Customs and Global Trade – is your business ready?

It’s certainly going to be a busy few months for Customs and Global Trade Specialists. Unfortunately the trade deal that has been struck certainly does not mean business as usual for companies. There is a huge amount of new information to understand and new rules for businesses to take on board.

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The Women in Indirect Tax Networking Group stays virtual! by Liz Watt

The Women in Indirect Tax networking is currently virtual! We had our first Zoom networking group meeting back in April and it was a great success. The topic – Self Care Tips and Tools for Troubled Times – was the perfect antidote to all that we were about to face, providing us all with some much-needed respite.

This inspired us to keep the group running, and since then we have enjoyed sessions on a wide variety of topics, including Professional Brand, Business Development Strategies, Networking Skills, Leadership Skills in Uncertain Times and Communication Skills for the virtual world. Read More

CONFIDENCE – HAS YOURS BEEN KNOCKED BY 2020? by Liz Watt

2020 has been an extraordinary year in so many ways, impacting on every area of life, not least on work and careers. Working from home and all the challenges that has brought, uncertainty about job security, and the broader sense of how we manage and conduct our careers, have had a long-lasting impact. The changes we all had thrust upon us in a very short space of time, and the necessity to adapt quickly, has had quite a dramatic impact on many individuals sense of themselves in the workplace, and impacted on their confidence in their abilities. Read More

A YEAR OF CHANGE – by Liz Watt

What a year this has been for all of us! So much change, drama, sadness, upheaval ….. I could go on but there probably aren’t enough adjectives to fully describe all that we have been through. Read More

BLT Bulletin: Liz Watt

BLT – a Big Announcement. 2020 has seen so much change, but round here at BLT, none is greater than the news that Liz Watt, our Managing Director is retiring from BLT at the end of this month after 32 years of sterling service, both to the development of the BLT business and the Indirect Tax community as a whole! For those of you who don’t know Liz, she was the first hire that the BLT founders made way back in 1988, and for the bulk of her career, Liz focused on Indirect Tax recruitment, before in recent years using her unsurpassed knowledge and experience to set up BLT’s Executive Coaching division and establishing the hugely popular, successful and we’d go so far as to say, crucial Women in Indirect Tax Networking Groups. We’re not fully saying goodbye, as Liz will continue to run the Networking Groups with our full support under the BLT banner in the years to come, as well as continuing to develop her own Executive Coaching business. Read More