Since 2009 we’ve been working with RIDA to run our unique director only events for professional recruitment business owners and directors. For the last few years we’ve had support from and access to the lovely offices of NatWest Corporate and Commercial Banking. 
Our Directors Summit’s are small group events featuring real case studies presented by industry peers who’ve been there and come out the other side. We’ve had a great year in 2015 with the four events we’ve run. Plans for 2016 are under way and will be announced soon. So, if you missed any of the events (and the amazing cakes!) here is a summary of what we’ve done this year:
We kicked off in February with the subject of “Growing Your Recruitment Business” and ran a couple of panel debates around Creating a successful niche and Innovation for Growth. Our speakers were Alan McBride, David Smith and Alana Carroll and then Wendy McDougall of Firefish Softwarea and Kirstie Kelly of LaunchPad Recruits.
In May we talked about “Building a Better Business Brand” covering such topics as creating the right brand, utilising PR for success and using social media to push your brand and win business. Our speakers were Patrick Tame talking about creating an award winning recruitment marketing campaign (plus his story around being the first to hire a CEO via twitter) and Paul Mackenzie-Cummins who spoke about how to be your own PR & how to win business as a direct result of your recruitment blog. At this event we also introduced our brand new Mastermind session.
Our July event clashed with the Tube and rail strike but still we had a great number of attendees for “Growing Your Recruitment Business”. Our speakers were Jon Dweck (how to achieve 100% staff retention plus the story of their amazing debt free organic growth), Nick Broughton (building the right recruitment team and why the “you’ve either got it or you’ve not” mentality is utter BS) and Martin Anderson (how does thinking differently help to facilitate growth?)
Our final event of the year was earlier in October and looked at the “Traits of a Successful Business Owner”. Our speakers were David Taylor (MD of First Point Group), Alice Weightman (MD of Hanson Search) and Steve Carter (who works with RIDA).
Over the course of the year we’ve been really pleased to have had support from our sponsors:
