Fabriam Networks and Aligned Solutions have joined forces to offer a tender bid writing taster session that will aim to:
Delegates will also take part in two workshops to define the bid writing process itself - when to start - and to define a bid/no bid process
The presentation and workshops will be hosted by David Ward of Aligned Solutions. For further information or to register, please email manuela.wendler@lexica-communications.com or phone 0191 280 4350.
Sales Express, by sales people, for sales people, with special guest speaker Fru Hazlitt, former Yahoo! and GCap
In this current climate sales have never been more crucial, sales drive every business, set yourself above the rest by attending this sales conference.
This conference is a real business development, and the best away day you could invest in you and/or your sales team - leaving them inspired to revolutionise their sales approach. The sessions will be innovative, creative and thought provoking.
This is not a sales conference in the traditional sense, but will give you and your team the perfect opportunity to understand the dynamics of the sales process, the principles and the people involved. With such a full programme our aim is to have something for everyone and at all levels of business, to provide our delegates with ideas to improve sales management effectiveness from a range of different perspectives.
There are some excellent and inspirational speakers, all well respected sales practitioners and consultants:
This is an unmissable (and remarkably good value) opportunity to work on your business, rather than in it.
Book now at www.entrepreneursforum.net or telephone 0870 850 2233.
a:design association in conjunction with the DBA presents Adrian Rasdall, Revenue Matters.
There are not many forecasters who are predicting a happy time for the design industry in 2009. The credit crunch is now upon us and talk has turned to the dreaded word – recession.
Even if the economy does not start to slide backwards we are undoubtedly going to experience what the economic commentators call a 'strong economic downturn'. For many sectors such as construction and finance it has already arrived – resulting in marketing and design budgets being slashed or put on hold.
To help you understand and make the difficult decisions that are going to come your way in the next year you need to attend this event.
Adrian will cover the following topics:
You need two plans
A) Trading your way out and B) Cutting your way out
To book email: morag@adesignassociation.org.uk
Ascari would like to invite you to a free event held together with Teesside Manufacturing Centre (TMC) to discuss Enterprise Integration and a best practice methodology for successful installation of any type of software system including ERP, Shop Floor Control and Quality Management.
Using the methodology developed by Teesside University, software systems can be rolled out more successfully within an organisation. The key is to take care of people, business processes and the software systems in a holistic manner, ensuring that any implementation is driven by business goals.
The Agenda for the event to be held at The Wynyard Rooms, Billingham, Teesside is as follows:
Thursday 2nd October 2008
9.00 Coffee & Registration 9.30 Enterprise Integration - The TIE Approach Dr Ahmed Abbas, Head of TMC 10.00 TIE Tools & Techniques Zeynel Badak, Project Officer 10.30 Business Process Improvement Dr Colin Herron, NEPA (North East Productivity Alliance) 11:00 Enabling technologies and integration of systems Tim Matsell, Director of Solutions Delivery, Ascari IT 11:30 Q & A session with the practitioner panel 12:00 Lunch & Networking 13.00 Close
To register for this free event please visit http://www.ascari-it.com/ and click on the Events tab. You may also register by calling Catherine Frost on 01642 342481 or emailing her at C.Frost@tees.ac.uk
For a detailed map of the event location please visit http://www.wynyardpark.com/location where a pdf map can be downloaded.
As businesses and organisations are under increasing pressure to reduce overheads, remain competitive and provide an unrivalled product or service to consumers, the competition for managerial talent is fierce.
Talent retention and attraction will be the hot topic at Durham Business School's latest Corporate Forum event which takes place next Thursday 2 October.
The seminar, which is open to businesses across the region, will look at the impact of ‘employer branding', what attracts highly talented managers and professionals to switch jobs and what keeps them loyal?
Key speakers include Professor Tom Redman and Dr Graham Dietz of Durham Business School and Lucy Hatt, HR Director at leading recruitment agency, Nigel Wright.
The presentations will report on research conducted the Business School, in association with Nigel Wright, into the concept of 'employer branding'. Is employer branding the ultimate weapon for winning the 'war' for managerial talent - or does its allure and promise create more problems than it solves?
To find out how the Corporate Forum can help take your business to another level and to book your place online log on to www.dur.ac.uk/dbs/support/corporate-forum/booking-form or contact Tracey Wallis Million, corporate relations manager, Durham Business School.
Tel: 0191 334 5417 or email: tracey.wallismillion@durham.ac.uk.
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Meeting for all DCM members who are part of the Finance Project Group. To enroll, please visit www.dcmforbusiness.co.uk
This fully funded workshop is delivered by QED Consulting on behalf of Business Link North East. It forms part of NOW North East Programme and has been specifically designed for those who interact with customers and for those looking to create and develop strong, influential customer relationships with prospects, influencers, decision-makers and customers. It will enable you to recognise the importance of the sales function, structure sales within a start up business, highlight potential challenges and allow you to practice and develop your newly found skills in a supportive and positive context. Refreshments and finger buffet will be provided.
If you want to meet with like-minded entrepreneurs, expand your network of business contacts, access a range of business professionals and turn your ideas into a successful reality then join us on 9th October.
For further information and to book your place please visit www.nownortheast.co.uk or contact contact Amanda Edwards on0845 680 1 391.
This fully funded workshop is delivered by QED Consulting on behalf of Business Link North East. It forms part of NOW North East Programme and has been designed to introduce the basics of small business marketing. You will look at all aspects of marketing from the perspective of solving customers problems. It builds on the simple elements of understanding the clients’ perspective, ensuring that the specific product/service has the appropriate profile to your target customers and that marketing does not stop once the product has been sold. Refreshments and finger buffet will be provided.
If you want to meet with like-minded entrepreneurs, expand your network of business contacts, access a range of business professionals and turn your ideas into a successful reality then join us on 9th October.
For further information and to book your place please visit www.nownortheast.co.uk or contact contact Amanda Edwards on0845 680 1 391.
BSI Management Systems has unveiled its fifth in a new series of free Regional Business Forums for 2008. The Newcastle event is being held on 14 October at the Marriott Hotel Gosforth Park. The forums are designed to educate businesses on how achieving certification to the latest standards can help address the complexities and challenges involved in developing and growing a lucrative business.
To register for this free event, simply visit www.bsi-uk.com/forums08
where you can sign up to any, or all of the sessions.
Designing Demand is a new programme developed by the Design Council to help you get full value from design. It will give you the skills you need to spot how design can boost performance and it will help you seize new-found design opportunities.
The workshop is for owners, managing directors or other senior managers of firms aiming to grow and improve their performance through design.
Business Workshops all FREE and run from 8.30am - 2.30pm. Breakfast and lunch are provided.
To find out more about Designing Demand or to register simply call Sarah Belton on 0191 244 4008 or visit www.designingdemand.org.uk
One North East have commissioned Pentagon Partnership and the Tees Valley VCS Forum to host 2 mini-conferences to mark the launch of a report* (commissioned by One NorthEast and produced by the PNE Group) exploring the Third Sector’s involvement in creating and improving physical spaces in deprived areas.
Featuring a range of expert speakers from the public and third sectors, the events will explore:
When and why? The benefits of asset development and physical regeneration
Opportunities – identifying them and capitalising on them
Barriers – perceived and actual - and how to overcome them
How can One NorthEast and local authorities help?
Please email jon.goodwin@pentagonpartnership.org.uk if you would like to attend either of these events, or call 0191 200 8516 for further details.
A FREE Spark Your Potential event is taking place at Sunderland’s National Glass Centre on the afternoon of Wednesday 15th October, coordinated by Spark, the Women’s Enterprise Ambassador Network and Make Your Mark.
The event will bring together successful entrepreneurs and enterprise experts to encourage women to recognise brilliant business opportunities across the region.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear first hand anecdotes and advice from their own personal journeys. The highlight of the day is an invaluable opportunity to experience a one-to-one advice session with an industry expert of their choice - individuals the women feel can help them the most; be it general business advisors, marketeers, accountants or lawyers.
The Spark Your Potential event will be held at the Sunderland’s National Glass Centre. To register please log onto www.sparkambassadors.org.uk and follow the registration process.
Clarity in Training and Coaching Ltd
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Many of you will know Clare Coffield as a Management Trainer delivering ILM accredited courses as well as Personal Development workshops. Over sixty students in Gateshead and Northumberland County Councils have successfully gained their Level 3 Management qualifications with her.
She has also been working as an Associate of P3 Coaching with Barbara Dennis in delivering Voluntary Sector Executive Coaching in the Leadership Foundation Programme.
You may have already benefitted from Clare's Coaching Workshops at Matfen Hall and The Northern Counties Club. Now there is an opportunity to come to the first session of a new Coaching Club on Wednesday 15 October 6.30-8.30 at The Northern Counties Club.
The first event is FREE so you can come and try out some group coaching and then decide if you would like to continue with the five remaining sessions in the series. Just contact Clare to register.
The Club will be meeting once a month on Wednesday nights: Nov 19, Dec 10, Jan 14, Feb 11, March 11
For more information or to book a place, call Clare on 0191 267 5565 or email clare.coffield@btconnect.com.
The Service Network Annual Conference is the North East’s leading conference for anyone involved in the service sector in the region. This prestigious event delivers high profile speakers, valuable insights, and a dynamic networking forum. With an established reputation in delivering exciting and inspiring events, Service Network’s conference this year will take as its theme “Survival” – a topical one given the current economic climate.
Scheduled for 16th October (12 noon until 6pm) at Northern Stage, the conference’s keynote speaker will be survival expert, Ray Mears with what promises to be a really lively and engaging presentation!
The line up also includes Newcastle Eagles basketball star and head coach, Fabulous Flournoy, who will share his story from childhood in the Bronx to becoming the most successful player/coach in British basketball history. Entrepreneurial guru, David Hall, described as one of Europe's leading facilitators in creativity, adaptability, and solutions thinking will also appear, as will owner-manager of leading-edge drugs company, Onyx Scientific, Tony Flinn. Tony successfully returned to take his business to new heights after a cycling accident left him permanently paralysed.
If you are interested in attending please contact Anna Brown on 0191 244 4031.
The plain truth is most websites simply don't work.
Even if you create a great website, the world will not necessarily flock to it. It's not a shop window that people find themselves walking past: it's out there in cyberspace with millions of other websites.
You could create a website which tells the world the secret of how to change scrap metal into gold, but if all you did was publish it on the web, guess what? It'll still be a secret.
You have to drive people to your website and you do that with Internet Marketing, this Seminar will explain how.
This event would normally cost £97.00 but is FREE to all DCM members.
Visit www.dcmforbusiness.co.uk for more information.
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3-Weekly Meeting for all DCM Members and guests in Tyne and Wear. Featuring guest speakers, DCM news, an interactive session and plenty of time for networking and coffee! For more information, please visit www.dcmforbusiness.co.uk
Panel:
Di Gates, bgroup
Tim Wilson, Cravens
Joanne Elliott, Guerilla
Julien Leighton, Orange Bus
Niel Bushnell, Qurios Entertainment
LEADERS from some of the North East's top creative agencies will speak at next month's Think and a Drink about how to succeed in the creative industries.
The event will look at full service and specialised creative agencies in the region and will tackle the following hot topics:
- Do you need to become a full-service agency in order to continue growing?
- Do you need to be based in Newcastle to be successful in the North East?
- How do you decide what value to put on your ideas and IP?
Business leaders from both, full service and specialised agencies will discuss how their businesses operate and what successes and failures they have experienced. They will also talk about their plans for the future of their businesses.
To book you place visit: http://www.thinkandadrink.com/register/
Speakers:
Running a business? You should be at this event...
Crucially in the current climate we want to showcase the tangible benefits of good use of design.
"Every £100 a design-alert business spends on design increases turn over by £225" Design Council
Part of the design & creative community? You should be at this event...
a:design association will form a unified voice for the design & creative community, setting the North East up as a 'go to' creative hub in the UK. To do this we need you - so come along, hear what we've got to say and get involved!
"83% of businesses which see design as integral have developed new products or services in the last 3 years compared to 40% of businesses overall" Design Council
TO BOOK: morag@adesignassociation.org.uk / 0845 370 3340
Pebbles Art Exhibition & Music Event A spectacular two day art exhibition in three dramatic galleries in Allendale. Live music throughout the village and an evening of Ceilidh and barn dance.
This FREE seminar will be of interest to those who are keen to find ways to keep their tax bill down but also help cash flow in the current environment. The seminar will concentrate on key issues and strategies which will highlight the opportunities to save tax during a recessionary period. The speakers will be Graham Purvis, Tax Partner and Martin Wardle, Senior Tax Consultant of chartered accountants Robson Laidler LLP.
Please contact Susan Bowen on 0191 2818191 or email sbowen@robson-laidler.co.uk by Tuesday, 21 October if you would like to attend.
Ouseburn Valley Volunteers is a partnership of arts, culture and heritage organisations offering volunteering activites to anyone who is currently looking for work or in an at-risk job.
Taster activities will take place throughout the day including bulb-planting and Photoshop workshops. For more information contact Colette or Kirsten at The Ouseburn Trust 0191 2616596
One North East have commissioned Pentagon Partnership and the Tees Valley VCS Forum to host 2 mini-conferences to mark the launch of a report* (commissioned by One NorthEast and produced by the PNE Group) exploring the Third Sector’s involvement in creating and improving physical spaces in deprived areas.
Featuring a range of expert speakers from the public and third sectors, the events will explore:
When and why? The benefits of asset development and physical regeneration
Opportunities – identifying them and capitalising on them
Barriers – perceived and actual - and how to overcome them
How can One NorthEast and local authorities help?
Please email jon.goodwin@pentagonpartnership.org.uk if you would like to attend either of these events, or call 0191 200 8516 for further details.
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Meeting for all DCM members involved in the Construction Project Group. To enroll or for more information, please visit www.dcmforbusiness.co.uk.
Sponsored by Finance Tree (Formerly NStar).
The newly formed Finance Tree, based on a management buyout, is a specialist investment company. The agenda will include a presentation by Peter Hiscocks of Finance Tree (formerly NStar) who are also our sponsors for this event entitled "The Secrets of Building a Business"
Peter has held careers in major corporates, in start-up businesses and as an entrepreneur running his own business. He has a number of patents to his name and has been responsible for the introduction of a number of commercial new products. Peter has taught the Innovation Management module of the University of Cambridge Judge Institute of Management MBA since 1994 and has also taught at LBS. He has spoken at a number of conferences on Entrepreneurship and Innovation including the European Economic Forum (part of the World Economic Forum) and the Institute of Financial Engineers.
His talk will be about building Cambridge Enterprise, how to turn good ideas into successful companies, how early stage venture capital works, building productive management and his experience of what has worked and what hasn't with the companies he has been involved in.
This meeting is not to be missed!
Visit www.dcmforbusiness.co.uk for more information.
North East-based songstress Beccy Owen will be launching her long-awaited third album this week.
"Down with Gravity" will be launched in The Marble Hall within Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery on Thursday 23 October from 7:30pm. Beccy herself will be playing on the evening, showcasing some of the tracks on the new album.
Over the past year Beccy has been working hard in the studio alongside producer Joe Rusby, recording at the Pure Records studio in Penistone, Yorkshire, with guest vocalists such as Kate Rusby and Richard Dawson.
Beccy has recently played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Solfest, and Stockton Riverside as well as venues in New York. She has been playlisted on BBC Radio and various regional and internet radio stations, and performed live on LBC and BBC Radio 2.
This is a very exclusive event and the numbers will be limited. There will be a bar service on the evening and Beccy will be on hand to chat, answer questions, and sign CDs - as well as performing.
To reserve a place, go to the store at www.beccyowen.com.
The Northern Marketing Awards sponsored by Nigel Wright, accredited by CIM North, will recognise and celebrate the achievements of the North of England’s marketing, communication and creative industries.
For more information on Nominations please contact Emma on 0191 244 2838 or email emma@benchcom.co.uk
For more information on Tickets/Sponsorship please contact Agata on 0191 244 2824 or email agata@benchcom.co.uk
www.marketingawards.org.uk
Super Mondays, a community of IT enthusiasts based in the North East, meet up once a month for a range of IT user group meetings and some unstructured discussions.
There is no membership, no fees and no rules... the community is basically undefined! If you want to attend then just come along.
The monthly events take place on the last Monday of every month (except December) and run between 6:00pm and 8:00pm at the Beehive Research facility in Newcastle University.
For details on October's session, go to www.supermondays.org.
You can find the The Beehive Research facility in the Old Library Building on this map: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps/navigator.php. We'll be on the first floor - go in, turn left, through the doors and upstairs.
Any organisational conversations about the gatherings will be through the Super Mondays Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/super-mondays).
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Metting for all DCM members involved in the DCM Business Advice Centre project group. The enroll or for more information, please visit www.dcmforbusiness.co.uk
Paralympic Champion Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson will be presenting at the first ever annual North East Voluntary and Community Sector Award ceremony. The awards recognise the work of individuals and Voluntary and Community Sector organisations from across the region, in helping to develop our communities.
The awards cover a wide variety of areas and activities, and include:
The deadline for nominations has now closed after receiving a fantastic response.
To book a place at the award ceremony download a booking form from www.vonne.org.uk/awards or ring 0191 233 2000.
