Events

PSA Scotland January 2024: Business Builder

20 January|09:15 - 16:15|Mercure Hotel - Glasgow - See full address

About this event

First time visitors to the PSA can buy a half price ticket – just £25 +VAT – for this event!

To get your special discount code, please email [email protected]

Where: Mercure Glasgow City Hotel, 201 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1DQ
For anyone travelling by train, Queen Street Station is approx. a 5min walk from the venue.

Happy New Year! A very warm 2024 welcome from our Regional President Jim Boyd and all the team at PSA Scotland.

We start the new year in Glasgow with our annual ‘business builder’ event hosted jointly by our outgoing RP Jim and our incoming RP Iain Clague. The member early bird rate expires on Sat 13th Jan so please do take advantage of this and sign-up early.

As always, you will also have time to relax, connect and network with fellow members and guests. Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided.

Register for PSA Scotland’s value-packed January event today. It will be held at Mercure Glasgow City Hotel, 201 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1DQ, on Saturday 20th Jan 2024.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Jim
PSA Scotland
Regional President 2023

p.s. Please bring your PCs/laptops as we will be going online and drafting emails

 

Following our welcome and good news we will start by asking you about your ‘PSA Value’ statement – in 2024, what do you want from your PSA events and what can you bring to PSA Scotland?

The remainder of the day will focus on your speaking credentials, understanding speaking models and how you might best get more gigs in 2024. Through a series of worksheets you will…

  1. Define/refine your speaking credentials including e.g. your expertise, qualifications & experience together with media coverage, your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) and others.
  2. Define/clarify which speaking model(s) will align with your business objectives.
  3. Plan how to secure more gigs in 2024 by defining/clarifying e.g. your market niche, your portfolio and target events and organisations etc.
  4. Draft an email for your prospective speaking clients – and send it!

We are delighted to announce that during our afternoon session we will be joined briefly by Sarah Furness MA Cantab RAF.

Keynote speakers

Sarah Furness
Sarah Furness

After graduating from Cambridge University, Sarah followed her dream to become a combat helicopter pilot in the RAF. As a Squadron Leader she led on operational combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and she was the first female helicopter pilot to fly and lead UK Special Forces missions in Iraq. During her experiences both at home and at war, she made two important discoveries; – resilience and performance under pressure is NOT instinctive – BUT humans have an extraordinary ability to thrive and even excel under pressure when they know how. She now has ONE mission. To share the secret to outstanding resilience, performance and courage “under fire”. Sarah is the No1 Best Selling author of FLY HIGHER – train your mind to feel as strong as you look. All of her mental training techniques are backed by science and proven in combat. She is fluent in “alpha male” and whilst she takes her work seriously, she doesn’t take herself too seriously. She has an 8 year old son who she adores and who inspires her every day.

Event agenda

09:15
Someone will be around so feel-free to arrive early
09:30
Tea/coffee - Meet and Mingle Networking Section
10:00
Welcome, good news and RP handover to Iain Clague
10:15
PSA Value. In 2024 what do you want and what can you bring?
10:45
Showcasing your speaking credibility
11:15
Tea/coffee & comfort break
11:30
Speaking models – what are the options?
11:45
Speaking models – what model(s) do/will you use and why?
12:30
Lunch
13:15
Deliver your speaking ‘bio’
14:00
How have you actually gotten gigs?
14:30
Tea/coffee & comfort break
14:45
How will you get gigs in 2024?
15:15
Stand out and speak more
16:00
Wrap-up
16:15
Event ends and we can chat in the bar

The venue

Get in touch with the organiser

Jim Boyd

Regional President - Scotland

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PSA Scotland January 2024: Business Builder

Ticket types

Members Early Bird
 - £49
  + VAT
Members Standard
 - £59
  + VAT
Non Members
 - £79
  + VAT