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Yorkshire Leadership Group 24th November 2021

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

It takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

The format is as follows:
8.15 Breakfast
9-12.30 am Masterclass from Jon Wilks “Boosting A High-Performance Culture.”
Lunch
1-4.30 pm Peer group issues session: where business owners bring their own issues and challenges to discuss
4.30 pm Close

Come along once and see what you think. We are a very friendly, collaborative group of SME Directors from a range of different sectors and sizes.

Masterclass Session

Topic

Boosting A High-Performance Culture

The masterclass will cover:

1.      Reflect, recognize, reward – a look back on what we have accomplished over the course of the pandemic, how we might identify the particular strengths we have demonstrated and what we might do to reward ourselves.
2.      How to keep your business looking forward whilst learning from the past. How to have highly effective discussions with our team members and reports.
3.       Coaching for High Performance Outcomes. What are the secrets that we can learn from other sectors?
4.       The 3 Rings Model revisited. Then and now – what would you change?
5.       How to create a lasting and positive legacy.

This is an interactive workshop with plenty of individual opportunities for comment and participation.

Speaker profile:

Jon Wilks is a leader, coach, mentor and Town Crier! For over a decade he has helped organisations and individuals, at all levels, to improve, grow and sustain. From Coca Cola to Ford and from Plastic Bottle Supplies to Male Voice Choirs, Jon brings effervescence and positivity to his workshops which is both infectious and memorable. You will take away valuable ideas and genuine enjoyment of the day!

To find out more call: Lisa Lister 0787 9820725

Yorkshire Leadership Group 22nd September 2021

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

It takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

The format is as follows:
8.15 Breakfast
9-12.30 am Masterclass from Bloojam Consulting “How to Win New Business and Grow Your Firm. Using Insights from Business Psychology to Turbocharge Your Sales Team.”
Lunch
1-4.30 pm Peer group issues session: where business owners bring their own issues and challenges to discuss
4.30 pm Close

Come along once and see what you think. We are a very friendly, collaborative group of SME Directors from a range of different sectors and sizes.

Taster session available £125+vat

Masterclass: How to Win New Business and Grow Your Firm. Using Insights from Business Psychology to Turbocharge Your Sales Team

Goal setting to get better results in challenging times.

The masterclass will cover;

Part 1: Do you know what makes a good salesperson? Can sales skills be developed? Why does sales training fail?

For many people in technical roles, be they accountants, lawyers or engineers, sales is a dirty word. Sending them on sales training courses often has very little impact upon sales performance. Jim and Sarah share their experience of developing the sales capability of people who don’t see themselves as salespeople.

Part 2: How to Hire With Confidence.

If you’ve had your fingers burned when recruiting salespeople into your business, this session will help you to understand what to look for and how to find it when taking on new hires.

Speakers

Jim Bloomfield- Director, Bloojam Consulting Ltd

Experience
Jim has 20 years’ experience in supporting clients to identify and develop their top talent, in particular for salespeople and leaders. He has worked on projects for both UK-based SMEs and globally across Europe, Middle East, North America and Australasia for blue-chip clients including HSBC, KPMG, Legal & General, British Airways & Toyota.

Expertise
Jim is an Associate Member of the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP) and is registered as a Test User: Occupational Ability & Personality with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Sarah Clapperton – Director, Bloojam Consulting Ltd

Experience
Sarah is a Chartered Business Psychologist with 20 years’ experience working in recruitment, selection and people development. She specialises in the in-depth assessment and development of leaders and strategic salespeople.
Sarah has worked with RBS, Vodafone, Diageo, E.ON, Lloyds TSB and National Australia Group, Capita and Global.

Expertise
Sarah is registered as a Test User (Ability & Personality) with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and accredited to use a range of robust personality tools. She is a Chartered member of the BPS and is registered with the Health & Care Professions Council.

Call to find out more; Lisa Lister 0787 9820725

Yorkshire Leadership Group 7th July 2021

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

It takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

The format is as follows:
8.15 Breakfast
9-12.30 am Masterclass from David Hyner “Setting Massive Goals”
Lunch
1-4.30 pm Peer group issues session: where business owners bring their own issues and challenges to discuss
4.30 pm Close

Come along once and see what you think. We are a very friendly, collaborative group of SME Directors from a range of different sectors and sizes.

Taster session available £125+vat

Masterclass: Why “smart” Goals no longer work !

Goal setting to get better results in challenging times.

A fun, challenging and motivational session on goal setting from a researcher and speaker that has presented to over one million people globally over the last twenty years. The session is based around his twenty-two years (258) research interviews with top achievers on personal effectiveness. Fun, challenging and interactive.

The masterclass will cover;

How to behave in the return to the new “normal”
Why “NOW” is the time to drive change
Why “smart” as an acronym is wrong?
How top achievers set MASSIVE Goals!
Increasing your productivity by 26.5% just by changing your daily to-do list?
Why the purpose must be bigger than the goal.

Our speaker: David Hyner:

Lifetime Achievement Award – Inst. of Sales management

Speaker Hall of Fame – Academy for Chief Executives

FPSA – Fellow of the PSA , professional speaking association

PSAE – Professional Speaking Award of Excellence

Yorkshire Leadership Group masterclass 24th March 2021

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

Under normal circumstances, it takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

We have adapted this now to the following virtual format:

The format is as follows:
10-12 am Masterclass from Jon Wilks “Adjust Your Sails – Leading in Turbulent Times.”
Lunch (sorry this time its BYO!)
2-4 pm Peer group issues session: where business owners bring their own issues and challenges to discuss
4 pm Close

Taster session available £125+vat

Adjust Your Sails – Leading in Turbulent Times

This masterclass will focus on how to energise, motivate and engage your staff and customers during periods of crisis. Specifically, we will cover:

1. How to inspire high performance and engagement with staff
2. Techniques for winning customer loyalty when times are tough
3. Personal mindset and resilience to see you through

This is an interactive workshop with plenty of individual opportunity for comment and participation. You will leave with a toolkit of ideas and skills for coping with the current situation.

Speaker profile:

Jon Wilks is a leader, coach, mentor and Town Crier! For over a decade he has helped organisations and individuals, at all levels, to improve, grow and sustain. From Coca Cola to Ford and from Plastic Bottle Supplies to Male Voice Choirs, Jon brings effervescence and positivity to his workshops which is both infectious and memorable. You will take away valuable ideas and genuine enjoyment of the day!

To find out more call: Lisa Lister 0787 9820725

Yorkshire Leadership Group dates 2020/21

Dates for Yorkshire Leadership Group sessions 2020-2021

Key: O means official day ie 10-12 and 2-4 whilst on Zoom and 8-4.30 when at Rudding Park and the CU for catch up for the 2pm hour we have every other month.

2020
25th Nov O
16th Dec CU

2021
27th Jan O
24th Feb CU
24th March O
21st April CU
26th May O
7th July O
22nd Sept O
24th Nov O

Yorkshire Leadership Group 20th May 2020

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

Under normal circumstances, it takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

We have adapted this now to the following virtual format:

The format is as follows:
10-12 am Masterclass from Raj Kholi “Using technology to improve business performance and manage risk during covid-19.”
Lunch (sorry this time its BYO!)
2-4 pm Peer group issues session: where business owners bring their own issues and challenges to discuss
4 pm Close

Taster session available £125+vat (for this cost we are now offering weekly mini Yorkshire Leadership Group sessions at 2pm every Wednesday for the month of May).

Masterclass details:
Using technology to improve business performance and manage risk during covid-19

  • Moving at breakneck speed: Many businesses have had to rapidly introduce new home working solutions to support their teams as a result of Covid-19.  For most this change has been forced upon them with very little time to test and validate that the solutions work as intended.  This could impact staff experience especially for those who are unfamiliar with remote working.  Importantly it could also introduce new and novel cyber risks which could present opportunities for cyber criminals to exploit your business.
  • Doing more with less: how can technology be used to drive innovation and resilience during uncertain times?  Most if not all businesses have been impacted in some form from Covid-19, specifically their ability to invest in projects which they previously had underway.  With this refocus of resources, we will consider how technology could be used to drive efficiencies and closer customer engagement during these uncertain times.
  • Managing costs: Where are the hidden opportunities using tech? Most businesses have made significant investments in technology but do they understand if they are using their existing technology in the right way, have they bought what they think they need vs what they actually need?  Have license agreements with major technology vendors been optimized?

The speaker is Raj Kholi, his business, DCR Partners, is a niche consultancy that specialises in partnering with clients to help solve their complex problems, drive technology-enabled change whilst helping them to effectively manage risk.

To find out more call: Lisa Lister 0787 9820725

20th November Yorkshire Leadership Group

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

It takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

The format is as follows:
8.15 Breakfast
Masterclass from John Hotowka “Present and communicate your message more clearly using metaphor….and magic.”
Lunch
Peer group issues session
4.30 Close

Taster session available £125+vat

Masterclass details:

Present and Communicate Your Corporate Message More Clearly Using Metaphor… and MAGIC

Business owners and directors are not only strategists and planners they’re also communicators and in this day and age they have to communicate their message in an engaging way.

Stories and metaphors are usually used to help our audiences understand and remember the points to be made. To make a message stick in their hearts and minds sometimes something even more powerful and effective is needed.

Tony Buzan the father of mind-mapping carried out studies and found the use of visual aids generally heightens retention of the spoken word by up to 70%… 70%.

Which is why magic and metaphors are so effective and John’s workshop is so very different to any workshop you’ve experienced before as well as being engaging, fun and challenging.

 

What you can expect from the masterclass:

Improved communication skills

Improved presentation skills

Improved coaching skills

Improved problem solving skills

Improved delegation skills

Members become more focussed on their business issues and message

Members experience a sense of achievement and they’ll even get a round of applause for it

 

John Hotowka – Who is he?

John Hotowka is a Bradford boy ‘done’ good. Despite the fact that he has not won an Olympic gold medal, or climbed the south face of Mount Everest in a pedalo, he is still in demand as a speaker and magician. Why? Because he’s observant, insightful and funny.

John is a PSAE (Professional Speaking Association Award of Excellence) and a member of the Magic Circle. He’s been entertaining and speaking to corporate audiences since 1989 and has an uncanny knack of immediately engaging and putting an audience at their ease.

John started his career in magic in 1981 and for seven years was an optician by day and magician by night – performing close up magic to the diners in the restaurants of his home town Bradford. He was one of the first close-up magicians to perform magic in restaurants on a residential basis in Europe. Having been made redundant from optics three times in the space of seven years, he decided to take up magic full-time and become a corporate magician. Once again, he was one of the first to do so in the Europe.

Since 1989 he’s travelled the world from Manchester to Milan, Derby to Dubai, Hull to Hamburg and from York to New York performing his magic at corporate and private events.

Now he’s a sought after speaker on the corporate circuit, working with the likes of Price Waterhouse Coopers, Hallmark Cards and HSBC, to name but a few. He’s also a popular speaker in education helping young people develop entrepreneurial and life skills.

He specialises in delivering keynote speeches about mindset, change, teambuilding and doing more with less.

Feedback – Phil Jesson, Chairman ACE 42

“John is a communications, change management and teambuilding speaker who uses magic to punctuate the messages he conveys. He appeared on day one of our Annual Retreat and did a great job. He trained the members to plan and deliver a number of tricks, each with an important business message. The session was highly participative and competitive as members wanted to be the best magician in the room!  

For his first ACE outing his 8.2 was well deserved and I can strongly recommend him to your Group.”

What our attendees say about the group:

“Very useful and great to have different insights.”

“Absolutely lovely. Very helpful and full of good ideas. Not one arrogant person in the room, very refreshing.”

“Good group and a great session in the morning. The mix of characters and speakers mean the sessions to date have all been very rewarding.”

For more details contact: Lisa Lister 0787 9820725

17th Sept Yorkshire Leadership Group

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group.

It takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

The format is as follows:
8.15 Breakfast
Masterclass from Michael Dodd on “Great answers to tough questions.”
Lunch
Peer group issues session
4.30 Close

Taster session available £125+vat

Masterclass details:

GREAT ANSWERS TO TOUGH QUESTIONS

This session will equip you to give more powerful, effective and confident answers in all your professional conversations.

You’ll be shown the methodology to enable you to take the answers you give to new levels – whether the questions come from your customers, prospects, journalists, officials, financiers or members of your own team.

Our speaker Michael Dodd is a one-time political, business and foreign correspondent trained in the art of asking what are known in his native Australia as “blowtorch-on-the-belly” questions.

Now he’s helping the business world to stand up to such questions.

You’ll come away knowing how to apply the golden formulae to help you deal with challenging questions, tricky questions, nasty questions, emotionally-charged questions and even stupid questions.

You may even, as Denis Kaye said after one of Michael’s previous YLG master classes, leave the session with an enthusiasm for your next difficult encounter with a staff member or customer!

For a chat about how it all works please call Lisa Lister 0787 9820725

Marketing Leadership Group

Following on from the successes of my other 3 Yorkshire Leadership Groups which have been running for 12 years, I am delighted to announce that I will be launching a Marketing Leadership Group in September 2019.

Aims

The aim of the group is to share best practice, gain marketing insight, overcome challenges and generally be a peer support group for the local marketing community.

Format

Registration and breakfast 8.45

9-9.30 Industry Insight from Zeal

9.30-11.30 Facilitated peer group discussions – attendees bring their issues/challenges

Date and venue

The Marketing Leadership Group will be held on 12th September from 8.45am-11.30am and will be held at Zeal

Platform, New Station Street, Leeds LS1 4JB

Eligibility:

The group is open to all industry sectors and any size company.

The group is open to In-House marketers – no agencies or consultants.

You should be responsible in part or completely for the marketing activities in your company.

Costs

The first session on 12th September will be free. If you chose to become a member, future sessions will take place every 2 months.

Registration

Please call: 0787 9820725 or email: lisalister@progressmarketing.co.uk to register.

2nd July Yorkshire Leadership Group

We would love to welcome you to our Yorkshire Leadership Group. It takes place once every 2 months for a day at the beautiful Rudding Park Hotel.

The format is as follows:

8.15 Breakfast

Masterclass from Kirsty Robinson on “Leading a multi-generational workforce into the future.”

Lunch

Peer group issues session

4.30 Close

Taster session available £125+vat

For further details and place reservations:

Denis Kaye at denis.kaye@yorkshireleadership.co.uk

Lisa Lister at lisa.lister@yorkshireleadership.co.uk

 

LEADING A MULTI-GENERATIONAL WORKFORCE INTO THE FUTURE

How will leading 5 generations impact your business…are you prepared?

There’s an abundance of literature in journals and social media sites on the multi-generational workforce, the generation gap and so forth, with a lot of over-claiming and a lack of good solid evidence to back up such claims.

How is this really going to affect your business now and in the future? And what should businesses be doing right now to prepare?

This is a fun and interactive Masterclass based on a combination of academic research and real examples, through the eyes of an HR Director working within organisations from SME’s through to large Corporates. The session dispels some of the myths associated with leading a multi-generational workforce and identifies the real challenges businesses will face.

Delegates will leave the session with some practical solutions that can be applied to their business now and in the future in order to get the best from their people, whatever their generation.

 About the speaker – Kirsty Robinson

Born and bred in Yorkshire, Kirsty has over 15 years experience working in senior HR roles, including HR Director, within financial services, professional services and the public sector.  Most recently she has set up CutTheMustard HR, a HR consultancy based in York, providing strategic HR support and advice to SME’s across Yorkshire. CutTheMustard HR is on a mission to challenge the perception of HR in the workplace and provides a fresh new approach; one that has proved to deliver significant business results. Kirsty loves any excuse to get on her soap box to discuss all things HR and people related!

 

 

 

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