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Chamber Portal Workshop
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Northamptonshire Business Exhibition – Chamber Connect Stands
Title: Northamptonshire Business Exhibition – Chamber Connect Stands Venue: Cinch […]
Northamptonshire Business Exhibition Visitors
Title: Northamptonshire Business Exhibition Visitors Venue: Cinch Stadium at Franklin’s […]
Next Generation Social – Cobblers Tour
Title: Next Generation Social – Cobblers Tour Venue: Sixfield Stadium […]
Chamber Portal Workshop
Title: Chamber Portal Workshop Venue: ONLINE Description: Join our online […]
Chamber Portal Workshop
Title: Chamber Portal Workshop Venue: ONLINE Description: Join our online […]
Mental Health First Aid
This 2-day course will allow you to become part of the largest MHFAider® community in England, gaining access to resources, ongoing learning and 24/7 digital support through our MHFAider Support App®, to give you the tools and knowledge you need to carry out the role effectively and confidently, whether that be in your workplace, a volunteer role, or in the community.
Northamptonshire Business Exhibition – Chamber Champion Stands
Title: Northamptonshire Business Exhibition – Chamber Champion Stands Venue: Cinch […]
Chamber Summer BBQ – Banner Stand Sponsor
Title: Chamber Summer BBQ – Banner Stand Sponsor Venue: Northants […]
Northamptonshire Business Exhibition – Chamber Promote Stands
Title: Northamptonshire Business Exhibition – Chamber Promote Stands Venue: Cinch […]
Commodity Codes
Suitable for complete beginners or experienced operators who feel the need to refresh their knowledge. This course looks at understanding Commodity Codes, why they’re needed, and who is responsible. Several practical exercises are included in this course to ensure attendees have a strong understanding of Commodity Codes.
Preference Rules of Origin
This course is recommended for those who already work in international trade but need further training on origin calculations and how this affects sales and purchases.
Advanced Excel
Do you already have good knowledge of Excel? Then this one’s for you! This course builds on your prior knowledge and will progress you further by using some of the more complex Excel functions, bringing your ability to a new level using new formulas and analysing data effectively.
Import Procedures including IP & OP
The course provides an overview of the end-to-end import process and reviews all the areas that would be applicable to a new supplier, to include country and supplier risk, payment risk etc. It will review documentation requirements and how to ensure goods are imported successfully to include duty payments and an overview of the available Special Procedures.
Powerspeak – Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
This course is designed to enhance public speaking and presentation abilities. It focusses on voice control, overcoming public speaking anxiety, effective body language, and practical scenario training. The aim is to build confidence and improve communication skills for a variety of professional contexts.
Letters of Credit & Methods of Payment
The course provides an overview of all methods of payment when trading internationally to include the risks and benefits involved. It will then concentrate on the Letter of Credit aspect guiding you through the rules of managing a letter of credit, making sure documents are compliant and payment is successful.
Incoterms
This ½ day course is suitable for all those currently working in an export environment or are new to exporting. It will advise attendees on the most appropriate Incoterm® to use for their international transactions. This covers a full update on the changes between 2010 and 2020. It will guide on who has what obligation during a sale including where risk and cost pass from Seller to Buyer during the transaction.
How to Win Business using Social Media
This training session has been designed to develop your skills, to help you to fully understand how social media works and how to maximise its potential. By the end of this course, delegates will have a strong knowledge of how social media works and how it will benefit your business.
Effective Appraisal Skills
The course provides business owners, line managers and leaders with the skills they need to plan and deliver appraisals with confidence. Regular and effective appraisals improve retention, make people feel engaged and motivate them to go the extra mile.
Introduction to Microsoft Power BI
This course will help you gain the skills in how to analyse data and share insights with one of the most powerful reporting tools. With over 20 built-in visuals and a vibrant community of custom visualisations, you can create stunning reports.
Sales for Beginners
This workshop has been developed to help two types of individuals, those who are not natural salespeople who would like to learn sales techniques and those who would like to brush up their sales skills. In this workshop, we take the fear out of sales and give you basic sales skills that will help you win more business.
Coaching for Managers
Coaching is now acknowledged as an essential skill for all managers and leaders to create a motivated and engaged workforce. This course will provide you with the skills you need to run effective coaching sessions.
Beginners Practical Guide to Exporting
This course gives an overview of export procedures. We recommend this for individuals who only need a top-level understanding of international trade procedures or those with relevant qualifications and/or experience in the export industry who want a refresher.
Beginners Practical Guide to Importing
This course gives an overview import procedures. We recommend this for individuals who only need a top-level understanding of international trade procedures or those with relevant qualifications and/or experience in the import industry who want a refresher.
Customs Procedures and Documentation
This course covers the key information required to understand: • Organisations involved in International Trade • What is an Export? • International Documentation and key Information • Customs Compliance, HMRC – their role, Export Declarations, Customs Procedures • Import Duties, AEO, Audit, Phased Import Easements, NI Trade
Successful Supervisory Management
This 2-day course will introduce you to some of the tools and techniques essential to the role of Supervisor/Manager and to develop the skills to enable you to manage and motive people effectively and productively.
Understanding Export & Export Documentation
This course is suitable for beginners who are new to the role or those who work in an export environment but may not have had previous training, the course takes a look at the end-to-end process providing an understanding of the export documentation requirements and shipping using freight forwarders and couriers. By the end of this course, delegates will have gained the confidence that they are completing the correct forms in the correct way for the correct reasons.
Influencing Skills
This course will develop your awareness of how to influence and also deepen your influencing skills to benefit you and your business to be more effective. Successful influencing is about making a connection and appealing to the heart as well as the head. It is about identifying personal triggers and adapting your style to others’ to get the best results from the people you are trying to influence.
Assertiveness Skills
At some time or other most of us give in to people in authority or to those who are dominant or difficult. It stops us achieving our own goals and leaves us feeling inadequate, stressed or angry. This course identifies the behaviour patterns that lead to these situations. Delegates will practice a new set of behaviour patterns to enable them to better control interpersonal situations.
Intermediate Excel
Anyone who is familiar with the basic features of Excel together with basic formulas will benefit from attending this course. This course places great emphasis upon the importance of understanding how to build the spreadsheet correctly with Dynamic Ranges. It is therefore important that participants are at the appropriate level to ensure a good learning experience.
Telephone Sales Skills
An effective telesales call is not just about picking up the phone and “going for it”; to win business and achieve your call objectives it needs to capture your prospect’s attention, build rapport over the phone with the use of communication techniques and adapting to different personality types. This workshop is designed to show you how to effectively use the concept of upselling and cross selling for effective telesales that will have an immediate impact on the business.
How to hold Difficult Conversations
The purpose of this course is to help you identify what it may be that’s preventing you from having difficult conversations and provide you with strategies to handle them effectively.
The Fundamentals of Project Management
This is a professional course around how to manage change. It is aligned to industry standards of the accrediting professional body, the Association for Project Management. The purpose of this course is to equip people with the fundamental principles of project management to enable them to manage change effectively within their organisations.
IOSH
The IOSH Managing Safely 3-day course aims to provide individuals with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage health and safety in the workplace, ensuring a safer working environment and compliance with relevant regulations.
Confident Customer Service
This course aims to improve customer service within your business and help your team become more confident in their approach and recognising the value they bring to the organisation. Whether you are handling customers face to face or over the phone it is essential that you master the skills to keep the conversation flowing; obtain important information; and ensure your customer – or potential customer – leaves you/the caller with a good impression of your company.
Incoterms
This ½ day course is suitable for all those currently working in an export environment or are new to exporting. It will advise attendees on the most appropriate Incoterm® to use for their international transactions. This covers a full update on the changes between 2010 and 2020. It will guide on who has what obligation during a sale including where risk and cost pass from Seller to Buyer during the transaction.
Emergency First Aid at Work
This course will train attendees to give appropriate emergency first aid to anyone who is ill or injured in the workplace. The course teaches the appropriate level of first aid required in low-risk businesses under the HSE 1981 legislation. Students are assessed to ensure that they understand and would be able to fulfil the role of first aider within their workplace. Bostock are registered by the First Aid Industry Body (FAIB) to provide EFAW training.
Commodity Codes
Suitable for complete beginners or experienced operators who feel the need to refresh their knowledge. This course looks at understanding Commodity Codes, why they’re needed, and who is responsible. Several practical exercises are included in this course to ensure attendees have a strong understanding of Commodity Codes.
Letters of Credit & Methods of Payment
The course provides an overview of all methods of payment when trading internationally to include the risks and benefits involved. It will then concentrate on the Letter of Credit aspect guiding you through the rules of managing a letter of credit, making sure documents are compliant and payment is successful.
Advanced Excel
Do you already have good knowledge of Excel? Then this one’s for you! This course builds on your prior knowledge and will progress you further by using some of the more complex Excel functions, bringing your ability to a new level using new formulas and analysing data effectively.
Face 2 Face Sales Skills
A face-to-face meeting with a prospect is one of the best ways to build rapport, gain an understanding of their issues/problems, effectively demonstrate your solution, and ultimately close to win the business. The purpose of this course is to show you how to achieve this.
LinkedIn as a Sales Tool
This course is designed to support the delegate to generate quality sales leads through LinkedIn. By the end of this workshop delegates will: Have a ‘sales-ready’ LinkedIn profile, understand how to use your company page content to increase your reputation and build relationships, understand how to use LinkedIn pro-actively and strategically to create strong sales leads and get results.
Intermediate Excel
Anyone who is familiar with the basic features of Excel together with basic formulas will benefit from attending this course. This course places great emphasis upon the importance of understanding how to build the spreadsheet correctly with Dynamic Ranges. It is therefore important that participants are at the appropriate level to ensure a good learning experience.
Managing Your Workload
This course explores how time is wasted and provides effective strategies to make a real impact upon time management. It includes how leaders can better use time to empower and delegate their people.
Sales for Beginners
This workshop has been developed to help two types of individuals, those who are not natural salespeople who would like to learn sales techniques and those who would like to brush up their sales skills. In this workshop, we take the fear out of sales and give you basic sales skills that will help you win more business.