"Get Ready to Break Big in 2016" - CIMA Event in Walsall on 9thFebruary at 6.30pm

Attending this seminar will help you to assess where your business is right now and take you through ten strategic steps to get you to the next level of growth. 

What you can gain: - 

Find out about the 10 practical steps to realise the full potential of your business and help you achieve your business vision. 

1. Ditch the business plan.

2. Understand why you want it.

3. Build on firm foundations.

4. Understand what business you are in.

5. Get ready to break big.

6. Know your market.

7. Look in the mirror.

8. Stand out from the crowd.

9. Create a sales plan.

10. Press the RESET button.

 

Date/Time: 9 February 2016 starting at 18:30

Location: Holiday Inn, Great Barr, Walsall B43 7BG (M6 Jct 7)

Price: No charge.  Buffet served on arrival

Book: julie.witts@cimaglobal.com

 

Speaker Details: - 

Harvey Gora, Director, Business Doctors, spent more than a decade transforming his family’s clothing manufacturing company into a successful pet accessories company by forging loyal relationships with SMEs and focusing on delivering what customers need. 

'When I joined the family business, I got involved in every single aspect, from sales and procurement to admin and finance. It was quite an experience. I turned it from a loser into a winner that currently employs around 17 people.' 

After graduating from the University of Manchester in economics, Harvey worked for a few large organisations in telecoms, financial services and business development. Then faced with a tough and challenging decision decided to carry on the mantle of the family business. The business was in the red after a huge bad debt but Harvey battled on and a couple of years later managed to turn the business and repay the debt. He subsequently changed industries, took production overseas, deployed a structure for LT growth and financial sustainability and ten years later built a hugely successful business, which still remains in the family. 

During this time Harvey also qualified as a CIMA management accountant, secured several investments, ran a property portfolio and started up an e-commerce business, which was successfully resold. 

Matthew Levington, Managing Director, Business Doctors - Intelligent, talented individuals who enjoy fast-paced, challenging environments make ideal business consultants and advisors. Matthew certainly fits the bill. A veteran of the highly-competitive and rapidly evolving media industry, Matthew started his career in sponsorship and promotions at Piccadilly Radio. He quickly moved up the corporate ladder at EMAP and was soon displaying his talents in a series of senior roles. 

Matthew became managing director of Crash FM in Liverpool after its failed launch and managed to reverse its fortunes by attracting the valuable youth market and the advertising revenues that follow. Matthew moved to Chrysalis stations Galaxy 105 in Yorkshire, followed by Galaxy 102 in Manchester, one of the UK’s largest radio markets. Matthew revived the underperforming Manchester station with bold, carefully calculated strokes that included the appointment of a senior management team, relocation to the city centre and a determined focus on building a profile amongst the city’s advertisers, businesses and communities. 

Matthew’s relevant business experience and talent for turn-around led him to found Business Doctors Ltd. This unique opportunity to promulgate his hands-on style and to have a major impact on clients' bottom lines made Business Doctors the ideal venue for Matthew’s many competencies and talents.

Peter Milligan to speak at CIMA/CIPD Event, 'Organisational politics and power: How to work with it, earn respect and make a positive difference' on 27th January at Newcastle-under-Lyme

Venue & Time

Holiday Inn at Junction 15 of the M6 Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 4DL
6.30pm for 7pm
No charge.  Buffet served on arrival 

What you can gain

The session will be interactive and will include: 

• What power and politics really are. 
• Why you need to understand basic psychology, and how to apply it. 
• The two emotions that can make or break you. 
• What you need to be able to read a room effectively.
• Understanding and dealing with different agendas. 
• Working with the ‘hidden’ side of organisational life.
• Stakeholder relationship management. 
• Building immunity from the political game playing of others.

Participants will leave the session with: 

• a better appreciation of organisational dynamics
• a deeper and useful insight into human psychology
• some practical actions they can apply to improve the way they think, act and influence at work.  

Speaker Details

Peter Milligan is a corporate psychologist with more than 21 years of international experience in developing business leaders and teams.  
After moving to the UK in 2000, Peter became a director of Europe's largest and longest running executive coaching firm.  He was a contributor to the book, ‘10 Things That Keep CEOs Awake’ and regularly writes and speaks on leadership, communication and career success.


Peter has worked with leaders at all levels including managing directors and other board members. In 2005, he established New Generation Leaders in line with his passion for accelerating the awareness, confidence and contribution of emerging leaders. He is currently writing a book designed to help these people learn and grow more quickly on their leadership journey.  

Shaylor Group FD, Paul Hooper-Keeley (with Deep Six), to play The 100 Club, London, for The Teenage Cancer Trust

Shaylor Group's Finance Director, Paul Hooper-Keeley is to help raise funds for The Teenage Cancer Trust via the March Of The Mods events that are happening all over the country.

Paul's band, Deep Six, will be joining Squire, The Scene and The Chords UK at the legendary 100 Club on Oxford Street on Friday 11th March. 

Shaylor Group Plc have been supporting The Teenage Cancer Trust themselves for several years and have several more fundraising events planned throughout 2016.

Deep Six have a Facebook page so please visit it and give us a 'like' : -

https://www.facebook.com/Deep-Six-518411134979296/ 

Photos from the CIMA West Midlands 2015 Christmas Black Tie Ball in Birmingham



CIMA WM Chairman, Paul Hooper-Keeley, with CIMA Global President, Myriam Madden

CIMA Members and guests at the 2015 Christmas Ball

Star of The Apprentice, Jo Cameron was the keynote speaker

Area Secretary, John Hindson, introduces Myriam Madden's address

Shaylor Group PLC 'Site-Link' day at Aston Villa FC a huge success



Shaylor Group CEO, Stephen Shaylor, presents the awards

Investment, Risk & Longevity at Hotel Du Vin, Birmingham, on Tuesday24th November

The 2015 Finance Directors’ Forum aboard P&O's Arcadia a great success

This year’s Finance Directors’ Forum was held aboard the P&O cruise ship Arcadia from the 7^th to the 10^th October and proved to be a great success. And I was delighted to be on-board and a part of it representing Shaylor Group plc.

The opening night’s keynote address was given by ex-Newnight and University Challenge heavyweight, Jeremy Paxman, and focused on The UK Political Landscape. Humorous, witty, entertaining and followed by a typically prickly Q&A session (albeit somewhat tongue-in-cheek), it was the perfect way to start the Forum proper. His banter with Justin Urquhart Stewart (in the circle of the theatre) was a joy to behold.

These Forums are well known for being busy and concentrated affairs, and this year was no different (with delegates kept focused from 7.30am to 10.30pm to ensure that benefit is maximised for taking precious time out of the office in addition to the CPD accreditation).

Day 2 started with an excellent presentation by Virgin Atlantic Airways FD, Liz Collins, entitled ‘Building a Finance Centre of Excellence the Virgin Atlantic Way’, which demonstrated the steps taken to streamline the finance function and deliver a leaner, more commercially focused organisation. My schedule followed this up with the workshop, ‘Leading The Finance Function During Uncertain And Volatile Times’ delivered by Tim Pullen of Telefonica UK.

The keynote address on Day 2 was ‘Courage, Vision and Values’ by Roz Savage MBE, the solo women’s ocean rower who not only rowed across the Atlantic Ocean (3,000 miles) to raise environmental awareness, but followed this amazing feat of endurance by then rowing across the Pacific (8,000 miles) and the Indian Ocean (4,000 miles). I was also fortunate enough to attend Roz’s ‘eVALUEation’ interactive workshop on the same afternoon before I, myself, delivered a presentation on being an Interim/Equity Finance Director.

Around the presentations and workshops were a number of meetings with suppliers, so many new contacts were made and hopefully much business will result from this opportunity (from both sides) to explore and discuss opportunities in this captive environment.

Our Forum Facilitator, the irrepressible Justin Urquhart Stewart, opened up the first main session of Day 3 with an interview of/audience with Mark Hesketh, UK & European Finance Director of Standard Life plc, with the working title of ‘Setting A Standard In The Finance Function’. Justin’s questions about Mark’s time at RBS resulted in some surprising and positive comments regarding working with Fred Goodwin.

Following this, the Day 3 Keynote Address was given by Jas Hawker, past Commanding Officer of the Red Arrows and currently a Director of Mission Excellence (and organisation focused on improving clients’ execution – closing the gap between what gets talked about and planned, and what gets delivered). This was an enjoyable session that mixed lots of anecdotes and footage of the Red Arrows in action with some key pointers on how to lead a world-class and highly performing team in the corporate world.

Perhaps the finest presentation of the event was reserved for later that afternoon when Justin Urquhart Stewart gave his presentation, ‘Post General Election Economic Update – What It Means For You And Your Organisation’. Irreverent, amusing, fast paced but also interesting, relevant and cutting through the nonsense so often reported in the media to give the real bottom line. An amazing hour that seemed to fly past in minutes – top class.

My pre-dinner day ended with a very useful one-to-one coaching session with Aim Higher Leadership, with a post-dinner keynote given by Austin Healey and aptly titles ‘The Rugby World Cup (Amongst Other Things)’.

Day 4 was all about packing, disembarking the Arcadia in Southampton and driving back up the country reflecting on what had been packed into the previous 3 days (and the meeting and business that would be inevitably be done in the weeks that will follow).

And a big thank you must go to Richmond Events for their excellent organisation once again.