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28th April 2015

Claypole School Vintage Fair – Totemic Enterprise Project

The January 2015 report on ‘The Value of soft skills to the UK economy’ projects that the expected shortage in soft skills will cost the …

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Sustainability as a design choice

How sustainable is your business model… really? It’s a question many organisations raise, but few feel confident answering. In our work at Optima Training, we …

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