23 Sep 2019

Developing our teams

As part of our commitment at Catch to ensuring that our teams are as equipped for success as they can be, we recently engaged Annabel Shilton, an experienced Business Coach and Consultant, to provide a leadership and management training programme for our management teams.

We took time out last Thursday for this dynamic and engaging workshop, starting with the foundations of the difference between leadership & management, then moving on to how we can all gain from improving on empowerment, ownership & responsibility and how communication is at the centre of effective leadership.

The team had a great day and left feeling empowered to better support not only themselves, but their own teams through better personal effectiveness and communication. We're looking forwards to putting into practise some of the new skills and techniques learned from the workshop.

About Annabel: Annabel Shilton has over 18 years of experience as an Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor and Consultant. Her previous roles in strategic marketing with global companies have equipped her with the unique ability to integrate business, marketing and people strategies, deliver organisational objectives, increase people engagement and productivity. She has worked with many senior executives and top teams in both large and small organisations on coaching and change programmes with a specific focus on developing leaders to build organisations to which people want to belong.

06 Oct 2016

Spain, the next tech-hub?

When you hear Madrid you may think primarily of culture, football, nightlife, but not necessarily the tech industry. But over the past three years much has changed and the tech industry is booming thanks to startups and agile ways of thinking.

Spanish startup funding is up 83% in 2015, according to a report by ASCRI (Spanish Association for Capital, Growth and Investment) and with 78% of that investment going into ICT and digital projects, Madrid is fast becoming the new tech-hub of Europe.

The Spanish economy has been hit hard by the economic downturn but the fast paced, agile thinking of the tech industry has come out stronger than ever and shows a great future ahead of it.

Tech leaders such as Google and Amazon are embracing the potential of Madrid. In 2015 Google opened Google Campus, and summer 2016 saw Amazon opening their tech-hub, one of only 3 in Europe. There are several other impressively backed incubator and startup hubs too.

“Tech talent in Spain is abundant and of high quality, but most importantly it is available.”

Adam Sedó, Amazon Spain

Earlier this year (2016) Catch opened its Madrid offices, expanding its services into the Spanish market and to access the tech talent pool Madrid has to offer.

This is exciting news for Catch and the future growth of Madrid as a cornerstone of the European tech scene. With the recent launch of Catch Studios and opening of our office in Madrid Catch are in a great position to capitalise on the burgeoning tech scene in Madrid.

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