Business

Expert Business Planning Workshop

Event Date: 
10/03/2015 - 9:00am to 11/03/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
The Innovation Centre, Exeter University, EX4 4RN

Expert Business Planning for South West Businesses “A plan is always just a plan until it is implemented”

How difficult is it to implement all your plans for taking your business forward, you have lots of good ideas but how are you going to achieve them?

Are you looking for:

  • Increased profit
  • Organisational Growth
  • More customers with a greater loyalty
  • Better team performance
  • ...

Women in Business Workshop

Event Date: 
06/11/2014 - 8:30am to 5:00pm
Venue: 
Deer Park Hotel, Weston Honiton, EX14 3PG

"Most of us have trouble juggling. The Woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met" Barbara Walters, broadcast journalist and author.

The day is designed to offer women a fantastic opportunity of working together with like- minded individuals, sharing ideas, supporting one another, enthusing, inspiring and motivating each other. Giving women the opportunity to address some of the realities and difficulties in juggling work and home life.

You will leave with processes to help you manage your time, communicate effectively with...

Strategic Risk

Event Date: 
20/11/2014 - 7:30am to 9:00am
Venue: 
Southernhay House, Exeter EX1 1NX

Every good leader needs to be risk aware. Do you know what risks exist in your business? Who owns each risk?

Leaders need to be aware of the risks that exist within their organisation and they need to understand how the risk process works and have confidence that they will be made aware of the risks whenever it becomes necessary.

Getting to use and understand risk can give an organisation a real advantage over its competitors. Risks include human, operational, reputational, procedural, financial, technical, natural, political and structural.

You...

A fresh look at your business for 2015

Event Date: 
18/12/2014 - 7:30am to 9:00am
Venue: 
Southernhay House, Exeter EX1 1NX

Do you know how successful your business is?

What metrics do you use to measure your business?

How often do you look strategically at your business?

Many people don’t look at their business strategically often enough. By becoming too engaged in the detail they use common and normally financial metrics to measure progress and success. The end of the year offers an excellent opportunity to intelligently review how far you have come and what you will need to change to achieve the outcome that you want. This may...

Training event for city’s young professionals

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 10/10/2014 - 10:36am

Exeter Junior Chamber, part of Exeter Chamber of Commerce, is holding its next event at Exeter Library on Tuesday 21 October, 4pm-6pm. The event will be a training session with Business Coach Judy Salmon on how to ‘manage and present well at meetings’.

The training session, aimed at young professionals aged between 20-35 years old, will cover important aspects of presenting at meetings including how to communicate effectively, structure information and ensure success.

Exeter Junior Chamber started in February 2014 with a successful launch event at Reed Hall with speaker...

New scheme to cut city congestion

A new scheme aimed at cutting congestion in Exeter is set to launch to businesses on the 22 October at Exeter Chamber’s monthly networking lunch.

Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Devon County Council are working together to make Exeter a more sustainable city along with Exeter Chamber’s sub group ESBN (Exeter Sustainable Business Network).

By launching the new scheme together it is hoped that all three will be able to interact with local organisations, building a wider network and greater awareness for the scheme from environmentally conscious companies.

Chris Lorimer...

First anniversary for social media cafe

Authored by Mandy Pearse
Posted: Mon, 09/29/2014 - 11:14am

The Teignmouth and Dawlish Social Media Cafe is one year old this October.

Over the past year it has helped over 50 local businesses and community organisations with help and advice in using social media to promote themselves.

The birthday cafe will be held at the Langstone Cliff Hotel in Dawlish on Tuesday 7 October and experts will be on hand to provide advice on which social media to use and how to set up accounts.

The social media cafe runs from 5pm to 7.30pm and provides a free drop-in event where people can pick up tips and hints on using social media, ask...

PR professional elected to national council

Mandy Pearse, Director of local PR and marketing firm Seashell Communications has been elected to serve on the national Council of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) it was announced last week.

Thirty eight candidates stood in the elections to the Council which is the decision making body for the insitute which serves nearly 10,000 professionals across the UK and Europe.

After a campaign lasting three weeks Mandy beat off strong competition from across the UK to secure one of the coveted seats on the CIPR Council. She is the sole representative from the...

Tony Rowe urges businesses to see Rugby World Cup as an opportunity

Authored by KirkHills
Posted: Fri, 09/26/2014 - 12:12pm

Tony Rowe OBE held his audience captivated during his presentation at the latest Southernhay Breakfast Club on 19th September 2014. Over 60 people attended the event at the Southgate Hotel, despite the torrential weather getting to the venue.

A key element of his talk centred around taking an opportunity when they present themselves; a message he urged other Exeter based businesses to adopt, especially with next year’s Rugby World Cup coming to the city.

Adrian Hills from Kirk Hills commented, “We were thrilled that Tony was able to join us for this event – he’s a well...

Oakdown crowned AA Best Campsite of the Year

The Franks family at Oakdown Touring and Holiday Park in East Devon are celebrating after scooping the top spot of the England and Overall AA Best Campsite of the Year for 2015, a huge achievement that puts them ahead of 900 other parks listed in the AA guide.

This award is the latest in their already long list of awards, including the Gold accolade for Professor David Bellamy’s Conservation Award for 17 consecutive years and the 5 Pennant rating from the AA Camping and Caravan Park Scheme – the equivalent of a top star rated hotel.

This year’s AA inspection saw the...

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