Business Network East Midlands

What an interesting seminar from Gary, who gave us some insights into psychometric and ipsometric profiling. Plus, Gary gve an amusing overview of shape association and profile types at the lunch time event. The conversation was good and lots of people stayed after the meal to carry on their discussion.

Seminar  “Are they crazy or is it just me?” by Gary Payne
 
“We hire people for their technical skills; we fire them for their behavioural faults” – Financial Times, Anonymous                               
 
The session will be about using Personality Profiling (Psychometric Testing) for Recruitment and Personnel Development, including:                 

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• How they can be used to keep you on the right side of the law and get the right people into the right roles;
• Using Personality Profiling to develop unique teams and reduce the risk of conflict in teams;
• Understanding yourself;          • Admin/Tech Audit;           • Management Audit;
• Languages and their use in profiling;          • Strengths and Limitations;          • Sales Audit;                    
• Examples reports will include:          • Job Compatibility           • Standard PPA;                            Find out more

===========================SPECIAL OFFER for Business Network Members & Guests
Before the seminar date, attendees are invited to complete an online Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) on themselves before the session, at 50% of normal PPA cost – just £45* plus VAT – with a full and detailed report (cheque payment at the seminar please).
 
Alternatively you can complete a ‘pen portrait’ on the day – but it is not half as interesting and scary as the formal PPA Report!
All delegates will be given a free set of tools to conduct your own mini-PPAs on staff, etc, around them.
 
If you would like to really get the most out of the day and have your own Personal Profile Analysis completed, simply email Gary Payne using: gary@gillpayne.com to confirm that you require one completed. We will take that as your order and then simply confirm with you some personal details required for the test and then email you the test link to take only – it will only take around 7 minutes. Your report will be emailed to you before the seminar if requested, or brought on the day.

We went  back to the Hilton Hotel in Nottingham for our April meeting and it was good to see what new chef  creates for us…the bailey’s cheesecake was a great success!

We again got a good turn out, with 47 booked in and we continue to grow and we would like to thank all those who brought  guests, as we had 12 new people at the  meeting.

The morning seminar went down well with Neil and Mark (see below) and Louise Third of Integra did the 10 minutes during the lunch.

FREE SEMINAR

This month we welcomed Mark Greenhouse and Neil Harvey of  ResQ who  presented on LEAN Thinking.   

Lean Thinking it’s all about manufacturing isn’t it?  

 Lean Thinking is management technique adopted by Tesco, Zara, Starbucks (these guys have just tripled profits using it!), Toyota, GE, NHS  etc. It simultaneously improves efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Neil Harvey & Mark Greenhouse from ResQ shared the results of what can be achieved through lean thinking, results from the world of marketing, legal firms, retailing, manufacturing etc. They’ll share some of the techniques and simulations they use, so that you can try them for yourself and you’ll find out how a lean thinking practitioner “sees” the world of business.

Find out

•  whether you and your clients are really operating at between 5-10% efficiency like most organisations and how you can start on the journey to improve this to world class figures of 30-50%
•  why the highest potential for improvement is in the service sector and in departments such as marketing, sales and accounting.
• how lean thinking has been applied, by ResQ, to organisations as small as 4 employees!
•  how you and your clients could get funding to start on a “lean” journey

Current clients of ResQ have reduced their labour costs by between 25-40%, improved their “on time” delivery and won contracts directly as a result of the work completed by ResQ.

ResQ are accredited suppliers of “Lean Thinking” transformation programmes across the East Midlands, Yorkshire & Humberside to both Business Link and the Manufacturing Advisory Service. Find out more

What a great event and we had a great response to Andy Preston’s presentation to the business networking seminar in the East Midlands!

The Business Network offers you a good event  to build business contacts that can help your business. We strive to deliver a top quality event that ensures you not only build up your business contacts, but you enjoy yourself.  In a relaxed, but structured business environment, where you you will be looked after by Peter Motley, the team and your table host.

The Business Network attracts senior decision makers from a wide variety of  companies and organisations, with members enjoying a number of benefits, which includes Business Networking people working  hard to be an indirect marketing resource for our members in the East Midlands. We target the clients our members want to meet and invite them to meeting so our members can form a business relationship. To experience the difference that is the Business Network in the East Midlands, please book here

This month’s seminar is:-

Sales Lessons from the Slow Down - by Andy Preston

A guide to increasing Sales in 2010.

The last year has  highlighted the need for the business owners and salesperson to control your sales plans and sales process more than ever before! It was the year where customers started asking for proposals, but then didn’t seem to proceed with the buying decision anywhere near as fast!

Did you feel that your  prospects were trying to get a ‘feel’ for what was available and what it would cost, before trying to get approval for who to go with, which often resulted in internal discussion and slow decision making by potential clients! So the salesperson does lots of ‘running around’ for very little reward!

Andy will show you how to regain control of your sales process and drive your sales plan. To attend the Business Network Event book here.

For more details on the seminar, here in Nottingham,  and Andy Preston please see here.

PLUS…… we are supporting Express Logistics support of  the Blue Peter appeal, so please remember to bring your old (washed) T-shirts to the meeting!

What a great social networking seminar given by Caron J Lyon, which provided some real value to our members and their guests. An other good atmosphere at the event and t6he roast beef went down well and the lemon tart was just the right think to follow!  The Business Network  East Midlands, is growing with nearly 40 members now and it was good to see that we continue to attract a good number of  new companies per meeting.  John Bendel of oh2 gave the lunchtime talk, with some interesting numbers around exporting and the internet. (e.g What percentage of those who use the internet cannot speak English!!!)

The Business Network attracts senior decision makers from a wide variety of  companies and organisations and members enjoy a number of benefits, which includes the Business Networking people working  hard to be an indirect marketing resource for our members. We target the clients our members want to meet and invite them to meeting so our members can form a business relationship.

This month’s seminar was:-

 Social Media - Why it Matters to Your Business -  Caron J Lyon

The importance of social media to your marketing plan cannot be under estimated.

 Caron-Jane  covered off some of the golden rules and when and where to use LinkedIn, facebook, Twitter, You Tube, etc, plus when not to use them.  If you are want to enhance your skills or just understand the topic, this was a good  seminar to gain some real value. See here for more info…..             

Caron-Jane are experienced in the new landscape of Social Media and will give a good grounding in this  rapidly emerging marketing media.   

Unfortunately, Ellen Carroll was called away at the last moment.               

 We were back at the Nottingham Belfry for our January meeting and we had a reasonable turn out considering the weather, tax year end for many and the backlog after the holiday. The day got off to a great start with Ian Sterritt’s very interesting seminar on Innovation in your Business. If you have not seen his “Zipper Model” and how it can apply to your business, I would recommend you catch up with him…..it was one of those “wish I had seen this years ago” ….so a great thanks to Ian for braving the Derbyshire Snow.

The meeting itself proved most enjoyable with 11 new companies  attending the meeting and it was a pleasure to introduce the new GM of the Belfry – Mart Louwerse, who gave an overview of his experience. The New Year raffle was won by John Bendel of oh2, who have recently opened offices in Nottingham. However, the star of the show for me was the Apple and Rhubarb crumble, closely followed by the fillet of lamb. A lovely warming meal on a very cold day.

The Business Network attracts senior decision makers from a wide variety of  companies and organisations and members enjoy a number of benefits, which includes the Business Networking people working  hard to be an indirect marketing resource for our members. We target the clients our members want to meet and invite them to meeting so our members can form a business relationship.

The seminar registration starts at 10:00 for 10:00am start ; The Lunch only registration starts at 11:45 for a 2:00pm finish.

To join us please book here

The Business Network offers business networking with a difference for our members and guests!

We take the “random element” out of networking by ensuring you sit with companies that can directly or indirectly help your business, plus you won’t sit with any competitive business.

 Members and people who attend for the first time are welcome to attend our free morning seminar, normally starting at 10:00am, where we offer members and guests free business educational seminars on topical business issues.

This month’s seminar is Innovation in Your Business by Ian Sterritt of  the newly formed  i-Qube   

 Best practice innovation takes its own medicine with different approaches that connect internal and external ideas to meet demand for new solutions.

The use of innovation to solve business problems is enhanced by use of the “Zipper Model” and well worth exploring it’s use in your business.

Referring to recognizable case studies and exercises, Ian  illustrated the practical steps every business can take towards the successful creation and commercialisation of innovation.  Please read more….

What a great event in celebration of  networking, of Christmas  and raising over £300 in funds for our two charity members, Treetops and Marie Curie. ***********   We had  12 great prizes  donated by both members and guests! A massive thank you to those who provided them **************

Local Businesses were in a festive mood at the Christmas meeting of the Business Network Nottingham.  The group met at the Village Hotel in Chilwell and raised funds of £300 for the two charities by holding a raffle.  All items were kindly donated by the Businesses attending.

Kate Shaw, Treetops Hospice Ripple Appeal Manager, said ‘I’m delighted to receive the donation from this Network.  I always enjoy their meetings and it’s fantastic to have all the Companies supporting the two charities in this way”