Tuesday, 16 December 2014

CIMA West Midlands is proud to launch its mentoring programme at an event on Tuesday 20th January in Birmingham

CIMA West Midlands Mentoring Programme
 
We will launch a mentoring programme in 2015 to bring together senior members who can offer mentoring support with others in the early stages of their career. This programme is available to those who wish to take advantage of this service. 

If you feel curious about this initiative come to our launch event on Tuesday 20 January at 6.30pm when all will be explained for both the mentor and mentee. We will also provide insight to networking opportunities and how to make the most of them and we all know that this can be essential for career development.   

Benefits for mentors: - 

        strengthen your coaching and leadership skills by working with individuals from different backgrounds and with different personality types

        help develop future talent giving a new member increased knowledge, skills and experience in attaining their career goals

        get new insight into your job - questions from mentees can help to take a critical look at how things are done and what areas have room for improvement

        a chance to develop a new skill for your CV. 

Benefits for mentees: - 

        one to one support from an experienced professional

        an opportunity to network and build contacts within an industry

        gain an insight into your chosen industry or career

        help in recognising your own abilities and limitations in relation to your career ideas and in highlighting areas for development

        get practical advice on job search techniques and skills.

If you are unable to attend this event, but you are still interested in being part of the mentoring programme, please register your interest by emailing area.four@cimaglobal.com  

This event will also help you look at your networking skills. When you see the word networking, what do you think of? I bet you think of having to 'go out' to 'meet strangers' at a 'formal event'. There is this little voice in our heads, who annoyingly keeps telling us that we need to put ourselves through this exquisite form of professional torture because we know we should be regularly networking to improve our business and career prospects. 

If we could show you another, more successful route by using joined up networking to achieve the career and business success you really deserve, would you be interested? 

At this event, Heather Townsend, the award-winning and best-selling author of 'The financial times guide to business networking' will share her methods and secrets which have, in the last year helped her clients generate an additional £1million of fees. Heather will be relaying stories and real life examples of how CIMA members have been using her techniques to make successful career moves and build their own healthy practice. 

She will be showing us: - 

How to use networking to guarantee career and business success, without it feeling like a form of professional torture. 

How to effectively network when you really don't have the time to network. 

How to make your networking fitter. 

Why today's savvy networkers know that it is not about your ability to 'work a room'. 

Why one cup of coffee is never enough. 

How to meet your George Clooney. 

Why you now don't need to 'go out' to network.  

This very popular event provides practical guidance to help you network efficiently so that you can maximise your productive time, boost your career and deliver exceptional service and results.  

Event Details 

Westley Hotel, Westley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham B27 7UJ 

6.30 for 7pm 

No charge.  Buffet served on arrival  

Speaker Details 

Heather Townsend helps professionals become the go-to expert. She is an award-winning best-selling author of three books, 'The FT guide to business networking', 'The go-to expert' and ‘How to make partner and still have a life’ (co-authored with Jo Larbie). Not bad for an engineering graduate from Oxford who last wrote an essay at the age of 16. 

Over the last year she has helped her coaching clients, typically accountants and lawyers, achieve their business and career goals by supporting them to add over £1 million revenue to their practice.

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