Business Festival

Do you run a business and are confused by Instagram? Don’t know what or how to use Instagram for business? What is a hashtag? Step into this Instagram experience and come away with hidden tips and hacks to implement straight away on your own Instagram account.

Danielle Fletcther, a Certified Social Media Marketer specialising in coaching businesses to use Instagram as a marketing tool, will guide you through this no-jargon session to help you feel uber confident.  

My interactive session will cover:

Would you like to unleash more power into your business? Do you know where your ‘hidden brakes’ are? What could happen if you took those ‘hidden brakes’ off…right now?  Join Sue Sharp of Sharper Business in this interactive workshop to discover the ‘hidden brakes’ in your business systems, teams and customer base. Identify ways to start addressing these immediately to gain better results.

This workshop is perfect for leaders and owners of small businesses (of 1-150 staff) who want to grow their business but aren't yet getting the results they want.

This presentation and workshop will look to help those who are looking to manufacture a product for the first time. Often manufacturing is considered far too late in a project and a lot of the cost down opportunities or capital investment implications are missed. Matthew Statham is a chartered manufacturing engineer who spent his career both in the automotive and in small manufacturing companies before founding his own business 14 years ago helping companies take their ideas into production. With a wealth of experience in a variety of product manufacturing processes, Matthew offers valuable

How well do you know or want to know the companies or people you trade with?  In today’s ever-changing world this is an important question.  Every day we see more and more unethical behaviour in businesses, leaving them open to legal and financial penalties that could tarnish their brand increased risks that could ultimately lead to loss of business.  

This event will incorporate the Business and Law Enterprise Clicni (BUSLEC) where students develop their practice legal skills through offering guidance on commercial matters to aspiring entrepreneurs, charities and social enterprises in the Coventry area. 

Session 1 (10:00 - 12:30) Centred on issues small businesses may encounter and pointers to look at.

10:00 Registration

10:30 am – 12.30 pm Issues small businesses may encounter and pointers to look at:-

oin Muse: HR at this event where attendees will be provided with a review of DiSC profiling and learn how understanding your personality traits can help you to communicate more effectively with others whilst understanding their expectations of you. This session will increase your awareness of your preferences when communicating which will help you to move effectively with your time and expectations of others.  

Looking to expand into international markets? Looking to grow international sales?  Taking England to the World - is a one-day training programme, in conjunction with Google Digital Garage, which aims to help your business become international-ready. 

Developed as part of the government’s £40M Discover England Fund, this course is designed to equip you with the skills and foundations to develop and promote your product for sale in international markets.  

Whether you are an SME or a supranational conglomerate, you need to identify an effective strategy to transcend risk and complexity when dealing with issues as diverse as climate change or Brexit. This is a session that spans three hours split between lecture, workshop, feedback and peer to peer mentoring sessions.

The following topics will be covered:

• Organisational resilience

• Supply chains and logistics

• Cybersecurity and data protection

• Managing uncertainty

• Intelligence, situational awareness and horizon scanning

Have you ever worried about how you can keep the magic in your business as your team grows?  Have you ever thought you needed to ‘sort out your HR’ but then it went to the bottom of your list because it sounded boring?  It’s time to focus on throwing away the rule book:

• Everyday: Culture is what happens every day, not the one day you decide to focus on it

• Keep it real: Everyone has a difficult conversation that they’ve been putting off having but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away so be prepared to ‘bring out your dead’ at the session

Join Siteon Limited at this informative 2-hour workshop where we will explore how the use of software and technology can benefit and help grow your business.  We will demonstrate the 4CRM Platform's useful features such as customer management, the creation of tasks, events, invoices and quotes and how to securely store documents and store files. We will also take a look at how to acquire customer consent in order to process and store their personal data.