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Mentor Monday I Gemma Crane
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide free mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk.
Date: 5th February 2024.
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 2pm
Meet in person at Royal Norwich, The Weston Estate, Weston Hall Road, Weston Longville, Norwich, NR9 5JE
Topics
HR
Personal Growth and Development
How mindset can impact the bottom line of a business.
Wellbeing
Performance
About Gemma
Gemma Crane has been in an HR Capacity in the corporate world for 24 years in a variety of sectors and industries. In the last 10-12 years has also become an NLP Practitioner, Life Coach and Results Internation Performance Coach.
Gemma is also a trustee for the Norwich Red Balloon Charity, enjoys public speaking and supports and partners with organisations to improve their processes and practices in relation to their people strategy.
Mindset-HR was founded by Gemma Crane in 2022. As the lead HR Consultant, Gemma works with businesses to think differently about their ‘People Strategy’ and processes.
Coming out of the pandemic and studying the mind for over 10 years now it is crazy how ‘people’ have changed and the changes to their priorities of what a meaningful life looks like to them.
Businesses that make changes to their culture to recognise this will thrive and achieve better results and revenue.
Co.next Mentor Monday I Zoe Gabriele
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide free mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk.
Date: 26th February 2024.
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 2pm
Meet in person at Swaffham Cafe, 3 Market Place, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7AB
Topics
Sales
Coaching
Training
Management
Project Management
Construction
About Zoe
Zoe has been running her own builders merchant for the last 10 years but has been in the trade for around 30. She has worked in small and large companies, a manufacturer for 10 years working at a senior level working on sales, operations, manufacturing and working across divisions delivering training and selling a range of products incorporating other areas of the organisation. She has also worked alongside Mckinsey (London) in delivering a change programme. So she understands corporate life and running a business.
QA Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF) – 1 Day
Course will provide delegates with the training, skills and knowledge in emergency first aid and comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.
All delegates will be awarded a Norvic certificate of attendance accredited by Qualsafe Awards who are recognised by Ofqual. It is valid for three years.
Open courses are held regularly at our training venues in Norwich, Norfolk and Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Alternatively, courses can be arranged at your own site anywhere in the UK (subject to suitability).
Syllabus
· Role and responsibility of first aider
· Introduction to first aid
· The recovery position
· Heart attack
· Choking
· Burns and scalds
· Incident management and safety
· Basic life support
· Adult and paediatric resuscitation
· Use of AED
· Control of bleeding and shock
· Simple record keeping and first aid equipment
“Information presented in a clear and concise way at a good pace. Enjoyable course, very informative”.
“Lots of hands on role play, was a very good way to learn.”
“The best first aid course (my 7th) I’ve done.”
Introduction to Excel
The course is designed for users new to Excel. It will provide trainees with the confidence, knowledge and practical experience to use Excel, to create and manipulate spreadsheets and produce printed reports.
Delegates should have sufficient Windows experience beforehand.
Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the course.
Course Content
- The Excel Screen
- Ribbons, Quick Access Toolbar, Formula Bar, and Status Bar
- Workbooks and Sheet Tabs
- Data Entry
- Types of Data
- Data Entry Techniques
- In Cell Editing
- Selecting
- Cut/Copy/Paste
- Drag & Drop
- Using AutoFill to fill Adjacent Cells and Extend Series, Custom Lists
- Formulae and Functions
- Simple formulas & Functions
- Relative and Absolute References
- Named Ranges
- AutoSum
- AutoFill
- Paste Function
- Average, Max, Min & Count Functions
- Multiple Panes
- Freeze and Unfreeze
- Formatting a Worksheet
- Using Borders and Shading to improve presentation
- Font & Number Formatting, Alignment
- Printing
- Print Preview & Setup
- Headers & Footers
- Print Row/Column headings
- File Management
- Saving, Closing and opening files
- New Workbooks
- Good Working Practice
- Creating a Chart
- Creating Charts
An explanation of different versions
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
Link to book – www.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk/training
Engagement Group – Thetford
Our engagement groups represent local businesses in the community, to connect, support, and give voice to every business in Norfolk.
As well as having the opportunity to discuss key topics, you’ll also be able to network with fellow businesses.
Our aim is to have groups in many cities, towns, market towns, and villages across Norfolk, to connect, support, and give voice to every business in Norfolk. These groups are accessible to all businesses, whether you are a Chambers member or a non-member.
These groups will provide you with a platform to debate issues that are most important to you, and your business and the Chamber network will lobby and influence on your behalf, using our dedicated team, our website, social media channels, and our digital platform.
Your feedback will be used by our team and the Chamber’s Board to help shape the strategic direction of Norfolk Chambers to ensure we can truly be the voice of Norfolk businesses.
Whether the local challenge is skills, road, rail, digital infrastructure, recruitment, or the rising costs of doing business, we want to hear from you.
Agenda
9am Arrival and networking
9.10am Welcome from Norfolk Chambers
9.15am Introductions
9.20am start conversations
10am Event close
This event is kindly sponsored by one of our Strategic Partners, Uptech – Your Trusted IT Partner and Expert in Managed IT Services.
Visit their member page here.
Management vs Leadership a night with Co.next
Management is like orchestrating a flawless concert, making sure every instrument plays its part efficiently, whereas leadership is more like being the Rockstar on stage… getting the crowd going and creating an unforgettable experience. Both are essential for a successful show, but they play different roles.
Do you feel your workplace is full of rockstars or conductors?
What does management mean to you? Does Leadership matter to you?
We want to know how the young professionals in Norfolk feel on this topic, join us on Thursday 18th January at The Forum, Norwich, where we shall discuss the difference between management and leadership. Joined by a panel of local rockstars and conductors, we shall hear from them first hand on their own experiences and how they feel on the topic. Factoring in how you, the young professionals of Norfolk feel about management and leadership.
Welcome drinks and light canapes served from 5.15pm with the event beginning shortly afterwards. Catering kindly sponsored by Uptech.
Panel
· Jamie Minors, Co-Founder of Minors & Brady Estate Agents
· Kelly Cartwright, Owner of Core Recruiter Ltd
· Stephen Moseley, Course Leader and Lecturer at City College Norwich
· Jason Carlton, Managing Director at Uptech
· Sam Squires, CEO of Inspire 2 Ignit
· Julie Furnell, Managing Director of Mobilityways
Opportunity to network and connect with other under 35’s in Norfolk while gaining insightful knowledge.
Tickets live on 8th December from 8am.
Co.next Mentor Monday I Chris Cliffe
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide free mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk.
Date: 19th February 2024.
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 4pm
Meet in person at Royal Norwich, The Weston Estate, Weston Hall Road, Weston Longville, Norwich, NR9 5JE
Topics
Procurement & Supplier Management
Networking & Connecting
Running your own business as a Solopreneur
Sounding board & Signpost for your ideas
About Chris
Chris is a Chartered Procurement & Supply Professional and Fellow of CIPS. Chris is an active Member of the Institute of Directors and proactive networker across the Norfolk and London business communities.
Chris has been an independent professional through CJC Procurement Ltd since 2016, a classic case of redundancy into consultancy and Solopreneurship and Chris has supported Norfolk Chambers to set up our Co.Solo programme.
Supervising a team
What is the difference between supervising and managing a team? The role of the supervisor is changing and what this role is (or what people think it is) can be unclear at times.
This workshop is for anyone who already supervises a team or a team leader who wants to freshen up their skills.
Aimed at supervisors and team leaders, this module aims to set you up for success and encourage you to take the actions you need to get better results.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
- Starting as you mean to go on – first steps on the success ladder
•Heroes and villains – making a good supervisor ‘great’
•The shape of your role and the focus of your attention
•Developing teams – what to look out for
•Achieving a balance between nurturing vs. challenging
•Delegation as a means of developing staff
•When I insist – you resist – communication which works!
•The four supervisory styles – which one to use and when
•Mastering the art of delegation
•Forwarding the action – personal action planning.
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
Link to book – www.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk/training
Co.next Mentor Monday I Matt Sykes
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide free mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk.
Date: 16th September 2024.
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 4pm
Virtual Mentor Session – A video link will be given to you the week leading up to your session directly from the mentor.
Topics
Sales
Lead generation
Pipeline management
Sales process
Effective Sales call technique
Conversion rate improvement
About Matt
Matt Sykes is a business owner, published author, and sales coach and trainer.
Matt founded his sales training business, Salescadence, nine years ago following a twenty-year sales career in the global packaging industry. During that time, he rose through the ranks to European Sales Director with responsibility for €70m of revenue.
In 2014, he quit the corporate world to pursue his passion for sales and self-employment and his work at Salescadence centres on helping businesses mitigate the risks associated with ‘sales-malpractice’, and guiding them to help more people buy what they sell.
He has delivered sales training and coaching to hundreds of sales people across a variety of product and service sectors including Broadcast Media, Recruitment, Finance, Packaging and SaaS in the UK and Western Europe.
Matt is the author of two books, Converted (2020): How to help more people buy what you sell, and Sales Glue (2023): The vital ingredient that makes sales success stick and enjoys nothing more than interviewing sales leaders and entrepreneurs in his role as host of The Salescadence Podcast.
Level 3 Health & Safety in the Workplace – 3 day course
Level 3 Health & Safety in the Workplace
Time: 9am – 4.30pm each day
Date: 6th, 7th & 13th March
This course has been designed to ensure that supervisors, owners, team leaders and managers are aware of their health and safety responsibilities in improving the Health and Safety Culture or that of their organisations. It provides an opportunity to look more deeply into general health and safety from a supervisory perspective.
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the main concepts of health and safety, show awareness of the benefits of a positive health and safety culture, explain the roles and responsibilities of individuals, supervisors and management in health and safety and demonstrate an understanding of health and safety control and improvement strategies available to supervisors.
Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the course.
Please note that it is a requirement of the HABC, the awarding body, that we need to see photographic proof of identity of each candidate before they can be entered into the exam, for example, passport, driving licence, student union card or work pass.
Course Content:
Legislation (UK only)
Concept of health and safety
Accidents in the workplace
Ill health in the workplace
Health and safety organisation and management
Supervising health and safety
There will be a gap between days of the course for delegates to revise from the book given during the course. Subject to passing a 60 question multiple choice exam paper delegates will be awarded the Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Course costs £349 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
Co.next Mentor Monday I Julie Paine
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide free mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk.
Date: 12th February 2024.
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 4pm
Virtual Mentor Session – A video link will be given to you the week leading up to your session directly from the mentor.
Topics
Identifying Goals
Leadership
Breaking Old Habits
Communication Skills
Motivational Skills
Work Life Balance
Deciding what’s the best way forward!
These are not hard boundaries. Its fine just to explore your next move, in a safe environment where you won’t be judged!
About Julie
After gaining a Certificate in Sales & Marketing Management, Julie spent over 25 years working with a diverse range of business, helping them to develop and grow. This gave Julie an excellent understanding of the problems business face and the problems individuals struggle with. Business and people have changed greatly over that time.
Julie then went on to do a Diploma in Counselling. Julie finds people fascinating! When good communication and behaviour is a way of life, and used in business, barriers come down, stress is reduced, sickness and absence is reduced. Its a win, win for everyone. When people thrive, businesses thrive! Julie’s mission is to help people and businesses achieve this.