Events
10 / 7
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
This is a Forward Ladies event. Start: 2:45 pm
End: 6:00 pm
The industry's leading lights will be presenting and debating their views on the challenges and opportunities that media integration poses for advertisers and media owners. They will examine how the changing trading climate has impacted their strategies to retain revenues or deliver cost effective results. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Supporting Breast Cancer awareness with Ample Bosom's Sally Robinson.
Join us for some networking and enjoy listening to Sally tell us how she started her company at her kitchen table and turned it into a very successful internet business.
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Cost: Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The next Social Media Surgery in Leeds is on Thursday 7th October 6-8pm at The Round Foundry Media Centre. As usual it is a free and informal drop in session so just turn up anytime between 6pm and 8pm. You'll be able to grab a cup of tea and a biscuit and sit with someone who can talk to you about social media and how it could help your organisation. You can post any questions at any time into our Facebook group or sign up to hear about up-coming surgeries and events. | ||
10 / 8
Start: 8:30 am
End: 4:00 pm
This is a Forward Ladies event. Coping with climate change may prove to be the ultimate test for business. We all have a share responsibility for the consequences of climate change over the coming years. With increased temperatures Climate Change is taking place across the world and so the business community needs to make changes before it's too late but these changes can not only secure our future but help you save money and enhance your brand. | ||
10 / 9
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 09/10/2010 - 09:00
End: 10/10/2010 - 17:30
This is an Incite trainig event. Successful entrepreneurs develop a very personal and very robust core of priorities, attitudes and objectives, along with a firm grasp of certain fundamental business principals and skills: this framework becomes the "engine" for the ideas and decisions the entrepreneur must come up with every day, and provides the confidence and self-belief that must lie behind them. This course is about reorganising the entrepreneurial mind and is as effective for experienced, serial entrepreneurs as it is first-timers. | ||
10 / 10
End: 5:30 pm
Start: 09/10/2010 - 09:00
End: 10/10/2010 - 17:30
This is an Incite trainig event. Successful entrepreneurs develop a very personal and very robust core of priorities, attitudes and objectives, along with a firm grasp of certain fundamental business principals and skills: this framework becomes the "engine" for the ideas and decisions the entrepreneur must come up with every day, and provides the confidence and self-belief that must lie behind them. This course is about reorganising the entrepreneurial mind and is as effective for experienced, serial entrepreneurs as it is first-timers. | ||
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10 / 12
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
This is a free bmedia Business Network event.
Winning More Business - Introduction to tendering and proposal writing skills Peter Ramsden is the Director of Paramount Learning. As well as holding a Masters in Business from Bradford University School of Management, Peter has more than 20 years experience of sales and marketing of industrial consumables to national and international clients.
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10 / 13
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 13/10/2010 - 09:00
End: 14/10/2010 - 17:00
This is a Bmedia event. This two day funded leadership and management workshop will:
- Give you the skills and tacit knowledge used by highly successful leaders Funding for this course is available Venue: Leeds/Bradford area (TBC) Cost: £25 Start: 9:00 am
Start: 13/10/2010 - 09:00
End: 14/10/2010 - 17:00
This course is a highly interactive two day workshop where delegates take turns to lead their team to success. Delegates are spilt into teams and challenged to build the most successful business. As part of the challenge they have to develop leadership and effective team building skills. Working together as a team they will be making and taking decisions on all matters of running the simulated business including, strategy, produ...cts numbers of staff, pricing, loans, forecasting etc. After each round the team is provided with a full P&L and balance sheet results. Start: 9:30 am
End: 5:00 pm
Join speakers from Black Marble and Microsoft to find out what you need to build the next generation of rich internet applications, websites, as well as demonstrating Windows Phone 7 and multi-touch devices. Find out more about Microsoft's web platform and tooling with Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend, Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight and XNA on Windows Phone 7, and running it all together on Windows Azure. This full day event is free, and includes lunch. Microsoft Speakers: Michael McClary, Will Coleman and Mike Taulty of Microsoft. Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
This is a Forward Ladies event. Join Catriona for lunch as she explains the Lessons that we can all learn from a Private Equity culture. Catriona joined Pets at Home in January 2003. As Commercial Director, she is responsible for developing the customer proposition in stores, building the Pets at Home brand and achieving profitable growth. Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
This is a Leeds Chamber event. The meeting will include presentations about the following topics:
* Vision for the City This will be followed by a panel discussion and open forum, with panelists including Martin Dean from the Leeds Initiative and Gerald Jennings from Land Securities. If these issues concern you - and if you're involved in business in the Leeds City Region - then this will be a key event for you to attend. | ||
10 / 14
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 13/10/2010 - 09:00
End: 14/10/2010 - 17:00
This is a Bmedia event. This two day funded leadership and management workshop will:
- Give you the skills and tacit knowledge used by highly successful leaders Funding for this course is available Venue: Leeds/Bradford area (TBC) Cost: £25 End: 5:00 pm
Start: 13/10/2010 - 09:00
End: 14/10/2010 - 17:00
This course is a highly interactive two day workshop where delegates take turns to lead their team to success. Delegates are spilt into teams and challenged to build the most successful business. As part of the challenge they have to develop leadership and effective team building skills. Working together as a team they will be making and taking decisions on all matters of running the simulated business including, strategy, produ...cts numbers of staff, pricing, loans, forecasting etc. After each round the team is provided with a full P&L and balance sheet results. Start: 8:00 am
End: 10:00 am
This is an event run by The Alternative Board as part of a series of Facilitated Learning Events, presented by Paul Connell & Kenton Robbins for Executives, Business Leaders & Owners and Directors. You will explore, share knowledge and learn new techniques & approaches to managing the challenges of The New Economy. | ||
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10 / 20
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
As part of the Enterprising Barnsley project, bmedia are running another OpenCoffee event. These free events are informal and see a range of entrepreneurs, new start up businesses, investors and anyone else who's interested in exchanging ideas and striking up relationships that would otherwise never have flourished. The philosophy of OpenCoffee is very much of an Open House of ideas and people. The event is open to anyone who is interested in B2B networking. You're welcome to enjoy the coffee, bacon butties, the cakes and the company. | ||
10 / 21
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:00 pm
* Have you been told that you need to do more in less time? Work smarter not harder with the key skills demonstrated in this workshop. Enhance your work/life balance, get more done and gain ‘that feeling of accomplishment'. Change your attitude to work and gain more results. The effects of this course can be instant. Motivate yourself to achieve more. Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Following the success of the OpenCoffee networking events have held in Bradford, Sheffield and Barnsley, bmedia are running another event at the Yo Yo Bar in Shipley. The emphasis of OpenCoffee is very much on the internet and new media industries. These free events are informal and see a range of technology entrepreneurs, designers, bloggers, developers, geeks, investors and anyone else who's interested in digital media and technology exchanging ideas and striking up relationships that would otherwise never have flourished. Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
This networking event attracts business owners, directors and senior level staff i.e. the decision makers. It is business focused with a pre-arranged seating plan thus ensuring a good mix and match of businesses and avoiding conflicts of business interest on any of the tables.
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10 / 27
Start: 9:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
This session provides guidance on best practice in reducing levels of absenteeism and offers practical guidance on improving employee attendance at work. It also takes you through the process of identifying patterns of absence, dealing with frequent short term absence and handling long term absence. Also covered is absence in relation to the Disability Discrimination Act and good practice when developing effective absence policies.
Aimed At: Start: 1:30 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Get a better understanding of how to handle both discipline and grievance problems. For those who manage staff, resolving problems has become, increasingly, a daily task. A good working knowledge of discipline and grievance procedures is essential if issues are to be resolved in the workplace rather than spilling over in to the employment tribunals. | ||
10 / 28
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
This Creative Networks event will be of interest to anyone working within or across the cultural and creative sectors in the Yorkshire region. Leeds College of Art will open its doors and offer all its resources to creative, cultural and digital companies, free-lancers, artists and performers to demonstrate their skills and capabilities in: | ||
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10 / 31
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11 / 1
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
* Do you resist change? The only thing that is constant is change. You grow or remain behind. Learn how to embrace change in a positive way and gain win/win situations with this one day high impact workshop. Learn the steps to change and how to manage people along the way. | ||
11 / 2
Start: 9:30 am
End: 1:15 pm
This is a Forward Ladies event. What do people say about you when you're not in the room? Whatever it is, that's your personal brand - and it's the key to your success. Which is why clever businesswomen aren't leaving their personal brands to chance. They're taking the time to define their personal brand - who they are and what they bring to the table - so they can confidently promote it in everything they say and do. That way, even when they've left the room, their personal brand continues to do the talking. | ||
11 / 3
Start: 9:30 am
End: 1:00 pm
Black Marble has been using SharePoint 2010 for over a year, and this event provides a unique opportunity for us to share our in-depth knowledge of the collaborative product focusing on the key features we make use of. Our event enables you to meet our team and discuss with us the technology and how it can benefit your business, based on our pragmatic experience of implementing this great new product from Microsoft. There is also an afternoon event 'Using SharePoint 2010 for Content Publishing' running from 1:30pm to 5:00pm. | ||
11 / 4
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre is hosting a dedicated Business Support Event at the Centre on the 4th November. Over a dozen agencies will be in attendance to offer funding and support opportunities and whatever your business needs, from business start-ups to established going concerns. In addition to this, the Intellectual Property Office and Companies House will be delivering practical seminars from 6-7pm. Whether you have questions from setting up a company, using an brand name or using copyright materials etc. these are the people that have the answers. | ||
11 / 5
Start: 9:00 pm
* Are you tired of miscommunication? Build effective rapport, influence, negotiate, persuade with impact and deal with objections in a positive, assertive manner with key interpersonal skills essential in the professional workplace. Enhance your social intelligence and build powerful relationships with this one day course. | ||
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