The first was the monthly ?Peer 2 Peer? mentoring group organised and subsidised by the Chamber and we are at our 3rd meeting now and the group is beginning to bond, with several joint ventures being created already.? I pretty much know when I walk in a room who I?m going to get on with immediately but there are quieter people who I take a while to get to know and this group is great for that.? We are also starting to feel safe enough to open up a bit.
One of our number volunteered accidentally for what our group facilitator is calling ?Reflective Learning? which is where you present a business issue and get 5 minutes to outline that.? Then we all have resist our usual mode of offering solutions, but try and ask open ended questions designed to get the person in the hot seat to think differently.? Like herding cats that was, but we got there in the end and the victim said it was really helpful, as he?d been avoiding thinking about the issue for a while.
We generally adjourn to the pub (the only time you would catch me in a Weatherspoons ? especially in Worthing) but I have to say, the food was surprisingly good for the price and the great conversations carry on for another hour or so.
They are starting two? new groups now and it?s real value for money at around ?40 a month or so, so email tina.tiley@worthingandadurchamber.co.uk for more info.
The second event was a lunch at Impulse Leisure (previously y Lancing Leisure) which I?ve managed to avoid hitherto but I was again, pleasantly surprised by the large breezy room, pleasant food and the enjoyable company several of my new Chamber maties.
The CEO of the local council Peter Latham was speaking this time and he seemed quite entertaining but once more I found myself challenged by being largely unable to hear more than one word in three.? I had the same issue at the Chamber AGM where Gill Fielding was nearly inaudible in spite of standing in front of a microphone and the presence of some fairly large speakers that certainly were not turned on.? Most mysterious that was.
I must talk to Tina about the Chamber perhaps getting a portable PA system ? like Brighton Chamber has apparently ? that she knows how to use as, when I quizzed my table mates as to whether they were able to hear clearly, they all shook their heads.
Coming up soon is the launch party of The Dome Vintage Tea Room, on June 7th co-ordinated by Sheryl@WorthingDomeEvents.co.uk if you fancy coming and there is also a Worthing & Adur Chamber Hub event at Shoreham Airport next week which you can attend free I believe.
I need more business cards, if I ?m going to keep up this level of networking.? My old beloved Business Success Factory Moo Cards are out of date, with the wrong phone number and email on them so I can?t use those.? I don?t? like people ringing me out of the blue so I could live with that but the email address being wrong is just out of order.? It?s all down to my vacillating at the beginning about using the .co.uk versus the .com!
That site is all about mentoring nowadays too, which is not the target market for all this networking, so I need Cairncross Media cards now.
This is where I run up against the graphic design conundrum ? which is that I am very fussy with a strong sense of what I want but I find it very difficult to explain what I want and get very impatient with graphic designers who create things that are nothing like the kind of thing I like!
I?m certainly not willing to pay to go through that pain just yet, so I?ve thrown myself on the mercy of my mate Steve who is not only a brilliant WordPress web designer but has a great design eye too.? Steve is my preferred go-to outsourcer for websites for Cairncross Media clients so we all get a great deal there with his unique combo of techie and design skills.
Sunday night brings the closing of the Brighton Fringe for the Brunswick Pub, one of the Fringe?s larger venues, with my Cairncross Media client (and singing sister!) Heather Cairncross performing songs from her debut solo album ?At Last?.She?s just been featured on the Music Week?s ?Unsigned? CD and page ? she was picked as Track #1 so that?s very cool.? You can see that here >>>
Described as ?near as perfect as you?re likely to get? by Walter Love- Jazz Club ? Radio Ulster, it?s an evening of easy listening standards in the style of Ella so don?t feel you have to be a jazz aficionado to come and enjoy it.
Not too late to book via the Brighton Fringe website, it?s only ?10 (?8 concessions) and we can say hello!? That link takes you straight to the page.
See you there or at a business networking event locally!
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