Networking Bureau with CADE

Mr. Óscar Fernández, Director of the Business Support Centre in Marbella together with Mr. José Francisco Posé of Unicaja Internacional and Mr. Jerónimo Pérez Malaga Chamber of Commerce are pleased to invite you to the Seminar entitled “Networking Bureau“ on the 12nd of April 2010. The event will be chaired by the Head of the Foreigners Department of the Mijas Town Hall, Mrs. Anette Skou.

Date: Monday 12th April 2010
Time: 4:30 pm
Place: Hotel CIO MIJAS, La Cala, Mijas Costa, Málaga.
The seminar is free of charge but places are limited

To secure your place please e-mail immediately to:
cade.marbella@andaluciaemprende.es

The deadline to subscribe is 8th April 2010. However, it is advisable to respond quickly due to the limited amount of places available.

PROGRAMME

16: 30 h - Registration

17:00 h - Welcome

17:15 h - Presentation: “Institutional Networking” by Mr. OscarFernandez, Director of CADE Marbella

17:30 h - Presentation: “Think outside the box – Expand yourbusiness beyond your local community” by Mrs. LauraStanbridge, CCG

18:00 h - Presentation: “How to beat the crisis” by Mr. JoaoAlves, CWA Internet

18:30 h - Networking event: “Grow your business throughnetworking” by Mr. Dave Edwards

19:15 h - Round Table Meeting: 4Business, Women inBusiness, British Chamber of Commerce, BusinessFirst and BNI

19:45 h - Cocktail

Shift your thoughts to create a change

I've found an interesting blog post by life coach David Salmon about the importance of thinking in the right way to make a change. He says:

"When you are looking at making changes in your life, the first step is to shift your thinking. Changing your thoughts about something is a definite way to initiate change.

You hate your job? Change the way you think about it. Look at it as a temporary stepping stone on the way to the job you do want. Redefine your job description in your own mind and shift how you see yourself in that job. The job itself won’t change, but as your thinking changes, so you will start to feel differently about your job. A more positive outlook will ripple outwards and you may start to see opportunities appear that weren’t available to you before.

Change begins with you. The way you think and what you think create your external reality. Your perception of your world starts with your thoughts and that perception is the reality that you live with." Read the full post

I certainly think the mind over matter approach can be incredibly powerful, what do you think? Write a comment below!

FREE webinar - The Hidden Game of Business

Title : Business Ju Jitsu. The Hidden Game of Business!

Scams like Enron, the Junk bonds in the '80's, and the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernie Madoff are very much the result of a basic misconception shared by the business community: that tightly controlled environments are safe from collusion and fraud. Sometimes tight control and malfeasance exist side by side. This occurs when there is pervasive collusion at the highest levels and recent events have demonstrated that such conditions are not the rare,' perfect storms' we assumed them to be. Due to certain quirks in our social wiring, collusion is the stasis towards which corporate environments naturally gravitate. In the absence of specific safeguards designed to keep collusion in check, it will flourish. However, with such checks in place these scams can be caught at an early stage, well before the real damage is done.

This webinar will cover:

• How business/corporate games begin

• The signs that games are in progress

• How to absolutely identify if there is a 'game-in-progress' in your organization using a simple diagnostic tool

• What to do if there is!

About the presenter: John Berling Hardy is a Chartered Accountant who performs audits on numerous Fortune 500 companies. This affords him the opportunity to observe a wide range of corporate environments and provides valuable insights into the internal dynamics of large professional firms.Specifically, it offers him a view into the stratified organizational structure typical of, what he calls, 'The Hidden Game'. The partners (the principles of the firm) occupy the higher strata, while all the remaining levels, from auditor through to the managers, are clustered together in the next rung. And finally, the support staff occupy the lowest strata. This caste system has a profound impact on the corporate culture of any firm, creating an environment which is highly political and aggressively competitive. It doesn't have to be that way!

When: Monday, 19 April 10:00 p.m (GMT)

To register: Log in here

Spanish Courses for Foreigners

Marbella Town Hall are offering the foreign community in Marbella a range of Spanish courses within specialized fields, namely:

HOW TO USE THE SPANISH LANGUAGE TO BE AT EASE IN A SPANISH
ENVIRONMENT: LANGUAGE AND GENERAL CULTURE
HOW TO USE THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IN BUSINESS AND KNOW THE
SPANISH LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM
HOW TO USE THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IN HEALTHCARE SPHERES

Course information:
Hours of Lessons: 30 hours
Hours of Tutorship and Help for Students: 6 hours
Course Coordinator: Mr. Valentín Barrantes López
Teachers: Mr. Emilio Ortega Arjonilla
Ms. Ana Belén Martínez López
Ms. Yolanda Domínguez Trujillo and Mr. Raúl Blanco Téllez
Start Date: 12th April
Course Price: 150 EUR (taxes included)

GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSES:
The courses offered have been designed to provide the students with the basic knowledge required to enter the Spanish environment and successfully manage in the Spanish language in specific situations within different spheres. Within the courses, we will address matters related to the linguistic knowledge, the Spanish culture in general and the terminology within a general context, a legal and business context and within the healthcare context.

These courses will last ten weeks and will consist of 3-hour formative sessions held once a week. Students will have three 1-hour sessions during the course (classroom tutorship) to help them address and solve any specific doubts with the teacher. Also, they will be provided with the teacher’s email address to send their doubts and observations directly to the teacher.

CONTACT INFORMATION AND OTHER DETAILS
a) The general email address for the organization of the courses will be training@novalo.es
b) At the end of the course, students will receive a Certificate of Completion of the course