Well it’s all over now bar the shouting (or is that self-publicising) with hot favourite Tom Pellereau winning the £250,000 of investment from Lord Sugar to help develop his business ideas. I like Tom – doesn’t everybody – but I can’t help feeling that Helen Louise Milligan blew it at the final hurdle by coming up with a business plan that involved her going into an area, a personal concierge service, that she had no [...]
BBC Apprentice 2011, Episode 9 Review: Management Development
June 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
It was all about biscuits this week. The teams were tasked with developing a new biscuit which was then to be sold to three of the UK’s major supermarket chains: Asda, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. The classic Apprentice mistake Zoe Beresford pushed strongly to lead team Logic, which consisted of Susan Ma, Tom Pellereau and Melody Hossaini. Susan made a bid for project leadership but Zoe argued that with her drinks manufacturing experience would be a [...]
BBC Apprentice 2011, Episode 8 Review: Leadership Training
June 23, 2011 By 1 Comment
Episode 8 of the Apprentice illustrated the challenge of finding the right leadership style to bring the best out of each individual in a team. Tom Pellereau demonstrated that his leadership skills are sadly lacking as he led team Logic to a loss in a task to select and sell British products to Paris based French retailers. Tom has a good analytical mind, some excellent ideas and a very personable manner but he desperately needs [...]