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Webinar: Approaching the Festive Season with Mindfulness and an Open Heart
Are the holiday season's negative emotions casting a shadow over your festive spirit? Join our mindfulness class, where you can learn how to harness the power of mindfulness to navigate the holiday season with grace and poise through various mindfulness tools and techniques.
View event detailsWebinar: Atomic Habits: creating real change through making small decisions
People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. We invite you to join us for this online event for anyone wanting to understand more about ‘Atomic Habits’ – a term coined by world-renowned habits expert James Clear - where change comes from the compound effect of making hundreds of small decisions.
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Webinar: Multi-occupancy premises – the impact of the FCA review
The new rules on multi-occupancy insurance comes into force on the 1st January 2024. These new rules will impact in excess of 5 million leaseholders. Leaseholder will be defined as stakeholders and firms will have to act in their best interest and no commission sharing will be allowed with property managing agents unless clear value to the leaseholder is evidenced. Insurers and brokers will need to provide more information about policies to leaseholders, including detail of all remuneration. Learn about the new Fair Value Assessment Framework which measures and evidences value for commission retention and commission sharing.
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In person event: Addressing the Pressing Issues with Airmic
Join our joint event with Airmic for engaging discussions, thought-provoking presentations and opportunities to network with your peers, professionals and the local business community.
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In-person event: iCAN Manchester Launch - Accelerate Your Career
Join us for the iCAN (Insurance Cultural Awareness Network) Manchester Launch for an evening of networking and insights from industry experts on The Blueprint: Accelerate Your Career in 2024
View event detailsWebinar: Managing Hybrid Teams
Leading hybrid teams requires greater emphasis on building trust and confidence, communication, performance management, and effective use of technology. A Team Leader needs to understand what makes remote teams different and how to apply best practice in ‘leading from a distance’. Remote teams need to feel trusted, inspired and motivated to deliver high performance without the feeling that their Team Leader is ‘checking up’ on all the time. Team Leaders attending this course will walk away feeling inspired to put the appropriate actions into place to support their remote team, making them feel trusted and valued and supporting performance
View event detailsWebinar: Influence and impact through constructive conversations
We explore the mindsets, habits and behaviours of constructive conversations - the ability to have productive dialogue about difficult subjects or challenging circumstances. So how do you manage the power dynamics in an organisation to enable people to speak up without triggering defensiveness in others?
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In person event: Discover your Super-powers
Everyone is busy with more projects and tasks flying in, so how can we improve our way of working to improve our performance? Join us for a special session, bringing together key people from across the Manchester insurance and financial services markets, to network and build their business skills.
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Charity 10k Run for We Love MCR
In support of the We Love Manchester charity (this year’s President’s charity), Sandra McDonald and colleagues at McLarens will be doing the Heaton Park 10k on Sunday 19th November! Contact sandra.mcdonald@mclarens.com for more details to support welovemcrcharity.org
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Cert CII Fast Track Remote Learning Programme
A FEW PLACES HAVE BECOME AVAILABLE DUE TO CANCELLATIONS - BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW The Insurance Institutes of the North-West, in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Insurers, is delighted to offer a fast track initiative to help members gain their Certificate in Insurance. This programme offers members the opportunity to benefit from a FREE study course specifically designed to help students attain their Cert CII in 14 weeks through structured learning. If you would like to advance your CII qualifications, now is the time to do so.
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IIM Annual Dinner 2023
Sandra McDonald Cert CII, President of the Insurance Institute of Manchester is delighted to announce that our Annual Dinner will take place on Friday 10th November at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel. Join us for a packed evening with glamorous entertainment performances, a three course dinner and plenty of laughs with our after dinner entertainment.
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Webinar: Time Management Skills
We are all time poor; and are expected to deliver more work for others. “I have too much to do” and “I don’t have time” are complaints we are all hearing. Being able to manage your time and work more effectively and efficiently is a skill we all need to acquire. In this interactive workshop, we will share practical ways to manage your time and work more efficiently.
View event detailsDiploma in Insurance Online Training Programme
The Insurance Institutes of the North-West, in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Insurers, is delighted to offer a fast track initiative to help members gain their Diploma in Insurance. This programme offers members the opportunity to benefit from a FREE study course specifically designed to help students attain their Dip CII in 15 months through structured learning. If you would like to advance your CII qualifications, now is the time to do so.
View event detailsIIM and BIBA 2023 Greater Manchester Quiz Night
We are happy to announce that The Quiz Evening is back! It will be held on 25th October 2023 at the Revolution Parsonage Gardens, just off Deansgate. This year it will be a joint event with BIBA. Join us for a fun and competitive evening of general knowledge. Quiz starts at 6.15pm.
View event detailsWebinar: Resilience, agility and influence
Some people seem to deal with whatever is thrown at them. Long hours, uncertainty, back-to-back meetings, re-structuring, family demands. They take it in their stride. Old-school thinking has us believe that these lucky people are born with the ability to deal with stress - while the rest of us struggle to cope with life’s constant demands and overwhelm. Breaking news. The latest neuroscience and positive psychology research shows that learning to handle stress and develop an optimistic outlook is within everyone’s grasp because we all have the power to literally re-wire our brain! It’s time to switch mindset People with an optimistic outlook and resilience strategies are more productive, happier, healthier and even live longer. With the right support, it is entirely possible to switch mindset even if you are currently buried deep within negativity
View event detailsWebinar: Supporting customers through the continued cost-of-living crisis
The Bank of England recently raised interest rates, and the UK is facing its most extended economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. As the rising cost of living continues to impact customers and staff nationwide, it is crucial for firms to ensure that individuals with vulnerable characteristics receive the support they need.
View event detailsWebinar: Cert CII IF1 Insurance, legal and regulatory revision – two half day study sessions
We have added 5 additional spaces for the second CERT CII IF1 Revision Session! Please see below for additional information. The second session will focus on the exam questions and how best to prepare yourself for the type of questions you will come across and learn how to best approach these. The session will run on the 09/10/2023 from 09:30-12:30
View event detailsIn person event: How the language we use influences client behaviour (Includes lunch and networking)
The language we use with our clients can create deeper, more meaningful relationships with them and connect on an emotional level. This in turn leads to more loyal clients who will become your sales team and ultimately generate more referrals. In this dynamic session, attendees will discover ways to find your 'why', why this is so important, and how you can communicate this effectively to clients using the right language and make us more relatable and attract the right fit clients. The session will also provide an opportunity to network with members and a complimentary lunch.
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