The Power of Storytelling… in Business

I delivered my brand new workshop ‘The power of storytelling...in business’ for the first time to over 60 Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University as part of January 2021 ‘Personal development week’.

Students from all around the world, joining us live from not only the UK, but India, Spain, Portugal & more- the power of digital!

Key areas covered:

📚 The science of storytelling
📚Creative writing
📚Building your story
📚Creative conversation
📚Creative communication

My workshops are always interactive and fun, so it went without saying that participants didn’t have a choice but to get involved & I even managed to incorporate a pineapple into the session 🍍😊

Creativity in Business

My first time delivering my brand new interactive online workshop: ‘Creativity in business’ was to a screen full of innovative businesses & creative agency CEO’s, as part of the D2N2 Growth Hub UpScaler project, in collaboration with East Midlands Chamber & Nottingham Business School.

The jam-packed 2 hours covered;

✏️Mindset for creativity
✏️Creative writing
✏️The science of creativity
✏️Thinking differently- train your brain
✏️Idea generation tools & techniques

During the session, one participant; Liz the leader of the project, said she had two ‘light bulb moments’ and as such implemented her ideas following the session, both of which are currently in development process, including a business boost wellbeing event, she has since asked me to speak and contribute to.

Making the most of your networking experience

This was a great morning spent delivering an interactive webinar/workshop on business networking for students of The Sheffield College as part of a joint project with Sheffield Chamber of Commerce

I was asked to represent the ‘business networking’ segment of the series, which encompasses many other key skills & useful topics such as leadership, creativity & innovation, growth mindset, resilience and more, with one month and one guest speaker representing each topic.

We covered the following:

🗣The 3 key elements we should be focusing on right now to stay connected.
🗣Networking online: 7 steps to success.
🗣Creative conversation.
🗣Building your story.

Business Networking Online: 7 Steps To Success

This lunchtime session was a combination of networking training and networking for WREN Property Network, as I hosted and facilitated networking in break-out rooms on Zoom, following my talk on the topic: ‘Business networking online: 7 steps to success’.

Topics covered:

Preparation techniques

Communication

Etiquette

Practicalities

Participants had the chance to ask me anything during the Q&A afterwards and I shared a copy of my new e-book titled the same as a free gift takeaway of the session.

Networking for Success Nottingham Business School

I was asked to create, host and facilitate Nottingham Business School's very first online hybrid networking training session & event ‘Networking for success’ in November 2020 and then again in February 2021 following our successful debut.

Business students from all over the world connected through the screen, most admitting they were nervous to begin with having never attended a networking event before. I ran a poll at the end of the session & 100% stated that they couldn’t wait to start their online networking journey following the event

Creativity in Business condensed workshop Roundtable series

The Ingenuity Lab, University of Nottingham

Here I was asked to deliver a condensed version of my brand new workshop- ‘Creativity in business’ as part of the roundtable series for The Ingenuity Lab - Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship tomorrow, where I am a proud member of their Entrepreneur in Residence scheme.

This session was for both creative people and those who don't think of themselves as creative.

For those who wish to ignite their creativity and to learn how to use creativity to approach business development.

We discussed the importance of integrating creativity into business and I shared some of my tips & techniques on idea generation and how to achieve that 'light bulb moment' 💡