Networking for the success of your business

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Anglicism “networking” is a well-known veteran in the business world. It is considered one of the best strategies to expand your network of contacts, especially if you are an entrepreneur. The objective of this technique is, above all, to connect with people who need what you offer or who can recommend you to those who are interested in your business, since it is always preferable to generate professional relationships through someone you trust.

 

The beginnings are usually complicated, but one of the most important factors when reaching the excito is counting the right resources. Networking can be one of the keys to making that not a problem, helping to build strong and beneficial professional relationships for both parties. In this way, apart from publicizing the business or service, it can also be a great boost for your company and its development.

 

How to Do Networking?

 

There are many ways you can make your product or service known: One of the most beneficial networking sites is at events. They are an ideal place to receive feedback on what people perceive from your business and, of course, to be able to meet those who are interested in the possibility of joining your team, of becoming your customers, in your suppliers or even of forming a new synergy p offers a slob.

 

Another way, which lately is doing very coworking. Sharing a workspace, like the ones we have in Espai114, where entrepreneurs and professionals develop their activity, can bring many advantages. One of them is the exchange of information or the help that you can receive from those around you, getting different contributions and knowledge of each one and also, why not, find customers.

 

Finally, another way is through social media. Linkedin it is one of the great platforms today that is helping many workers and companies to meet, hire and recommend others. It is perfect to maintain contacts of your interest and connect with them for your projects.

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business. In Espai 114 together we form a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

Financial intermediation or financial broker

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Do you know what financial intermediation is?

When it comes time to buy a home and borrow from your financial institution, doubts always arise.

If you have to start a business, you are forced to make some investment in assets. You think your trusted bank will figure it out for you.

But all of a sudden, your bank doesn’t give you the mortgage you need?

Doesn’t your bank give you credit for your business project?

You need a new point of view to access the funding you need. Someone to accompany you throughout the process of buying your first home and they will clarify all the doubts that overwhelm you. Mortgage at fixed rate or variable rate? Is it possible to have a mortgage of 100 of the value of the estate?

 

 

You need someone to help you realize your business plan and be able to present yourself as it is due to other entities that will open the doors, and a better price.

We negotiate for you with the bank that will grant you the mortgage loan or personal loan.

We will do what is necessary to have new funding lines for your projects and your entrepreneurship.

 

Espai 114 has the experience you need to help you at this crucial time. We are your financial intermediation

You don’t lose anything contacting us and telling us your situation. We work successfully and discreetly.

Your mortgage with the best conditions. Free and agile analysis. Up to 100% of the buy-and-sell value. Accompaniment to the same signature.

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Cohabitation in a Coworking space

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Many freelancers and entrepreneurs need a space to work, but they cannot afford it. Coworking is the solution for these independent professionals, putting in their service spaces where they can develop their ideas. Not only that, as the word“Coworking” says, it is about cooperating with others and getting more out of ideas among all.

Our coworking space,located at Calle Mercé, no. 1, in Badalona, is a comfortable, professional and cozy area with a pleasant atmosphere among workers, a very important factor to achieve a high performance at work.

In order to promote this good coexistence, we detail a series of guidelines that it is recommended to follow if you want to make the most of your experience in coworking.

 

How to maximize our performance in a coworking space?

ATTITUDE

– Respect. There will be many workers from various areas, therefore the profiles will be very different.

– Cooperation. Offer and accept any help if you need it.

– Noise. Avoid speaking too loud or making annoying noises to others. Remember, it’s a common space.

– Headphones. Don’t make the audio volume of your devices within everyone’s reach.

– Calls. If you have to talk on the phone, isolate or go outside.

– Behaviour. We must all behave well, if someone else does not have it, warns those responsible for the space.

– Schedule. Respect the hours assigned to meetings, breakfasts, etc.

– Internet. Make rational use of the common network, don’t collapse it with video games or other topics that have nothing to do with work.

– Furniture. Take care of the space like you’re at home.

Hygiene

– Order. Pick up everything you’ve used and return it to your place of origin.

– Cleaning. If an object is dirty, wash it.

– Waste. Do not use the floor or desk as garbage.

– Food. Each space has its own rules, don’t eat where it doesn’t play.

Sustainability

– Lights. Turn off any that aren’t needed.

– Equipment. Turn them off or set the “suspend” mode to save.

– Paper. Recycle, use leaves on both sides and manage their use.

We currently have free workspaces in our coworking. If you’re thinking about it… now is the time to try it!

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Team leadership

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Team leadership and management can seem like a simple job, but if managed poorly can end up giving serious problems.

That’s why decision makers in a business organization need to know how to lead a group of people.

Some people think that leader and boss is the same, but this statement is not true, they are two totally different concepts. The team leadership style is very different if you are a leader or if you are a boss, so it is very important to know how to differentiate them, as well as know what their characteristics and ways of acting are.

In short, a boss focuses on meeting the company’s goals in the times that are required regardless of the emotional component of their work team. On the other hand, the leader is in charge of the management of work teams taking into account the emotional component of his work team, and usually has training or knowledge in emotional intelligence.

A leader is the kind of manager that companies have to maintain and avoid losing in their organization, because they will know how to get the best out of the people who make up their team in order to achieve the goals set.

Every leader has to obtain and develop skills that allow him to lead a team, and sometimes these capabilities are already present in the person himself, and sometimes not. Fortunately with a lot of work and good training we can develop these capabilities.

La Sala from Espai114 offers several 100% subsidized courses, including the Team leadership course .

This course aims to help you achieve the following goals to be a good team leader:

  • Incorporate learnings of new ways of being.
  • Produce a change in the way you observe situations to declare opportunities.
  • Take action based on what you want to achieve, promoting commitments to the results, separating you from your explanations.
  • Lead teams with self-awareness and control.
  • Know how to define and identify leadership situations.
  • Define goals for a group you have to lead.
  • Incorporate motivational tools into team leadership
  • Incorporate group leadership conflict negotiation techniques.

 

Need to improve your leadership skills and be a good leader for your team? If so, don’t hesitate to sign up through our website!

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Tuppers and Coworking!

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With the return to the after-summer routine also returns the puzzle of preparing the takeaway to the office every day Coworking or, failing that, eating every day out with the expense that this entails and the consequent mismatch in our food. Because we already know that in the restaurant we usually ask for what we want most instead of what our body needs.

 

Preparing our own takeaway to work only gives us advantages; it is more economical, healthier and allows us to create a routine following better defined dietary guidelines.

 

That’s why today we explain how to organize when preparing the meal, and we provide you with a weekly menu with which you will not have to worry about improvising every day and with which we assure you that you will eat rich and healthy from Monday to Friday.

 

Also, to make it even easier for you, we recommend that on one day, on Sunday for example, you prepare most of the dishes that you will take to the office so that the effort you have to make during the week is minimal.

This useful planning method today is known as Batch Cooking and it will help you save a lot of time and energy.

 

How to organize a weekly menu?

 

In order to prepare weekly tuppers correctly, we must consider the following aspects:

  • If possible, we should avoid repeating recipes. An unchanging menu can stop you from including tuppers in your diet, try to prepare varied meals that include all the necessary nutrients. This means that our dishes must include pasta, rice, cereals or legumes, accompanied by meat, vegetables or fish.
  • Presentation matters. Food enters through the eyes, and if it’s appetizing and attractive, it’ll be easier for us to eat at ease.

 

For the elaboration of the following menu we have followed the dish method. According to this method, for a meal to be balanced it must be formed a 50 per vegetable,a 25 per proteinand the remaining 25 for carbohydrates. Starting from this base, here are 5 balanced meals that you can easily take in tuppers to the office:

 

MONDAY Grilled vegetables (asparagus, peppers, eggplant…) + Hummus + Rice
TUESDAY Salad + Grilled salmon + Microwave-spiced Potatoes
WEDNESDAY Salted mushroom + with chicken + pesto pasta
THURSDAY Zucchini cream with potato+ Prawn scramble
FRIDAY Lentils salad with brown rice

 

 

In addition, taking a few nuts (nuts, almonds, pistachios…) or some piece of fresh fruit will help you complete your meal. And finally, don’t forget to accompany it with plenty of water!

 

More and more people are preparing takeaways to the office, and after reading these tips we expect you to be one of them. Are you still eating out, or are you one of those who take the food to Coworking?

 

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Why domiciling your business? Discover the benefits of doing it in a Business Center

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Have you thought about domiciling your company?

If you are self-employed or entrepreneurial you should already know that your company must have a social and a fiscal domicile. Now, if you’re not yet clear about the functions of each of them, we detail them:

  • The social domicile is the address of the place where the company’s activity takes place. This address is public and can be found in the Commercial Register.
  • The fiscal domicile is the address that will be recorded for the company’s relationship with the Tax Administration. This address will not be public.

 

Both addresses may or may not coincide, in addition they may be different from the business address, which is where the company relates to its customers and/or suppliers.

 

Once the concepts are clarified, what is the social domiciliation? Your company’s social domiciliation in a Business Center consists on adopting the direction of this one as the social and/or fiscal headquarter of your own business.

 

It’s easy to find out some of the advantages of domiciling your business into a Business Center:

  • Locating the company in a location other than the personal address or the domicile of another potential business will help you avoid unwanted business links.
  • Placing your company’s domicile in a strategic location like the center of a city will help you position yourself and bring you prestige.
  • You will be able to receive courier and parcels during the business hours of the Business Center.
  • You will have the possibility to use some of the facilities of the center as a meeting room to meet with your clients.

 

If you have already decided to domiciliate your business in a business center, remember that in Espai 114 we offer you this service, with the great advantage of being located in the center of Badalona.

 

Another service we also offer is the management and administration of electronic notifications from Social Security, Tax Administration and the Barcelona Provincial Council. In this way we will control for you the notifications that can reach you from these different platforms.

 

We invite you to consult us without commitment any questions about social domiciliation, and also about the cost of this service.

 

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In Espai114 together we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

Summer coworking

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We’d be fooling ourselves if we said we’re just as productive in summer as we were in the rest of the year. Heat, beach or summer plans can play a role.

Are you one of those people who can’t afford to disconnect from work in the summer? Working in a Coworking can be a very good idea!

Working from home can be very complicated, and those who have children know it very well, as they are their months of vacation and are at home all day. Screams, laughter, anger… All this makes it impossible to concentrate and create a suitable working environment. And if it’s not the kids, there’s always going to be some distraction in between!

Time flexibility is helpful if you have to work in the summer. The people who work in our Coworking have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is an advantage if one day you have to work very late or you are simply inspired and want to prepare an important meeting.

Summer can be a time of relaxation and happiness, but it can also be a bit harsh. High temperatures can cause our work rate to slow considerably, but our great ally is the air conditioning that makes our working days more bearable.

The location of our Coworking in Badalona is perfect. We are in the center of Badalona, in an area very well connected with several bus lines that work very well, and close to the metro and train stops.

Can you imagine shutting down the computer at 17:00, and going straight for a walk along the Badalona’s Rambla? Much quieter than the Barcelona’s one, it invites you to have an ice cream while walking quietly, disconnecting from work.

Also, we are only 5 minutes walk from the beach, what more can you ask for?

Many times we have taken advantage of this together with our Coworkers, and we have made meetings to go to the beach. As good early birds, we usually meet at 7:30h on the beach to take the first dip of the day and have breakfast together.

We can’t complain about the restaurants we have nearby either. From time to time we will also eat together, and among the restaurants that we like the most there are que Que s’hi cou, Cafè de les Antípodes or Fujitaka Teppan Okonomiyaki. Always teaming up!

Working in a Coworking space in summer allows you to have more concentration, flexibility, comfort and the opportunity to work with and learn from other professionals. What are you waiting for to jump into the Coworker lifestyle?

 

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In Espai114 together we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

Form yourself for free!

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Do you know the subsidized formation?

Whether you are active at work or unemployed, you have probably wondered at some point how to reinvent yourself, improve your skills and open up new opportunities in the workplace.

Formation is the most useful tool to improve your resume and grow professionally.

What is subsidized formation?

They are free courses that are part of the Formación Profesional para el Empleo (FPE) and depend on the Ministry of Employment and Social Security. These subsidized courses will allow you to form and acquire knowledge of the course, and can also serve as a cover letter when looking for work.

In Espai114 we provide subsidized formation courses aimed at workers, freelancers and people in unemployment. We do this in close collaboration with Carmen Jiménez from Enebra and Criteria Recursos Humanos, to be able to offer a wide range of courses that adapt to the different needs of the students.

Some of the most successful courses during this last call have been Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness.

The concept of Emotional Intelligence refers to the ability to recognize one’s own and others’ feelings. The trainer in this field has been Isabel Lerín,and the course aims the following aspects:

  • Improve professional training in order to use emotional intelligence at work.
  • Learn what emotional intelligence is and the impact it has on our lives on a cognitive, attitudinal and psychological level.
  • Know the basic emotions to enjoy better intra-personal and interpersonal relationships.

 

On the other hand, the concept of Mindfulness refers to the ability to recognize what is happening while it is happening, accepting the way things are happening. The Mindfulness course aims to:

  • Provide the necessary techniques to increase levels of awareness, contributing to better change management, optimizing decision-making, managing day-to-day crises and challenges, as well as obtaining well-being and high personal and professional performance.
  • Establish an action plan for personal and professional improvement in aspects of self-awareness, emotional control, change management and general well-being.

If you are interested in expanding your knowledge, this is your chance!

Visit our Subsidized Training section and you will be able to consult the courses that will be taught soon. Join!

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In Espai114 together we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

The 8 advantages of coworking

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Coworking is a life and work philosophy that allows different professionals and entrepreneurs to share the same workspace to develop their projects. This workspace can be both physical and virtual.

What are the advantages of working in a coworking space?

  1. It allows you to access a low cost professional space.
  2. It encourages social relations between professionals from different sectors (networking), producing the possibility of obtaining new labour relations.
  3. Flexible hours: You can work full time, part time, etc.
  4. It is a strong source of motivation. See the rest of coworkers working just like you, motivates you to follow your own projects.
  5. Provides fresh and innovative ideas. It favours the exchange of knowledge thanks to the interaction with the other professionals.
  6. It offers tranquility to work, leaving behind external distractions that may be at home: telephone, television, children, etc.
  7. It encourages cooperation between professionals in the same sector and different.
  8. It provides comfort and equipped facilities. Coworking spaces are designed to meet the needs of professionals with services such as printer, WiFi, refrigerator, coffeemaker, etc.

A coworking space offers you the chance to work with the same comfort as from your home, but with all the benefits of sharing a fully equipped professional space.

If you are a new company or a professional and are thinking about working in a coworking, we hope that this summary has helped you to take the best solution for you.

Remember that in espai 114 we have a coworking space that will help you to develop as a professional or company, offering you all the facilities to carry out your projects.

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Business Center in Badalona

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From Espai 114 we want to approach to Badalona a different business center, a meeting point foropportunities and support forentrepreneurship, freelance workers and remote work.

 

We are a modern coworking , with facilities and with the location that your business needs, in the center of Badalona.

 

We not only offer a common space among entrepreneurs in coworking format or individual offices, but we provide solutions to many of the concerns and problems that may arise along your business way.

 

OurRoom recieves training, negotiations, product presentations and services, as well as work interviews or conventional meetings. All this is possible thanks to the versatility and possibilities of our room, easily adaptable to any eventual need.

 

In this blog we will tell you some clues that can help you in your business development and other topics of interest.

 

We will give you support in such fundamental aspects as the financial one. Offering financial solutionswith the most appropriate product in the most appropriate financial institution, tailored to your project.

 

We will develop topics that we will transform in free face-to-face courses, as we suggest trainings related to managerial and sectorial skills. Even if necessary, we can create the training courses that most interest you.

 

In this blog we will be updated at work, tax and legal fields, so that you give safe steps in your day to day. We will do it by the hand of LLADÓ GRUP CONSULTOR. A team of professionals (economists, lawyers, labor consultants…) with proven experience and great reputation in the business consulting sector.

 

We are the Badalona’s Business Center, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai114 together we are a team; we want to inspire and accompany you.