Networking for Success

Course Date: 16^th April, 2013

Member Rate: €130.00

Networking is a powerful tool often underestimated. This seminar will give participants the essential tools to develop and use core networking skills to develop core networking opportunities. Networking has an extensive rippling effect and it is important to understand how to harness opportunities to maximize your organizations opportunities.

The course will cover the following:

• Why networking
• Safe cross code to networking
• Networking script
• Adapting & Connectin
• Working the Room
• Before the event
• At the event
• After the event
• Getting a return on your investment
• Making networking fun

This workshop is critical to anyone keen on enhancing their business and financial strength. Whether utilizing skills to develop internal networking, conference networking or indeed looking for a job. The facilitator of this program will ensure you gain maximum return from this course and that you will enhance and understand the power of your own social capital.

This may be the best €130.00 you will ever spend!! BOOK NOW!

Digital Media for Business

Course Dates: 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd April & 13^th May, 2013

Member Rate: €400.00 (Days can also be booked individually @ €125.00 per day)

These four days provide an in-depth insight into the latest innovations in Online Marketing and Digital Media. It covers techniques for your own website such as copy writing and website structure, blogging and link building, using Twitter for business and the current technique for running campaigns on social networks such as Facebook. The course will also give an overview of social media use and look at LinkedIn for business generation.

The course outline is as follows:

Day One

• SEO and Website Structure
• Targeted Advertising

Day Two

• Blogging and Content Creation
• Facebook Intermediate

Day Three

• Twitter
• Linkedin

Day Four

•  Mobile Marketing, Mobile Applications
• Devising a Marketing Plan

This course is ideal for those who are marketing managers or who look after the marketing function in a company. It is also suited for all levels of Staff with a basic understanding of the World Wide Web. It is a non-technical course and is suitable for non-IT staff whose effectiveness would be enhanced by a greater awareness of the current state of the World Wide Web and techniques designed to attract more website visitors and convert them into customers.

This course is only €400 for all 4 days, so BOOK NOW!!

Train the Trainer (FETAC Level 6)  

Course Dates: 15^th, 22^nd & 29^th April

Member Rate: €400.00

This 3 day course, one of our more popular, is designed to equip learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to design, deliver, assess and evaluate training programmes. It is suitable for people who are working in the area of training and development or who will soon be assuming a training position within their organisation. Participants on this course will gain practical experience and recognised certification (FETAC Level 6) as trainers.

At the end of this programme successful participants will be able to:

• Understand different learning styles;
• Explain critical elements of a trainers' role;
• Understand the functions and processes of learning and training;
• Evaluate different approaches to training;
• Appreciate the importance of training on an individual, social and economic level;
• Work effectively with a range of learner groups;
• Explain the training needs analysis process and set appropriate training objectives;
• Apply the principles of training design in preparing lesson plans;
• Deliver training effectively in one-to-one and group situations, and select appropriate techniques for assessing trainee progress;
• Identify different levels of evaluation and evaluate the effectiveness of training programmes;
• Develop and implement appropriate assessment methods.

So if you wish to gain a professional, accredited qualification in the area of training, BOOK TODAY!

See our full range of courses at www.corkchamber.ie/training

Bookings can be completed through the website and enquiries should be directed to Aoife@corkchamber.ie  (Training Services Administrator)

BUSINESS SCHOOL CALENDAR

April

•  MS Excel Advanced                                                        5^th April
• Digital Media for Business                                           9^th April
• Certificate in Train the Trainer                                   15^th April
• MS Excel Intermediate                                                15^th April
• Networking for Success                                             16^th April
• MS PowerPoint ‘Beyond the Basics’                        26^th April
•  Present & Express with Confidence                        30^th April

May

• MS Word Intermediate                                                 3^rd May
• Train the Trainer                                                           14^th May
• Personal Productivity using MS Outlook                   20^th May