The essential development resource for businesses in Lincolnshire

Leadership and Management training and resources

Spaces for meetings, conferences, training, lectures and events

Competitive room hire rates

Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre

Access to the very latest business thinking via the University of Lincoln

LLMC University of Lincoln

Situated in the heart of Lincoln, the custom built, visually distinctive Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre (LLMC) is ideally placed for a wide range of different events.

Four spacious and modern rooms in addition to an informal breakout area make the LLMC a flexible and versatile venue for organisations of all kinds to use.

Each room comes fully equipped with state-of-the-art multi-media and AV facilities which are included in the room hire cost, meaning there are no hidden extras!

Both our seminar rooms come with flexible furniture to accommodate different meeting or conference formats, whilst our flagship Harvard Theatre offers a unique take on a traditional training space.

In addition to being a versatile space to run your own events in, our Corporate Team also offer a wide range of Leadership and Management services. As Lincoln’s only specialist business development resource, our educational programmes combine proven business practice with the very latest in innovative thinking and expertise from the University of Lincoln’s Business School.

At the forefront of everything we do at the LLMC is customer service, being as flexible as possible to our customers’ needs and recognising that each meeting, training event or conference you choose to hold with us is just as important as the last.

The essential development resource for businesses in Lincolnshire

Introduction

Our flagship room is the ideal space for lectures, meetings, conferences, training and other events.

The Harvard has 60 comfortable seats in a horse-shoe (Harvard-style) layout.

With benches and individual power supplied to each position, the room is perfect for laptop use. State-of-the-art multimedia facilities are also provided, including a PC and projector, DVD player and audio equipment, all of which is included in the room rate.

The layout encourages people to participate in whole-room discussions and provides clear views of the main screen and dry wipe board at the front of the theatre.

Smaller groups in seminar-type sessions can be seated on the lower level to encourage team working.

The room has excellent insulation from external noise.

60 comfortable seats: the ideal space for larger groups

Room equipment (included in room rate)

PC Projector and screen DVD player with remote VHS player with remote Laptop cable Speakers White board Flip chart Air conditioning Computer network access WiFi Phone Surround sound Built-in small microphone Boom wireless microphone Radio wireless microphone Adjustable conference lighting

Room hire costs

Full day (8am to 5pm)£400+VAT

Half day (8am-12noon or 1pm to 5pm) £240+VAT

Harvard Lecture Theatre

Room layout: 60 seats“ The venue was excellent for the ICT presentation and networking event we held in May. The customer service before, during and after the event was fantastic and nothing was too much trouble. Veronica made booking a simple and easy process and we look forward to delivering more events at this great venue.”

Charlotte Robson, Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce

PC Projector Projector screen VHS player with remote DVD player with remote Laptop cable Speakers White board Flip chart Air conditioning Networked WIFI Phone

Room hire costs

Full day (8am to 5pm) £200+VAT

Half day (8am-12noon or 1pm to 5pm) £120+VAT

Room equipment (included in room rate)

Our two seminar rooms share a similar basic layout. Both rooms are equipped with multi media facilities including PC and projector, DVD player and audio equipment, the use of which is included in the room rate.

The rooms are perfect for encouraging teamwork and group discussion and are frequently used for small and medium sized groups. Recent specialist seminars have seen local firms sharing their expertise in areas including telesales, marketing, finance, branding and PR.

The versatile furniture offers a variety of room layout combinations (see below). This allows maximum flexibility to meet the specific requirements of your event.

Adaptable spaces for teaching or discussion

Seminar Rooms

U Shape layout: 18 seats

Theatre style layout: 40 seats Boardroom layout: 24 seats

Classroom layout: 24 seats

Room layout combinations

“I have used the seminar rooms on several occassions as both a presenter and a delegate. The rooms have excellent acoustics and equipment and can cater for events of all sizes. The friendly and professional team go the extra mile to ensure that your event is a success. If you need conference, seminar or training space in Lincoln, I recommend that you try the LLMC.”

Paul Clayton, Healdi Ltd

The modern boardroom features a large table with seating for 14 people.

The LLMC’s boardroom is fitted with a state-of-the-art LifeSize™ video conferencing suite, which can offer high quality video and audio communications across cities, countries and continents.

The technology enables users to connect with up to seven other sites simultaneously. All that is needed is the other parties’ IP address. The system has two HD-clarity screens, enabling users to share two-way data, along with crystal clear audio and fast connection speeds ensuring no time lags or delays in connections.

Boardroom/Conference Room and video conferencing

PC Laptop cable Speakers Flip chart Networked WIFI Phone Flat screen TV

Room hire costs

Full day (8am to 5pm) £200+VAT

Half day (8am-12noon or 1pm to 5pm) £120+VAT

Video/audio conferencing costs

Room hire rate + £30 + VAT per hour

Room equipment (included in room rate)

Hi-tech conferencing technology and space for 14 people

Room layout: 14 seats

TV screens

“ The layout of the room and the quality of the equipment made the experience seamless. Our video conferencing partner could have been in the same room with us. There was no huddling round small screens with poor sound and picture quality and some group members feeling excluded. The overall experience comes highly recommended.”

Martin Pinnick, Office of Quality, Standards and Partnerships

Services to Business

The LLMC team offers a wide range of services to business including development activities ranging from structured courses and qualifications, as well as large-scale research projects through to tailored one-off events using our facilities.

Key services offered by the LLMC:

Corporate, Professional & Executive EducationWe run a suite of bespoke corporate development programmes developed in association with a range of key organisations that have told us they would benefit from direct interventions of this kind. Each programme is at a level of qualification and skill designed in conjunction with the corporate client. We will work with you to create the workforce development programme that is right for you.

Our Executive Education team offers courses that are customised to build leadership and managerial capability amongst senior staff within all types of organisations – public, private and community based.

Work-based Distance LearningOur distance learning programmes allow employees to study when and where it is most convenient for them. These programmes enable managers to develop a greater awareness of their roles, with an emphasis on using their own experience as an integral part of their development.

SME support servicesLincoln Business School is a leading organisation with expertise in small business entrepreneurship. At the LLMC, we offer innovative approaches to support the development of leadership and management in the small business sector. These include but are not limited to; short courses, training, development programmes and consultancy.

Community & Voluntary sector capacity buildingThrough the LLMC, the Business School’s Community Operational Research Unit (CORU) offers creative approaches to support the development and skills provision in the third sector, through a range of national, regional and local initiatives.

ConsultancyWhether you require short-term intervention or a longer, possibly more complex relationship across a range of areas, we have the know-how and the support team to make a difference to your organisation.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP’s)Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) is a long established national programme helping businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills. It embeds a high-calibre graduate into an organisation, with some specialist supervision from a business-minded academic to tackle a strategic project.

Research projectsIf you have a business problem that requires a practical solution, the LLMC can put together a team of experts to work with you and try to find the answer. These can involve using partners from other parts of the regional and national research base as required. This can be actioned on a contract or collaborative research basis.

Our team have considerable experience working for, in and with organisations of all kinds. With a diverse expertise base covering Tourism, Local Authority, Manufacturing, SME leadership and the Military to name but a few, our staff are well placed to help your company.

When working with clients, we understand that flexible, practical learning and support is vital. The most effective development activities are those that fit around you and your company’s needs. With this in mind, many of our research programmes offer bitesize, distance and e-learning options.

Please get in touch to find out more about how the LLMC could benefit your organisation, or to have a more detailed chat with one of our team. Full contact details can be found on the inside back page of this booklet.

SME Support Services: telesales session in a seminar room

Marketing Support session in the Harvard Theatre

When you’ve started at the bottom, reaching the top in business is not easy. Julie Watson, Director of Operations at Ardagh Glass says the management courses she has followed at the University of Lincoln have helped her enormously.

Julie started in the 1980s inspecting glass bottles on the production line. Thirty years on she has worked her way up to be Director of Operations at the same site, one of 88 locations operated by the global metal and glass packaging company Ardagh Group.

Each year, a handful of managers at Ardagh Group are invited to attend postgraduate professional development courses at the Lincoln Business School. Julie first enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate of Management in 1997.

Over the course of a decade Julie studied for the Certificate, the Diploma and finally a Masters in Business Administration. She says the effect has been life-changing.

“Studying for the MBA has helped me phenomenally throughout my career and I think I’m a better person for it in how I manage and direct people,”Julie Watson

“The self-reflective aspects of the course have had a great impact on me – I would say I ‘saw the light’ and grew as a person while I was studying for the MBA.”

After 30 years at Ardagh Group Julie is now responsible for 256 employees at the Knottingley plant, and she says her studies have really helped her performance.

“It’s helped me to manage and direct and I’ve become a lot more knowledgeable about my own business, because the projects we chose to work on were based on our own experience,” she says.

Julie, who completed her MBA and graduated at Lincoln Cathedral in 2009, says studying at postgraduate level while working full-time in a high-pressured job is not easy.

“We had one workshop a month at the university and the rest of the time we were studying at home, which requires self-reliance and discipline. It’s difficult at times but you have to keep reminding yourself that there’s something in it for you as well as for the company.

“It’s helped me professionally and personally. I’ve grown so much. I’d go so far as to say that the MBA was the most powerful thing I’ve ever done.”

Julie Watson, Director of Operations, Ardagh Group Lindsay Nearn, Director, Flying Hire

Services to Business case study: SME Support Services

Services to Business case study: Corporate, Professional & Executive Education

“The course was brilliant. It really helped us to spin the business around, to understand how it operates and implement changes.”Lindsay Nearn

Since completing the Business Inspiration course, Flying Hire has turned their fortunes around. They have expanded their fleet of generators from 6 to 50 with more expansion planned, and they have won some very large contracts both locally and nationally.

Their orders are have increased by over 300%, turnover is up and their profit margins are better than ever.

Lindsay said: “The course was brilliant. It really helped us to spin the business around, to understand how it operates and implement changes. When you’re running a business, it’s difficult to take a step back and look at it as a whole. That’s exactly what the course enabled us to do. We’ve looked at our customer base, our finances and our marketing. We now have a proper business plan and a vision that we are all working towards. I feel that we can now push on in a measured way, rather than just hoping that everything will work out.”

The future is looking bright for a plant hire company from Lincolnshire which has benefited from an SME Support programme – Business Inspiration, which was run by the University of Lincoln in 2010-2011.

Flying Hire, based in North Scarle, near Lincoln, has seen a dramatic transformation in fortunes over the past 12 months.

Thanks to the Business Inspiration course, the company is now looking forward to its 10th anniversary this year with a clear business plan, a healthy balance sheet and a burgeoning order book.

Flying Hire was hit badly by the recession, and it became clear to Director Lindsay Nearn that she needed a clear strategy and business plan to turn the company around.

Lindsay decided to take action and enrolled onto the Business Inspiration programme alongside 10 other SME’s (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) from a diverse mix of sectors and backgrounds.

The course, which was delivered in bitesize modules, provided guidance on key aspects of running a small business, such as identifying new business opportunities, managing cash flow and developing marketing strategies. With a mixture of academic and business-led teaching, Business Inspiration’s practical, hands-on approach made it accessible to a wide range of SME’s.

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Please contact us for more information on any of our facilities or services, or to arrange a tour of the centre:

LLMC Operations Co-ordinator: Veronica Cini

Telephone: 01522 835506 Fax: 01522 835600 Email: vcini@lincoln.ac.uk Website: www.llmc.org.uk

Follow us on twitter: @LLMCuk

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LLMC Faculty of Business & Law Brayford Wharf East Lincoln LN5 7AT

LLMC University of Lincoln

Call us now: 01522 835506

www.llmc.org.uk