Below you will find a selection of the most recent entries from bloggers in our Work/Business section.
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- Claire Doole - Claire Doole Communications
Claire is a former BBC correspondent and international spokeswoman who is passionate about helping people communicate with confidence. Since 2006, she has successfully trained hundreds of professionals in the art of presenting and public speaking, talking to the media, managing communications in a crisis, and writing for the web. In addition, she has coached C-level executives and public figures to give powerful TEDx and TED style talks in Europe and the Middle East. A Swiss and UK national, Claire trains and coaches in French and English.
- Elizabeth Ballin - Life Coach
As a long time member of the international community in Geneva, Elizabeth Ballin has been coaching adults and students from all parts of the world. She has coached business professionals, musicians/artists, couples, families and adolescents. She is a fully accredited Life Coach by the International Coaching Federation. Elizabeth Ballin, Life Coach
- Patrick Hoza - US Tax & Financial Services
Since 1990, Patrick has many years of experience with US individual expatriate taxation under his belt, including High Net Worth Individuals, streamline/voluntary disclosure filings and tax consulting, as well as working with large multinationals like Novartis, BP, Hewlett Packard and General Electric. He has extensive knowledge in serving both US expatriates and resident and non-resident aliens with their US tax-related issues. Patrick Hoza is a Tax Director at US Tax & Financial Services, with extensive experience in all aspects of Individual US tax and Expatriation, including Hight Net Worth Individuals and large multinationals.
Patrick started his career in 1990 in California, with Westpro Ltd., as a Senior Tax Consultant, then spent the middle part of his career working at KPMG and Ernst & Young. During his time with Ernst & Young, he worked and lived in Russia, France and finally Switzerland. He has gained a valuable working knowledge of the respective income tax regulations in all of these countries.
Patrick holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Colorado, is a member of the National Association of Enrolled Agents and is a Certified Acceptance Agent.
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Melitta Campbell - Business Coach
Business Coach and Mentor with nearly 3 decades of business experience and a passion for helping women confidently build a business they love. She is also the founder of the Swiss Entrepreneurs Club and president of the Swiss Riviera Toastmasters Club in Montreux. Originally from Wales, she now lives in Montreux in a chalet she has renovated with her husband overlooking the Swiss Alps. - Sunita Sehmi - Walk The Talk
Founder of Walk The Talk, Sunita has been training, developing and now coaching Business Communication skills in both companies and educational establishments for over twenty years. She has a passion for helping people to maximise their potential and created Walk The Talk with the sole aim to drive each and every client to perform their best.
- Robert Harris- Forth Capital
With over 25 years experience working for some of the major financial institutions in the City of London, Robert is a founding partner of Forth Capital, the leading expat financial advisory company in Switzerland. Regulary quoted in newspaper articles and magazines, he is well placed to advise expats on a variety of financial issues that may arise during their time living in Switzerland.
- Debbie Croft - Croft Coaching
As the founder of Croft Coaching, Debbie has a passion for helping people overcome challenges, embrace change and live life to the full; with an ethos of “work hard, play hard”.
- Sarah Santacroce - Simplicity
A certified social media, internet marketing, and virtual event specialist, Sarah enjoys every aspect of small business marketing. Through her own business, Simplicity, it is her mission to help other small businesses and solopreneurs increase their visibility and use social media tools as part of their marketing strategy.
- Diana Ritchie - SSC Sàrl
A Director at Swiss Career Connections, Diana will provide you with some useful tips for job hunting.
By Robert Harris, Forth Capital
If you are a UK expatriate there is every likelihood that you will be subject to UK tax at some point in the future.
You may have assets such as liquid investments in the UK, in which case you may be subject to tax on income generated and tax on capital gains. Most people are aware of this already, but what about other taxes?
In Britain, you are brought up to be believe that your home is your castle and all Brits want to buy property – it is part of our DNA. Over the years, for most people their property has become their main pension plan. The equity in their property will fund the cost of retirement as well as care homes in later life. Whilst second properties have been subject to capital gains tax, it has now been confirmed that capital gains tax will now apply to primary residences.
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One of my favourite grocery stores in Geneva is Manor Food. There are two Manor Food locations in the Geneva area, one on Rue Cornavin in Geneva and the other in Vesenaz.
This month I had the great pleasure of interviewing the HR Director, Magdalena Boos and Jean-Louis Bornet, Assistant Director of Manor Geneva.
We talked about Manor, the brand, the present, the future and so much more…
Enjoy!
Sunita Sehmi: How has your business changed in the last 10 years?
Magdalena Boos & Jean-Louis Bornet: Competition is fierce and the profile of the sales staff has changed considerably as a result. If you work in the technical department you have to know your product inside out, for example what’s trending on the market what’s happening with the product etc.
This year my blog will be dedicated to interviewing leaders and subject matter experts to help promote healthier work-life balance. With any luck this will enable us to create better relationships, productivity and performance. I am convinced that this is an idea that needs to reverberate from the top and therefore will devote this year focusing on just that…with a little help from my friends!
This month, I have been lucky enough to interview Richard Gerver who has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation. The three core principles that underpin Gerver's philosophy are communication, empowerment and impact.
Here he shares some of his thoughts about leadership, communication, empowerment and impact. I hope you enjoy his interview as much as I did!
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By Debbie Croft, Croft Coaching / Geneva Coach Alliance
I was reflecting on my next blog so was rather surprised and delighted when an owner of a bike shop in Rolle gave me the theme without even knowing it! I had taken it upon myself to renovate my eldest's daughter's bike from blue to bright pink, for her younger sister. All went well with the renovation (the spray paint on the wheels being part of the planned look of course!) aside from I couldn't get the seat down.
I took the bike and children into the bike shop in Rolle and the owner couldn't have been more helpful - fixed the seat to the right height, fixed the bell, adjusted the brakes, all for next to nothing. In fact, he then threw in some teaching to my 5 year old, as she tried to ride the bike in the shop: "riding a bike is like life, you have to keep moving".. .
Little did he know that his advice also gave me the inspiration for my next blog.
By Sarah Santacroce at Simplicity
Wow, I didn’t expect that one. LinkedIn has made a few changes recently that annoyed many of us. I’m referring to the disappearance of the skills directory and the activity feed on our profiles for example. And in fact this annoyance many users immediately was reflected in LinkedIn’s stock price: huge drop in recent months.
But this might change again with this recent addition of publishing options for everyone.
What is the ‘LinkedIn Publishing’ Platform?
If you have subscribed to receive updates from a bunch of influencers, you are already experiencing the publishing options first hand. You have subscribed to receive posts from these influencers, without being connected with them. Well, LinkedIn is now giving the opportunity to all of us to publish posts and have people subscribe to regular updates from us.
