The fourth Growing Gloucestershire Conference on Thursday 26th June 2008 was a great success, bigger and better than ever.

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The Growing Gloucestershire Conference offered the latest thinking in business and personal development. With two inspirational keynote speakers and a fantastic selection of seminars from local experts and academics, all showcasing the best practice and success stories of Gloucestershire businesses.

Levi Roots the Dragon Slayer... BBC's Dragons’ Den’s sauciest and most musical success story was inspirational...

Find out more about: Keynote Speakers

For more details on each of the seminars please visit the Seminar Speakers page where details of each talk are attached

Find out more about: Seminar Speakers

The Growing Gloucestershire Conference was delivered in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chartered Institute of Personal Development and the Chartered Management Institute. The event was hosted by the University of Gloucestershire at its Park Campus in Cheltenham.

‘Fantastic day full of great ideas and success stories’ ‘The keynote speaker was truly inspirational’ ‘An excellent way to meet and learn. A fantastic and worthwhile event’

Continuing Professional Development

The Growing Gloucestershire Conference also provided 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

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

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.

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.

As part of this years Growing Gloucestershire Conference we will also presented the awards for University of Gloucestershire BUG Business Planning Competition (Business planning at the University of Gloucestershire).

The competition was run to encourage entrepreneurial behaviour in people and was 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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