Events

So you're on Linkedin but how hard is your profile working to generate new business?

In just 60 minutes at your own desk you'll learn:

Join JD Approach for an IT Surgery at their training centre in the the G4 Business Centre, Sheffield.

Jessica Zeun and Deborah Adshed will answer questions on all of your
IT/computing queries and on anything technology related including IT
awareness for Women, e-marketing, websites (e.g. Introduction to Web
Design) and Microsoft Office applications including Database &
Excel.

If you want to improve your computer skills, this surgery is a must.

This is a Forward Ladies event.

Networking is rapidly becoming today’s answer to cold calling. Effective communication and good human relations skills are essential ingredients for effective networking. This seminar will show you how to create a good and lasting impression, develop and build rapport quickly, ask the right questions to identify business, opportunities, and deliver a powerful message about you and your business that will hold people's attention.

• What is it?
• How does it work?
• Why is it crucial to any business's growth plans?
• Why are smaller businesses perfectly placed to get it right from the start?

Darren Evans of The Engine Room will be joining us to explore branding and what it can do for your business.

Knowledge Sandwich shares information through the three e’s – expertise, experience and excellent pizza!

Date/Time:
9th September 2009
12.30 – 13.30

This is a Forward Ladies event.

This intriguing bite sized seminar answers all those tricky questions that you have about marketing. From what is the best way to approach direct mail to get results, through to how new marketing techniques such as blogs and social media can benefit your company.

For reliable software at a low or no cost, open source software and applications can be an effective answer for businesses small or large. You can try it out without having to commit to an initial expense. The software is being continuously improved and maintained: in fact the foundation of the business case for open-source is high reliability.

The next Yorkshire Association of Business Angels Investment Forum will take place on the 15th September, with the event being kindly sponsored by Eversheds Solicitors.

Date:
15th September 2009

Time:
17:45 - 22:00

Venue:
Bridgewater Place
Water Lane
Leeds
LS11 5DR

This is a Forward Ladies event.

The next Business Network event in Leeds is on Wednesday 16 September 2009 at The Cosmopolitan Hotel.

This month's event is being sponsored by Impress Promotions and Carl Barton is hosting the workshop.  Carl with be sharing with you his knowledge of "How to Increase Sales for free" using the BUPA Method.  Please indicate on the booking form if you are able to attend.

As you will know the Leeds Arena project is now well under way with demolition starting on the chosen site on Claypit Lane, and SMG Europe being selected as the chosen operator.

But are you fully aware of the positive impact that the Arena will have?

This is a Forward Ladies event

This workshop will cover negotiation, influencing and networking skills including:

This is a Forward Ladies event.

This seminar will provide you with the opportunity to take a step back and think about the changing face of selling in the current market, and how your sales people can adapt to our ever changing world.

Some of the current issues your business may be facing include:

The message you want to deliver may not be the message your potential customers receive.

This is an interactive workshop that will benefit any current or would be business owner who wants to get ahead of the competition. Enthusiastic feedback in May means that this workshop is being run again in York and Leeds.

Social Enterprise Yorkshire and the Humber is hosting its second West Yorkshire Networking Eventon the 22nd September between 9.30 and 12.30 at the Orangery in Wakefield.

The event will give you an opportunity to hear from local social entrepreneur Keith Sorrell about his enterprise Airedale Computer Recycling and the Regional Electronics Initiative which he chairs; Matt Smith of Key Fund will be presenting the Key Fund’s latest offer for Social Enterprise and Alex Sobel of SEYH will be giving an update on the work of SEYH.

This evening event is your chance to hear from Simon Biltcliffe, the founder and managing director of Webmart.

During this event you will discover how Simon's approach to combining the spirit of Marxist-Capitalism, power and wealth to the people who create it, has driven the company forward to become one of the leading print management providers in the UK.

This is a Forward Ladies event.

Chamber Member Offer - Discounted Training Course & Telemarketing Services

Increase Sales throught effective Telemarketing & Customer Service

Venue:
York Eco Business Centre

Date:
24th September 2009

Time:
9:30 - 16:00

Lunch & refreshments included

Non Member Cost: £95+V.A.T
Member Cost: £50 + V.A.T.

Limited places available please email: martin@yoursalesmanager.co.uk to reserve your place today!

The cost of work-related ill-health is costing the economy more than £100 billion a year and we aim to help you reduce the costs of sickness absence to your business. We will help you to learn about support mechanisms which can help an employee return to work following a period of absence, as well of gaining an overview of the distinctions between sickness and disability, and how these should be applied in your policies.

Who should attend?

This session is for anyone who is responsible for performance managing individuals and teams.

The seminar will inform you about the work that The Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) is doing to reduce the unnecessary burden red tape puts on law-abiding businesses. LBRO is doing this by making it easier for councils to advise upon and apply local authority regulation, and simpler for businesses to understand it.

By attending this seminar you will find out how you can work closely with your council regulatory services team to ensure you are complying with the law.

You will learn about:

Paramount Learning, a bmedia member company are facilitating a business to business negotiation
skills workshop in Leeds area on October 22nd. Venue to be confirmed.

This workshop is aimed at buyers and sellers who want to improve their negotiating skills and win
more business through the process of negotiation.

This is an interactive workshop where delegates will be expected to complete at least three development exercises and ultimately conduct a 2 hour business to business negotiation to test out their newly acquired skills along with fellow delegates.

Join us for breakfast with guest speaker Tony DeNunzio CBE, Chief Exec of Dutch retail group Maxeda.

Tony started his career in a number of financial roles with major consumer companies - Unilever, L’Oreal and PepsiCo. In 1998 he was appointed CFO of Asda PLC and in 2002 was promoted to President and CEO of Asda/Wal-Mart UK, the UK’s number two food retailer. Asda was voted the UK’s Favourite Supermarket and the UK’s Best Place to Work.

This is a Forward Ladies event.

Carl Hopkins, Board member of Forward Ladies and former chairman of JDA, has been at the forefront of the marketing industry in the North of England for over twenty years and recently featured in the hit Channel4 programme Secret Millionaire.

There's still time to book your place for our conference at the National Media Museum, Bradford, on Wednesday 30th September 2009.  Our programme of provocative key note speeches and targeted seminars and workshops interrogates three key themes:   

Creativity at the centre of learning for young people;  

Partnership at the centre of practice;  

Are you:

An ambitious company?

Wanting to know more about equity funding?

Interested to understand what an investor wants?

Keen to network with like minded individuals?

If so, the Aspire to Inspire event held in Leeds is for you.

Please find attached a copy of the schedule.

Date:
15th September

Time:
14:00 - 17:15

Venue:
DLA
Piper Leeds