Lead On 2010 - A day for leaders and managers, Cardiff

Date: 25th March 2010
Location: Hilton Hotel, Cardiff

	Based on the key elements of a business plan, Strictly Business delivers a choice of seminars which meet your business development needs
	A pragmatic focus on your issues and challenges, and on your profits
	Choose three of the five workshops on offer, each one designed to help you and your staff deliver your business’s objectives
	Step back from your day-to-day issues and make time for creative and innovative thinking
	Backed by Wales’s leading professional bodies and membership organisations Strictly Business will educate, inspire, teach and challenge
	Discuss with colleagues and make new business contacts over coffee and lunch
	Help is at hand. In the Market Place meet the people whose aim is to help you achieve your aims

Opening Speaker: Ieuan Wyn Jones - “Leading the way from recession to growth – the challenge facing leaders in Wales”

"Despite formidable challenges and turbulence in the global economy, the underlying strategy for achieving competitiveness remains the same. The success of Wales will still depend to a very large extent on the skills and knowledge we develop and on how we deploy our expertise. Leadership and Management skills provide the X-factor that translates other training and development into achieving social objectives and creating wealth. Inspirational Leaders and Managers will lead Wales out of recession and into growth.

The Assembly Government, supported by the European Social Fund will, over the next 5 years make Leadership and Management capability a priority. We will work with the Wales Employment and Skills Board, the Centre for Excellence for Leadership and Management and Public Service Management Wales to ensure that the need for these skills is understood and that the resources and training available to leaders are 1st class. We will meet that need through a variety of projects as part of the Assembly Government's successful Workforce Development Programme."

John Lewis Cardiff present “Results through People”:

an insight into the John Lewis approach to running a business
the chance to learn more about investing in leadership and people development during challenging times

Presented by Liz Mihell (Managing Director) and Zoë Walker (Personnel Manager) - they will set the scene and context of the John Lewis business model before flagging up key strategies for the audience to discuss and to ask questions. There will be an opportunity to reflect on whether any of the learning can be considered within participants 'own work context.