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February Meeting – Being Unique in Business to stand out from the crowd

January 26, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Being unique in business to stand out from the crowd

Did you fall into your line of business with no real consideration about whether it was right for you?

Have you ever questioned whether there is something that you could tweak to make it even better?

Perhaps there are a number of separate parts to your business and you feel torn between them; your efforts seem scattered which impacts on your overall success?

Or maybe there are skills, passions and talents that you don’t get to use in your business that leaves you wondering sometimes whether your talents are wasted?

Our very own WiB member, Andrea Beadle, talks to us about how we are all unique, and how everything we have done in the past can serve a purpose in our business.  When we see how the work we love combined with our skills, talents and passions come together it can be a revelation.

Focussing on the skill set we have as well as how we are designed to help others can have a significant impact on our success.

Andrea will talk to you about the process that she uses with her clients to get real clarity about the work that they are here to do. I can certainly vouch for Andrea’s methods. When I was overwhelmed with too many options, Andrea really helped me pull the main threads together and helped me focus on the key products that I offered. She also helped me realise what I had to eliminate, to reduce my confusion and what a relief that was!

I highly recommend Andrea and her talk – what a way to start our WiB year!

DATE:               Wednesday 1st February 2012

TIME:                6.45 – 9.00pm

VENUE:            Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

Best wishes

Sarah

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December Meeting – Party!

December 6, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Christmas Party!I am delighted to inform you that a Christmas Dinner has been arranged for you instead of our usual December meeting. Here are the details:

Date:                Wednesday 7th December 2011

Time:                7:30pm til late

Venue:              Simply Italian restaurant

Address:            55 high St, Rochester ME1 1LN

Cost:                 FREE TO ALL MEMBERS!!! – my thank you to YOU for your support of WiB this year which is much appreciated.

Non-members are welcome if you want to bring anyone but they will be asked to pay the £20.00 per head charge.

See you there!!

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Cancelled – November Meeting – Networking Evening

October 18, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Coffee and networking

Apologies but this meeting has been cancelled – Next meeting should be December 7th

The next Women in Business meeting will be held on Wednesday 2nd November.

As always the start time is 6.45pm so please arrive promptly and help yourselves to food & drink when you arrive.

This month’s meeting is wholly devoted to networking and provides an excellent opportunity for newer members to get to know others in the group and find out what they do.  Non-members are also very welcome to this meeting.

Don’t forget to bring your business cards and any other promotional material or event news with you and be prepared to talk a lot!

As always, we look forward to welcoming you.

Here are all the other details you need to come along:

DATE:               Wednesday 2nd November 2011

TIME:                6.45 – 9.00pm

VENUE:            Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes

Sarah

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September Meeting – Modern Sales Techniques

September 6, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Modern sales techniquesI’m delighted to remind you that our September meeting will take place on Wednesday 7th September and very pleased to announce that we have an expert in his field as our guest speaker.

Some of you may know, or have heard of Paul Routley, but for those of you who don’t know him, Paulis an award winning trainer and one of the country’s leading authorities on modern sales techniques. During his career Paul has lived and worked in more than ten European countries including Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and Ireland.

Paul has been responsible for the development of our unique customer focused sales model and system. With close to twenty years experience in sales at all levels, within a wide variety of markets Paul is one of the UK’s leading trainers, Paul is a fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management and is currently in the process of writing his first book on modern selling. Wow! With credentials like these, I’m sure you will agree that we are incredibly fortunate to be given the opportunity to hear Paul’s advice on closing a sale and sales techniques in general. This promises to be a dynamic and very interesting meeting. I can’t wait!

I can’t wait to see your smiling faces again and hear the sound of your happy chatter and laughter. What a great group we have!

Here are all the other details you need to come along:

DATE:               Wednesday 7th September 2011

TIME:                6.45 – 9.00pm

VENUE:            Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes

Sarah

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August Meeting

August 2, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Designing your elevator speechI’m delighted to announce that a good friend and colleague of mine, Christine Le Penuizic, will be coming along to help us generate new ideas for an innovative, confident and impactful elevator speech. I know that I am often reduced to a babbling mess when someone asks me what I do, so this will be perfect for me to be able to communicate what I do in a more succinct and articulate manner!

Christine is an experienced trainer and coach specialising in communication and presentation skills. I have attended one of her courses and she is brilliant at what she does. She also owns her own company, Athenoya.

Christine is originally from a corporate background with 20 years working for blue chip organisations and brings a French flair to the art of presenting and public speaking. Her training focuses on providing participants with practical tools, advice and individual feedback to help them take their presentation and public speaking skills to the next level, whatever their experience.  I’m sure you’ll agree, this is a meeting you can’t afford to miss. It’s these kind of things that make all the difference – how we come across and whether we can “sell ourselves”.

Here are all the other details you need to come along:

DATE:               Wednesday 3rd August 2011

TIME:                6.45 – 9.00pm (food & refreshments provided)

VENUE:            Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes

Sarah

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June Meeting – Social Responsibility Engagement

May 28, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Our speaker this month is Karen Hurley.

Karen was born in the Medway area and has had an interesting and varied career. She has run a successful business in the hotel/catering sector and more recently, Karen’s focus has been related to social justice and housing/homelessness.

Her career has spanned employment in the public sector (local authority and criminal justice) and the voluntary/community sector in various parts of the country. She is currently Chief Executive of a local registered medium size charity called Medway Cyrenians (www.medwaycyrenians.org.uk ) a post held for past four years. Prior to that Karen worked in London homeless charity with a budget 60 times larger than her current one!

Karen has an academic background in psychology and social research, gained as a mature student with OU. Until recently she was a director for a national charity working with offenders. She lives with her partner Pete in Rainham and enjoys watercolour painting, Italy, and her only grandson, but definitely not in that order!

Karen will be talking to us about the way charities can help private organisations improve their employee well-being, team-building and work satisfaction (and therefore staff retention rates) through corporate social responsibility engagement. She will also be talking about David Cameron’s Big Society and the issue of homelessness, which should give us plenty to think about and discuss.

I’m sure you agree, this promises to be a most interesting and intriguing talk, so I do hope you show your appreciation by giving Karen your full support and saving her a sandwich!!

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April Meeting – Attraction Marketing meets The Law of Attraction

April 6, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Attraction marketing successAre you unconsciously giving your marketing bad vibes?

I’m delighted to announce that our guest speaker this month will be our very own Andrea Beadle.

Back by popular demand, Andrea will be talking about attraction marketing but she will be adding a new twist, combining attraction marketing with the laws of attraction.  The result of this delicious topic will be to attract your ideal clients to your business.  Yummy!!  Who could ask for anything more?

I always look forward to Andrea’s talks so I urge you to come along.  Marketing is such an important skill to get right and Andrea really is an expert in this field.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

I can also confirm we will be meeting again at the Canterbury Christ Church University:

Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

6.45:-  start with informal networking with fellow members

7:00: – Introductions

7:15: – WIB News

7:30 (ish): – formal talk with a guest speaker (often one of our very talented members)

8:30: – Q&A session, advice-seeking or general topics of interest.

8.45:- Problem corner – Members get to share a problem or need with the group for input and help.

9:00: close.

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March Meeting – Money, money, money!

March 2, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Women in Business - Accountancy talk

Photo Credit - Lusi

The next Women in Business Medway & North Kent meeting is on:

Wednesday 3rd March from 6.45pm to 9pm.

AGENDA

I’m delighted to announce that our guest speaker this month will be Miguel Calabrese, from Clinker Little, (Julie Angell’s firm).

The topics Miguel will be covering are:

  • Realising the untapped potential in your business and …
  • How much are your debtors actually costing you?

I think this is going to be a brilliant talk this month because I’m sure there’s so much untapped potential in all of our businesses and wouldn’t it be good to find out what it is?!!

Sarah

I can also confirm we will be meeting again at the Canterbury Christ Church University:

Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

6.45:-  start with informal networking with fellow members

7:00: – Introductions

7:15: – WIB News

7:30 (ish): – formal talk with a guest speaker (often one of our very talented members)

8:30: – Q&A session, advice-seeking or general topics of interest.

8.45:- Problem corner – Members get to share a problem or need with the group for input and help.

9:00: close.

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February Meeting

January 25, 2011 By admin 1 Comment
Social Types and colour

Photo Credit - asifthebes

The next Women in Business Medway & North Kent meeting is on:

Wednesday 2nd February from 6.45pm to 9pm.  I can confirm we will be meeting again at the Canterbury Christ Church University:

Canterbury Christ Church University

Centre for Enterprise and Business Development

Rowan Williams Court

30 Pembroke Court

Chatham Maritime

Kent ME4 4UF

6.45:-  start with informal networking with fellow members

7:00: – Introductions

7:15: – WIB News

7:30 (ish): – formal talk with a guest speaker (often one of our very talented members)

8:30: – Q&A session, advice-seeking or general topics of interest.

8.45:- Problem corner – Members get to share a problem or need with the group for input and help.

9:00: close.

AGENDA

Sarah Christie our chair will be talking about how we can improve our relationships and perhaps increase our persuasion and influence on others.

This is a very fun and light-hearted session where you will learn more about yourself and the loved ones or customers in your life and hopefully take away some tips on how to improve difficult relationships or how to be more persuasive.

I can’t wait to share this with you so I really hope you can make it!

Sarah

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November Meeting – First Impressions are made within 30 Seconds

October 30, 2010 By admin 1 Comment
First impressions count

Photo Credit - © Ken Hurst | Dreamstime.com

The next Women in Business Medway & North Kent meeting is on:

Wednesday 3rd November from 7pm to 9pm.  I can confirm we will be meeting again at the University:

University of Kent
The Medway Building
Chatham Maritime
Kent ME4 4AG

Room M1-22

AGENDA

7:00             Informal networking with a coffee and a cake!  (Or tea and biscuits!)

7:30            Meeting begins

9:00             End of meeting

First impressions are made within 30 seconds and they are notoriously difficult to change.

As women in business we need to be sure that our appearance doesn’t undermine the professional image that we want to project.

Women who suffer with skin problems often have lower self-esteem and confidence and, consequently, do not project themselves as well as they might.

So I am delighted to tell you that Grace Kelly will be giving us a talk about how to create the all important first impression and ensuring that we create the impact we want.

Grace will be bringing along her range of Arbonne skin and cosmetic products and these will be on sale afterwards if you want to take advantage.  Some of you may be struggling to deal with a particular skin issue and if so, please complete the attached form and email it to Grace prior to the WiB meeting.  She may then be able to tailor a solution, just for you.

As Chair, I can’t believe I’m having to miss this meeting, as I am away working all that week, but I leave you in the capable hands of Kirsten and Christine and I really hope you enjoy the meeting.

Sarah

Our final meeting of the year will be:

WEDNESDAY 1ST DECEMBER

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