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The third in a series of monthly meetings designed to help South Leicestershire & North Northamptonshire businesses is being held at the Harborough Innovation Centre on May 15th 2012. The monthly meeting, known as ‘The Business Agenda’ will be free for anybody to attend and will be a mixture of education, innovative business ideas and networking.
Business owners from Harborough, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire are invited to attend the meetings which will include a main speaker who will discuss topics such as management, marketing, cash flow – and other key business topics. The group will meet on the third Tuesday of the month from 5pm-7pm.
What’s on the Business Agenda for May 2012?
Hosted by Alastair Campbell, MD, The Ideal Marketing Company.
This month’s guest speaker is Alan Denton, the Managing Director and Founder of The Results Centre. He has been a successful CEO and comes from a senior retail background having formerly run operations for the both the Kingfisher group and a large part of Argos stores. He also has experience as a Chief Officer in B2B and turnaround arenas. A proven and highly experienced coach, mentor, senior executive and agent for change even before founding the Results Centre, he has worked as a consultant, coach and facilitator to boards and individuals across a wide range of sectors, strategies and disciplines.
His qualifications include; Post Graduate qualified business and personal coach, Qualified Executive Breakthrough Coach with VSA consulting in New York, a licensed NLP Practitioner and a course graduate of Cranfield Business School and Henley Management Centre: Development in Coaching, Leadership, Management Development and Teambuilding.
He has a track record of delivering exceptional results in difficult markets assisting businesses and individuals in using strong business development and team coaching skills and has a proven record of profit improvement.
Alan’s approach is all about results and will be delivering a powerful talk aimed at small business owners.
“The Business Agenda is a useful group for anyone who is looking for new business ideas,” comments Mick Judge from the Innovation Centre. “It is important for local companies to have the opportunity to meet up and debate ideas, to work together and generate business – not just for themselves, but for the local economy.”
The Business Agenda is a new initiative from the Harborough based networking group Working Breakfast, a not for profit business organisation who meet weekly in both Leicester and Market Harborough with the aim of offering support to members and generating business leads. More details are available at www.workingbreakfast.com.
Anyone who is interested in attending the event should register for a free place by e-mailing agenda@idealmarketingcompany.com or call 01858 44 55 43
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