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Seminar
Title: Social Media Strategy
Speaker: Google Digital Garage
Room: 1
Time: 10.00am - 10.45am
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Learn how to create a social media strategy based on your business goals.
For small business owners and aspiring social media marketers who want to find out about the key social media platforms businesses use and how to get the most out of them. We cover how social media can help your business grow, best practice, and how to measure success.
During this seminar we will talk about:
1. Use social media to help grow a business
2. Build a social media strategy and measure success
3. Learn best practices for social media
Ronan Harris, Google UK & Ireland Managing Director, said: 'In the digital age, a basic understanding of how the online world works is useful and when it comes to business, it’s essential. We are delighted to bring the Google Digital Garage to Oxford and ensure everyone has access to free digital skills workshops. We hope you'll pop in and get the skills you need to become more confident online, grow your career or business, and maybe even launch the next big idea."
Seminar
Title: Supercharge your Business - Build a World Class Operation (Keynote)
Speaker: Emma Kersey
Time: 10.45pm - 11.15pm
Room: 2
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Supercharge your Business - Build a World Class Operation (Keynote)
In this engaging and interactive session, Emma shares with you Elations unique, award winning and paradigm-shifting system for building and growing a world class business – the Growth Framework. You will walk away with the critical principles you need to embed in your business to create a blueprint for change which will propel your business to world-class. Do not miss out on this Keynote if you want to achieve genuine business excellence.
Biography:
Emma Kersey - Energising Speaker, Time Served Sales Leader and Head of The Growth Academy at Elation – The Creators of the Award Winning Growth Framework
Emma truly believes that every business, with the right team of people, can master its potential and drive exceptional growth by implementing the transformational insights contained within Elation’s Growth Framework. Emma really comes to life in front of an audience, whether it’s a room of ten sales people; running interactive workshops; or speaking at larger events, her engaging style and unique content make her impactful keynotes and seminars essential viewing for anyone serious about growing their business.
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Seminar
Title: Writing for Social Media
Speaker: Google Digital Garage
Time: 11.15am - 12.00pm
Room: 1
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Learn to create compelling content and develop a tone of voice that's right for your business.
For small business owners and aspiring social media marketers who want advice on how to develop a tone of voice that suits their business on social media. We'll cover writing techniques for when space is limited online, and how to respond to customer comments and complaints on social media.
During this seminar we will talk about:
1. Define your brand on social media
2. Write for social media
3. Use tools for content marketing
Ronan Harris, Google UK & Ireland Managing Director, said: 'In the digital age, a basic understanding of how the online world works is useful and when it comes to business, it’s essential. We are delighted to bring the Google Digital Garage to Oxford and ensure everyone has access to free digital skills workshops. We hope you'll pop in and get the skills you need to become more confident online, grow your career or business, and maybe even launch the next big idea."
Seminar
Title: Leading Through Change
Speaker: John Chisholm MSc
Time: 12.15pm - 12.45pm
Room: 1
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Strategic leadership tools and techniques to help you and your business thrive in uncertain times.
In this presentation John will share useful strategic leadership tools and techniques tailored for use in small businesses. These practical techniques will help you to clarify your current position, analyse the competitive environment and build strategic advantage. John will also address common personal barriers to change and the thinking business owners need to lead themselves and others through times of change. People attending the session will be given an access code to download free copies of the tools and techniques presented and a discount code for Crescente self-study leadership courses.
Seminar hosted by John Chisholm MSc
Following experience as a project manager, programme leader and director in large organisations, John Chisholm has spent the last 15 years developing leaders and teams for businesses of all shapes and sizes. His Bath-based training company Crescente has an enviable client list including SimplyHealth, Sunseeker International, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Willmott Dixon and Unity-3D.
Crescente specialise in leadership, management and team development. What makes them different is their clever design work and interactive delivery, with laser-like focus on improving awareness, collaboration, productivity and happiness. John developed their multi-layered development models to help people learn faster and practice more of what they have learned.
John is proud to be an active member of the Bath business community having relocated from Dorset in 2017.
Alison Waller, Chief Executive, Tricuro Ltd:
John has provided professional support to develop our board of directors. John is very knowledgeable and experienced in managing our executive and non-executive directors in a diverse range of situations. His relaxed yet tenacious approach ensures full engagement. John is considered, appropriately challenging and brings a sense of humour along the way. He helped the Board to achieve their full development objectives.
Seminar
Title: Emotional Intelligence - Your organisation's untapped human potential
Speaker: Vicky Henderson
Time: 12.15pm - 12.45pm
Room: 2
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Emotional Intelligence – Your organisation’s untapped human potential.
In this talk Vicky will explore how our minds work, and what Emotional Intelligence is. She will explain how, by embracing and understanding Emotional Intelligence in our organisations we can enhance individual and team performance, increase engagement and motivation and create a resilient, loyal and high performing work force. Is your organisation leaving untapped human potential on the table? To find out, come and join Vicky for this talk.
About the Speaker:
Ascend founder, Vicky Henderson, is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Coach and a Time Line Therapy™ Master Practitioner. She trained with internationally renowned business coach and trainer Daniel Tolson of the Tolson Institute. Daniel has himself been mentored and trained by Drs. Tad and Arianna James and Brian Tracy, leaders in their field. Vicky is one of the first Tolson Institute trained coaches in the UK.
Having gravitated towards leadership roles in all her positions since graduating in 1997, Vicky has a strong sense of what makes a successful leader; how to build engaged, results driven teams and how getting recruitment right is vital to avoid costly mis-hires.
After a successful and varied career, spanning several continents; in corporate, hospitality, training and teaching and self-employment; Vicky embarked in a new direction in March 2017. A transformational experience as a client led her to re-train as a coach to enable others to experience the power of coaching and be the very best version of themselves possible to maximise both their professional and personal lives.
Vicky certified by the Coaching Division of the American Board on NLP (ABNLP) and by the Time Line Therapy™ Association, she is also registered with the Life Coach Directory, The International Institute of Complimentary Therapists (IICT) and is an affiliate member of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD). In 2019 Vicky is proud to be part of the ‘Career Ready’ Mentoring scheme and is supporting a local student as they prepare to enter the world beyond school and college.
When not coaching Vicky is a keen gardener and cook, loves skiing, travelling the world and mountain walking, preferably in France where she spent 10 years living in the French Alps, she is also fluent in French
Seminar
Title: Which businesses sell well and why and how to value your business
Speaker: Henry Campbell-Jones
Time: 12.15pm - 12.45pm
Room: 1
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Learn how businesses are valued and how to maximise the value of your business. During the talk, we will look at who would buy your business and which businesses sell well. We will also present a few examples of sales we have concluded recently and the valuations and deal structures achieved.
Bio:
Henry founded Hornblower Business Brokers Ltd in 2006 having seen the gap in the market for a hands-on broker able to help business owners sell their business and realise the value of their asset. Henry is passionate about helping owners throughout the process of selling a business, offering sound realistic advice from the start and achieving a successful sale.
Previous to starting Hornblower, Henry spent over 14 years in the automotive industry and is skilled in all aspects of business planning, development and marketing. He is a qualified Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Hornblower is a specialist brokerage focusing on owner managed businesses in the engineering, technology and B2B service sectors.
Seminar
Title: How to Support Wellbeing in the Workplace
Speaker: Amy Fletcher
Time: 1.00pm - 1.30pm
Room: 2
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HSE guidance states that “ Stress and wellbeing is a major cause of sickness absence in the workplace and costs over £5 billion a year in Great Britain. It affects individuals, their families and colleagues by impacting on their health but also impacts on employers with costs relating to sickness absence, replacement staff, lost production and increased accidents.”
This seminar will advise you on legal and moral approaches to a collaborative wellbeing strategy. It will provide a variety of approaches to ensure legal compliance within your workplace.
During this seminar we will talk about-
• What is stress?
• Importance of wellbeing
• Understanding burnout
• Workplace strategy
• Presenteeism and Leavism
Amy is a Senior Organisational Development Trainer within Wiltshire Training (Part of Wiltshire Council), who has extensive knowledge of leadership and management and is qualified to Level 5 in Wellbeing and stress. She produces and delivers personalised, fun and engaging training courses, which are thought provoking and develop delegates and business performance.
Seminar
Title: How To Develop Your Sales-Force
Speaker: Steve Catchick
Time: 1.45pm - 2.15pm
Room: 1
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How do you stop the churn rate of existing customers and retain customers? This is a question and issue that often frustrates sales directors, MD’s and business owners.
It is far easier and less expensive to sell to existing customer than find new ones, yet with competition fighting for your customers, and little differentiation in the technology today, you must find a way to retain them and find new customers.
This is where the customer experience comes in as the way you can really stand out.
In this speech Steve will discuss the 3 groups of people in your company, the ambassadors, the neutrals and the saboteurs, and he will discuss how to transform your people from saboteurs into ambassadors
You will discover
• 3 principles to turn people into Ambassadors
• How developing your soft skills pays dividends
• How everyone in all departments, from the CEO down, have a part to play
• How you and your teams can improve the customer experience leading to retaining existing customers and assisting the sales team in finding new ones
• How to have a motivated and engaged team
Ambassadors are leaders who takes ownership, are in service and customer focused, and are in sales without selling. They are advocates for the company and have well developed soft skills. With a company of ambassadors you have a secret sales-force!