Helen Nicholson

Helen then consulted and lectured at Wits Business School where she also edited the Wits Business School magazine called Embark.

Helen is a passionate South African and thrives on the meaningful work she does as a director of her own consultancy business. Her clients include FNB, the City of Joburg, Anglo Platinum, Sasol, Eskom & The Speakers Office in Gauteng. She is a single mother of identical twin girls and is an avid reader, runner and loves to entertain friends at home.

MASTER THE ART OF NETWORKING

• Realise that networking is the key critical success factor distinguishing effective and truly successful leaders as identified by Fortune magazine in 2004.
• Understand the value of building one's brand to propel your career to the next level.
• Learn the how-to of effective Networking to forge alliances with key stakeholders in your organisation and industry
• Develop a complete networking strategy.

Master the art of Networking Workshop

In this workshop you will:
• Realise the importance of developing your own personal brand
• Develop your own personal branding strategy
• Understand why Networking is the No 1 critical success skill for business people identified by Insead Business School
• Gain insight into the "Mars and Venus" of Networking
• Conduct a networking audit identifying the gaps in your network using the Beehive process
• Realise the secrets of successful networkers
• Learn how to "work" a room by discovering your own unique networking style
• Design and deliver your "elevator speech"
• Where to go to expand your business network

LEVERAGE YOUR PERSONAL BRAND

Leverage your Personal Brand

In this workshop you'll learn how to build your own Personal Brand that will:
• Immediately create awareness of yourself amongst colleagues, employers and customers
• Communicate your personality, values and unique talents
• Create expectations of what you can do and how you will do it
• Imprint your name in the minds of key decision makers
• Raise your credibility and perceived authority
• Increase the compensation you can demand for your service

THE WAY WE'RE WORKING
ISN'T WORKING

The defining ethic of the modern workplace is more, bigger, faster. We have more clients and customers to please, more emails to answer, more phone calls to return, more tasks to juggle, more meetings to attend, more places to go and more and more hours we feel we must work to avoid falling further behind.

We're so busy trying to keep up that we stop noticing that we're in a race that we can't win. All this furious activity exacts a series of silent costs: less capacity for focussed attention, less time for any given task and less opportunity to think reflectively and long term. More and more, paradoxically leads to less and less.

In this presentation, Helen will demonstrate that there is another way:

- Discover the myth of work/life balance. Juggling requires you to throw things up in the air, away from you. Old management theory says that the way to live a balanced life is to learn how to say no. The new world of work is about knowing what to say yes to and holding onto those moments!
- Understanding the power of stress and recovery to dramatically improve our energy levels.

- Gaining insight into building rituals. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. Our actions are largely determined by ritual.

- Exploring the perils of multi-tasking. We perform best when we're most singularly focused on a given task.