Archived Events
Employee Management - Beyond the Basics - Leeds Chamber of Commerce
01 December 2011
Duration: No duration!
Understand your people and you will really know your business..... Running on 1st December - Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.Putting Your Vision into Action - Leeds Chamber of Commerce
30 November 2011
Duration: No duration!
This session will introduce you to simple tools and techniques to produce a plan of action to help you successfully deliver your vision. Running on 30th November, 2011 Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.Coaching for Leadership - Leeds Chamber of Commerce
29 November 2011
Duration: No duration!
Gain understanding of the benefits that a coaching style of leadership can bring to your business - and take away some ideas to try in practice. Running on 29th November, Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.Business Growth Expo. Leeds Chamber
25 November 2011 11:00
Duration: 07:00 hours.
The Business Growth Expo. is aimed at owner/managers of small and medium sized enterprises searching for guidance to expand. The event is focused on 3 main areas: 1-financing your ambitions/signposting where to go, 2-best advice and support, 3-developing a competitive edge through sales and marketing. The event is being held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, 25th November between 11am and 6pm.A Structured Approach to Selling - Leeds Chamber of Commerce
24 November 2011
Duration: No duration!
A logical structured approach to selling. Running on 24th November - Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.How to Make Your Performance Appraisals Motivational - Leeds Chamber of Commerce
21 November 2011
Duration: No duration!
This course will help you improve employee performance not just at the annual appraisal but 365 days of the year. - Running on 21st November, Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.Establish Your Internet Presence Quickly and Easily! - Business Link Yorkshire
10 November 2011
Duration: No duration!
Learn how to set up your own basic website and estabish an internet presence for your business. Running on 10th November. Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.How to get Business from Twitter - Various Dates.
25 October 2011
Duration: 51 days and 00:00 hours.
Beginners learn how to apply Twitter to your business and start using it immediately after the seminar. Running 25th October, 23rd November, 15th December - Contact Leeds Chamber of Commerce on 2470000 to book.Coaching Skills for Managers and Everyday Coaching - Various Dates
24 October 2011
Duration: 49 days and 00:00 hours.
Two different Courses:Coaching Skills for Managers - Monday 12th December - Essential for all leaders and useful in all areas of your life.
Everyday Coaching - 24th October - You don't have to be a coach to coach - you just need to understand how.
Contact Leeds Chamber of Commerce on 2470000 to book.
Outstanding Mangers - How to Motivate and Engage your Staff (BLY)
19 October 2011
Duration: No duration!
Learn techniques to increase the loyalty, commitment and motivation of your staff - whatever the external circumstances throw at you! Running on 19th October - Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.Outstanding Manager - Effective Appraisal and Staff Development (BLY)
19 October 2011
Duration: No duration!
Learn why your current incentive schemes may actually be doing more harm than good and what you can do to develop more effective and less costly schemes. Running on 19th October - Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.An Introduction to Linked In - Various Dates
18 October 2011
Duration: 62 days and 00:00 hours.
LinkedIn is a practical and powerful new marketing channel which is free to use. Go along and get practical help in making it work for you. Running 18th and 27th October, 9th November, 18th November, 13th December, 19th December. Contact Leeds Chamber of Commerce on 2470000 to book.Selecting Your Staff - Leeds Chamber of Commerce
17 October 2011
Duration: No duration!
Save yourself time and money by recruiting right first time! Running 17th October Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.How to Turn your Website into a Customer Magnet - Various Dates
13 October 2011
Duration: 35 days and 00:00 hours.
Learn how to make small changes to your existing website that could win more customers and improve your bottom line. Running on 13th and 18th October, 17th November. Contact Leeds Chamber of Commerce on 2470000 to book.PURE NETWORK WITH LEEDS CHAMBER
06 October 2011
Duration: 56 days and 00:00 hours.
Pure Networking for the remainder of this year...6th October - 7:30 - 9:00 - Bremner Suite, Leeds United Football Club
3rd November
1st December
Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.
Facebook for Business - Various Dates
05 October 2011
Duration: 63 days and 00:00 hours.
Beginners learn how to apply Facebook to your business and start using it immediately after the seminar. Running on 5th October, 3rd November, 7th December. Contact Leeds Chamber of Commerce 2470000 to book.Marketing Your Business Online- Leeds Chamber of Commerce
01 October 2011
Duration: No duration!
Boost your business with the Power of Local Search - Learn how to use the internet to generate more local business. Running on 1st October - Contact Leeds 2470000 to book.Invitation to techmesh - Growing Your Technology Business (Part 2) - Winning Profitable Business
14 September 2011 09:00
Duration: 03:30 hours.
Are you achieving the sales you would like?Are you maintaining profitable margins?
Huthwaite International, regarded as the experts in sales training, will help you understand the customer decision making process. 'Winning Profitable Business' approaches the Buying Cycle from the seller's perspective. Discover life long techniques to understand your customer and become more successful in sales. Call Marian at techmesh on 0113 3845641 to register.
techmesh - Growing Your Technology Business (Part 2)
05 September 2011
Duration: No duration!
Are you achieving the sales you would like and are you maintaining profitable margins? Huthwaite International, regarded as the experts in sales training, will help you understand the customer decision making process. 'Winning Profitable Business' approaches the Buying Cycle from the seller's perspective. Discover life long techniques to understand your customer and become more successful in sales.Practical Marketing Skills
01 August 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours. More information »
This taster session will provide you with practical ideas through interactive discussions to help you make better informed decisions about your marketing strategy and plans for the future. The session will be lead by a business owner who has experienced the highs and lows of running your own business over the last few years.Presenter: Mike Smith, Ripley Training
Free to Chamber of Commerce members
£25 to non members
Putting the Excellence back into Customer Service
28 July 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours. More information »
Customer Service is clearly a major part of any businesses corporate strategy to retain and attract clients. Effective Customer Service is critical in helping a business to meet its planned sales objectives whilst meeting their client expectations through excellent customer service.In the session you will briefly look at the importance of a holistic approach in the business to meet client expectations whilst ensuring you are allocating appropriate levels of time, money and resources to ensure Customer Service is effective.
This session is highly participative. It is built on the experiences of delegates' real life customer service scenarios.
Presenter: Mike Smith, Ripley Training
Free to Chamber of Commerce Members
£25 to non members
Facebook for Business
25 July 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours. More information »
Whether you use the social media site Facebook or not its power as a marketing tool can’t be ignored. With over 26 million registered users in the UK (including 9 million aged over 35) not only can your business use Facebook to build a thriving community for your customers and prospects it can also be used to serve extremely targeted low cost ads to niche markets.If you want to know how your business can take advantage of this phenomenon come along to Irun's half day workshop 'Facebook for Business' you'll learn:
*How to get started with your own Facebook business page (previously called fan pages).
*How to get traffic and people to 'like' your page so they'll visit again and again.
*How to integrate Facebook with your web site and other marketing strategies.
*How to use Facebook pay per click advertising to drive highly targeted traffic to your page or website.
*Plus much, much more…
Presenter: Ian Clarke, I run Business Intelligence
Free to Chamber of Commerce Members
£25 to non members
Putting your Vision into Action
20 July 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours. More information »
How many course have you been on which recommend: creating a blog plan; developing a communications strategy; planning a marketing strategy; developing your team; rearranging your office; diversifying into new markets etc etc – and how many of them stop just at the point where you are thinking – and how do I actually put these ideas into action?This session will introduce you to simple tools and techniques to produce a plan of action to help you successfully deliver your vision
The course will cover:
*How structured does your planning need to be?
*Asking the right questions
*Agreeing the work requirements and responsibilities
*Breaking your work into manageable pieces
*Creating a task list and timeline for your work and for your team
Presenter: Sarah Wilson, 54-degrees
Free to Chamber of Commerce Members
£25 to non-members
To book please call 0113 247 0000
Networking Skills
19 July 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours.
Networking is a highly effective way to make new business contacts. This seminar will help you make the most out of your networking experiences by demonstrating how you can make yourself memorable and network effectively.You will be given a number of hints and tips to help you develop your skills by covering topics such as:
*Identify your competitive advantage
*High impact questions you can ask when networking
*How you can get your point of difference across
This seminar is essential for anyone who is new to networking or even seasoned networkers who wish to pick up some new tips.
Free to Chamber of Commerce Members
£25 to non-members
To book please call 0113 247 0000
An Introduction to LinkedIn
18 July 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours.
LinkedIn is the new social networking site for grown-ups!Networking is a key skill which is building businesses of all sizes, both face to face and online and LinkedIn is the biggest and best networking site. Fully business orientated, LinkedIn is far more than having a chat and keeping in touch with friends - it's a new way to find clients, colleagues and prospects. The power of multiplication means if you know 100 people, they know 100 each and they know 100 each, you have a network of 1million. Just think about what that could do for your business.
BUT - and it's a big but - you need to know how to make it work for you and that's where this seminar comes in - helping and guiding you in this new media landscape.
To book a place please call 0113 247 0000
Digital Britain - Emerging technologies
12 July 2011 07:30
Duration: 02:30 hours.
More details coming soon!Positive Women's Day with Forward Ladies
08 July 2011 08:45
Duration: 07:15 hours. More information »
Forward Ladies pride themselves on bringing you great business support training, professional development workshops, personal development courses and fantastic business networking opportunities and they have surpassed themselves with Positive Women's Day - a day of workshops developing your business, your career and you.Book your place for this unique day of training and development and choose which workshop you take in each session. Â
Morning Session 9.15am - 10.45am
Julie Kay – How to Talk so Men Listen
Jane Bytheway: Handling the Challenge of Redundancy
Alison Tinsley: Communicate with confidence
Mid-morning Session 11.00am - 12.30 pm
Charlie Mitchell: Becoming Powerful Leaders
Jayne Reid: How to Develop your Marketing Strategy to Generate Sales
Michele Wagner – Home Working
Lunch and Networking 12.30-1.00 pm
First afternoon session 1.00pm - 2.30pm
Fiona Kirk: Tasty tips to weight loss
Margaret Hartley: Sales and cold calling
Ruth Adams - ‘Unlocking Personal and Team Success’
Tea/Coffee 2.30pm – 2.45pm
Second Afternoon Session 2.45pm - 4.00pm
Kate Betts: Getting your stories in the media
Sue Davison: Growing Your Business
Helen Tait: Confidence and public speaking
Tracy Sheldon: Using social media for business
Members £15.00, Guests of members £20.00, Non members £25.00
Build a Better Business
30 June 2011 09:30
Duration: 03:00 hours.
It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day without thinking of tomorrow. This interactive workshop, facilitated by an experienced Business Link adviser is packed with great ideas, practical tips and local examples to help you improve your business competitveness.This workshop is aimed at business owners and managers of small businesses who want straightforward advice and ideas around improving key areas of their business such as sales, marketing and financial manaement.
To book onto this course please call 08456 048 048
This seminar is free of charge.
Professional Telephone Skills
29 June 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours.
Helping people communicate more effectively... Very few people are natural communicators.This bitesize course will cover:
The tone and words or a call, questioning and listening techniques. This will be interactive too.
Presenter: Blair Jacobs, Blair Jacobs Communications
Controlling your Credit Control
28 June 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours.
Control your credit control - this seminar will help you to get customers to pay on time, reduce debtor days and write offs.This seminar will also help you to understand what you should be doing as a credit controller.
Free to Chamber of Commerce members
£25 to non memebers
Call 0113 247 0000 to book a place.
Supporting Growth
17 June 2011 08:00
Duration: 03:00 hours. More information »
Need help to drive your business forward? If the answer is yes, this event will be of interest to you.Through their networks and connections, the Chamber is in an excellent position to bring together relevant business support services - people that could be invaluable to your business and its growth right now. They'll help you find the people you want to talk to and get you the answers you need.
Supporting Growth will be the second in a series of events from the Chamber, following on from the success of their first event, Financing Growth, which gained great reviews from both exhibitors and delegates in January.
Supporting Growth is aimed at owners/managers of small to medium sized businesses and will give you a chance to:
*Hear from two of the region's most successful entrepreneurs
*Learn about the different business support services available to you
*Visit stands from a wide range of business support providers
*Provide signposting to help in different sectors
*Talk to other business people and share ideas or concerns
*Hear about the Chamber's new peer-2-peer, mentoring and 'reviver' programmes
The speakers promise to inspire and relay their experience of running highly successful businesses and the support they have had along the way.
Jonathan Straight was voted Ernst & Young Quoted Entrepreneur of the Year 2006. In 1993 he formed a business which became Straight Plc UK's leading supplier of recycling containers. From a one man operation the company now employs more than 100 people. Straight Plc recorded revenues of £24m in 2009, when the board set a target of a market cap of £100m by 2014.
Ajaz Ahmed is the founder of Freeserve which was launched in September 1998. He got the idea when nobody in PC World Leeds could tell him how to get onto the internet, after much persuasion Dixons agreed to launch Freeserve. Within three months Freeserve became the UK's largest internet service provider and was eventually sold for £1.6billion. He is names 'number one' in the e-commerce Hall of Fame by Business Age Magazine.
This event is free of charge to all Leeds Innovation Centre Tenants. Please contact Katy Evans on 0113 247 0000 or email katy.evans@yourchamber.org.uk
How to Lead Not Just Manage
10 June 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours.
Are you a manager wanting to get better performance from your team?This training seminar will explore the difference between managing and leading. Learn how to communicate assertively, delegate effectively and how to set SMART targets that will underpin performance improvement.
Applicable to all sectors and businesses of all sizes.
Presenter: David Marsh, The Blue Water Partnership.
Free to Chamber of Commerce Members
£25 for non-members.
To book please call 0113 247 0000
Chamber Property Forum Leeds
07 June 2011 17:00
Duration: 02:00 hours. More information »
The aim of this forum is to contribute positively and effectively to the future growth and development of the Leeds Metropolitan District, and provides a sounding board for public sector infrastructure proposals and other major schemes brought forward in the City.Network Rail will be speaking at this event, presenting details of the recently confirmed future investments at Leeds City Station.
H&S and HR legislative issues for 2011/2012
31 May 2011 16:00
Duration: 02:00 hours.
What's happening with the Default Retirement Age?Does the Corporate Manslaughter Legislation affect me?
What changes will there be in Employment Law in 2011/2012?
What is the legal position regarding holidays?
Will I have to auto-enrol my staff in a pension scheme?
Find out the answers to the above and much more at our forthcoming free of charge seminar on Health & Safety and HR.
Tuesday 31st May 2011
4pm - 6.00pm
Leeds Innovation Centre, 103 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9DF
4.00pm Registration and Refreshments
4.15pm Presentations by our partner Sentient
5.15pm Q & A
6.00 pm Close
Places can be reserved by contacting Emma Greatrex on 0113 384 5845 or email hospitality@leedsinnovationcentre.co.uk
www.leedsinnovationcentre.co.uk
www.sentientuk.co.uk
Places are limited and restricted to 2 people per company.
Chamber Ladies Networking Lunch
25 May 2011 12:00
Duration: 02:00 hours. More information »
This event is a great opportunity for you to network with other business women in the region, and is an ideal way to combine business and pleasure.The Chamber has been lucky enough to secure Alison Lowe, chief executive of Touchstone and Leeds Councillor for Armley West. In the past, Alison was shortlisted for the Leeds West Parliamentary Seat. She is an excellent speaker and they are sure you will al enjoy her company.
OUT-LAW Breakfast Breifings by Pinsent Solicitors
24 May 2011 08:00
Duration: 01:30 hours. More information »
The next series of OUT-LAW Breakfast seminars will take place throughout May and June.The EU's new cookie law and online ads: should website owners worry?
A new EU law on how websites track their users is due to come into force at the end of May, while UK ad regulators have just extended their reach to include all online advertising. What does this mean for advertisers, publishers and users?
In this free one hour seminar you will look at the impact the new rules will have. They will cover:
*What the new cookie law could mean
* What the UK Government's implementation plans are
*What companies need to know now that the CAP Code of advertising regulation applies to online ads
*Examples of good and bad practice.
The seminars are free and are held in the Pinsent Mason offices. The breakfast events open at 8am for registration, networking, coffee and a light breakfast; then the seminar begins at 8.30am and lasts about 60 minutes including a questions and answers session at the end.
If you or any colleague would like to attend, please register online.
Grow your business through Practical Cloud Computing
17 March 2011 17:30
Duration: 03:00 hours. More information »
Cloud Computing is revolutionising the business world. Find out what you really need to know and how it actually works from experts in the industry. Network with your peers and hear from guest speakers discussing the practicalities behind the cloud.This is an opportunity to spot new technologies that can help your business save time, make money and ultimately grow.
Listen to experts, see live demonstrations and hear from businesses who have implemented and adopted cloud solutions. From 'the good, the bad and the ugly' experts will guide you through the processes and provide practical advice on the success and challenges of introducing the cloud to your business.
Techmesh will be facilitation structured networking at this event and will send those who have registered a list of attendees. Please nominate who you would like to meet in the two half hour sessions before and after the talks, and techmesh will arrange this for you on the day.
To confirm your place please email info@techmesh.org.
This event is delivered in collaboration with the Chartered Management Institute.
Conference and Hospitality Show
17 March 2011 09:30
Duration: 07:00 hours.
The Conference and Hospitality Show takes place on 17th March 2011 At Saviles Hall, Royal Armouries, LeedsLeeds Innovation Centre would like to invite you as our guest to experience the seminars, demo zone, interactive zone, exhibition and the hospitality hour at the Conference and Hospitality Show.
You can reserve your complimentary ticket and find out more about the show at www.conferenceandhospitalityshow.co.uk
We would also like to offer you complimentary lunch at the show. To qualify please enter the following promo code when you book your place.
Promo Code: CAHS219
And do not forget to visit us at STAND 31