Upcoming Business Events

Are you familiar with all the Microsoft 365 apps? This session will give you an introduction to the Office 365 products covering some of the basics including a look at Sharepoint and Teams, and information on licenses to help your business get the most out of your package.

This M&A2020 member session will cover:

▶ Suitable Microsoft 365 licenses

▶ An introduction to Microsoft 365, Business Standard & Business Basic, MS Teams, SharePoint

▶ SharePoint: your company Intranet, web pages, news sites, team sites

▶ Document Management in SharePoint. Version Control, Filters, and an insight into security of Sites, Document and List Libraries

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Our JUST Networking sessions have been designed to maximise relationship building between business. People buy or recommend people they trust and these relationships take time to build, face to face networking events can be noisy, making it difficult to hold a conversation and some may find the whole set up intimidating, especially if they’ve never done it before. The JUST networking events remove all of the reasons some people don’t like networking.

The virtual rooms are small meaning everyone can hear what each other is saying and feel that they are being listened to.

We have had some really great feedback following the first two sessions.

‘I liked having time to chat with different people for longer than the usual 30 seconds lift speech. In the two rooms I was in we had actual conversations on different topics as they flowed into each other naturally – a great improvement on some online events I’ve been to’

‘…compared to the face-to-face meetings, I think today’s meeting generated better and coordinated group interactions and I was able to learn more about everyone.’

Each event will run for one hour and will be split into two seperate 30 minute sessions of networking rooms.

All attendees are split into rooms of up to 6 people to JUST network. There are no speakers, no pitching, just straight forward relationship building. Say hello, get to know one another and become a part of your business community.

The events are open to everyone, whether you are a member of M&A 2020 or not and are completely free to attend. We feel that during times like these connection is really important and our businesses need as much support as we can give.

The events will be run twice a month on a Tuesday lunchtime (12.30pm) and Thursday morning (8.30am). We will aim for the second Thursday and the third Tuesday of each month (although the calendar may push the odd date out here and there) so look out for email invites and dates in our newsletters.

We hope to see you all very soon.

Following on from our digital strategy workshop held on July 2nd, you may now be wondering…how do I put the advice given into practice?

Nigel Lamb from Xposure is going to be guiding you through two case studies of bricks and mortar businesses, one from retail and a service based business to demonstrate how the majority can make the transition to online sales.

Your customers spend most of their time online and if you can’t reach them there, someone else will. The digital tools used by large organisations are accessible and affordable for smaller businesses and will help you attract new customers and keep your existing ones!

The step by step guide will help you understand that there is nothing scary about technology and that it can actually make your life easier and more profitable, sometimes we just need someone to show us how. This workshop is suitable for businesses of all sizes, whether you are just starting out or have been in business for years, there is something here for you all to learn.

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With the economy continuing to be impacted by COVID-19 and the Flexible Furlough Scheme coming to a close at the end of October, many businesses are now starting to think about whether they might need to make some of their staff redundant.

On the face of it, the redundancy process looks straight forward. However, failure to follow the required steps and making one tiny mistake can result in a claim for unfair dismissal and a long journey along the time consuming, stressful and potentially costly path to an Employment Tribunal.

But help is at hand! Join Nicky Silver on 28th July at 9.30am, when she will talk you through each of the steps in the redundancy process and the pitfalls that you need to avoid along the way. The briefing will be followed by a Q&A session.

We are conscious that this can be a very difficult time for employers so you are more than welcome to email us any sensitive questions that you may have a few days before, to be answered anonymously during the session.

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