Mastering Mentoring

On Friday 25th July Vision were the proud hosts of a Business Champions event, welcoming business leaders from across the East Midlands region.

In line with the Business Champions ongoing commitment to train its members, Vision was chosen to deliver a Mastering Mentoring workshop. Some of those issues explored in this workshop are listed below:

What is/isnt mentoring?
Benefits for the mentee/mentor.
Roles and boundaries of the mentor/mentee
Tools and techniques acquisition
Qualities of a great mentor
Get the most out the mentor-mentee relationship

The event proved a huge success, with 80% of attendees claiming that the session had surpassed their expectations, and variously describing the workshop as thought provoking, Enlightening, Challenging very useful, fun, rewarding, Excellent, and well worth the time commitment.

Vision welcomes these endorsements as confirmation that we are attaining our goal of delivering the very best in skills training.

We now look forward to the next Business Champions workshop we will be delivering - Understanding Leadership on the 6th August – with great anticipation.

Beyond that, Vision has two private workshops coming up in the autumn:

· Engage Your Workforce Programme on 24th September - 60% of this workshops places have already been taken.

· Performance Coaching for Leaders Programme 9th October - 70% of this workshops places have already been taken.

These two daylong workshops (priced at £265 p/p) have limited places available and are already booking up fast…

For more information, feel free to contact us on 0115 941 82 42 or email us on info@visionconsulttraining.co.uk

Vision judges Postgraduate Research

On Thursday 26th June, I was asked to be a judge at the Postgraduate Research exhibition at Leicester University; as part of the East Midlands Business Champions. The event was absolutely wonderful and i enjoyed it so much that i indicated that Vision would be willing to sponsor the event next year.
I was asked to judge 4 of the PHD students exhibitions and these included research into 'Is India banking for a greener future', 'Foreign currency derivatives: the role of accounting standards', 'EMDA and the East Midlands' and finaly 'When is a bin bag not a bin bag'.
I would like to thank the students and staff at Leicester University and commend them on an excellent job well done. I have also noted below the winners of the various categories.

The Tangible Results Master Prize for Best Presentation was won by:
Sam Illingworth for "The Importance of Carbon Monoxide in the Atmosphere"

The Student Employment Services Prize for Best Presentation in Arts, Law and Social Sciences was won by:
Sophie Hadfield-Hill for "Is India Banking for a Greener Future?"

The Adamson Jones Prize for Best Presentation in Medical and Biological Sciences was won by:
Carla Lopes for "Connecting the Cell's Antenna to Human Disease: Oral-facial-digital Syndrome Type 1"

The Tessella Support Services Ltd Prize for Best Presentation in Science and Engineering was won by:
Sara Rafice for "What Turns Food into Fuel?"

The Press Office Media Prize was won by:
Andrew Shore for "Oxygen: the Miracle Molecule" (which was released to the media as: "Toxic to Aliens - but key to health of planet"

Students’ Union Peer Recommendation Prize was also won by:
Sara Rafice for "What Turns Food into Fuel?"

The BioKneX Highly Commended Prize was won by:
Edward Green for "Flies 'Party On'!"

The Graduate School Highly Commended Prize was won by:
James Borderick for "The Importance of Ground Based Solar-Terrestrial Physics"

Researchers in Residence Highly Commended Prize was also won by:
Andrew Shore for "Oxygen: the Miracle Molecule"

Enterprise and Business Development Highly Commended Prize was won by:
Jenny Watts for "Work and Wellbeing: Burnout in Academic Staff"