How do you stay resourceful in a morally challenging situation? How do you access the resources to make the right decision? If you have ever faced a morally difficult or challenging situation, or you coach people who are facing such challenges, this session will give you a practical model for accessing resources...

Tonight's meeting is presented by Damian Hamill, Director of Training for Watt Works Consulting. Damian’s background includes a number of years working in the City of London advising PLCs at Board level on communication issues. He is a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP, a hypnotherapist certified at an advanced level and an INLPTA certified NLP Coach Practitioner. He is a member of a number of professional hypnotherapy bodies as well as the Professional Guild of NLP.

In these challenging times what is most important to you in your career or business? Is it to:

• Keep top performers longer?
• Increase productivity and profits?
• Reduce politics, backbiting and unnecessary stress and conflict?
• Increase repeat business and referrals from customers?
• Reduce the risk of recruiting unsuitable staff?

“Challenge Una...” 

Una Doyle, an international award-winning speaker (www.UnaDoyle.com) will deliver her keynote “Perform at Your Peak in a Week!” Then, in the second half of the session, challenge Una with any question about peak performance and she will coach you on the spot on how to apply what you have discovered to your situation as well as help you to overcome any barriers to implementation. These interactive real life examples increase each attendee’s success rate in achieving peak performance. After all, it’s not what you learn but what you apply that will make the difference… True?

Kate is a Certified Trainer of NLP and of Advanced Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy, and has been supporting business clients for over 10 years.  She is passionate about sharing the secrets of effortless success, and in this enjoyable and interactive session, you will discover;

• Why traditional goal-setting doesn’t always work – and what does.

• How to create a compelling vision for your future success, and how to work with others to achieve the same for your team and organisation as a whole.

• The crucial role played by your emotions – what they are really telling you and why they’re important.

• How to make progress and build momentum even when uncertainty about the future undermines traditional planning processes.

You will even have the opportunity (if you choose) to experience a deeply relaxing and inspiring guided visualisation, and set yourself up for effortless success and authentic alignment, so that you can bring your true qualities and unique talents to work every day!

Your take aways will be an awareness of common Reactive Behaviours and a new coaching construct which will help you enable your clients to understand why they react the way they do and areas of skill you can work with them on to enhance their Self Management / Emotional Intelligence.

About Roger Longden and Volition Performance

Through the challenging and varied roles he has completed thus far, Roger Longden has demonstrated himself to be an “Outcome Creator” in all aspects - both at a business and personal level.  Through his twelve years with Fujitsu - rising from order administration to his final role of working with the board as an L&D specialist, Roger established a reputation for the delivery of key business outcomes.  This track record was established in areas such as Sales, Service and Operations.  While at Fujitsu, Roger also trained as a Coach and gained his certification from Henley Business School which he found to be a transformational experience and something of a watershed.

Since leaving Fujitsu in Dec 09, Roger established Volition.  Through Volition he has been enabling SME’s to gain benefit from corporate-standard leadership development.  He has also been developing Volitional Thinking - a construct which can be used in various ways to support the development of our clients Emotional Intelligence.

Roger says, "I have a passion and a talent for bringing out the best in those who I work with.  This has been a common theme all the way through my working life - right from the children in care I worked with over 20 years ago through to Corporate roles I have since undertaken.  It is also reflected in my voluntary work as a Mentor for the Princes Trust.  In addition, I am also a founding member of the Mission Malawi fundraising project (www.missionmalawi.co.uk), President of Northern ReBound Squash Club and a member of Agecroft Rowing Club."

This session will be equally useful to entrepreneurs and those who are still in employment!

Richard Nugent is a transformational leadership coach who helps CEOs, professional sportsmen and entrepreneurs create the impossible.

“Many highly intelligent people are bad thinkers. Intelligence is like the horsepower of a car. A powerful car has the potential to drive at speed, but you can have a powerful car and drive it badly. Thinking is the driving skill with which each individual drives his or her intelligence.”

In the hurly burly of everyday life one of our biggest challenges can be finding the time and the space to think clearly. If thinking time is so scarce then it’s all the more important to get every ounce of value out of the thinking time that we do have available to us. Trains of Thought will show you how to create the perfect “thinking space” anytime and anywhere, blocking out distractions and encouraging quality of thinking and clarity of thought in very practical ways.

Kate Hargreaves and Bev Holden are the Clear Thinking Partnership. They’ve been a successful partnership for many years both in the corporate environment and more recently in their own business venture. Their practical experience in the retail and service sectors, leading a wide range of teams to achieve great results, combined with their technical expertise in people development has equipped them to help others to develop their people for success. Changing the way people think is at the heart of Bev & Kate’s work with organisations, teams and individuals.

It's a commonplace in business and personal development circles that "failing to plan is planning to fail". We all know that if we don't develop our strategy for the future, we are at the mercy of events and outside forces. But do you actually put this belief into practice?

Have you put off developing a strategic plan for your life or your business because you're too busy? Or perhaps (you may admit to yourself, if no-one else) because it's too scary? A lot of people do.

In large organisations it can be even worse. Has planning in your organisation become a ritual in which people go through the motions but never really engage with it? Is the end product a 'strategic plan' several hundred pages long that no-one actually reads?

In this session, Andy Smith will guide you through the SOAR model (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results). This is a more engaging alternative to the traditional SWOT model (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats).  SOAR avoids the dangers of 'analysis paralysis' and demoralisation - instead it promotes engagement, buy-in and energy.

By the end of the evening, if you choose, you will have created a high-level strategic plan for yourself, your team, or your business. This could be your most valuable investment of two hours ever!

So - be prepared to do some serious work and get some serious benefits! Remember there is a 20% discount when you book 5 places, so why not bring your whole team?

Andy Smith is an Appreciative Inquiry facilitator, NLP trainer, and organiser of the Manchester Business NLP and Emotional Intelligence Group.

This session could dramatically increase your marketing activities and how much you sell to your customers. Not only will Paul share with you valuable and proven techniques, he will also look at what mindset will assist you in maximizing their effectiveness. Having run sales courses for non-sales people, cold calling for the tele-phobic and sales strategy for senior sales teams, Paul has useful tools and techniques to share with every business owner.

About Paul Parish

Paul has a passion for fresh, innovative and most of all effective training techniques and uses them in all his sessions and workshops. As a certified NLP Practitioner Paul’s training combines practical methods and ideas with the inspiration and motivation for delegates to start using them immediately. Paul has recently become a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

With a sales career spanning three decades in financial services and recruitment and with clients ranging from international sporting personalities to household names such as Metrorod, Pareto Law, Sainsbury’s and Phones4U and having helped over 10,000 business owners and salespeople realise their full potential, Paul is ideally skilled in helping you or your sales team to gain the necessary skills and energy to hit all your sales targets.