Stealing From The Bottom Line

Speaker: Professor Bob Berry, Nottingham University Business School.   Understanding the ‘cash’ in cash flow forecasting Bob begins today’s seminar with a simple four letter word: cash. Understanding cash is the key to effective cash flow forecasting, but what is a forecast and why do we forecast? That is what Bob will be unpacking in …

Effective Leadership Communication

Workshop Leader:  Dr Louise Mullany, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Director of Business Engagement, School of English. With Dr Sarah Grandage, Lecturer in Language and Drama, School of English & Geoff Bannister, Freelance Actor and Digital Project Manager. Effective Leadership What qualities best describe effective leadership? What characterises effective communication? Those were Dr Louise Mullany’s opening questions …

Creativity and Optimism in Business

Speakers:  Dr Andrew Greenman, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Nottingham University Business School and Tony Brooks, Leadership Specialist at The Leadership Training Workshop. Driving small business growth through learning Andrew began today’s seminar with the question: How often do we sit back and think about what drives economic growth? It isn’t a simple question to …

Dressing for success – Making your personal brand work for you

Speakers: Beth Cooper, Employer Relations Consultant at Nottingham University Business School and Cleo Lacey, Image Consultant and Personal Shopper, Demi Couture. Why is personal branding important? How can it make a difference? This Dress to Impress seminar aimed to give the audience an overview of why personal branding is important with a particular focus on …

Dress to impress!

I spoke at an event this morning entitled Dress to Impress. The mismatch between me and the title of the session caused much hilarity for my wife who continually asked me, “so why are YOU speaking at this event again?” To be clear for anyone that knows or has ever met me, I wasn’t giving …

Authentic Leadership and Entrepreneurship

Speaker: Stuart Ross, Managing Director of High Growth. What is authentic leadership? Stuart kicked off the talk with a definition of authentic leadership: “An approach to leadership that emphasises building the leader’s legitimacy through honest relationships with followers which value their input and are built on an ethical foundation.” Being an authentic leader is a …

Linguistic Profiling for Business Leaders

Speakers: Dr. Louise Mullany, Professor in Sociolinguistics, The University of Nottingham and Di Tunney, Owner at The Best Organisation, Director at Liveinsights, CEO at CEO4sight. Leadership Communication: a look at where communication fails and improvements to avoid it The aim of this seminar was to give the Ingenuity audience an idea on how they can …

A Fresh Approach to Strategy

A Fresh Approach to Strategy: a look at where strategy goes wrong and fixes for when it does Speaker: Jim Cowan from Cowan Global 0% of executives who use a SWOT analysis use the results of that analysis when developing their strategy.  That was just one of a number of (possibly) surprising statistics shared by …

Martial Arts for Debt Collecting

Speaker: Professor Bob Berry, Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance, Nottingham University Business School  As with any martial art, the art of managing receivables is as much one of staying out of trouble as dealing with, said Professor Bob Berry, and this process starts right from the point when new business is accepted.  Turning a …

Managing Your Intellectual Property Assets

Speakers: Gary Townley, Intellectual Property Office and Simon Curtis, Potter Clarkson “95% of UK businesses do not know the value of their intellectual property rights.”  That was the startling statistic that kicked off Gary Townley’s presentation, one that is made all the more concerning given the growing trend for intellectual property assets to outstrip fixed …