Spent a thoroughly enjoyable evening at The East Riding Business Network last night. I was invited by a member Neil Edlin and enjoyed the company of the people I met.
Highlight for me was the presentation given Rob McPhun. Rob is a retired police officer who rose to senior rank in the Humberside force. Rob's experience of managing teams of people in what must often be pretty stressful circumstances is now being turned into a benefit for the business community. Rob has set up a successful personal and business coaching business.
On Thursday March 10th he is running a free seminar entitled Are You Ready for the Fallout. Rob will be advising senior managers on the best way to get the best out of colleagues who may be left in the workplace after a round of redundancies. People in this situation are often said to be suffering from "Survivors' Guilt" and may often be demotivated and fearful for their jobs.
The event takes place at South Hunsley School, Melton, East Riding on the 10th March 9.00 am -11.00 am. A second seminar takes place at the same venue the same day at 1.30pm.
Rob also ran through some very useful self-evaluation techniques he encourages his coaching clients to employ. Above all he stated that the prime goal of any ethical coach is to encourage clients to be able to self-coach.
A great evening and very informative.
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Monday 31 January 2011
Member Training, Guests welcome
Just a quick note to say that BforB east Yorkshire will be holding a member training event on SEO on the 18th February at the Pearson park Hotel 2 till 4.
In this two-hour session we will show you:
1. How to analyse the competition’s website, see what it is they do that pushes them up the Google rankings. You will get access to a simple plug in application that cracks open the secrets of sites and shows exactly who is looking at them!
2. A list of High PR sites to submit your site to for free. This will put your content all over the web and bring you customers
3. The easy steps to take to make Google friendly pages that rank themselves. This is a page structure tactic that SEO agencies are afraid to tell you.
We offer this training to our members as a benefit of their membership and today I’d like to extend this invitation to you for £50.
When you consider that a half-day course can cost up to £250 this represents real value for money.
Why are we offering this?
· At BforB we are passionate about adding value to our colleagues’ networking experience and business.
· We want you to enjoy the same opportunities our members get.
· By meeting our members and other like-minded colleagues you will be able to get a feel for how Business Referral Networking can grow your business.
Pleasure To Meet You
After attending any business event, open networking, conference or anywhere where you meet people for the first time it would be a crime not to follow up. Yet so many people do not. Last week I went to a business forum event where I met someone for the second time. The first occasion had been at a speed networking event two months ago.
So I said hello and in return I got that slightly embarrassed but friendly look you get form someone who thinks they ought to know you. After we chatted for 5 minutes I was asked; "How come you remember me and I can't place you? It's really embarrassing."
Well I gave two reasons. Firstly I used to be a teacher and therefore had to train myself to learn 240 names at a time at the start of a school year.
The second is the pleasure to meet you e-mail. Any time you go to a networking event as soon as you get back, sit down with a pile of business cards you collected. Go through them and split them into two piles. In the first pile put the cards of the people who you can definitely remember something about. n the second put those cards where you are struggling to remember anything. Go back to the second pile later something will always crop up in your memory bank.
Then write an individual pleasure to meet you e-mail. make sure its not template, include a detail that you remember about the person and leave it at that. This is not the time to ask for a follow up meeting ( unless agreed in principal at the event). Nor is it the time to say "Please join my LinkedIn network". Just say "Nice to meet you", leaving the door open to who knows what may happen
So I said hello and in return I got that slightly embarrassed but friendly look you get form someone who thinks they ought to know you. After we chatted for 5 minutes I was asked; "How come you remember me and I can't place you? It's really embarrassing."
Well I gave two reasons. Firstly I used to be a teacher and therefore had to train myself to learn 240 names at a time at the start of a school year.
The second is the pleasure to meet you e-mail. Any time you go to a networking event as soon as you get back, sit down with a pile of business cards you collected. Go through them and split them into two piles. In the first pile put the cards of the people who you can definitely remember something about. n the second put those cards where you are struggling to remember anything. Go back to the second pile later something will always crop up in your memory bank.
Then write an individual pleasure to meet you e-mail. make sure its not template, include a detail that you remember about the person and leave it at that. This is not the time to ask for a follow up meeting ( unless agreed in principal at the event). Nor is it the time to say "Please join my LinkedIn network". Just say "Nice to meet you", leaving the door open to who knows what may happen
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