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Online Event - Women in Leadership Communications
Communicating as a leader is an essential skill for any emerging talent. For female leaders and emerging leaders, these are particularly important to ensure you lead, make an impression and engage with your teams. Using some of the most up to date neuroscience findings; In this interactive masterclass Susan will use elements from her Communications methodology, Superstar CommunicatorTM, sharing Top Tips to ensure you have presence, credibility and impact when communicating as a female leader. Women don’t need fixing: this is an opportunity to be aware of small details that could make the maximum impact for success.
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Online Event: Drone Insurance
This is an emerging class of insurance driven by the increasing use of drones by businesses. The session provides a comprehensive exploration into the safe operation of drones and the relevant insurance, risk and regulatory issues.
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Online Event - The Power of Kindness
In this workshop we will learn about the positive impact of kindness in both working and personal lives. Kindness has been shown to reduce loneliness, depression and improve mental wellbeing. We will explore how you can promote and share more kindness within your workplace, and leave with a kindness action plan to help embed kindness.
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CII Cardiff ACII Workshops - Marketing Insurance Products and Services 945
This programme offers members the opportunity to benefit from an invaluable study course specifically designed to support students in attaining qualifications through structured group learning. Consisting of three study day workshops, Alan Chandler will take you through the ACII Marketing Insurance Products and Services 945. With this programme, you will be able to cut down on the amount of study time needed to crack the coursework, whilst working alongside a group of people all undertaking the same subject.
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Webinar - Memorabilia Valuations Training
Collecting things is something humans have always done – from interesting pebbles to glamorous diamonds! It’s a natural urge that many of us experience. Collecting memorabilia has become very fashionable, and can be very lucrative. But what is valuable, and what advice and guidance should a client be oered?
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Online Event - How liability rates will significantly fall in 2025 due to the recent Ogden rate reduction
The Ogden rate may sound an obscure thing, but it has massive implications both positively and negatively on liability settlements. All brokers, underwriters and claims staff should have a good understanding of the Ogden rate in order to explain rating changes to policyholders and understand why large liability claims will now be reducing. The Ogden rate is used by courts to increase or decrease large personal injury liability claims. It was one of the main reasons why the market went so hard in recent years when the rate started loading liability settlements, and it will be one of the man reasons why we will now go into a softer market due to the fact it will start discounting liability settlements from 10 January 2025.
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Online Event - Supporting Early Career Colleagues
Retention of early careers is currently facing some significant challenges. In this workshop we will explore some of the challenges faced by young people as they enter the workplace and explore some strategies you can use to help support and empower your early career colleagues.
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Novus x SEWCASS Event- Cheese, Wine, and Results - ICAEW South & East Wales
🧀🍷 Cheese & Wine Evening – Hosted by SEWCASS & Novus 📅 Date: Thursday, 23 January 2025 📍 Venue: The Sir Gareth Edwards Lounge, Cardiff Arms Park Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating results, enjoying fine wines, and mingling with fellow professionals in the exclusive Sir Gareth Edwards Lounge, offering stunning views of Cardiff Arms Park.
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Online event - The Broker Landscape – understanding our brokers’ needs and challenges
This session originally designed for underwriters provides an understanding of the broker market, the specific and general challenges that Brokers face, and how this drives behaviours. This understanding is of great value to Insurers when engaging with Brokers and is applicable to Brokers too in understanding the competitor landscape.
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Online Event - Extended Cognition: an essential skill to improve your productivity and creativity in work and/or study
Thinking doesn´t just happen within the mind. There are various other tools that can help us to store and retrieve information. The principle of extended cognition helps to “supersize the mind”, and so we can improve our productivity and creativity whether for work or study. This webinar will examine the principle of extended cognition and provide you with insights to help you free your mind to be as creative and productive as possible.
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Webinar - Understanding the basics of UK General insurance regulation.
This webinar looks to provide an overview of the history of regulation within the UK insurance industry, who are the main regulators, how do they regulate and why regulation is so essential. The presentation will examine the principle-based approach to regulation put in place by the UK regulators and how this differs from rules based regulation in many other countries. it will also look at the main aspects of regulation including fair treatment for customer, ICOBS, training and competence requirements and solvency margins.
View event detailsOnline Event - Learning and Exam Techniques Part 2
Studying and preparing for an exam can be daunting. Knowledge of the subject is crucial, but having a structured revision programme and an understanding of the format of the examination and the expectations of the examiner are equally important. This workshop will aim to demonstrate that by having a disciplined approach to revision, coupled with being able to confidently interpret the different types of exam questions, the chances of success are greatly improved.
View event detailsOnline Event - Learning and Exam Techniques - Part I
Studying and preparing for an exam can be daunting. Knowledge of the subject is crucial, but having a structured revision programme and an understanding of the format of the examination and the expectations of the examiner are equally important. This workshop will aim to demonstrate that by having a disciplined approach to revision, coupled with being able to confidently interpret the different types of exam questions, the chances of success are greatly improved.
View event detailsOnline Event : Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
According to a 2023 survey from the Trades Union Congress, over one in two women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. Increasing to nearly two in three women aged 18-24. That is not to say only women are victims of sexual harassment. It is something that affects all of us. It can happen to anyone and be perpetrated by anyone.
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Online Event - Understanding the Different Types of Company Structures
It is essential all insurance staff have a good understanding of the different types of way in which a company could be structured and failing to understand these structures could lead to wrong cover being put in place. This webinar, provided by Alan Chandler one of the most popular presenters in the UK, will examine the difference between a sole trader, a partnership, a limited liability partnership, a private limited company and a public limited company. Alan will also explore the ways in which charities are formed.
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2024 Novus Beaujolais Day
🍷 2024 Novus Beaujolais Day Event 🍷 ✨Join us again this year to celebrate Beaujolais Day in Cardiff! Be quick to book your tickets, as we have limited spaces available✨ ⏰ Thursday 21st November 2024, 3.00-5.30pm 📍The Botanist Cardiff, Church Street 🍽️ A 3-course meal and welcome glass of Beaujolais plus live DJ entertainment, at a cost of £41.95 per person
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2024 Nouveau Beaujolais Day CANCELLED
Event cancelled. Ticket holders will be contacted to arrange refunds.
View event detailsACII Workshops - Risk Management in Insurance subject 992
Consisting of three study days, Alan Chandler will take you through the Risk Management in Insurance subject 992 Module. With this programme, you will be able to cut down on the amount of study time needed to crack the coursework, whilst working alongside a group of people all undertaking the same subject.
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Online Event - Goals and Goal-Setting
Goals are ‘dreams with legs’ – they motivate us and drive us forward. Goal-setting shifts us from a negative problem-focused mindset into a positive mindset, and ‘where focus goes, energy flows’. This session draws on research from the worlds of psychology, neuroscience and coaching to explore the power of goals and how to structure them to get the results that we really want.
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Online Event - The New Employment Rights Bill and its Potential Impact on the Insurance Industry
The Employment Rights Bill will potentially have a major impact on the insurance industry. This webinar will highlight the key provisions that will likely impact the insurance industry in terms of coverage, especially across employers´ liability and other commercial lines of business. We will also examine how insureds can be supported as they look to adapt to the reforms.
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