FREE Workshop on Soft Skills

Building Rapport MasterClass Workshops

25^th February 2010

Times: 9.00am – 1.00pm, 2.00pm – 6:00pm

Venue: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London

These free half-day MasterClasses will examine how to be more persuasive in business and explore how to influence others.  Delivered by experienced tutors, these MasterClasses will:

• Touch on voice and body language
• Help you develop listening skills
• Help you develop questioning techniques
• Help you with handling questions through meeting role-plays.

To book a place

Places are allocated on a first come first serve basis. Registration is limited to one participant per business. If you wish to attend, please contact us on 020 7164 2043 or at info@knowledgeconnect.org.uk

Hard Love @ The Foundling Museum: A Breakfast Briefing

“Hard Love @ The Foundling Museum or How to Love Your Business Through Good & Bad Times”

Thursday 11th February, 8am to 10am, The Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, WC1 (nearest tube King’s Cross and Russell Square)

IN the lead-up to the celebration of love, Valentine’s Day, we look at the inspirational story of businessman, David White of Weboptimiser who went from full speed growth in the high tech arena to the edge of bankruptcy in 24 hours and how – by making some very hard decisions about his life and his business – he managed to create a life raft not just for his business, but for many other small businesses in the UK and Europe

They say necessity is the mother of invention.  In David’s case his tough decisions led to creative solutions that have been a lifeline to many others since.

David gives a 5-point change plan to take you from inertia in your business, through the process of hard decision making, to restructure and the light at the end of the tunnel

Inspired by ‘Lovemarks’ by Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, with a delicious breakfast and chocolates by Thornton’s Chocolates, and the chance to have a private tour of the museum, currently showing three international artists – Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego – whose work focus on childhood themes of motherhood, pain, childbirth and loss, the breakfast briefing will be an insightful, entertaining and calorific event for anyone who wants to love their business through good times and bad!

Hard Love – £10 per person:  BOOK HERE!
The event:

• 8am to 8.30am: registration and breakfast
• 8.30am: welcome from KXBF
• 8.40am: David White of Weboptimiser
• 9.30am to 10am: questions and networking
• 10am: close

Search Engine Marketing Specialists

Weboptimiser was founded in 1996 when the company introduced search engine marketing to the world. Back then it was Altavista and Hotmail, Google was known as backrub.com and most people surmised that search would never make it…

Today, search engine marketing is widely agreed to be an essential part of a company’s Internet marketing strategy.  Weboptimiser has become one of the Internet marketing sector’s best-known and most respected optimisation companies.

www.weboptimiser.com

Foundling Museum Tour
The award winning Foundling Museum is an inspiring testimony to philanthropy, creativity and the human spirit and is the beautiful, historic and inspiring venue for our business event.  Following the breakfast, members of the Foundling Museum events team will be offering a guided tour of the museum

Currently showing: Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego at The Foundling.

Hoots! Burns Night Special for KXBF members

COME and address the Haggis with a 6’6″ piper and great food and company!

When: Monday 25th January, from 6.45pm

Where: at the St Pancras Grand, Upper Concourse, St Pancras International, London NW1 2QP

Cost:  £40 per person including a welcome drink and a 3-course dinner.  Guests wearing kilts will be offered a complimentary glass of champagne!

KXBF members can book and get a stomping 10% off…

To book call 020 7923 5454 or email stpg@searcys.co.uk

Eurostar Winter Drama: “We can’t promise it won’t happen again…”

In an open letter to customers, Richard Brown, Chief Executive Officer gives the latest on the measures that Eurostar are taking to investigate not just the causes of the 2 week chaos on the UK/Europe rail link service but also the break down in communications that exasperated the whole affair.  The whole King’s Cross area was effected by the interruption in services and the company and the local community are now working extra hard to win back business and tourist confidence

But he doesn’t promise it won’t happen again…

“We can’t guarantee that Eurostar will never again be subject to extreme weather disruption, but we will do everything in our power to ensure that the chances of disruption are minimised. When disruption does occur we will provide our customers with the care that you rightly expect. Our commitment to you now is to provide a reliable and high quality service, and to win back your trust, good-will and support.” – Richard Brown Chief Executive Officer

For the full text of Brown’s letter and Eurostar’s latest travel and offers information visit www.Eurostar.co.uk

Resident Artist Moves in at King’s Cross Central

King’s Cross Central and the Arts Council England, have selected London-based Graham Hudson to be the new ‘Artist in Residence’ for the next six months … Read more…

Start 2010 with Carbon Confidence – last few places

If your organisation has less than 250 staff and is seeking practical advice on how to improve your environmental impacts and gain recognition for your efforts then consider joining Better Climate for Camden’s carbon confident programme.

The programme’s four easy steps provide an organisation with a carbon footprint, emissions reductions target, environmental action plan, and the confidence to implement this action plan and achieve measurable environmental benefits. All participants gain the Alliance’s Going Green Mark of Achievement on completion of the programme.

Why Carbon Confident?

• Is your organisation experiencing increasing pressure from clients, stakeholders, and legislation to take effective practical action to cut its carbon emissions?
• Perhaps your organisation wants to benefit from the real cashable savings to be made from improvements in environmental efficiency?
• Or does your organisation want to develop a competitive edge in the economic downturn by gaining worthwhile environmental credentials?

The next round of Carbon Confident commences on January 26th with a carbon footprinting workshop followed by lunch. To find out more information or if your organisation would like to access this free programme please call 0207 974 5657 or sign up for the Carbon Confident programme at Carbon Confident