Business Workshops and Seminars in Leicester
The top 10 lead generation ideas to grow your business
9.45
There are plenty of ways to grow a company, but receiving multiple streams of warm leads is, in many ways, the quickest.
This seminar offers the 10 most popular low cost ways to generate regular leads that can be quickly turned into new customers.
Presented by the author and MD of The Ideal Marketing Company Alastair Campbell, this seminar will offer practical no-nonsense tips for small business owners who have a limited amount of time & money to spend on their marketing activity
Raising Business Growth Investment - Alternatives to Bank Lending
10.45
This workshop will start with an explanation as to why we need alternatives to bank lending – the national economic environment and the risk averse nature of the UK banking sector.
Angel Investment section - this will focus on how business angel investment works – Who are the business angels? How do they operate? What do they look for? How can they be accessed? How “real” is Dragon’s Den? It will be a light touch look at angel investment and will include real life examples of angel investment, to help highlight certain points. Russell Copley will use the experience of the Angels Den network to explain the models.
Sweat Equity – What it is - How it works, the difference to traditional equity investment and the benefits to both the business and the “investor”. It will also explain how it might be more appropriate to certain types of business.
Coaching as a Leadership Tool - Getting the best from your Staff
11.45
Leading people is like driving a car. You know how to drive it and it gets you from A to B but with some changes of route and some tweaking of the engine you could get to your destination in a quicker and more effective way. Some basic mapping and mechanical skills could make all the difference. Coaching skills are like those mapping and mechanical skills for Leaders dealing with people.
You are invited to a free seminar to help you to develop your coaching skills. The session will be interactive and you will be able to try out one or two coaching techniques that you will be able to use in your Leadership role.
The session will be facilitated by Maria Iliffe, an Executive Coach who draws on 28 years experience of managing and leading teams. Maria is a member of the Association for Coaching.
10 things you can easily do to increase sales
12.45
During this lively 45 minute session you will discover:
• How to avoid the common slips that lose most sales
• How to convince hesitant customers to commit
• The new paradigm of selling, what's changed and what you need to do about it
• Why you need to control the negotiating environment
• Close more service or product sales in any market
Presented by Steve Megson of Quiet Storm Solutions Ltd
Improve Business Performance - Strategies to Reduce Stress
in the Workplace 1.45pm
Quick strategies to:
• Save time
• Be able to delegate
• Prioritise more effectively
We all know that certain behaviours in our working lives can increase stress levels particularly if you run your own business, employ staff and have a to-do list as long as your arm. These behaviours can range from difficulty in delegating to others to not being able to prioritise and use your time effectively.
In this 45 minute workshop you will start to find strategies to run your business more efficiently and effectively by increasing self-awareness and understanding motivational behaviours.
Using Transactional Analysis, which is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change, you will learn how thoughts and feelings are linked to certain behaviours. Understanding Motivational Drivers and what conditions we place on ourselves enables us to change our way of thinking. When teams of people know their drivers they understand how to work more effectively with their colleagues to get the best out of them.
Karen Chambers of KC Coaching is a qualified Business Coach and for the past 6 years has run workshops, for teams of people up to senior management level, on Change & Stress Management, Motivation, Improving Communication and Team building. Karen also coaches individuals for dealing with change, direction/focus, work/life balance, and confidence building. For more information on individual coaching see
www.kccoaching.co.uk
Top tips on using social media for your business 2.45
Ann Stanley MD at Leicester based Digital agency Anicca Solutions, will present her top 10 tips on using social media for your business. Whether you are just starting out or have been using it for years, there will be a tip or technique that you may want to add to your social media tool kit!
- What are you trying to achieve?
- Which approach is best for you?
- Planning and set-up of accounts/profiles, tools etc
- What are you going to say - content creation, blogging, news etc?
- Obtaining Feedback & recommendations - social bookmarks, reviews, testimonials etc
- Instant networking - Twitter
- Social networking sites B2B – LinkedIn B2C – Facebook
- User generated content – 1-way - wiki’s, article sites, PR, advertorials, YouTube2-way - forums, Q & A
- Measuring and monitoring – site traffic, campaign performance, reputation management etc
- Integrated strategy - how to combine social marketing with other digital marketing activities particularly search engine optimisation.