Durham Business School - Webinar Series 2012

We are pleased to be hosting a series of 6 webinars for Durham Business School's Alumni in 2012. These career webinars will be interactive, practical sessions and will be across the following set of career subjects:

1. Taking Control of Your Career in a Tough Market
2. Making a Career Change
3. Dealing with Redundancy & Getting Back Into the Game
4. Using Technology in Your Career (LinkedIn/Twitter)
5. Managing Your Career in Mid Life
6. Negotiating a Pay Rise

Feedback so far has included:

"Please have more of these!", MBA alumni, Consultant

“This is the most timely and relevant set of webinars I have ever seen - great initiative and will be of huge benefit. Thank you.” MD of Experian

Henley Business School - Career Workshops

Career Workshops for MBA Students and Alumni

We have run half day workshops for Henley Business School's MBA student and alumni community. The most recent of those being on "Getting to the Top and Staying There", which formed part of the "MBA+ in Leadership" Course at Henley Business School, especially designed for Henley's Nordic Alumni. Simon North worked with the alumni group, leading this MBA+ 2 day programme which covered 4 main areas of leadership

• Getting to the top and staying there
• High performance teams and team leadership
• How to lead people from different countries
• Personal Branding: The Truth Told Better

Another popular workshop was on "Networking" which was an interactive and practical workshop for Henley Business School's MBA Alumni, to help them explore how to network more effectively, how to utilise their networks and how to find the right ‘tribe’ to network within. The session looked at:

• Why networking is important
• How networking fits in with the world of work today
• Knowing your value and how to project this
• Networking techniques and approaches
• Importance of being curious
• How to build, maintain and strengthen your network
• Being known in the communities & networks that value you.

Warwick Business School: Career Webinars

Career Webinars

As part of the career webinars offered to MBA students and the alumni community, Position Ignition have been invited to regularly provide webinars for Warwick Business School's MBA community on Negotiating a Pay Rise, and Managing Stress. Simon North and Nisa Chitakasem lead these interactive webinars which take listeners through the various tactics and considerations needed to make a pay rise happen, and to deal with issues around stress at work.

The Negotiating a Pay Rise & Salary Review webinar topic proved very popular and covered the following main areas:

• When is the best time to ask for a performance review?
• How to bring up the subject of your salary?
• How to know how much to ask for?
• Deciding whether to tell them what you want or to wait for an offer?
• How to know what you are worth?
• How to manoeuvre a pay rise effectively?
• Knowing who to confide in
• How to negotiate your salary when applying for a new job?

This session went extremely well with positive feedback (ratings of 4-5 out of 5 all-round).

"This was a really valuable session.  Not only slides with reasonable content, but real experience and answers.  Thank you!"

Oxford Brookes University: Transferring Skills & Making a Career Change

Transferring Skills and Making a Career Change Webinar

We are running an interactive webinar for the Oxford Brookes University Alumni in February 2012 and will be taking a detailed look into the transferrability of skills into different markets and industries and how to make a successful career change.

Ashridge Business School - MBA Alumni Events

Ashridge Business School run a host of events for their MBA Alumni. We have had the pleasure of being involved in some of these and Simon North has become a regular speaker at these events. A few to highlight are those on:

Are you considering a Portfolio Career? - aimed at those exploring career options and becoming a Non Executive Director in the public, private and third sector. For more information on this event see the Ashridge Alumni Events Webpage 

Redefining Your Approach to Your Career - which looked at the ways our working lives are changing in response to the changes all around us today and what this meant for us now and how best to deal with it.  

Who's Career Is It Anyway? - which took a deeper look at the importance of being in control of your career, having a plan and how to achieve this.

Bocconi Alumni London: How to Get a Job & Networking Know-how

Position Ignition held a Career Workshop for the London Alumni of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy - at the Italian School in Holland Park. This workshop walked through the considerations and actions needed to be taken when looking for a new job, identifying various career options and understanding the importance of networking. Key networking tips and know-how were covered in this evening session. 

Women in Technology: Career Options Training Session

Career expert, Simon North led a well received training session at Women in Technology's offices near Liverpool street on Wednesday 11th May. This 3 hour training session involved practical exercises to help the group develop, build and identify new career options for themselves as well as narrowing them down to the right career opportunity to take forwards.

Some reactions from the workshop were:

"Thanks for a great workshop. I plan to go away and develop ideas from the evening.  I have a deep and thorough understanding of my strengths and I am even further away from this than I thought!"

"10 out of 10 for sure"

"All of it was useful but in particular for me the most impactful element was in learning about the 3C's framework - going right back to the moment you were born and how it influences your professional working choice. Very thought provoking"

Guardian Online Live Career Clinics

Nisa Chitakasem and Simon North are frequent panelists for the Guardian's live career clinics, offering practical career advice and guidance across a range of career dilemmas. These are live Q&A sessions covering a range of topics, where anyone can come along with their career dilemma to seek help from the panelist of career experts. To learn more about these see the examples below:

• Live Q&A: CV and Job Applications Clinic
• Live Q&A Careers Advice Clinic
• Live Q&A: Get Out of a Career Rut 
• Live Q&A: Career Change Clinic 
• Live Q&A: Marketing Yourself for a Move to the Private Sector
• Live Q&A: Education roles beyond Teaching

How to Approach Your Career Effectively, be Successful and in Control

26^th November 2010

Position Ignition’s founder Simon North, will be holding an interactive workshop on "Taking Control of Your Career" for JCI (Junior Chamber International) members to discover how to really be in control of your career in this day and age.  The importance of career planning, building skills and having a clear direction will be discussed and tools and techniques to make sure you stay on track will be covered.

More information on how the JCI National Convention went and Position Ignition's talk, click here

LSE: Making the Most of Your Internships

Simon North, spoke to LSE Finance Society students about how to choose and get the best internships, and how to make the best use of them in preparation for a successful career

This will be a practical seminar aimed at preparing students for their careers and helping them understand how to harness their internships

For more information see our blog

Re-Motivating the Banks

Round-table discussion looking at ‘Organisational Change in the Post-Crisis World’ with speakers including: Simon North (Position Ignition), Ian Wigston and Marjon Wind (Glowinkowski International) and Julia warren (Thomson Reuters)

Whatever comes of the various regulatory initiatives underway on both sides of the Atlantic, banks face a difficult few years – years in which they will be required to restructure themselves to face new challenges, from the broader society as well as from regulators.
 
The problem is that staff members in most banks are de-motivated. They don’t feel valued for the work they do; they feel they are being made scapegoats for problems that they had little or nothing to do with. How can one change this? How can one change what it means to work in a bank these days? How can one change the culture within banks? And how can managers manage their way through the current upheaval without losing the support of staff?

These challenges were discussed at this round-table