NEWSLETTER  April 2008

Jacqueline Rawlings - Train to Gain

Over 50 members attended this month's meeting and heard from Jacqueline Rawlings from Train to Gain.

Jacqueline gave an excellent insight into the free training available for businesses across the UK through 'Train to Gain'. As well as presenting ideas on how continually training employees can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness.

If you would like to find out more about Train to Gain and the options available,
please visit www.traintogain.gov.uk or email jacqueline.rawlings@traintogainse.co.uk

Our guest speaker will be Phil Dourado

Phil is an Oxfordshire-based leadership writer, speaker and consultant. He is the author of The 60 Second Leader: everything you need to know about leadership, in one minute bites, and lead author of Seven Secrets of Inspired Leaders. He was for seven years director of The Inspired Leaders Network, where he researched and distilled the essence of what great leaders do to inspire high performance. He is the founder of www.TheLeadershipHub.com , the world’s first online collaborative leadership development community. Phil has helped a number of large organisations, including high street banks and global hotel chains, improve their leadership. His specialist area is developing a community of leaders who learn from each other. Phil has written for The Telegraph, The Independent, The Observer, GQ, New Scientist, Business Age, The Business, Times Educational Supplement, and edited two business-to-business journals, in the US and the UK.

Session Title: What Great Leaders Do
Great leaders inspire high performance. Yet, in the UK, only 11% of people report that their boss inspires them, according to research carried out for the DTI. That’s a massive leadership deficit. Use this session to help you plug the gap.

In this 30 minute session, Phil Dourado will :
Share THREE STORIES illustrating what great leaders do
Give you ONE KEY to developing your own leadership and the leadership of the people who work with and for you
Challenge you to agree to IMPROVE ONE THING you do as a leader, and to embed that new practice as a habit over the coming month.

He’ll be checking-up on you to make sure you do…

If you haven’t already got your tickets for the Banbury Town Mayor’s 400 Charter Dinner due to take place in Banbury Town Hall on Friday 28th March – 7pm reception for a 7.30pm meal, please contact Tricia Campbell, Banbury Town Council on 01295 250340.

Tickets priced at £35 to include reception drink, 4 course meal, display of Irish dancing and a chance to join in with a Scottish Ceilidh. An evening of fun and friendship for all.

Brethertons is offering FREE Training For Your finance and debt collection teams on the 21st and 28th April from 10:00 to 15:30.
Topics such as: know your customer, credit checks, small claim track hearings and insolvency will be covered.
If you are interested in attending please contact Marie Holloway on: 01295 661 499 or email: marieholloway@brethertons.co.uk

Oxford Does Breakfast.  Third Wednesday of each month.  For further details visit www.oxforddoesbreakfast.co.uk.  Contact Shaun Jardine on (01295) 270999 or shaunjardine@brethertons.co.uk for further details.

Oxford Networking Lunch Club (ONLC) The next meeting is on Tuesday 6th March 2007 at The Plough, Clanfield. For more information, please visit www.onlc.co.uk

729 Chipping Norton Breakfast Club.   Ken Norman and Tim Lyon have formed a new Breakfast Club which meets in Chipping Norton on the second Wednesday of every month.   For further information contact Ken or Tim on (01608) 643336.

Chippy Lippys.  For further information contact Lesley Reader on (01608) 644032/(07725) 655320 or email her at lesley@lesleyreader.co.uk. 

Friday Lunchtimes – Rotary Club of Banbury.  Contact Bernard Goodchild on (01295) 279227.

Tuesday Evenings - Rotary Club Of Banbury Cherwell. Contact Craig Brodey on (01295) 753624.

Bicester Breakfast Club.  If you enjoy networking, the Bicester Breakfast Club meets on the fourth Thursday of every month.  For further information contact Kelly Durrant on (01869) 602067 at North Oxfordshire Consortium.

Bicester Speakers Club. First and third Thursday of each month at The Council Chamber, The Garth, Launton Road, Bicester.  A friendly, informal place to improve your public speaking skills and confidence.  Contact Paul Holmes on (01869) 245900 or paul@ppptraining.co.uk for more details.

Missing Link Meetings.  Missing Link has a number of networking meetings around the county each month. For further details contact Charles Lovibond on (08707) 876874.  www.missinglink.co.uk

First Bite Business Networking Meeting. This is an independent networking group. They meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at Veritas Wine Bar, North Bar, Banbury. If you would like to attend please email info@firstbite.biz.

Banbury Business Women’s Club. Second Tuesday each month at Rye Hill Golf Club. Places must be booked by the Friday before the meeting. Further details can be found on www.banburybusinesswomen.co.uk

The Witney Big(ger) Breakfast Club. Operates on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Starts at approximately 7.15 for 7.30 and finishes at 9. Contact details are Mike Leggett. mike@southill.co.uk or (01608) 811533

Brackley Means Business.  Brackley has an active business networking organisation, Brackley Means Business.  For further details visit www.brackleymeansbusiness.co.uk. 

Banbury United.   See website www.banburyunited.co.uk for full details.

Banbury Hockey Club.  If you are interested in sponsorship, playing or supporting please have a look at the new website www.banburyhockeyclub.co.uk.  Juniors and Seniors are welcome.

Lions Club of Banbury.  Meetings on 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of each month, held at Wroxton Manor Hotel at 7.30pm. For further details contact Tim Holloway on (01608) 659241.

Banbury Business Referral Exchange (BRE). Meets every Monday in the heart of Banbury at the Cromwell Lodge Hotel, 9-11 North Bar, at 7.15 a.m. All Banbury based businesses are welcome to visit and discover a highly effective way of gaining more business at minimal cost. For further details contact tony.harrison@brenet.co.uk

Rye Hill Golf Club
Milcombe, near Banbury
www.ryehill.co.uk/directions/

Situated just off the A361 from Banbury to Chipping Norton, sign-posted with the brown tourist signs 1 mile out of Bloxham.

If you are attending the next meeting please either press reply to this email now, or email mariaali@brethertons.co.uk or telephone Maria on 01788 532909 as she is the custodian of the breakfast club attendance list.

Shaun Jardine, Brethertons LLP
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