Hello
I am a German speaking soft skills and management trainer looking for opportunities. Does any of you have clients with offices in German speaking countries? Do you run courses in English for German companies and want some cultural advice? Would you like to run bi-lingual and/or cross-cultural workshops? I offer courses in all soft skills areas, leadership and sales training. I am certified by a reknown German training and business consultancy. This includes a sales trainer and sales manager certification. Do you need your training material to be adapted for the German speaking market? I am also an accredited translator and can translate training material. I do coaching as well and am an NLP Master Practitioner.

Kind regards,
Marit Finze
07958973120

Experienced Trainer and Coach is looking to join a Training company as Associate or as Employee.
Psychologist, strong background in Sales and Business Development, speaking three european languages fluently, I offer my services part time or full time in London.
Available for Business Development and Training.
Drop me an e-mail for a confidential chat : gtrolese@inspiringtalents.com

Greenhouse Training is offering to run a three day Group training course in house for up to 6 delegates for a cost of £1500, plus accomodation (if required)

For more information, please contact us

REHIS Basic Food Hygiene run in house by Greenhouse training for £45 per person until the end of March 2010

Call us for more information

New service which enables anyone to record their outgoing calls regardless of whether they have equipment or not!

So many organisations are lucky enough to have live call facilities but so many more do not. We now have a solutions for trainers and managers. An 'on demand' service that is easy to use.

Great for trainers because:
* you can record mystery shopping calls before and after training programmes to ensure learning has taken place or to identify learning gaps
* you can coach people at a moment's notice in their place of work
* You can cement the learning already made with the role-play kit with the real call recordings
* You can give responsibility to managers for coaching once trainees are back in the workplace.

Comments received so far include:
"this is exactly what I've been hoping for! Very exciting"

"Just tried this out and it's brilliant"

"I think it is a very clever piece of kit and really easy to use"

"So many companies don't have the facility for recording, it's something I urge them to do after the workshops that I run as a way to cement learning and enhance self awareness"


For more details contact mandy@phonecoach.com or call 01323 765111 for your free trial.

brainfriendlytrainer.com is a free site for all those wonderful people who design and deliver brain friendly learning.

My colleague Ally McCulloch and I started the site about a month ago and we are already being read in over 30 counties

We regularly post articles and links to other sites where we feel the content will enhance and drive our understanding in the application of brain friendly learning.

We would welcome postings from anyone in the community who feel they have an insight that they would love to share with the rest of us.

Just go to brainfriendlytrainer.com and send us your thoughts.

Horses for Courses® and Breath of Fresh Air® are showcasing our combined approach with a workshop designed specifically for you as a modern day leader.

Today’s world requires a new style of leadership; we call it “Connected Leadership”,where self mastery, the talent for connecting with others and the ability to both adapt to and influence the environment in which you do business are paramount. Connected leadership is about leading from the inside out; it is about authenticity, congruence and alignment.

In bringing together Horses for Courses® and Breath of Fresh Air® we are offering two unique approaches to learning. We create multi sensory experiences that amplify, accelerate and anchor the learning, creating lasting change.

The cost of our one-day programme would normally be £300.00 plus VAT (£345.00) per participant. For this showcase event I would like to offer you a 50% discount. Please quote discount code ‘Showcase’ when you book and your fee will be £150 plus VAT (£172.50). This amount will be refundable on future booking with Horses for Courses® or Breath of Fresh Air®.

For all the details and to book please go to www.connected-leadership.eventbrite.com/?discount=Showcase .

At Last! A Unique Workshop Created for Trainers To Show You The Steps You Need To Take To Go Freelance And Create A Successful And Profitable Training Business

This 1 Day Workshop called How To Launch a Training Business in 30 Days is the quickest and easiest way to learn how to become a successful freelance trainer.

You Will Discover:

* The Biggest Mistakes New Freelance Trainers Make and How You Can Avoid Them
* How to Overcome the Fear of Marketing and Selling
* How to Choose Which Marketing Methods Will Work For You
* How to Build Relationships to Get Direct Clients and Corporate Business
* Getting Clients to Come to You - Even in this market!
* How to Get Associate Work That Is Worth Doing
* Working Out What To Charge - How To Stay Competitive Without Going Broke
* How to Create Your Own Unpaid Sales Force

And much much more …….

Date: July 2 2009
Venue: Westmead Hotel, Birmingham
Cost: £295 plus follow up Coaching Session

Register at

http://www.thetrainerstrainingcompany.co.uk/events/30daysworkshop/

With our fast track Coaching for Performance programme you get increased performance that is sustainable.

DPG now offers the ILM Level 3 Certificate if Professional Workplace Coaching. It is a highly practical 5 day programme scheduled over just 4 months. Group sizes are limited to 12 to ensure you get the appropriate mix of group interaction and 1 to 1 attention. Plus, as with all DPG programmes we guarantee you’ll be successful or your programme is free.

http://www.dpgplc.co.uk/coaching-for-performance.asp

Download a full information pack now:

http://www.dpgplc.co.uk/fileupload/media/dpgDoc63.pdf

Call 0161 975 7777
Email: tracy.taylor@dpgplc.co.uk

Could you benefit from the Coaching for Performance programme?

If you who want to develop a high standard of performance from individuals and teams then this programme is designed for you.

Throughout the programme you will quickly develop the skills and processes that improve the performance of your team members or clients and ensure the changes made are sustainable.

Once completed you have the ILM Level 3 Certificate in Professional Workplace Coaching.

This programme is ideal for:

Improving business performance
Creating a coaching culture
Developing managers as coaches

http://www.dpgplc.co.uk

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that here at ADG, an experienced management consultancy based in Lancashire, we are launching our new suite of Coaching Programmes.

These programmes have been piloted over the past 12 months at Unilever UK and have made a difference to the empowerment of the people and the behaviour of leaders in the organisation.

As a Chartered Management Centre we are able to provide accreditation for the programmes.

If you are a leader looking to develop your skills then developing coaching as part of your leadership style can really improve your influencing ability. If you want to use coaching as part of a change process then these programmes can give you the tools to get started.

Investing in coaching is a good use of your time and money, as this is one skill that can, and will, spread the more you use it.

See our website at www.adgroup.co.uk for course leaflets, dates and prices, and information on the other opportunities
we support performance improvement in your organisation.


Anita Wild
Director

Tel: 01772 679154
email: anita@adgroup.co.uk
web: www.adgroup.co.uk

Can you or your business relate to any of these statements?

o Businesses are demanding greater efficiency, increased value for money, shareholder confidence and customer satisfaction………….

o In today’s world customers have less money to spend and want more for their money. Do all employees understand how the business works and what differentiates you from the crowd?

o Not all staff see the big picture, think outside the box and pull in the same direction; impacting your competitive advantage.

To address these issues it is not enough to just tell people to do it. If you want people to learn how to run a business, you need to provide them with a business they can practice with.

Business Simulations provide the solution that will give your business the edge, by replicating the day to day challenges – in a safe, learning environment. Participants experience deep, enduring learning and real empathy with the challenges of running a successful business.

APPLES & ORANGES (http://tinyurl.com/ctnumj)
Business Finance For Everyone
Apples & Oranges brings financial statements to life by inviting people to think like business owners so they can base future decisions on sound business thinking.

DECISION BASE (http://tinyurl.com/dxsflq)
Pulling In The Same Direction
Taking on the role of the management team (finance, production, marketing and corporate intelligence) people understand how and why their decisions influence the entire organisation.

CAYENNE (http://tinyurl.com/cper8h)
Securing Project Success
Reviewing a project that did not deliver as much business as was expected participants identify the hot buttons and deliver a better result.

Find out more about these Business Simulations, and more, on http://xlearning.co.uk/business_simulation.html and feel free to contact us for a no-obligation conversation.

mikenewman@xlearning.co.uk

McCullough Associates have designed a flexible and affordable outplacement package to enable employers to offer a support programme for staff who are affected by redundancy in the south/south west. Our service enables your company to achieve financial imperatives whilst fulfilling your commitment to valuing your staff and maintaining a strong ethical profile. Other benefits include: avoiding negative press; and preventing low morale and motivation in the remaining workforce and replacing it with the reassurance that the organisation will support them.

We provide a group programme and individual coaching:

Our group programme supports people through a systematic and sympathetic review of their circumstances, fianancial and otherwise, as well as guiding them through job search methods. It uses practical tools to build up an action plan for overcoming the negative impact of redundancy.

The courses have been planned so that they can be delivered over three half days. Their flexibility means that they can be adapted to suit a tighter time schedule if required.

Individual coaching is suited to the needs of management and includes a wider variety of career search tools. In addition to the core units offered in the group programme, individual coaching may include:

CV creation
Psychometric profiling
Personal marketing guidance
Personal impact and presentation
coaching for assessment centres and psychometric tests

Why choose us?

we have a range of coaches bringing versatility, diversity and professionalism
our small size means we are responsive to your needs
we have a wide range of experience in the private and public sectors, in both large and small organisations.
we are a local business in the south west and therefore we are flexible in our delivery location- we can come to you!
www.mcculloughassociates.co.uk
james@mcculloughassociates.co.uk

How to supercharge your selling

Sales Excellence

A two-day programme to help you
develop the effective way to winning new clients

10th March and 1st April 2009, Dorney Lake, Windsor

There are opportunities for all of us out there. It is a matter of finding them and being more effective at helping potential clients buy from us than our competitors.

We often say in sales that you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince and – or you have to get better at kissing. In this programme you will discover how many frogs you need to kiss and how to improve your kissing – with a bit of practice!

Discover the secrets, skills, confidence, tips and techniques of some of the best sales people and learn how to embrace this within your own personality and your business to attract the work you want.

You will work on your own sales scenarios and challenges during the programme.

Attend this workshop and you will take away…

• A clear plan for your sales activity
• Actions and ideas for handling your current sales challenges

learn

• How your beliefs can affect your sales success
• A sales model of excellence
• About rapport in a sales environment
• Outcome thinking in selling
• Following up and gaining commitment with ease

and how to:

• set up a sales relationship to increase your chance of success
• put yourself in you buyer’s shoes to help them to buy
• sell to different buyers

How much will it cost?

The fee for this two-day programme would normally be £700 plus VAT and in my eagerness to help you be successful under the current economic conditions, I am charging only £300 plus VAT.

The details

The workshops will take place at Dorney Lake, near Windsor, www.dorneylake.com, between 9.30am and 5.00pm each day. Lunch and refreshments are included.

How to book

To book or for further information, please contact Gerry Hyde - g.hyde@auricresults.co.uk or telephone me, Jacqueline Harris, on 0118 969 0783.

Is the phrase "if only I had time... " one of your most used sayings?

Do you never seem to get to those projects that would actually make all the difference?

Are you making plans for 2009, but lacking confidence in how you can complete them?

If this is the case for you, then we can help. Attend our FREE How to Take Control of Your Time tele-seminar and we will help you to find practical ways to take control in just one hour.

The session covers an overview of the key areas of Preparation and Planning, and will give you a realistic set of tools to increase your productivity. Including how you can easily gain 35 minutes more time each day! - and all this for free!

Our FREE 60 MINUTE SEMINAR will take place on Monday February 23rd at 4pm GMT (5pm CET, 8am PST).

For more information and to book your place, visit www.takingcontrolofyourtime.com, email your name to bookings@takingcontrolofyourtime.com or call +44(0)20 3286 3693.

Access a huge online resource - all current and future material.

Currently over 5000 one liners - great material for developing your own specific activities.

The resource includes 165 leadership Power point slides; 100 customer service, and 55 on mentoring

In all over 900 slides in 19 sets...coaching; change management; sales and marketing; performance management, and a lot more.

As well as currently more than 900 slides, have access to 23,000 words of Word files - this really will save you days.

Click www.andrewgibbons.co.uk for details and a lot of free downloads.

With the current financial climate the way it is and the worries that people are having with regards to job security, it is no wonder that stress levels are at an all time high.

It would be a very brave organisation that chose to ignore early warning signs that stress was having a major effect on productivity and performance.

You can change this by raising awareness of what causes stress and how your organisation can manage it.

For further details, contact Lin Lawler on lin.lawler@brookfield-associates.com

Sam Walton, Founder of WalMart said that There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Attend our FREE How to give the best customer service - Putting Customers First tele-seminar and we will help you to find practical ways to take control in just one hour.

The session covers the key fundamentals of customer service and discusses why putting customers first is critical for organisations. Learn about the Moment of Truth, the features and benefits of your product or service, how to think like a customer and much more - and all this for free!

These FREE sessions will take place on Tuesday December 9th at 4pm GMT. To join a FREE tele-seminar, email your name, the session you would like to join and your email address to bookings@freshlearning.co.uk and we will send you joining information.

For more information about this or any of our courses, please email enquiries@freshlearning.co.uk.

Dear Colleague

Is the phrase "if only I had time... " one of the most used sayings, either by yourself or by people across your business?

Do you never seem to get to those projects that would actually make all the difference?

If this is the case for you, then we can help. Attend our FREE How to Take Control of Your Time Preview tele-seminar and we will help you to find practical ways to take control in just one hour.

The session will cover an overview of the key areas of Preparation and Planning, and will give you a realistic set of tools to increase your productivity. Including how you can easily gain 35 minutes more time each day! - and all this for free!

Content for the session is taken from our intensive two-day Taking Control of your Time session; which highlights key ways to take control and become more effective and productive - a key requirement in today's business environment.

Why not call it Time Management?
The term Time Management is misleading - it is not possible to manage time, as time is a constant - 60 seconds to each minute and 6o minutes to each hour - what we should concentrate on is taking control of how we use time and how we make that use as productive as possible.

These FREE sessions will take place on Monday December 2nd at 9am, 4pm and 10pm GMT. To join a FREE tele-seminar, email your name, the session you would like to join and your email address to bookings@freshlearning.co.uk and we will send you joining information.

For more information about this or any of our courses, please email enquiries@freshlearning.co.uk.

Kind Regards

Richard Newton
Fresh Learning

What every business owner and customer account manager
needs to know in the current trading environment……

HOW TO NEGOTIATE THE DEAL YOU WANT

ONE DAY SALES MASTERCLASS

Wednesday 3rd December, Nottingham

Recently have you or your team found yourself saying things like:

“They want cash up front and I don’t want to lose the business so I have no option but to give in to them”

“They are demanding better terms and because our competitors are giving in to them we will need to do the same just to stand still”

But…it doesn’t have to be that way…

There is a way to negotiate your prices on your terms without losing your customers to your competitors and all be revealed on December 3rd.

Here are just a few of the things we’ll be covering on the day:

⇒ The no.1 secret to successful negotiation.

⇒ How to get ‘inside the head of the customer’ and why this really matters.

⇒ How to manage stress and pressure in a negotiation …effortlessly.

At the end of just one day, you’ll walk away with a complete toolkit to ensure you negotiate the deal on your terms and still keep the customer on your books.

Places on this one off event will be strictly limited so to guarantee your place for the special price of £229 + VAT call free on 0800 043 6073

Note: We are convinced that you will get huge value out of this event. So much so that, if you don’t, we will give you a full 100% refund of your fee..guaranteed!

Do you ever wish that you could assess your students' understanding of subject matter after they've left the classroom, and have gone back to their offices too far away to visit?

I have developed an online multiple choice quiz programme (MQuiz). The entire system runs through a browser, and allows the tutor/manager to set up and run mutiple choice quizzes on the internet. The student logs on, takes the test, is informed how he or she did, and then logs off. The results are stored on a database which can then be viewed by the manager. They can be sorted by name, department, who failed and who passed, and you can even see which questions are least well understood.

I can set this up to run with your logo, appearing to run through your URL within a very short timescale. Alternatively, you can buy the whole MQuiz code and database to run yourself.

You can try it out, and see its management reporting functionality by going to http://www.petercollett.com/quiz.

If you're interested, I'm on 07870 219624 or at peter@petercollett.com