workshop/seminar

 
Our First Steps Workshops are designed for business owners who are interested in testing whether employee ownership would be right for their company.
This full-day event focuses on the practicalities of moving to employee ownership and will give you everything you require to make a properly informed decision.
Participants will learn:

A full-day, interactive event focussing on the practicalities of moving to employee ownership and will give you everything you require to make a properly informed decision including:
?How to do a quick valuation of your business and the funding options
?What needs to be in place to become employee owned
?How Employee Benefit Trusts and Share Incentive Plans operate
NB: there is grant funding available for attendance by Scottish Businesses.

 
An informative free evening event designed to introduce entrepreneurs, business owners and managers to the benefits employee ownership can bring your organisation in terms of uplifts in employee engagement, organisational productivity and long term succession planning.  
Endorsed by the Employee Ownership Association, networking and refreshments will be available to all attendees.
This informative seminar will be of interest to:

 
An informative free evening event designed to introduce entrepreneurs, business owners and managers to the benefits employee ownership can bring your organisation in terms of uplifts in employee engagement, organisational productivity and long term succession planning. 
Our keynote speaker is David Erdal, Former Chairman, Tullis Russell and Author of Beyond the Corporation.
Endorsed by the Employee Ownership Association, networking and refreshments will be available to all attendees.

Now coming into its 3rd successful year, our Oxford Leadership Masterclass series is the only leadership programme in the UK, designed and delivered by employee ownership specialists for employee owned and mutual organisations.
This two day residential course is a unique opportunity to learn directly from renowned leaders of highly successful employee owned businesses, enabling you to drive strong leadership and better overall performance in your organisation.

As its contribution to UN International Year of Co-operatives the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Labour History Society presents a meeting open to all on Saturday 14th April at 1.30pm at the Nottingham Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham NG1 4EZ:
The speakers and subjects are:
 
Roy and Pat Stuttard
Overview of Co-operative Movement
 
Chris Richardson
Early Co-operative Movement in Nottingham
 

On the 23rd February RBS will announce their 2011 Preliminary Results, and we'll be at their Holborn branch to show them that big bonuses and business as usual is not good enough.

Be outside the RBS branch on Thursday morning ready to shut your account, tell them that you will be leaving RBS (or Natwest), and hand in letters with your complaints (if you're not an RBS/Natwest customer).

Social Investment Explained is a half day event designed to provide greater insight and understanding of social investment for social enterprises.

Do you want to learn or practice to run a participant-led 3 hour meeting or a 3 day conference, for 5 to 1000 people, at a moment's notice? Experienced facilitators and teachers will be hosting an Open Space workshopon Friday 9th September.