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SUMMARY:Lead with Confidence
DESCRIPTION:This 5-week course cohort takes place on a Tuesday\, weekly over five weeks.\nIn this five-week course\, you’ll explore key leadership capabilities including trust-building\, delegation\, resilience\, goal setting\, feedback\, emotional intelligence\, and how to lead with purpose. You’ll leave with greater confidence\, a stronger leadership identity\, and tools you can apply immediately.\n\n\nTime: 9:30am start each week\nFormat: 2 in-person sessions\, 3 online sessions\nLocation:\n\nIn-person: In Accountancy\, 2 Station View\, Hazel Grove\, Stockport\, SK7 5ER\nOnline: Zoom (link provided after booking)\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Stepping Into Leadership – in person 3 hours\nWeek 2: Resilient Leadership – online 2 hours\nWeek 3: Leading with Clarity and Accountability – online 2 hours\nWeek 4: Feedback & Performance Conversations – online 2 hours\nWeek 5: Emotional Intelligence in Action – in person 2 hours \nAlternative available dates are:   \n\n\n\n22 April – 20 May (weekly on Wednesdays)\n\n\n24 September – 22 October (weekly on Thursdays)\n\n\n\nLink: more information and booking links for all three cohorts are on this page: https://cornerstoneresources.co.uk/investing-in-your-people/
URL:https://marketingstockport.co.uk/event/lead-with-confidence/
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SUMMARY:GM Finance & Professional Services Network
DESCRIPTION:Closing the FPS Skills Gap – How Greater Manchester Build a Future-Fit Finance & Professional Services Workforce\nFinancial and Professional Services (FPS) organisations across Greater Manchester are navigating rapid and sustained change. Advances in AI\, shifting client expectations\, regulatory pressures and persistent skills shortages are reshaping roles\, leadership expectations and ways of working across the sector.\nThis interactive breakfast event brings together business leaders\, people professionals and sector stakeholders from Stockport and the wider Greater Manchester FPS community to explore what a future-fit workforce looks like in practice – and\, crucially\, how organisations can take realistic\, practical steps to close these skills gaps. \nThe session is designed to be highly participatory\, combining short speaker inputs\, a panel discussion\, and facilitated round-table conversations. Insights and perspectives shared during the session will help inform the development of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Finance & Professional Services Sector Development Plan\, ensuring that regional priorities are grounded in real business experience. Networking is a core part of the event\, creating space for meaningful peer connections\, shared learning\, and follow-up conversations. \nFeaturing expert perspectives\, real-world examples and peer discussion\, the focus is on practical insight and actions that can be applied across organisations of different sizes and levels of workforce maturity. Attendees will leave with a clearer view of emerging skills and leadership needs\, and a stronger understanding of how to build capability\, resilience and long-term competitiveness in a changing FPS landscape.  And hopefully many new excellent connections and potential partners too. \nThis event also marks the first in a planned series of FPS sector events\, designed to support ongoing dialogue\, collaboration and action across Greater Manchester. \n08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast and informal networking\n09:00 – 10:30 Interactive session: speaker insights\, panel discussion and facilitated round-table conversations\n10:30 – 11:00 Informal reflections and networking \nAs this event is fully-funded\, businesses are subject to funders’ eligibility criteria. If your place is confirmed\, you will receive an email from us with further details. \n\nBusinesses with a Greater Manchester trading address.\nSole trader\, micro business\, small and medium-sized enterprise\, or large business.\nSocial enterprises where these engage in economic activity.
URL:https://marketingstockport.co.uk/event/gm-finance-professional-services-network/
LOCATION:Hurst Accountants\, Stockport Exchange\, 3 Railway Road\, Stockport\, SK1 3GG
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