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Next Meeting
Thursday 15th May 2008
Time: 9.15 a.m. for 9.30 (until 4.30 p.m.) Venue: The Bell Inn, Stilton, Peterborough, Guest Speaker: Betty Cooper Subject: Focus - Your Format for Success Showcases: Phil Jones and Kate Atkin
PSA East of England Meetings 2008 Whole day events
www.thebellstilton.co.ukDetails of speakers for 15th May:
Join us at our next fabulous meeting - focussed on you & your audience. Your chance to meet Betty Cooper, over in the UK from Canada - an opportunity not to be missed!!
East of England PSA Meeting 15th May 2008
- 15 for 9.30am until 4.30pm
at The Bell Inn, Stilton, Peterborough - just off the A1
More details below.
To book send your cheque for £50 incl VAT (members) or £60 incl VAT (non-members), to our treasurer Peter Mueller at 11 Bank Avenue, SOMERSHAM, Cambridgeshire, PE28 3DH and email so he can advise the hotel of numbers for lunch.
FOCUS - YOUR FORMAT FOR SUCCESS AS A PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER By Betty Cooper,
To be truly successful as a speaker, you have to move from "What" to "Why". In today's challenging business world, many speakers have still not discovered and used this "Format for Success". In her talk, Betty Cooper will share with you her Successful Focus strategies. Creative ways to "Hook, Hold, and Handle" your audiences. As you help them create their success and yours.
Betty Cooper helps people at every level of business become more powerful, effective speakers and presenters through her individual coaching, her workshops and seminars and her talks to businesses and organizations. She has successfully operated her own Calgary-based business as a Communicating Specialist, Coach. Facilitator and Speaker internationally for over thirty-five years. She is recognized as one of North America's leading communicating specialist and coach.
Recent Awards 2003 -CAPS National (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) honoured her with the SPIRIT OF CAPS AWARD. Only the second time this award had been presented. 2004 - She was presented with the ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PAUL HARRIS AWARD 2005 - Woman of Vision - Global Television
See www.bettycooper.com for more information on this extraordinarily talented lady.
Showcases by Phil Jones and Kate Atkin
Phil Jones' topic: Measuring Environmental Performance. This will be based on a presentation he gave in Oslo on various ways to think about how an organisation measures and manages its environmental performance, and in fact the environmental performance of its entire chain.
More about Phil Jones: Phil is a specialist in strategy and performance management. He has helped strategic thinking, planning and implementation for the management teams of organisations in the UK, US, Asia and Europe, as diverse as FTSE100 firms, International Banks, dot.coms, Local Government, Central Government, SMEs and start-ups. His first book, Communicating Strategy, was published in February. His second book, "Strategy mapping" is to be published in around 9 months time.
His website is www.excitant.co.uk, and you can contact him via or (44) 7 711 711 123
Showcase by Kate Atkin: Precision Thinking for Confident Outcomes
Have you experienced knocking knees, a dry throat or churning stomach before an important business meeting? Do your butterflies fly in formation, or are they flitting all over the place at the thought of making a presentation? What do your thoughts have to do with your success in business? Science is providing us with increasing proof that our thoughts affect our feelings, behaviour and the results. So how can you get into the right state of mind whatever the occasion?
Covering five top tips for Precision Thinking, this 20 minute presentation could be just the boost you need. The strategies presented by Kate Atkin, of Aspire 2 are based on research of the brain and body connection and will show you how to use your brain effectively.
More about Kate Atkin Aspire 2 was started by Kate in September 2000 following a successful career with Barclays Bank. Based in Cambridge she works with a wide variety of organisations, teams and individuals. In her speaking, training and coaching Kate inspires change, instils self-belief and encourages confidence; she also shares her personal experiences, bringing theory to life.
With a particular interest in accelerated learning, our body's energy systems and how the brain works to aid learning, Kate has spent time learning from Eric Jensen and Donna Eden in the States and Tony Buzan in the UK.
In May 2007 Kate won the District Speech Evaluation Contest run by Toastmasters International - coming top in the UK & Ireland! She has been recognised as the Most Outstanding Trainer in JCI UK in 2005, and is a World Debating Champion.
Kate is also a published author on the subjects of confidence and networking.
........ And our mystery guest from the Million Dollar Round Table!!
As well as plenty of time for networking, discussions and brainstorming AND chat over tea & biscuits, together with a scrummy hot lunch, what more could you ask for??
Comments from previous meetings....... Dear Kate and Terry,
Very many thanks for inviting me to speak on Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed everything that we did.
I think that it is a great thing to be able to spend a whole day 'messing around' with speaking. It was very good to have the time to watch and then dissect the Steph du Plessis (spelling?) video. There is time to think,time to explore, time to engage and when you get a super group like that together there is a group dynamic that you simply cannot create in an evening. Perhaps we are all too tired by then?
So congratulations on running a gem of a Chapter.
Tim Kidson
Just a note to thank you for the opportunity to present my keynote yesterday. The feedback was pretty radical, but all the more useful for that. I got a lot out of the rest of the meeting. Don’t you meet such interesting people at the PSA?
Anthony Day
Venue for all meetings The Bell Inn, Stilton (A1 (M) Junc.16)
ALL event days cost members £50.00 and Non Members £60.00 inclusive of two-course hot lunch, beverages and VAT by CHEQUE IN ADVANCE to ‘PSA East of England’.c/o Peter Mueller, 11 Bank Avenue, SOMERSHAM Cambridgeshire, PE28 3DH
Non members are welcome to come along for two meetings before joining, please phone Kate Atkin on 07779 646 976 for further information or email
2008 dates for your diary
18th Sept 2008 - Masterclass by Fergus McClelland - The Power of Persuasion, Keynote by Roger Evans and showcase by David Feistenstein
Speaking professionally means sharing professionally
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