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Break up the week with laughs, great conversations and meeting a brilliant mix of people at our NETWORKING & GAMES AFTERNOON!

A space for anyone, in any profession, who wants to meet like-minded people and have a great time!

Whether you’re a Doctor, a Teacher, Freelancer, Business Owner, Aspiring Entrepreneur, Hairdresser, Builder, Coach (etc) this is a great opportunity to expand your circle while enjoying a genuinely great afternoon.

We’ll be playing fun, social games that make it easy to kick back, get to know each other, and have huge belly-laughs! Our games events are designed to help conversations flow naturally whilst incorporating team work and friendly rivalry!

🗓️ Wednesday 29th April

📍The Oak Tree, Ipswich Road, NR4 6LA – Find us in the conservatory

⏰ 3PM-5:30PM (‘After Party’ til 6:30PM)

🍹Food and drinks available to purchase at the bar.

🚗 Parking: There Is a FREE car park onsite

Come solo, invite a friend in your network, or bring a colleague!

✨ Social games, relaxed networking & plenty of laughs

✨ Name badges so no awkward “What’s your name again?” moments

✨ Bar open all evening for food and drinks (not included in the cost)

✨ Friendly, welcoming atmosphere

🎟️ Tickets: £10.00 – Includes networking, new connections, a great venue, lots of games AND tonnes of laughter!

We look forward to seeing you there…

From your hosts Stacy Bradley & Paul Macro (Hosts of the 5* Norwich 35-55’s Games Night)

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📸 Photos/videos may be taken – let us know if you’d rather not be in them.

🔉 Noise level: Medium – expect happy chaos.

Do you have frontline managers who:

• Were promoted from within because they are technically good? 
• Are new to the role and / or inexperienced at managing others? 
• Need improved confidence in managing people and problems? 
• Find it difficult to balance the pressures of delivering for management while remaining part of the team?
• Could make a significant contribution to the company’s profits if they were able to improve the performance of themselves and their teams? 

If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, you will find that the Forefront course provides solutions to these and many other issues that stretch today’s team leader. The ILM Level 3 qualification has been specially designed to give practising or aspiring first line managers a solid foundation in their formal development as a manager. Delegates will also complete a project which is to identify a problem within the workplace and implement an effective solution. 

Your employee will receive:

• An Insights Discovery personal profile
• 1-2-1 coaching sessions
• A fun and challenging learning experience

The ILM Level 3 qualification has been specially designed to give practising or aspiring first line managers a solid foundation in their formal development as a manager. The ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership & Management is a concise qualification which gives an introduction to the basic skills, knowledge, and understanding required by today’s first line manager.

ILM Level 3 Units:

• 8600-300 – Solving Problems & Making Decision – 2 credits
• 8600-309 – Understand How to Establish an Effective Team – 1 credit
• 8600-319 – Understanding Organising and Delegating in the Workplace – 1 credit
• 8600-323 – Understanding Performance Management – 2 credits

Do you have frontline managers who:

• Were promoted from within because they are technically good? 
• Are new to the role and / or inexperienced at managing others? 
• Need improved confidence in managing people and problems? 
• Find it difficult to balance the pressures of delivering for management while remaining part of the team?
• Could make a significant contribution to the company’s profits if they were able to improve the performance of themselves and their teams? 

If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, you will find that the Forefront course provides solutions to these and many other issues that stretch today’s team leader. The ILM Level 3 qualification has been specially designed to give practising or aspiring first line managers a solid foundation in their formal development as a manager. Delegates will also complete a project which is to identify a problem within the workplace and implement an effective solution. 

Your employee will receive:

• An Insights Discovery personal profile
• 1-2-1 coaching sessions
• A fun and challenging learning experience

The ILM Level 3 qualification has been specially designed to give practising or aspiring first line managers a solid foundation in their formal development as a manager. The ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership & Management is a concise qualification which gives an introduction to the basic skills, knowledge, and understanding required by today’s first line manager.

ILM Level 3 Units:

• 8600-300 – Solving Problems & Making Decision – 2 credits
• 8600-309 – Understand How to Establish an Effective Team – 1 credit
• 8600-319 – Understanding Organising and Delegating in the Workplace – 1 credit
• 8600-323 – Understanding Performance Management – 2 credits

We’ve been quietly building something serious underneath a former RAF base in Norfolk. The same AI that powered Britain’s first self-driving car, NHS hospital robots, and RAF trials, turned into a full enterprise platform.

Athena is an artifitial intelligence that runs entirely on your own hardware. Nothing goes to the cloud. Nothing leaves your building. Full audit trail. GDPR-aligned by design.

We’re not doing a conventional launch. We’re inviting a small number of Norfolk business owners underground to see it running live. No slides. No pitch deck.

If you’re in financial services, healthcare, legal, or any regulated sector where data sovereignty actually matters — we’d love you to see it in action on the 9th April here at RAF Neatishead. 

Places are strictly limited and by application only. Click here if you’d like to come along https://academyofrobotics.co.uk/athena/

Detailed Course Content

Effective Minuting

• Why do we call it minutes?
• What are minutes used for
• The role of the minute taker

Ensuring meetings are effective and efficient

• Expected standards of minutes for different meeting types
• Exploring elements to ensure both virtual and face to face meetings are productive
• Determining objectives of the meeting to maintain focus
• Who should be attending the meeting
• Confidence in your own preparation
• The importance of an agenda

Standards required during the meeting

• Should I type or handwrite my notes
• Frameworks and structure
• Speed writing, abbreviations & shorthand
• Why is it so challenging to maintain your focus
• Enhancing your ability to actively listen
• Putting it into practice

Post Meeting Responsibilities

• Minutes structure
• Action logs
• Summarising
• Distribution of your minutes
• Proofreading
• How can technology support

If you need to deliver presentations as part of your job then you will need to learn how to work with PowerPoint. This course will help you create and or modify presentations.

You can improve the speed with which you put the presentation together using lots of shortcuts, introduce an element of animation and produce a professional presentation.

Why take hours to create your presentations or have to ask someone else to do it for you when you can easily put together a professional slide presentation yourself.

What will I learn?

• Slide Design – Format your text and slide design
• Bullet Points –  use a variety of different bullet points and sub bullets points
• Shapes – Draw and adapt shapes, align, distribute and order them
• SmartArt diagrams – Create examples of diagrams such as an organisation chart
• Charts – Insert a chart onto slides
• Pictures, Videos,Sounds – Add interesting pictures, videos and sounds
• Animation and Transitions – Add some movement to your presentation
• Tips and Tricks