This year JCI Barnsley is focussing on “Building a better person” and in order to achieve this, we are thrilled to be launching our 2012 personal development programme at the Barnsley Digital Media Centre.

Adding strings to your bow and utilising the many opportunities JCI can offer you is essential in the current climate so we have designed a programme that covers a wide variety of areas.

The launch night will be a unique opportunity to hear our selected trainers giving a speed pitch on just what their sessions throughout the year will cover. It’s your chance to find out a bit more about what we have planned for 2012 and for you to meet the trainers and like-minded people.

There will also be an opportunity to network before the speed pitches commence over a drink and nibbles from 18:30 to 19:00.

We are delighted to have secured some of the best trainers around, including:

Mary Eland, Believe Training & Development: Adopting a positive mindset and setting goals.

Mary is an accredited tutor for the Institute of Leadership & Management and also delivers support on a one-to-one basis. Some of her clients include University of Sheffield, RAF Leeming, Digby and Linton on Ouse, Rotherham NHS and Chamber of Commerce.

Faye Smith, Keep Your Fork: Creating confidence workshop:10 top tips to becoming a more confident YOU in work and life

Faye is a full time entrepreneur, running Keep Your Fork marketing and training consultancy.  When Faye isn’t helping helping charities, social enterprises and smaller businesses find and keep customers and funders, she is helping students develop more confidence, employability and enterprise skills as they go into the world of work.

Kate Senter, JCI Trainer & Immediate Past President of JCI Sheffield: Brand Me & Corporate Social Responsibility, Why being good is good for business! 

Kate is Immediate Past President for JCI Sheffield and currently National Communications Director on the JCI UK National Board. In her ‘real-life’ she is the Internal Communications Manager at national law firm Irwin Mitchell and also a Trustee of local charity, Cavendish Cancer Care.

Brian Butcher, founder of Fruit Tree Business Growth Club: What is networking? And what it isn’t!

Having spent over 20 years in a 'relationship-building' industry Brian is passionate in his belief that business is about people not products. After all, it's the people that make the decisions who they deal with.

JCI Trainers & JCI Sheffield Directors, Dan Senter & James Alcock: Thinking “lean” and how to apply it to your life.

Dan has over 8 years’ experience working in continuous improvement having operated in a number of organisations who have successfully implemented lean tools and techniques to their business. James is still on the 'lean journey' however is working on adapting lean methodology into software development.

Peter Birkby, Head of Campus for University Campus Barnsley, part of the University of Huddersfield: Public speaking and presenting skills.

The Head of Campus at the University Campus in Barnsley,  Peter worked for over 20 years as a self-employed musician, performing with Dame Shirley Bassey, Michael Crawford, Vic Damone, Gene Pitney, Frankie Lane and Andre Boccelli to name a few.  He also has a background in radio, television, film and music recording as a performer, composer, arranger and musical director.

We are delighted to announce our sponsors for our launch night are Barnsley Digital Media Centre.