Valerie Merrill's Blog

Tasters to seminars to clients

Posted in Uncategorized by valeriemerrill on September 20, 2009

Who then become friends. 

I love learning new things especially about myself and Charmian’s taster on voice workouts was a complete surprise to me as I really can hold my breath for a long time! I laugh heartily and often which mans I have a strong diaphragm which was huge news!

So Charmian is now running very successful seminars, master classes and city speakers lunches.  Good on you…Charmian Ingham of Omega Age Ltd,
m: +44 (0) 7736 180 155.

So from a taster I became a client via the lunches and most importantly a bearer for her message.

Well I feel I must do the same for Jason Cobine, Beyond Networking on 020 7100 2437 and Mykal Pinder of Matrix Memory Systems Ltd, W: www.nowdontforget.co.uk, M: 07-956-264-867

Both of whom do gret “free tasters” but are the real deal when it comes to product.  Both of them can change your life in different ways.  Jason’s master classes in the networking arena are a revelation and provide missing links for all.

Tasters – seminars – clients – the way forward.  And Mykal he can transform your reading ability and the way you think! Forever!

Let’s do it!

Beyond Networking…

Posted in Uncategorized by valeriemerrill on September 10, 2009

When you meet someone who has intelligence, drive, ambition, skill and is a nice guy you are always delighted.

 

When that person has brilliant ideas and concepts which can be harnessed to make your life easier and profitable – then it is even more delightful.

 

I knew when I met Jason Cobine that I had the first statement and then last week I realised that the second statement was also true.

 

Jason is a very well connected business man who has developed a system around networking.  He calls it beyond networking and I call it the missing link.

 

He has a delivery style for his seminars which is both exciting, entertaining and informative.  One quote I read really sums up the experience

“Thank you for your networking course today which I thought was exceptional. I have no doubts that I will be able to generate significantly more business using the approach that you taught us. Stuart Hinds, Director of Business Services, Tenon Accountants – Advisers to Entrepreneurs.”

 

“Do you know and admire someone running a business or charity that would like to protect their income and reputation using their insurance policies?

 

Our business grows and our charges stay low because of introductions from customers so feel free to recommend us by forwarding our details.”

 

Jason cleverly interacts with the audience to explain and explore the materials and then the techniques are practised on a 1:2 basis.

 

Jason and his affiliates are running free taster sessions on the Three Keys of Networking which act as a precursor or scene setting for the seminars.  I highly recommend him, his system and the fact that it works!

 

When I met him earlier in the year he put me through his own tried and tested format which he shares with you on the seminars.

 

Beyond Networking call him on 020 7100 2437

 

GO FOR IT!

Gender Dynamics and Women in the City

Posted in Uncategorized by valeriemerrill on September 6, 2009

This week I received a super magazine which is one for Women in the City (Gwen Rhys fame) http://www.citywomen.co.uk/.  On to Page 30 and 31 I read with interest Will Women Survive the City jungle? from Karina Robinson.  I was shocked and saddened to read many comments:

1. “Men are wielding the axe more than women…so they would make a female colleague redundant rather than a “mate””

2. “A female banker said the average male response is to kill and survive” and the worst

3. “All women I spoke to whether still in the city or having left, expressed disappointment at how quickly the message on gender diversity has broken down!”

Not in my book is Gender Diversity about Women.  Of course it is accepted that the minute you mention gender it is all to do with women, WRONG.  It is to do with all of us men and women.  Pauline Crawford of Gender Dynamics says it all http://www.genderdynamics.co.uk/.

“…shifts the dynamic of the workplace from one that is inherently masculine to one where there is a more balanced collaboration of the masculine and the feminine” .

I work with her company and know that to make business relationships work we all need to understand each other male or female.  I work in IT and it is predominantly a male environment.  I love working with people, men and women, whatever race, colour etc.  I treat people as I would like to be treated with respect, consideration, understanding and acknowledging their skills and unique abilities.

Gender has everything to do with Men and Women not only women, so if gender diversity has broken down in the city it has broken down for all of us, not just women.   Let’s help each other out in these difficult times.