Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk. Free mentor session with Chris Cliffe.
Date: 9th October 2023
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 3pm
Venue: The Stables, Royal Norwich, The Weston Estate, Weston Hall Road, Weston Longville, Norwich, NR9 5JE
Topics
Professionally:
Procurement & Supply Chain
Buyer / Supplier Relationship Management
Spend Categorisation and Supplier Preferencing
Personally:
Networking skills and tactics
Career development and personal brand
About Chris
Chartered Procurement & Supply Professional
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (FCIPS)
Member of the Institute of Directors (MIoD)and IoD Procurement Ambassador and Norfolk Branch Committee member
Join us for a netwalking event and make co.nnections whilst enjoying the beautiful grounds at Langley School Prep at Taverham.
What better way to give your wellbeing a boost than by spending time outside in the fresh air, networking with fellow business professionals at the Prep School which is set in the enviable position within a stunning 100-acre woodland area giving children the freedom to learn and explore with space around them. Whilst also getting those important steps in and enjoying a rewarding drink at the end!
Once you have parked your car, meet us at the main school reception, were this walk will start. For those that would like to continue networking at the end of our walk, we will stop at the school for a well needed tea or coffee and can continue conversations.
Langley Pre-Prep and Prep School, Taverham, Norwich, NR8 6HU
Car parking is free.
Who’s it for?
Business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, young businesses and anyone who wants to connect and engage with other businesses in the Norfolk area.
Norfolk is full of talented business men and women and we’re delighted to have some of them giving up their time to provide mentoring sessions for young professionals (under 35s) across Norfolk. Free mentor session with Nicolle Matthews.
Date: 6th November 2023
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 1pm.
Virtual Call – Video Link shall be emailed beforehand.
Topics
Career Planning
Personal Development / Growth Mindset
Studying whilst Working
Women in STEM
Women in Business
About Nicolle
Currently General Manager at Ordtek, a specialist Unexploded Ordnance Risk Management consultancy, Nicolle has worked in a wide variety of industries and career paths.
Beginning her career in Oil & Gas and Renewables, before moving into owning her own Business & Marketing consultancy, Nicolle found her passion for developing and growing businesses and individuals. She fulfilled a lifelong dream of working for a well-known sportscar manufacturer in 2019, where she worked in Corporate Strategy, led the Women’s Community driving inclusion, and undertook her Executive MBA with the UEA.
Now a Chartered Manager overseeing day-to-day operations of an SME, Nicolle is passionate about Equity, Sustainability, Organisational Design, High-Performance Teams, and Personal Development.
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 October 2023
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 3pm
Meet in person at Centrum Building on Norwich Research Park.
Topics
Matt can provide advice, guidance, hints and tips on:
Understanding your ICP (ideal Customer Profile) so that your lead-gen strategy is attracting the clients you want to work with.
Building a sales process to attract your ICP.
How to take a SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) and convert it into a sale.
Creating proposals that close
Effective follow up to reduce deal time
How to get referrals
About Matt
Matt Sykes is founder of Sales Training company Salescadence. Which centres helping individuals and the organisations they represent to sell more effectively by eliminating the behaviours that make selling difficult. He does this via team sales training and 121 coaching sessions.
He has clocked up over twenty-five years of sales experience across a variety of industries and roles, ranging from global corporate B2B relationship management through to owner/startup lead generation and worked across various sectors including media, recruitment, technology and packaging.
He hosts The Salescadence Podcast and has written two sales books; ‘Sales Glue’ (2nd edition) links the world of Sales and Psychology and ‘Converted’, shares the exact sales process steps that helped me increase sales by 350% in just 24 months for an outsourced service business. A true Sales Guru.
The LSIP Roadshow events are happening across Norfolk and Suffolk – join us in the heart of Norwich.
What is the LSIP programme?
We want you as a business to have a bigger say in what skills are needed in the workplace for today, tomorrow and the future.
The Norfolk and the Suffolk Chambers of Commerce is working with the Department for Education (DfE) to put employers at the heart of the skills agenda with the launch of the Norfolk and Suffolk Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP.)
Why should I get involved?
You want to increase the growth of your business.
You want your team to have the skills they need to be engaged, empowered and moving forwards.
It’s vital to retain the talent within your business.
You want to attract the right people, for culture, for growth and for success.
We are engaging with businesses of all sizes, stakeholders, colleges, training providers and universities to enable a more responsive and collaborative approach to the development of the local workforce.
What’s the event about?
We’re hosting a series of breakfast events that will be across Norfolk and Suffolk, for you to come and discuss keys areas of the LSIP programme, and what it can bring to your workforce, we will be talking about Skills, Wellbeing, Training, Retention.
Enjoy some morning networking over bacon rolls, tea and coffee with local businesses to discuss and highlight the skills gaps, issues and successes you are experiencing.
We want to engage and meet with local businesses of all sizes to enable a more responsive and collaborative approach to the development of the local workforce.
This session will be led by the LSIP Project Manager Dean Pierpoint.
Event Agenda
Arrival from 8am – Networking with tea, coffee and Bacon Rolls (dietary requirements will be catered for)
8.30am – Welcome from Dean Pierpoint
8.35am – Council Representative
8.45am – Presentation on LSIP
9.00am – Challenge for the Roundtable
9.10am – Fact Finding
9.20am – Skills Conversation
9.40am – Presentation from our Strategic Partners, Turning Factor
10.00am – Event close
What happen next?
Over the coming months, we will be conducting Employer Engagement surveys, telephone interviews, opportunities for 1-2-1 discussions, focus groups and events.
Our LSIP Board is now in place to provide direction, oversight, and review of the development of an effective LSIP for the region, the first meeting took place yesterday, 17th January and was a huge success in steering the programme forward.
You can view the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce programme of events across Suffolk here
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: 13th November 2023
Time: Hourly slots available between 10am – 1pm
Meet in person at Bread Source, 22 Bridewell Alley, Norwich, NR2 1AQ
Topics
Stephen can provide advice, guidance, hints and tips any topic that fits in with you, theme relating to business, culture and emotional intelligence.
About Stephen
Stephen is a mentor, coach, business consultant, and entrepreneur with a passion for team-building and cultivating progressive cultures. Known as one of life’s great motivators, he is the founder and director of AskStephen.
With over 35 years of experience, Stephen utilises his wealth of knowledge and expertise to advise a diverse range of businesses and individuals, empowering them to become better versions of themselves tomorrow than they are today. Throughout his career, he has successfully collaborated on a global scale, working with individuals, independent SMEs, and blue-chip companies across various sectors.
Additionally, Stephen serves as a trustee for the Mentornect charity, a board director at the Nest—a hub for Norwich City Football Club’s community sports foundation—and a business development mentor for Hansells solicitors.
Join us for an insightful discussion with Indigo Swan and see the solar panels installed at the Norfolk Showground. Indigo Swan helped the Norfolk Showground install a 240kw solar PV system on the south side roof space of their main exhibition building (where our B2B Exhibition takes place).
Join us as we explore the importance of having a sustainability plan for your business and netwalk to see the solar panels at the Showground.
Agenda – Talk from Indigo Swan
• Introduction – The importance of a sustainability plan.
• Key sustainability technologies and how to implement them.
• Walk to the SG Solar with a brief overview.
In the face of the latest ‘cost of energy and living’ crisis, arguably, now is the time to focus on resilience.
This webinar will offer delegates suggestions for energy options to build business resilience and align their activities with environmental sustainability.
Dr Nigel Hargreaves will be discussing resilience through an energy lens, to develop more sustainable businesses, integrated and aligned to the rapid changes that we are witnessing around us. Energy is a priority not least because of recent rapid price increases, but also because it is cross-cutting of many business activities. Carbon accounting is also becoming the norm, pointing to the heart of the ecological and economic challenges facing us.
We will see how environmental sustainability and business resilience align, providing you with takeaways that you can implement into your business straight away.
Dr Nigel Hargreaves
Nigel is a systems architect, academic and sustainability consultant. He is a chartered engineer and has been working with energy systems for 25 years.
Join us for an interactive Co.next workshop and discover more about the 4 colours of leadership and how these impact the workplace.
We will be joined by Harry Harris, Commercial Director at Swarm Training who will give an overview and introduction of the 4 colours to leadership before taking questions from the audience.
Our panel, four of our Co.next board/advisory board members will then answer these questions while the audience try to work out what colour leadership the panel are.
Discover what leadership style you are during this interactive and engaging workshop.
Ever dreamed of being on the stage at Norwich Theatre Royal?
We have the opportunity to a Backstage Tour at Norwich Theatre Royal. On Monday 18th December join us for a tour round the building showing you all the ins and outs of Norwich Theatre.
Arrive 8.30am opportunity for tea and coffee.
Tour commences 9am and lasts for 30mins.
Back to their café for tea/coffee and networking.
Tea/Coffee included after the tour provided in the ticket price.
Ticket’s are limited as we can only have a maximum of 14 people per tour. Members only.
Please note guests on the tour will be able to take photos or have photos taken facing out into the auditorium however no photography is allowed on stage of the set or props.
Spend the afternoon networking while enjoying a glass of bubbly (or beer or a non alcoholic mixer) and some canapes provided by The Feed. Connect with other exhibitors and the wider Norfolk business community during our 25th B2B!
Included in your ticker price is 1 glass of prosecco, beer, or a non alcoholic mixer and a selection of canapes provided by The Feed.
Additional drinks can be purchased from the Cheeky Tipple horsebox located outside with the food vendors.
With thanks to our drink suppliers Cheeky Tipple and Woodforde’s Brewery
Join us for our first ever Co.Solo event Co.nnecting with other Solopreneurs and enjoying the beautiful views at Whitlingham Country Park.
You will get the opportunity to change groups half way around so you can have more meaningful conversations with like-minded others.
This outside event will start at Whitlingham Café, where we will meet for our walk around the broad. For those that would like to continue networking at the end of the walk, we will stop at the café for a well needed coffee and slice of cake (you will be required to pay for your own refreshments).
Whitlingham Country Park, Whitlingham Lane, Norwich, NR14 8TR
Who’s it for?
Sole Traders, Freelancers and Solopreneurs who wants to connect and engage with other businesses in the Norfolk area.
This event is free of charge for our members with a small admin fee for non-members. All participants will be required to pay for parking – the following charges apply:
Monday to Sunday
Cars/Vans /Motorcycles
Charges:
£1.60 – 1 Hour
£2.80 – 2 Hours
£4.00 – 3 Hours
£5.00 – 4 Hours
£6.00 – All Day
Car Park Address: Flint Barn, Whitlingham Country Park, 808110 Whitlingham Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 8TS Contactless and online payments are available – tickets must be clearly displayed on the front windscreen of the passenger side of your car. For more information on parking please visit www.rcpparking.com