful outcomes in the work we do toward the objective of achieving individual and corporate significance by enabling and seeking to release and encourage talent and its correct alignment.  To this end, Nigel intends to share his Egg to Butterfly Model and through a diagnostic, show how it can be applied.  The interactive session is a must for all those who are open to the possibility that restrictive paradigms may exist and that there is a need to release and nurture talent.

Nigel is a Senior Teaching Fellow based in the centre for small and medium sized enterprises at Warwick Business School.  He teaches the MBA options Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation and Starting a Business to undergraduates across the University of Warwick's science faculties.  He has been involved in marketing and sales management in the leisure industry and has experience both in running his own business and acting as advisor and mentor to others.  His practical background influences his teaching and consultancy approach and whilst drawing on research based information, takes a less formal academic stance.

In a wider context, Nigel is interested in entrepreneurship and small business development initiatives as vehicles for developing people and transforming people's economic and social circumstances.  In 1986 he was seconded to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce with a remit to set up Black Business in Birmingham (3Bs) an Enterprise Agency for encouraging inner city business start up and development.  He also has experience of supervising international projects in Botswana, Uganda, Nigeria and Kazakhstan and ran part of an EBRD-funded programme to encourage Russian scientists to take their technology toward commercialisation.  At the end of last year he visited North Korea where he is working on an economic regeneration initiative.

The seminar will offer the opportunity to explore some diverse and serious issues within an informal atmosphere.  We will meet for refreshments at 3.00pm outside the Jackson Lecture Theatre.  The session will begin at 3.30pm.   We will finish at around 5.30pm after which you are welcome to join us as we depart to a nearby hostelry to continue our discussions.

If you would like to attend please let us know (if possible before March 15th) to help us estimate numbers for refreshments.   (The lecture theatre holds 250 people.)  You are also welcome to bring colleagues.  Call our Research Administrator, Melanie Shades on 01522 886336 or else send her an email at: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  I look forward to meeting you soon.  

                                        With best wishes,
                                        Dr. Carole Brooke
                                        Reader in Management
                                        Department of Management and Leadership
                                        Lincoln Business School