Growing Gloucestershire Conference 2009

This year’s Growing Gloucestershire Conference themed around Inspire, Grow and Sustain was a great success and offered the latest thinking in business and personal development. We had two inspirational keynote speakers and a variety of high quality seminars from local experts and academics, showcasing best practice and success stories of Gloucestershire businesses.

Institute Member tickets were available for £55 + VAT

Non-Institute Delegate tickets were £90 + VAT

Non-Institute Delegate Group tickets were £80 + Vat per ticket

If you require any further information please contact the GEN Events Team on 01242 714104. All bookings were subject to our Terms & Conditions attached.

blink_large The 2009 Growing Gloucestershire Conference was sponsored by Business Link South West and delivered in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Chartered Management Institute. The event was hosted by the University of Gloucestershire at its Park Campus in Cheltenham.

‘A great experience, good networking too’

‘An excellent day and excellent value for money’

‘A day well spent at a convenient location’

As you can see from the video above the fourth Growing Gloucestershire Conference on Thursday 26th June 2008 was a great success, bigger and better than ever. For more details regarding the 2008 conference please visit the 2008 conference pages.

Our Keynote Speakers included:

Charles Landry - Is Gloucestershire making the most of its potential and its assets? What is the role of creativity and innovation in making successful places...

Robin Fielder - How to Encourage Extraordinary Performance?
Inspirational leaders breathe life, confidence and 'can-do' into the organisation. They unlock 30% discretionary effort...

Continuing Professional Development

The Growing Gloucestershire Conference also provides several ways of adding to your Continuing Professional Development offering opportunities to:

Listen to local and national experts, a fantastic opportunity to learn from their successes and gain current business insight from some of the best minds the county has to offer
Network and meet other professional people at the GEN Networking Café located within the Exhibition Centre; an excellent opportunity to discover new local products and services whilst networking
Benefit from lessons in professional development and take away ideas to improve your business

All institute members will be entitled to Continuing Professional Development hours for attending the conference.

Partner Institutes

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Gloucestershire Enterprise Network (GEN)

GEN is an online and offline networking tool for the businesses of Gloucestershire. The network provides opportunities for collaboration, engagement and networking, building business strength through the exchange of knowledge and promotion of best practise. www.genonline.net

CIPD logo Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Why should we attend the "Growing Gloucestershire" conference? Here is what the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) think.

The view of the CIPD is that Continuing Professional Development or CPD requires a combination of approaches, ideas and techniques that will help members manage their own learning and growth.

The focus of CPD is firmly on results – the benefits that professional development can bring members in the "real world". Perhaps the most important message is that one approach does not fit everyone.

So the "Growing Gloucestershire" conference provides several ways of adding to a member’s CPD:
networking and sharing information with other HR professionals
networking and sharing information with other professionals from other institutes
attending the formal key note presentations and asking questions
attending the seminars and engaging with others in a more informal setting
adding to your CPD record

Wherever you are in your career now, and whatever you want to achieve, your CPD should be exactly that - yours.

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)

How you can earn from local, world class businesses. Chartered Institute of Marketing members have benefited from attending previous annual Gloucestershire Professional joint conferences at the University of Gloucestershire by learning from award winning companies' case studies who are achieving outstanding marketing results which they are then applying to their own businesses.

CMI logo Chartered Institute of Management (CMI)

The Chartered Management Institute, the only chartered professional body that is dedicated to management and leadership, has demonstrated its support for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with the creation of a new online, interactive CPD system.

The Institute recognises that effective CPD is a commitment to professionalism, showing that you have taken personal responsibility for ensuring that you have the skills and knowledge necessary to meet the challenges of an ever changing world.

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As part of this year’s Growing Gloucestershire Conference we also presented the awards for the University of Gloucestershire’s BUG Business Planning Competition.

The competition is run to encourage entrepreneurial behaviour in people and is open to all of the university’s staff, students and alumni (graduated within 5 years).

More information can be found on the BUG website: www.glos.ac.uk/bugcompetition

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