Member events

Tessa Hood, Managing Director of Changing Gear Ltd, will share with you why your network, once effectively developed, will banish any discomfort when meeting strangers, will bring you massive business opportunities, and will be really worth the time and effort. You just have to make your networking professional and effective.

This will be a lively interactive session, helping you to think about the way you ‘tick’, what presses your ‘hot buttons’. This session includes NLP tools and techniques that will improve your performance. This development will enhance the way you manage yourself, achieve your goals and interact and influence others.

All managers will at some stage have to handle conflict - difficult conversations and disputes about performance, perceptions of inequality and clashes of communication and work styles. John Crawley, founder and chair of CMP Resolutions, will set participants challenges to respond to in small groups – how to handle an angry or upset colleague, how to challenge inappropriate behaviour, how to maintain rapport under pressure etc..

For those who have felt bogged down in theory and philosophies of leadership, this cuts through the jargon and the complexity.  Fast-Track Leadership looks at four important but basic things you can do to inspire followers and achieve success – whatever your role.

Are people really rational beings? Are emotions a distraction in the workplace? This event is an opportunity to explore how the less rational parts of the brain shape our behaviour and how Emotional Intelligence helps us to understand and use this to be more effective as leaders.

Authentic Leadership is about being your ‘best self' when carrying out management and leadership tasks. Strongly correlated with positive responses from employees, it is a system of positive feedback and effectiveness. This seminar, arranged in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth, will be of interest to anyone in a leadership position within their organisation.