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Smart City Futures Day 3: The New Conversation

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July 8th, 2009

smart_city_posterSmart City Futures
Day 3: The New Conversation
23rd July, The Lowry, Salford
www.smartcityfutures.co.uk

Smart City Futures will bring together leaders from business, government and research for a desperately needed, honest and open conversation about connectivity, collaboration and community empowerment.

This event will be packed with installations, conversations, workshops, brainstorms and one to ones. Moving away from traditional formats, technologies will invite participation and interaction from participants throughout using interactive web technologies.

Lesley Gavin, BT’s first female Futurologist, UK
Prof. Paul James Director Global Cities, RMIT, Austraila
Prof. Takeda Shuzaburo Exec. Director, Business Universities Forum, Japan
Prof. Carolyn Kagan Psychology and Social Change, MMU, UK
Veli-Pekka Nittamo, Nokia, Chair of European Living Lab Portfolio, Finland

See the programme here.

Book now to ensure your place on the day: www.smartcityfutures.co.uk/book-now

If you have any queries, get in touch: info@just-b.com or by phone 0114 221 0274Speakers include:

Smart City Futures is the result of a collaboration between Manchester city-region’s three outstanding universities, proving that universities can be catalysts for change

Go to http://www.smartcityfutures.co.uk/legacy to find out more about this journey
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Smart City Futures is a Just-b. Production for Smart City Futures

Navigate The Employment Law Minefield In Sixty Really Useful Minutes

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July 8th, 2009

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Join us on Friday July 17 at 9am for Sixty Reallly Useful And Free) Minutes…

Employment Law is often referred to as a minefield, it’s hard to keep up to date. Case law, best practice and guidance continues to change processes and procedures.

Would’t it be great if someone gave you some straight talking up to date advice that you could trust?

Join Sallie Haydock, an Independent HR consultant, for a no frills workshop.

By the end of the hour you will be updated, informed and confident about handling employee issues within your company:

  • Performance Management - get the best from your staff, how to set precedents for high performance
  • Grievance - Get really clear about the process to follow to ensure you handle, investigate and follow up a grievance properly, the guidelines have recently changed - are you up to date?
  • Disciplinary - How to ensure that you follow best practice, whilst getting a quick conclusion to any disciplinary issue, the guidelines have recently changed - are you up to date?
  • Chamber HR - that wonderful resource you need to know about (because it’s free to all LCC members).

Book your FREE place here

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