This digital event looks at how to conduct and manage a fair internal investigation, from gathering and assessing evidence through to presenting findings.
The event will be delivered via Zoom, in two sessions, over two consecutive days. The duration of each session will be 3 hours.
The dates are:
Day 1 – 27th of September 2021, 09:30 – 12:30
Day 2 – 28th of September 2021, 09:30 – 12:30
Business need
Investigations in the workplace are held to clarify and establish the facts of a case and help employers reach a decision. For example, whether there are grounds to uphold a grievance, call a disciplinary hearing or dismiss a member of staff.
Workplace investigations should be conducted fairly. Employers could be held liable if a poor investigation leads to an unfair dismissal claim.
Delivered via Zoom, this event will provide you with key techniques, procedures and checklists to help ensure that you are considering all the crucial facts and that you undertake the process in a fair and unbiased manner.
You will also gain valuable understanding of what the law requires and learn key investigation skills, such as analysis and report writing.
All delegates will receive an electronic certificate of attendance for their participation in the training.
Suitable For
Delegates from all sectors of industry including: managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR professionals, business owners, Trade Union representatives, employee representatives and individuals who wish to enhance their CPD.
Programme
Our expert-led training sessions are designed to facilitate discussion and interaction. This event will cover:
The legal background and burdens of proof
Purpose and stages of disciplinary procedures
The responsibilities of the employer
The rights of the employee
The stages of an investigation
Listening and questioning techniques
The role of suspension
Case for dismissal
Writing the report and presenting findings
Have a large group of staff to train? To save you time and money, we can deliver bespoke training for your workplace. To find out more contact our Customer Services Team on 0300 123 1150 or complete our online enquiry form e-learning We also offer free e-learning on a wide range of employment relations topics. It’s a great way to develop, enhance and refresh your knowledge, providing you with the opportunity to work through theory, explore case studies and answer interactive questions. Need more than training? We recognise that every organisation is different. Our specialists can diagnose issues in your workplace and tailor practical solutions to address the challenges faced by you and your staff. To arrange a call or visit or to simply find out more, contact our Customer Services Team on 0300 123 1150 or complete our online enquiry form. Venue Delivered digitally via Zoom Date 27/09/2021 Time 09:30 – 12:30 Price £255.00 per person Please note our training events are VAT exempt Please call Acas on 0300 123 1150 or email events@acas.org.uk
Do you want to drive growth? Discuss, brainstorm and be held accountable for your plans with your peers and coach within Mastermind.
About this event
Scale Up Mastermind – Business Success through Personal Growth
Are you looking to scale up your business? Do you want to drive growth and develop the future of your business? Would you love to discuss and brainstorm how to do this with like-minded business owners and an experienced and impartial, unbiased, supportive business coaching facilitator? Would you like all this for free? If so this is for you.
Who is it for?
It may be a cliché but it is lonely at the top and can be hard to find people who understand your role. This series of events can offer you your very own board of advisers who truly understand.
As part of the Mastermind series, you will be seated with other like-minded CEO’s, founders, owners and successful business leaders from a variety of non-competing industries who understand the challenges you face and how the skills to strategize with you and improve your business.
To be part of this programme you will be nominated to attend by an adviser from the New Anglia Growth Hub. This event is exclusive to the New Anglia Growth Hub and only offered free to those who the advisers feel this would be a real benefit too.
How does Mastermind work?
This programme offers an alternative but objective thought process, resulting in those attending feeling supported, motivated and allowing them to continue to grow in confidence and personal development. It encourages a growth mindset whilst building a supportive network at their level.
The success of the group is due to the commitment and support of its members, who are dedicated to improving their businesses, their leadership, their community and each other. The group requires commitment, confidentiality and a willingness to both give and receive advice and ideas. Members support each other with total honesty, respect and compassion. It demands accountability, increases your focus and confidence resulting in improved performance for both yourself and your company.
Within each session the group members will discuss challenges and issues affecting their own businesses through spotlight sessions, and then discuss with the group, to enable feedback, experiences and advice from the group and the coach where necessary. Peer to peer support and discussion is core to the success of the Mastermind sessions. You will be held accountable by the group to the plans and actions you put in place for your growth.
The Mastermind sessions will be facilitated by Sam Lindley, a highly experienced business coach and with a proven record in business and talent development and deliver similar paid programmes outside of these sessions outside of the Suffolk and Norfolk areas and has done for many years.
What happens and who is suitable for the Mastermind programme?
A group of up to 15 business owners will be nominated to attend this series of Mastermind events by a New Anglia Growth Hub Adviser, or support organisation.
These business owners can be from any business sector but must have the desire to want to develop and grow their business. These will be a range of non-competing organisations.
You will commit to 8 fortnightly meetings 6 via Zoom and 2 in person. This will start on the 6th September. Sessions online will be on a Tuesday between 10am and Midday and the in person events will be longer as detailed below.
You will be part of lively, authentic discussions based on current business and development challenges.
Members are the key to this programme, challenging each other to set clear goals.
We encourage creative thinking and brave decision-making.
Members share success stories and challenges with each other openly and confidentially.
Problems are solved through members brainstorming and collective creative thinking.
As a coach, Sam believes in planning. We will define high level 12 month goals and agree on strategies for ownership, accountability, focus, ambition and responsibility to achieve your growth plan. During the Mastermind programme will cover the following topics throughout the sessions:
Business Strategy
Talent Management/Development
Barriers To Growth
Marketing for Growth
Sales for Growth
Personal Growth – In the last session of the programme, we delve into the future, what is next for you?
What does the facilitator do?
The Mastermind series facilitators will introduce ideas and insights on topics that matter to you, manage the expectations of the group and help you gain insights into your future development needs. They will help to channel and focus discuss and draw out the key information, strategies and shared learning from the group.
They will ensure your events achieve the growth and development you are all looking for. They will help you create and develop strategies that will enable you to reach the goals you desire.
What you will need to do?
You will need to be:
committed to attending the events regularly
be open-minded to new ideas and creative thinking.
be open to the opinions of others.
listen to and share your own experiences and knowledge with the group.
be compassionate and respectful of other members
passionate about developing yourself and your business for growth.
This event is 2 hours in duration and will provide 2hrs of Information, Diagnostic and Brokerage (IBD*). This is equivalent to £100 worth of State Aid. We are able to deliver this is free of charge to you with thanks to funding from the European Regional Development Fund.
What are the dates for these sessions?
Webinar sessions are on Tuesdays, between 10am and Midday with a combination of in person and zoom meetings on the following dates:
• Session 1 – 06/09/22 Introduction/Goal Sharing/Vision/Why (in person)
• Session 2 – 20/09/22 Barriers to Growth, Emotional Health and the Imposter Within
• Session 3 – 04/10/22 Cultivating Connections, Building a Support Network and Inviting in Vulnerability
• Session 4 – 18/10/22 Self Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
• Session 5 –01/11/22 High Performance. What does it look like?
• Session 6 – 15/11/22 Leadership and the Revolving Door
• Session 7 –29/11/22 Craft a Culture and Find Your Non Negotiables
• Session 8 – 13/12/22 Celebration and the Future (in person)
About the Training Organisation Sam Lindley – Cloud 9 Business Coaching
Married in 2003, a mother of 2 boys Ted, Finn and 1 bouncy cockapoo puppy Buzz! My other child and passion is my business of 9 years, Cloud9 Business Coaching.
How it all started…by Sam Lindley…
From a young age, my greatest goal was to work at Barclays Bank, no other financial institution would do it had to be Barclays! You could say I was a driven character even then, and there my career was born. As an Associate MD for a Mortgage Packaging company which spanned 10 years I worked by motivating business owners of small to medium-sized business, here I developed a real understanding and love of small businesses and their challenge. So it seems obvious now as I sit in my office within my business coaching practice that this would be my destiny.
Cloud9 Business Coaching works with the owner of the business rather than the business itself, we believe that a motivated business can only grow as far as its owner’s knowledge and skills.
Like all business owners, 10 years ago I had a vision, I had dreams and the last 9 years have shown me that I am capable of making other people’s dreams come true.
I have facilitated Mastermind groups for 8 years. I recognise the benefits, I appreciate the power of the monthly meetings and how quickly the members become like family, trusting and supporting each other with so much support and openness, sharing ideas knowledge and connections to solve the challenges of other members, how accountable you feel and the focus it drives. Mastermind is mighty.
Innovate UK EDGE East of England team are offering a 5-session workshop ending with a pitch to an IUK edge panel with feedback
About this event
About Innovate UK EDGE
Innovate UK EDGE is a key part of the UK innovation agency’s investment in the innovative businesses that drive economic growth. It complements Innovate UK project funding with intensive, bespoke, specialist-led support for ambitious high growth businesses.
High-growth, innovative businesses benefit from the skills and experience of a dedicated innovation and growth specialist to identify the most effective ways to accelerate its growth.
Innovate UK EDGE brings a range of services to help ambitious, high growth, innovative SMEs scale and grow. We help businesses:
• Exploiting Business Innovation
• Sourcing Funding and Finance
• Opening up new markets
IUK EDGE specialists can draw on resources such as our programmes, events, innovation & international networks and their domain expert colleagues.
Who is this suitable for?
Companies with disruptive Innovation with Scalable High growth potential
Programme Details
13.09.22 Product Launch – Go to Market Planning Charles Ward, Senior Innovation & Growth Specialist and Scaleup Director
27.09.22 Exploring Internationalisation –Global Business Opportunities and a Focus on the U.S.A Updates on Global Innovation Programmes and International opportunities by Heather Benham with shared knowledge on entering the USA market by Eric Thompson, Innovation & Growth Specialist
11.10.22 Exploration of R&D & Private Funding for R&D / Product Development Arun Muthirulan, Lead Innovation & Growth Specialist
25.10.22 Innovation Project Canvas Simon Atack, Lead Innovation & Growth Specialist
08.11.22 In Person Event: Pitches and Feedback Panel: Simon Atack / Stephanie Aldridge, Arun Muthirulan / Lorraine Smith, Chris Woodward all Innovate UK EDGE Innovation Growth specialists
What to bring with to the sessions:
An open mind, a willingness to listen and share. Please also bring any issues and problems you are happy to talk about.
FAQs
I want to book for more than one person from my company? We are looking for 15 companies
As this is an invitation only event, if you would like more than one person from your business to attend, please email ellie.read@newangliagrowthhub.co.uk. Within reason this should not be an issue, but this is a small group event.
Will this be recorded?
Yes this event will be recorded to enable you to revisit the event post-event for a short while through a passworded link. This will be sent out to attendees only after the event. The video will also be stored for evidence for auditing purposes as per the requirements of our funding regulations. This will not be made public to others.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Please email ellie.read@newangliagrowthhub.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
What will be done with the information I supply?
Your information will be stored on Eventbrite according to Eventbrite’s terms and conditions. Upon arrival you will be required to sign in on our attendance sheet, this is to provide evidence of your attendance and will be kept on the server as evidence for our ERDF funding. After your attendance will be stored on the secure Growth Hub CRM system. This is required in order to provide evidence of your attendance and eligibility for the course. This will be kept to the statutory dates any only accessible to Growth Programme and authorised personnel. If you request further contact from an adviser post this event they will use this information to contact you and log any future interactions, again to evidence for ERDF funding.
State Aid Declaration
This event is delivered, free of charge, to SMEs (SME is defined as an Enterprise with fewer than 250 employees and has either an annual balance sheet not exceeding 43m Euro or Annual Turnover not exceeding £50m) other restrictions may apply. This support is being provided as de minimis aid under EC Regulation 1407/2013 (De Minimis Aid Regulation). The value of this support has been calculated as £62.50.
Please note: This is not a request for payment; we are merely required to notify you of the value, which will be relevant if you wish to apply or have applied for any other de minimis State Aid in the future. There is a ceiling of €200,000 for all de minimis aid provided to anyone organisation over a three fiscal year period (i.e. your current fiscal year and previous two fiscal years).
This event, as with all the New Anglia Growth Hub events, is suited and intended for businesses already running and established. Please refer to courses by NWES and MENTA for courses more suited for those businesses who are pre-start or have been trading for less than 12 months
The rapid transition towards a net zero economy by 2050, is not just possible but is a hugely desirable journey. Our ‘Journey to Net Zero’ expo aims to demonstrate how this can be done in Norwich and Norfolk, whilst celebrating the changes so many of the local businesses have already made. We all have a role to play and a vital contribution to make, so let’s get together to showcase our city.
When? Thursday 20th October 2022 Where? Norwich University of the Arts (Duke Street)
The aim is simple: to provide business leaders with the inspiration, practical advice, and actionable guidance required to develop and advance their own net-zero work and strategies at a free-to-attend event with keynote speakers, seminars, and workshops. The expo programme includes the opportunity for delegates to meet with top industry experts, peers, and national leading thinkers.
If you think you can add to that by sharing your experience, don’t hide your knowledge and expertise under a bushel – share it! Take a free stand with us at the expo.
The rationale for holding the expo is simple: the climate crisis is real; the scale of the challenge is unprecedented; the net zero transition is happening and accelerating. So, how do we support the journey in Norwich?
The Journey to Net Zero expo is for business leaders who do not want to wait until 2050 to build a better business and a better world.
This festival will incorporate talks and workshops, and most importantly it will provide tools to integrate different elements into our everyday life and demystify ‘Net Zero’.
The Agenda for the day:
10.00: Welcome – Stefan Gurney, Executive Director – Norwich BID
10.10: Keynote address with Ed Gillespie – the Auditorium
10.45:Workshop: Jargon Busting with Josh Abbott – New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership
11.45: Workshop: Annabelle Thomas – President of the Broedmachine – the Auditorium
12.30: Lunch available and exhibition in progress
13.00: Cornwall Insights – the Auditorium
13.45:Workshop: Climate Leaders Debate in conjunction with Norfolk Chambers of Commerce
14.30 Workshop: Upcycle Exchange Progress with Martin Blackwell, Norwich BID
15.15:Workshop: Norwich Eco Hub with Alicia Howell
To book your tickets or find out more, please CLICK HERE
Ensure you have all the knowledge to grow your business and learn and develop with the support of a trusted team of like-minded peers.
About this event
Register your interest to be first on the list and we will call you to discuss this pathway with you.
Who is it for?
It may be a cliché but it is lonely at the top and can be hard to find people who understand your role. This series of events can offer you your very own board of advisers who truly understand.
As part of the Silver to Gold Pathway programme, you will be seated with other like-minded CEOs, founders, owners and successful business leaders from a variety of industries who understand the challenges you face. Together and with the structured and interactive support of Tom Yeung, our experienced and successful business coach, you will cover all the key areas which can affect your businesses scaling and growth potential.
Tom will work with you and as part of the group discussions and learning, support you through your own and the groups’ journey to conquer challenges, find solutions and look for new opportunities and perspectives to enable you to plan and deliver the growth and scaling of your business both successfully and sustainably.
What is this pathway about?
This is a programme that will provide you with the critical information, knowledge and skills you will require to make the transition from an “Organically Growing” business to a “Structured Focussed” business ready to accelerate ahead.
It will build a strong foundation for your business, challenging you to look at all aspects such as: strategies, people, processes and create an environment that fosters growth. This is a part taught and part peer discussion programme.
How will attending this workshop benefit you?
In the workshop I will be covering these items:
Setting your individual growth plan
Self analysis
Identifying and removing limiting factors
Identifying and implementing the processes and structure required for growth
Leadership and Management skills
Role of the team
Marketing techniques
Sales tactics
How does this programme work? What is the format?
You will be asked to commit to delivery sessions for the length of the pathway programme:
6 x 3 hours lecture style delivery with interaction. Homework tasks are set as takeaways.
2 x in person events
6 x 30 mins 1-2-1 following each topic
What you will need to do?
You will need to be:
Committed to attending the events regularly
Open-minded to new ideas and creative thinking
Open to the opinions of others.
Able to listen to and share your own experiences and knowledge with the group.
Compassionate and respectful of other members
Passionate about developing yourself and your business for growth.
When are the sessions?
07.09.22 (In person event)
21.09.22 (09:30 -12:30)
05.10.22 (09:30 – 12:30)
19.10.22 (09:30 -12:30)
02.11.22 (09:30 – 12:30)
16.11.22 (09:30 -12:30)
30.11.22 (09:30 – 12:30)
14.12.22 (In person event)
How does Silver to Gold Growth Pathway work?
This programme combines group and traditional learning styles within a dedicated and supportive group environment of like-minded business leaders. Bringing together alternative but thought processes and perspectives with, new and old ideas, analytical discussion and reviews, culminating in helping you and the group support each other to creating plans for your growing future.
The success of the group is due to the commitment and support of its members, who are dedicated to improving their businesses, their leadership, their community and each other. The group requires commitment, confidentiality and a willingness to both give and receive advice and ideas. Members support each other with total honesty, respect and compassion. It demands accountability, increases your focus and confidence resulting in improved performance for both yourself and your company.
What happens and who is suitable for the Silver to Gold Growth Pathway?
A group of up to 15 business owners will attend this series of Silver to Gold Growth events.
These business owners can be from any business sector but must have the desire to want to develop and grow their business.
You will commit to the sessions as much as possible for the length of the pathways programme of events
You will be part of lively, authentic discussions based on current business and development challenges.
Members are the key to this programme, challenging each other to set clear goals.
Members share success stories and challenges with each other openly and confidentially.
Problems are solved through members brainstorming and collective creative thinking.
What does the facilitator do?
The facilitator will introduce ideas and insights on topics that matter to you, manage the expectations of the group and help you gain insights into your future development needs. They will help to channel and focus discuss and draw out the key information, strategies and shared learning from the group.
They will ensure your events achieve the growth and development you are all looking for. They will help you create and develop strategies that will enable you to reach the goals you desire.
Agenda for the session example based on 3 hour session
09:25 Room opens (Zoom)
09:30 Topics for the day as per the above series schedule – part 1
10:45 Break
10:50 Topics for the day as per the above series schedule – part 1
12:10 Q & A *
12:30 Close
This event is 3hrs and 5mins in duration and will provide 3hrs of Information, Diagnostic and Brokerage (IBD*). This is equivalent to £150 worth of State Aid. For the 2.5 hour session it is 2.5 hours of IDB delivery and equivalent to £125 worth of state Aid. We are able to deliver this is free of charge to you with thanks to funding from the European Regional Development Fund.
Hasn’t it been lovely enjoying some summer sun at last whether you’ve stayed at home or been abroad for your holidays, it just puts everyone in a better mood.
It’s also a good time to think ahead to the Autumn and what you have in mind to support employee health and wellbeing. How about some nutrition webinars to support National Awareness campaigns. What we eat and drink affects our health more than we probably realise and for a variety of reasons.
Our webinars cover a range of topics and they are:
Live
1 hour (45 + 15 min Q&A)
Date and time of your choosing
Unlimited audience
Written and delivered by a Registered Nutritionist (MSc Nutritional Medicine)
Recording permitted
Take a look at these campaigns for September:
Know Your Numbers Week:
This takes place in the first week of September.
High blood pressure is often known as the silent killer as many people live with high blood pressure but with no immediate symptoms. This can lead to heart problems and strokes. Knowing the safe limits for blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, weight and body mass index (BMI) also help maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Book our Heart Health Nutrition Webinar
Topics discussed are:
Improving heart health
Angina, heart attacks & strokes
Lowering blood pressure with nutrition
Reducing cholesterol with nutrition
Alcohol, diet, exercise & smoking
Top Tips
National Inclusion Week
This is happening in the last week of September.
It is a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of inclusion in the workplace making everyone feel they have a place and an important role to play in the business.
Food fuels the brain regulating mood and behaviour and provides stable energy for improved concentration.
Book our Nourishing Neurodiversity Nutrition webinar.
The following topics are discussed:
Nutrition deficiencies
Nutritional challenges
How to increase the range of foods
Which foods may hinder the brain?
The webinars are £300 plus VAT but if you book both the fees are reduced to £280 plus VAT each (and a further discount for 3 webinars!)
Please arrive 15 minutes before the session starts at 08.30am.
Venue:Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, 9 Norwich Business Park, Whiting Road, Norwich, NR4 6DJ In this session (Be Better at Public Relations) John Haschak, Partnership Plus Limited will be your host.You will learn: The seminar will explain why it is vital in the highly competitive and increasingly media savvy world we live in today it is vital for every organisation to have a well thought out and comprehensive public relations strategy.Given time constraints it will be impossible to cover every aspect of public relations activity. Therefore it will focus on the media, giving delegates an insight into how it operates and the confidence to engage with journalists for the benefit of their own organisations. The event will explain how the media works, what is it looking for, why might it be interested in me and my organisation, how should I get in touch, how should I present my story and what are the do’s and do not’s and how this all helps if things go wrong. Then look at the relentless growth of online & social media, why you must now integrate this into your PR strategy and how to engage with key target audiences online, specifically looking at Twitter and Facebook. About John: A vastly experienced communicator who has over 25 experience of working with major brands and providing senior counsel to a wide range of organisations in the private and public sector. Currently managing director of Norwich based Partnership Plus Limited, a PR & Marketing Agency with a proud record of helping clients achieve their aspirations since it was founded 1967.While he has worked with many leading companies including; Norwich International Airport, Chapelfield Shopping Centre, Norfolk Tourism, Barclays, Hughes Electrical, Hoseasons, KLM UK Engineering & Larking Gowen, his skills also range to helping smaller organisations achieve maximum impact from their budgets. This session forms part of The Chamber Sessions. The Chamber Sessions are open to Chamber Members only. They are free to attend but booking is required. Places limited to one per company per session and each company will have an opportunity to book on tothreesessions per series. This session is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email details toevents@norfolkchamber.co.uk. Thank you.
