Let's do business

Calderdale Council

Grow your business, confidence, and connections with Calderdale’s FREE, two-day business-to-business event.

UNIVERSITY BUSINESS CENTRE • HALIFAX

<h1>Let’s Do Business </h1><h1></h1><h2>Grow your business, confidence, and connections with Calderdale’s FREE, two-day business-to-business event. </h2><h2></h2>Experts lead a series of practical workshops covering everything from starting a business and recruitment to strategic marketing and reducing your environment footprint. You’ll learn how to put your new knowledge into practice straight away.If you or your team manage an eligible* SME business in Calderdale, you can access the following workshops for free. They are delivered by Calderdale Council along with industry experts but hurry, there’s only up to 20 tickets available for each event. Day 1<ul><li>Workshop 1 - Understanding and reducing your environmental footprint 9:00 – 12:30</li></ul><ul><li>Workshop 2 - Strategic marketing and decision making - 13:00 – 16:00</li><li>Workshop 3 – Leadership and management - 09:30 - 12:00</li><li>Workshop 4 - Overcoming &#x27;Imposter Syndrome&#x27;, Building Assertiveness Skills, Enhancing your listening skills - 13:00 - 16:00</li></ul>Day 2<ul><li>W﻿orkshop 5 - The Employment Hub - Cancelled </li><li>Workshop 6 – How to start a business with Business Start Up West Yorkshire 12:30 - 16:00</li></ul>How to bookBook a ticket for each workshop you would like to attend. Please book a lunch ticket if you are staying for a morning and afternoon workshop or if you would like to stay and network with other businesses. * The workshops are for Calderdale based SME businesses that have been operating for at least 3 years, have less than 250 employees and a turnover of less than £42 million (globally) and who predominately operate in a business-to-business market. If you’re unsure of your eligibility, please get in touch businessgrowth@calderdale.gov.uk-------------------------------------------------------------------------<h3>Event 1 - Understanding and reducing your environmental footprint </h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale with support from WYCA Clean Growth Team. 9:00 – 12:30Growth Manager Christine Robinson and Paul Collins and Nick Edwards from the Clean Growth Team will help you understand the core concepts of your environmental footprint and what it means for your business. The session will<ul><li>Explore what good environmental and sustainable practice look like for your business and your employees </li><li>How to measure your environmental and carbon footprint </li><li>How to implement good practice </li><li>Support and tools available </li></ul>The session will provide top tips, best practice, and advice to help you implement improvements that will reduce your environmental footprint and save you money. <h3>Event 2 - Strategic Marketing and Decision Making </h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale with support from industry consultant David Andrews. 13:00 – 16:00This three-hour workshop will help you develop effective strategies for your business. It will introduce a series of business model canvas that will help your business identify, establish and communicate:<ul><li>The vision and direction of your business</li><li>What success looks like?</li><li>Who are your current and future customers? </li></ul>It is aimed at businesses who want to develop a direction for the business, increase staff engagement and increase productivity and effectiveness. It will provide you with new knowledge, new tools, and an opportunity to work with likeminded businesses. <h3>Event 3 – Leadership and Management Essentials with Jill Goodwin </h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale in Partnership with #WECAN9:00 – 12:00Join <a href="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/leeds-business-school/wecan/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">#WECAN</a> as they host a day dedicated to supporting women in business. #WECAN offer fully funded leadership and management support &amp; training to businesses and their women employees across the Leeds City Region. Experience first-hand what #WECAN has to offer with interactive workshops led by industry specialists, meet members of the #WECAN team and find out how the project can support you on your leadership journey.Leaders and managers wear many hats and at times, must cope with number of spinning plates. In this ‘essentials’ workshop you will learn how to: <ul><li>Set meaningful objectives</li><li>Identify the best methods of communication to suit the needs of your team and staff</li><li>Learn about your natural leadership style</li><li>Effectively deliver feedback</li></ul>This workshop is for anyone that works as a leader or manager or has interest in becoming a leader or manager in the future.<h3>Event 4 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Building Assertiveness Skills</h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale in Partnership with #WECAN13:00- 16:00<h3>Part 1 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome with Kim Sanderson</h3>Are you holding yourself back at work because you doubt your own ability to succeed? If so, you may be experiencing imposter syndrome. This session explores the symptoms of imposter syndrome and how to overcome it to help you feel more confident. In this workshop we will:<ul><li>Reflect on what may be holding us back at work</li><li>Explore symptoms of imposter syndrome</li><li>Discuss strategies to implement at work to develop confidence </li></ul>This workshop is for anyone who experiences feelings of self-doubt and knows that this may be holding them back from what they would really like to do at work or be the person they want to be.<h3>Part 2 - Building Assertiveness Skills with Amy Samouelle </h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale in Partnership with #WECANBeing assertive helps us to manage our workload more effectively and develop positive working relationships in the workplace. In this session, we explore how to structure a conversation using assertive language to get better outcomes. In this workshop we you will learn how to: <ul><li>Recognise assertive behaviour</li><li>Explain the benefits of assertive behaviour </li><li>Practise a structured conversation using assertive language</li></ul>This workshop is ideal for those who say yes when they really mean no and anyone who struggles to manage their workload.<h3>Part 3 – Enhancing your listening skills</h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale in Partnership with #WECANListening is a core skill that when used effectively can transform our personal and professional relationships- yet it’s not easy. There are so many things vying for our attention and pulling us away from being present and connected to the people in front of us. In this session we will explore how to help people feel heard.•	Understand what listening really means.•	How to put your listening skills to practice•	Reflect on how to further enhance your listening skillsThis workshop is ideal for anyone who engages with others as part of their role. <h3>CANCELLED - Event 5 – The Employment Hub – Recruitment &amp; Apprenticeships</h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale and the Calderdale Employment Hub 09:00 - 12:30Is recruiting staff with the right skills becoming an issue? Do your job adverts tell applicants enough about your organisation? Want some ideas on how to retain talent? We are pleased to be able to welcome CEO of The Staffing Experts Jo Hand to share her insights. This session will acknowledge the difficulty that lots of businesses are facing recruiting staff with the right skills and will provide you with some top tips topics will include: <ul><li>challenges in the labour market, </li><li>how to attract talent, </li><li>selecting and retaining the right talent </li><li>succession planning </li></ul>During this session we will also be joined by Calderdale College who will be discussing the benefits of Apprenticeships and growing your own talent.<h3>Event 6 – Business Start Up West Yorkshire </h3>Lead by Business Growth Calderdale and Business Start-up, West Yorkshire13: 00 - 16:00Do you want to start a business? Or are you running a business that’s under 3 years old and want to do more and go further?Our free business start-up programme offers resources to help local entrepreneurs succeed, from workshops and seminars to one-to-one guidance and support.We can help you grow your ideas and set up a business.This session follows on from the Launch of the programme in July and is aiming to bring together new start-ups and people exploring new businesses to develop peer to peer networks and an opportunity to connect with people early in their start up journey.

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