CREATIVE SKILLS SEMINARS

All seminars advertised below still have spaces available on them.  Please contact Creative Skills on 01209 218879 or email admin@creativeskills.org.uk to request a booking form if you are interested in attending any of the seminars.

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8 days a week …… Managing Time and Personal Effectiveness
Date:   Monday 20th October
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Venue:Meeting Room, Krowji
Cost:   £20

No-one can wave a magic wand and give you an extra day or extra hours in a day, but this seminar explores some strategies and techniques for helping you to be a more effective manager of yourself and your time.

As a creative practitioner or business owner, one of your biggest challenges is juggling your workload with the time available, and the only way to do this is to learn to work smarter with the time you have.  This one day workshop is specifically designed to help creative businesses reach their potential by working more efficiently and more effectively.

Through practical exercises, we look at

• Being clearer about your values and your goals
• Planning and prioritising
• Dealing with time robbers.

Quotes from previous participants:

“Good to have time to focus on how I could and should plan my week and days
at work”

“I feel more confident in planning my time and prioritising”

“This course was very positive and gave me the skills needed to implement change in my working practice”

“I feel inspired and can see what I need to do more clearly.  Tutors were
inventive with activities and materials”

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Managing Your Finances
Dates: 20th October 2008 & 27th October 2008
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Venue: Tregye Campus, (Carnon Downs near Truro)
Cost: £20

This creative and innovative programme takes a new approach to supporting you to manage the financial aspects of your business.  Gain expert help and develop your knowledge of managing your finances.

Understand the relevance of simple calculations to help with financial aspects of your business including:

• Working out the cost of the product you have made
• Operational costs of your business
• Calculating how many products you need to sell to ensure you can cover your expenses
• Basic record keeping
• Profit – how much you want and need to make.

You must be committed to attending both of the programme dates.

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Creative Marketing
Date: 11th November 2008
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Venue:Meeting Room, Krowji
Cost: £20

Want to reach more customers?  Not sure where to start with your marketing? 
This one day interactive seminar takes a creative approach to make your marketing work deliver results.  You will learn how to:

 

• Target the right customer
• Send out the right message to your customer
• Develop your brand
• Work with the 7Ps of marketing – product, price, place, promotion, people, physical image, process
• Develop your own marketing plan

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Quell Those Butterflies
Date: 9th December 2008
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Venue: Meeting Room, Krowji
Cost: £20

You can be the most talkative, confident person ever, but asked to deliver a presentation can often render you speechless, not to mention the ‘kaleidoscope
of butterflies’! How do you sell our ideas, influence people and pitch proposals
with confidence?  This one day course will help you conquer your fears by using simple, practical technique which you will have plenty of opportunity to practice
on the day.

This course will show you how to plan the structure of a presentation and effective use of:

• Tone of voice
• Body language
• Eye contact
• Gesture
• Physical presence