Updated Post! Exeter Business Network – December 2014 – final event of the year – auctioneers announced!

Exeter Business Network’s final event of 2014 and the final time this year to quote Robert Kiyosaki!

“The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.” 

This is my invitation to you to take the opportunity of building your network – guaranteed.  It’s also the Christmas event so an opportunity to partake in an allowable (tax purposes!) festive lunch and you’ll also be supporting the Exeter Business Network charities!

Could this be a win-win-win?  Absolutely – you win by generating opportunities, you win by enjoying a festive (working) lunch, the charities win through your support, others win through the conversations they have with you – I could go on but you’ll need the details……

The event in brief

1. December 10th at Exeter Golf and Country Club
2. Business enhancing Seminar and (knowledge & support) networking 10am – 11.45am
3. Networking over drinks 11.45am – 12.30pm
4. Structured networking lunch 12.30pm – 2pm tables hosted, seating plan designed, delegate list provided, dietary requirements catered for
5. Guaranteed crumb free keyboard working lunch
6. Guaranteed conversations leading to connections and collaborations
7. Guaranteed you’ll leave be better informed and connected than when you arrived!
8. A justifiable business expense – part of your marketing plan
9. You’ll be supporting the Exeter Business Network charities**
10. Booking your place is easy! And you can join, among those booked, the following

 Detailed details

Seminar before THE networking lunch (optional,always rewarding, included in the price and a great networking opportunity)

FAQ’s

As it is the Christmas event there will be an auction supporting the Exeter Business Network charities**.  

Feel free to donate prizes/lots – fine wine, champagne, weekend breaks, spa treatments, sports memorabilia, tickets for events, services, products, business books, fine chocolates, experience events……In 2013 the auction raised over £1600!  Blog post from 2013’s event is here

Graham Barton & Scott Gray will be the auctioneers from Clive Emson Land and Property Auctioneers.  They have both been on “Homes under the Hammer”!

Auction Lots update is here

To book your place

Call 01981 540708

or

Email sean@business-network.co.uk

with “book my place” and I will arrange everything – how to prepare, confirmation, any dietary requirements and your invoice

or

Prefer an invitation then complete your details here

**Exeter Business Network Charities

*The Devon Air Ambulance Trust is the charity which raises the funds to keep 2 emergency Air Ambulances flying. This is no small feat as each and every year we have to raise in the region of £4.5 million to keep both of the helicopters airborne.  Click here to donate

Families for Children  place children for adoption from throughout the UK, who have experienced loss and upheaval. We find for them stable, loving families in Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We are special because we have a ‘forever’ policy of support and this means that we offer support to the child and new family for as long as they need us. Click here to donate

WESC Foundation’s  aim is the education and care of young people with visual impairment and/or complex needs and their transition into school, college and beyond.  By providing a specialist centre for education, training and expertise, WESC Foundation create a better life for people with visual impairment. Click here to donate

The vision of St Loye’s Foundation  is that each individual should have the opportunity to achieve their maximum potential, irrespective of natural abilities or setbacks experienced in life.
Mission – St Loye’s mission is to be the preferred choice of people with physical, mental health, sensory and other disabilities, or with long-term health conditions, to improve their quality of life and degree of independence.  Click here to donate

Gallery for the event

 The Venue

Exeter Golf & Country Club

Seminar hosts – Compass Resolution 

John Hind

Robert Prior

Pippa Basset

More reasons to attend the seminar

WHY MEDIATE DURING NATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION WEEK?

As this is national dispute resolution week it seems appropriate to ask yourselves; why choose mediation when you separate rather than the legal process?

There are 3 compelling reasons;

Your children

Protect your children not your ego. The stress of separation and divorce can bring out the worst in parents resulting in a power struggle which puts the children firmly in the middle when all they want is for you, their parents to sort things out ‘like adults’

All too often the father feels controlled, undermined and powerless by what he perceives as the mother ‘being difficult and controlling’ with the amount of contact, whereas the mother feels frustrated and angry by what she perceives as the father’s unreliability and refusal to communicate.

A recipe for conflict only made worse by the legal system’s tendency to exaggerate and polarise these differences.

Your money

The cost of mediation runs into a few hundred pounds compared with many £1000’s of the court process. The fact is that most ‘ordinary people’ cannot afford to go to court.

Also, isn’t it more sensible to save this money to put into more important things such as a new home for yourself and the children?

If you or your partner qualify for legal aid you will receive about £400 of free mediation information meetings and mediation. The whole process could end up being free or perhaps costing just a few hundred pounds.

Your stress.

Isn’t separation and divorce stressful enough without the added stress of court proceedings?

The amount of stress is in direct proportion to the lack of control and uncertainty separating couples often feel under so why handover over all the control and power to a judge when they have the opportunity to retain the power to make their own decisions together? Now that’s a good plan!

 

No one said that separation is easy but why make it more difficult and stressful than it already is.

You can begin by making the right decision to find out more about mediation at a mediation information meeting followed by a commitment to reach your own decisions and sort things out together for the sake of your children, your pockets and your stress!

Everything to gain, nothing to lose by finding out more

John E Hind LLB (Hons) FMC. CMC

An introduction from your host 

Networking in a Nutshell

2015 dates if you can’t make this event!