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Vigor-Events Knowledge Club™ 2014 is combination of four enlightening seminars and fourinteractive workshops presented by the world’s most renowned speakers, authors, and trainers.Knowledge Club is a unique and exceptional opportunity for companies and organizations to build a bridge between marketing and HR; brand and culture; and inside and outside, in order to better promote the company brand. For individuals, Knowledge Club provides the unique opportunity to gain a wealth of knowledge and skills presented by the World's top speakers and to meet them in person.

Vigor-Events Knowledge Club™ associates your company brand with world's best speakers, authors, experts and trainers in a professional way that is certain to lead to more recognition for your brand internally and externally. In addition, it provides a platform for wider business development and valuable networking.

The Knowledge club is the seed of a vision and an aspiration to provide the region with something unique and exceptional; from start-up companies to big organizations and individuals as well through multiple types of memberships.

Knowledge Club 2014™

Why Knowledge Club 2014™

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Making a scheduled series of seminars and workshops during the year so it will be easy for you to prepare your annual business calendar and training budget easily.

Keep up with new best practices.

Network with different level of business communities.

Enjoy the KC membership benefits.

Knowledge Club 2014 Agenda

18-May

2-June

15-June

15-Sept

15-Oct

23-Nov

1-Dec

“Prepare your annual business calendar and training”

Date Event TopicCompetency,Dimension Speaker / Facilitator

13-Apr Workshop

7 steps to high performance quality teams Team Work Michael Cardus

Duration

2-Day

Seminar The Changing Face of Today's CustomerCustomer Service Doug Lipp1-Day

Workshop

Creative Leaders Creativity Petronela Eviakova

2-Day

Seminar Achieving Rapid Results in your Life and Business

Personal Development

Jairek Robbins 1-Day

Seminar The Leadership-Focused DayLeadership Robin Sharma + Verne Harnish1-Day

Workshop

Powerful Business Writing SkillsBusiness Writing Shirley Taylor

2-Day

Seminar The Myths of CreativityCreativity David Burkus1-Day

Workshop

The Leading ChangeChange Management

Paul Rigby

2-Day

Dec 2014 Conference Learn From The Best1-Day

I like the vigor model of the knowledge club that selects group of business professionals who have dedicated their professional life to continuous learning. Through the knowledge club, meeting and interacting with world sought leaders is one of the best ways to continue to develop either individually or professionally and to take their organizations to even higher levels

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Knowledge Club 2013™

Starting in April 2013 and ending in December 2013, the Knowledge Club 2013 covered essential business dimensions and competencies according to the market needs; strategic thinking, customer service, sales and business development, personal and career development, and creativity and innovation.

Vigor-Events

Vigor-Events is a subsidiary of Vigor-Enterprise, which was founded by a team of energetic young entrepreneurs. Vigor-Events is a first-class seminars house for the sophisticated cultural audiences in the Middle East and North Africa region. Beyond the scope of routine event management, Vigor-Events is focused on transforming the concept of seminars and conferences.

It brings together the world’s most prominent leaders, speakers, and authors from a wide range of fields. The aim is not only to hold discussions, but to hold discussions which develop solutions for the world we live in.

The strategy is to focus on important problems and business challenges facing society, the business community and the individuals in the region. This can only be possible when the right forum is available for industrial, economic, financial, political, social and cultural thought leaders to discuss their issues. For this reason, the driving motto of Vigor-Events is "encourage frank and open dialogue".

Read more about us at –-- www.vigorevents.com

Previous Achievements

Jack Canfield David Norton Tony Buzan Doug Lipp Learn From The Best

I am grateful for the Knowledge Club. We, as IAA, support the educational events that raise the bar in the industry and the Knowledge Club definitely benefited all IAA members through being trained on the hands of world class renowned speakers who were introduced this year. We will partner with Vigor again and again because we appreciate special and professional event organization and this is exactly what they do.

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Formerly the Head of Training atDisney’s Headquarters

President / IAA - Kuwait Chapter

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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13-April

Change Management

2-Day Workshop

Leading Change™ is a facilitated workshop for leaders in all organizations who are facing the challenge of implementing change. Based on years of research from some of the world’sforemost thought-leaders, Leading Change™ takes a refreshingly simple but highly effective look at the challenges change presents.

Using the best principles of Accelerated Learning, this workshop engages, stimulates and educates the learner in a way that ensures retention and applicat ion of knowledge is maximized.

LC™ works by engaging leaders at all levels to become an active part of the change effort; to understand the principles of effective change and provide leadership and support necessary to make change stick. LC™ is based on the belief that leading change, when done right and supported at all levels, is not only a competitive advantage - it is a fun, meaningful and engaging way of life at work.

A regular keynote presenter at global industry conferences Paul also consults with business partners and frequently assists with partner company change, innovation, leadership and employee engagement efforts.He conducts numerous speaking engagements in over 20 countries per year.Certified master consultant for the Leading Innovation Workshop™ based upon the works of Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Leading Bold Change™.

Facilitator: Paul Rigby

Learning Outcomes

Learn core Leadership and Management competencies

Understand and adapt your own leadership style in the context of change

Understand and use a process and toolkit for leading the change process

Apply an easy to use Change model to a current change focus

Build readiness for change by creating a sense of urgency

Learn how to overcome the fear of change

Understand that people react differently to change

Help people feel more comfortable with change and understand change

Unleash leadership at all levels to build greater commitment to change

Understand habits and behaviors as they relate to change

Leading Change

Doug LippFormerly the Head of Training atDisney’s Corporate Headquarters

Doug provided the famous Disney University "Traditions" program and developed leadership courses for Disney executives.

Doug is the author of numerous articles and seven books on leadership, customer service and international business.

18-MAY

Customer Service

The Changing Face of Today’s Customer

Assess the global effectiveness of your region or division.

Learn how some of the world’s most successful teams have utilized diversity of language, culture and values to build and maintain market share.

Learn important concepts the world’s most effective leaders understand.

Discover the six most common obstacles and opportunities facing every company in our new global economy.

Benefit from cultural differences, whether in your employee or customer base.

Learning Outcomes

Very few people are natural born leaders. So, what are the rest of us to do? This seminar demonstrates how the best leaders in the world infuse their organizations with the unbeatable combination of vision, extraordinary communication skills and an uncompromising commitment to quality. Great leadership equals great customer service.

1-Day Seminar

Doug has inspired and challenged hundreds of thousands of audiences in his career as a keynote speaker, business consultant and author

2-June

Business Writing

2-Day Workshop

Powerful Business Writing Skills

In this comprehensive, interactive workshop, Shirley Taylor, best-selling author of many communication and business writing books, will show you some simple but powerful techniques that will help you to avoid misunderstanding and learn how to write effectively. You will learn how to organise your words and thoughts in writing, structure your messages logically, present your documents attractively, and improve the format, style, language and tone of all your written messages. When you follow these guidelines, you will transform your writing skills, increase the impact of your writing, and get the right results.

Identify the main problems in today’s business writing

Recognise the importance of good punctuation and sentence construction

Identify old-fashioned phrases and jargon commonly used in writing

Use modern business language to compose business correspondence

Apply the main rules of good business writing, particularly to e-mails

Structure all messages logically using Shirley’s 4-point plan

Develop better relationships through effective use of e-mail

Analyse real business documents to improve format, style, language and tone

Compose effective messages that will get the right results

Ensure your messages are read, understood, remembered, and get results

Objectives

Widely-regarded as an expert in business writing and success skills.

Shirley is a high-energy, high-content public speaker and trainer who educates, inspires, informs and motivates individuals to develop better relationships both orally and in writing.

The author of 12 business books on communication skills, Shirley has established herself as an authority on business writing skills.

The seventh edition of her international bestselling book Model Business Letters, Emails and Other Business Documents has sold half a million copies worldwide and has been translated into Japanese, Indonesian, English/Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian, Korean.

Facilitator: Shirley Taylor, CSP


15-June

Personal Development

1-Day Seminar

Jairek RobbinsJairek Robbins is a man on a mission focused on developing creative solutions for accelerating results.

Rapid Results Strategist.

Awarded the Congressional Award Gold Medal from the United States Congress at age 23.

Every organization is different, Jairek tailors his lectures and workshops specifically for your business. From Fortune 500 organizations to mid-market firms, Jairek merges the latest techniques in motivation with strategic foresite to help your business achieve remarkable results in a competitive marketplace.

“My goal is to assist people in the process of rapidly achieving their goals so they are able to live the life of their dreams. My hope is that they will eventually pay-it-forward and help those that they care about the most do the same”

Achieving Rapid Results in your Life and Business

Provide your team with an opportunity to take their goals, dreams and visions for their life and

business and turn them into their day to day reality!

Achieve Rapid Results in your life and business

Be able to live the life you desire and deserve!

By evaluating you and your company’s strategic objectives, Jairek is able to build a customized

roadmap for you to achieve your goals with speed and precision

Learning Outcomes


15-Sept

The Leadership-1-Day Seminar

Verne HarnishKeynote speaker, and the CEO of Gazelles Inc., is widely known as the guru of fast growth companies.

Author of the business best-seller “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits”: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm.

He writes a regular column for Fortune magazine's Venture section as well as the globally syndicated Growth Guy column.

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

Drive Accountability Throughout Your Organization

Figure out the top 3-5 Company Priorities each quarter

Communicate the company plan to all departments

Create departmental priorities and KPI's that align to the company plan

Create weekly dashboards to keep your team focused on the right things

Develop Your One-Page Strategic Plan to drive your company growth

Learning Outcomes

Focused Day

As one of the most respected keynote speakers in the industry his mission is a simple one: to help people Lead Without a Title and do their absolute best work during times of intense change.

Robin Sharma has been helping organizations like Nike, FedEx, Royal Bank of Scotland, Microsoft, IBM, Ritz-Carlton Hotels and NASA

Robin SharmaOne of the world's most trusted leadership advisors

Ranked as one of the Top 5 leadership gurus in the world in an independent global survey of over 22,000 businesspeople.

Recipient of an Award as one of the Top 5 Leadership speakers globally by US based Speakers Platform.

The 7 Best Practices of Leaders Without Titles

8 Peak Performance tactics to do world-class work in busy times

The specific tactics that the best companies do to get even better

The 4 keys to a high performance team and winning culture

Personal leadership lessons to stay strong amid turbulence and focused in the face of uncertainty

Learning Outcomes

Lead Without a Title

15-Oct

Creativity

2-Day Workshop

Creative Leaders

What is it: an integrated learning program developingcreative leadership & team innovation skills step-by-step

Why it exists: to provide business teams with a learningroadmap for different thinking styles and to introduce innovation into daily operations.

Objectives

Redesign your leadership style

Find a coach hidden in you

Discover secrets of agile management

Learn how to do more with less

Understand the impact of creative collaboration

Discover power of visual communication

Receive Creative Leadership Certificate

Learn to simplify and visualize your purpose, values and strategy in a way that each employee can understand:

Specialized in creative leadership development.

11 Years of international facilitation.

Designed & delivered workshops in 13 countries.

Speaker drawing ideas and engaging public in fun & collaborative way

The founder of Good Morning Creativity, member of Leadership Develop.ment Team of EPWN Paris and Board member of AIESEC Alumni France.

She was trained as Creativity Facilitator, NLP Practitioner and she has obtained a certificate in Person Centered Approach (PCA) methods of communication.

She holds Master Degree in International Business from University of Bratislava.

Facilitator: Petronela Zainuddin

Highlights

How to visualize the purpose of your business

How to explain your business model by telling a story

What visual techniques can be used in daily communication

How to define with your team a vision of future success


23-Nov

Creativity

1-Day Seminar

David BurkusAuthor of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas

He is the founder and host of LDRLB, a podcast tank that shares insights from research on leadership, innovation, and strategy.

Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behaviors.

Learn why some people are consistently creative and others strikingly unoriginal

Learn how to encourage creativity and offer well-researched facts in their place

Use insights from the wealth of research on organizational creativity

Improve your re-search skills

Use practical implications and realistic strategies for encouraging innovation

Learning Outcomes

The Myths of Creativity

His work on leadership, creativity, and innovation has been published in numerous scholarly journals and practitioner publications. He is also a contributing writer for 99U, Creativity Post, and the Harvard Business Review blog.


1-Dec

Team Work

2-Day Workshop

Founder of Create-Learning for learning and consultation.

Facilitates, educates, and speaks with groups in a variety of settings including Fortune 500 Companies, small businesses, universities and classrooms.

Best known for his high energy and creativity, Mike has facilitated groups of as few as two to as many as three thousand.

Facilitator: Michael Cardus

Learning Outcomes

Steps to develop high performance Quality teams

A prescriptive Team Performance model that can be applied and utilized immediately

Understand the successful resolution of team conflict

Know the key challenges that inhibit optimal team performance

Learn how to delegate to team members and ensure commitment to responsibilities

Determine your team member strengths and weaknesses

People on Quality teams MUST have clear lines of accountability and authority. Knowing who does what-by-when within the prescribed standards and limits. People on teams NEED to know what they are individually responsible for and what others expect from them.

People on teams NEED to see the connection of the teams, their own, and the organizations goals for the work to be valued, and accomplished within quality and time specifications.

If you are a Project Sponsor / Champion, Team Leader, Team member of a Quality Team and want to enhance your skill sets in Team Development, Facilitative Leadership, Project Management and people skills then this is where you should be. The material and learning simulations in this workshop are designed to make you a better leader and team member.

This will be accomplished through; Interactive delivery of content Processing and steps for integration into your team and organization

7 Steps to High Performance Quality Teams

Dec 2014

KC Wrap up & Networking

1-Day Conference

LEARN FROM THE BESTTM

Learn from the BEST™ is a rich and intimate one-day conference, focused on peer-to-peer learning. We will invite experts from the best organizations to transfer the best practices and techniques to enhance

your staff knowledge, performance, productivity, and profitability.

Sponsoring The Knowledge Club 2014

We offer carefully chosen companies the opportunity to use Knowledge-Club™ seminars as a platform to communicate your corporate message, values and profile in a very effective way. Knowledge-Club™ is a high impact and time\cost effective solution designed for upstanding organizations.

The Knowledge-Club™ is your chance to expose your company to thousands of key decision-makers in the Middle East and North Africa region. We offer sponsorships to fit every plan and budget.

The Knowledge-Club™ seminars will be promoted in 10s of regional newspapers, magazines, websites, mobile Ads and social media channels.

Sponsoring Knowledge-Club™ events in 2014 is a great way to enhance your employees' skills and knowledge. Our international speakers/authors feature education on industry knowledge, principles, guidelines, best practices, real-life case studies and more.

The Knowledge-Club™ seminars / workshops are unique as they are delivered in specially designed venues, each theater seats 300-500 attendees.

3 to 10 Newspapers Ads for every seminar/workshop

3 to 6 Magazines Ads for every seminar/workshop

Email shot for 600,000 to 2,000,000 person for every seminar

and workshop covering the Middle East and North Africa markets

1000+ brochure to be distributed to 1000+ company for every seminar/workshop

Fixed hyperlinked banner on Knowledge Club™ Landing Page

Fixed Ad on Yabila.com

Fixed Ad on dawrat.com

Fixed Ad on alaan.cc online magazine

Fixed Ad on indiansinkuwait.com ranked as one of the top

visitors websites in Kuwait

Social Media & Google Display Network Advertising

The Knowledge Club 2014 media plan value is about 100,000 KWDTM


LEADSPONSORSHIP BENEFITS GOLD SILVER NORMALPARTNER SPONSOR SPONSOR SPONSOR

Speech

Private Meetings

Complementary Seats (Seminars)

Logo branding in the conference room

Branding & Logo exposure

Luncheon table sponsor

Coffee Break time

Exhibition Area

Promotion

Web Marketing

Networking and business development

Special Discounts

Corporate Hospitality

VIP Invitations to Learn From The Best Conference

Flexibility

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70 30 15

Keynote speech at Learn From The Best™ Conference

Complementary Seats (Workshops) 30 20 10 5


Your organization will be the host of a luncheon with branded tables. A senior executive will also give a short address to the participants.

Your organization will be the coffee break sponsor. We will provide a branded networking area.

Speech

You will have the opportunity to be a keynote speaker at any Knowledge-Club™ events. Your speech enables the CEO, GM, AGM, Marketing or Organizational Development Director convey specific message to the business communities about your company’s capabilities and strategic objectives.

Private Meetings

As Knowledge-Club™ Lead-partner you will have a one-hour private meeting or dinner with every speaker/author at the seminar venue or your head office that canbe covered by media and press releases.

Logo branding in the conference room

Your company’s logo and branding tools will be displayed in the conference room.

Branding & Logo Exposure

Branding at the event, including your logo to appear under the heading of “Sponsor” on Knowledge-Club™ marketing material, including:

Corporate promotional video of 45 seconds during every event All printings as part of a regional and integrated marketing campaign. All advertisement pages in regional newspapers and magazines. Conference E-brochure. Roll ups will be made and placed at prominent places in the conference room. ID card Lanyard. The option (at Sponsor’s cost) to provide branded items and / or giveaways for the attendees e.g. pens, notepad, goodies etc.

Luncheon Table Sponsor

Coffee Break Time

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You will also be invited to share your organization's success story in the formal arrangement of this excellent event; it's a credible way of branding and vision positioning for your organization.

Keynote speech at Learn From The Best™ Conference

Complementary Seats (Coupons)

Sponsoring Knowledge-Club™ seminars and workshops will set aside a number of complimentary seats (coupons) for your staff or clients to attend the 8 events (Full details will need to be sent to Vigor-Events at least 2 weeks before any event).

Network with different level of public, social and ousiness communities in a unique andinspiring environment.

Promotion

Your logo and corporate profile (if applicable) to appear on all events material, including PowerPoint slides, signage and delegate pack handouts. Your promotional material (leaflet or brochure) to be included in the event delegate packs.

Web Marketing

Your logo to be published in the partner section on Knowledge-Club™ official website till the end of the year, www.vigorevents.com/club with an approximate 50-word corporate profile and hyperlink to your site.

Networking and business development

Special Discounts

Sponsoring Knowledge-Club™ events will allow you to get 50% special discount of any other public seminars and workshops organized by Vigor-Events & Vigor-Academy.

Corporate Hospitality

Reward your most loyal customers with corporate hospitality packages. You have the opportunity to give us a wish list of regular and loyal clients you wish to see at the Knowledge-Club™ seminarsand workshops. We will invite them on your behalf with discounted rates (50% of the standard fees).

Learn from the BEST™ is a rich and intimate one-day conference, focused on peer-to-peer learning. We will invite experts from the best organizations all over the world to transfer the best practices and techniques to enhance your staff knowledge and performance.

VIP Invitations to Vigor’s Learn From The Best™ Conference

Flexibility

We can tailor a sponsorship package to produce the most significant impact to your promotional message.


A hyperlink will be connecting your website with the Knowledge-Club™ e-brochures, e-shots and Knowledge Club Landing Page.

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An Exhibition Space (with a table and chairs) located within the main entrance of the event to promote your services during the event.

Exhibition Area


Knowledge Club 2014 Membership

1-4 350315

280

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10-19

DELEGATES PRICE / K.D.

1-4 500450

400

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DELEGATES PRICE / K.D.

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Corporate Membership Packages (Sponsorship)

PACKAGE PRICE PER/SEMINAR PER/WORKSHOP

NUMBER OF COUPONS MAXIMUM REGISTRATION

160 30 40,000 KD

71,000ORIGINAL PACKAGE PRICE

LEAD PARTNER

SEMINARS WORKSHOPS

50 8



70 20 20,000 KD


GOLD SPONSOR

SEMINARS WORKSHOPS

30 6



30 10 10,000 KD


SILVER SPONSOR

SEMINARS WORKSHOPS

10 3



15 5 5,000 KD


KC SPONSOR

SEMINARS WORKSHOPS

5 2

Seminars Standard Attendees Fees Workshop Standard Attendees Fees


Individuals Memberships

SN : KC213001

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MEMBER

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SN : KC313001


MEMBER

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SN : KC413001


MEMBER

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MEET THE WORLD-LEADING THINKERS IN PERSON

KEEP UP WITH NEW BEST PRACTICES

GET A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE & NEW SKILLS

NETWORK WITH DIFFERENT LEVEL OF BUSINESS COMMUNITIES

FLEXIBILITY AROUND HOW YOU UTILIZE YOUR MEMBERSHIPDifferent delegates per one membership so you can attend the seminar you needand pass your membership card to your colleague to attend the workshop he/she needs

500KD

700KD

SEMINARS TO ATTEND

WORKSHOPS TO ATTEND

2

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Attending fees

50%

CARD PRICE

750KD

1,550 KD

SEMINARS TO ATTEND

WORKSHOPS TO ATTEND

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Attending fees

50%

CARD PRICE

1,000KD

2,400 KD

SEMINARS TO ATTEND

WORKSHOPS TO ATTEND

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Attending fees

50%

CARD PRICE

The knowledge club is an amazing opportunity to attend a number of seminars which will leave you a year later probably doubling your income, having more fun, having more balance in making a greater impact in the world… I encourage everyone to participate in it.

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Jack CanfieldInternational Author and SpeakerAmerica’s #1 Success Coach

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wealth of knowledge

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annual business calendar

wider business development

worlds best speakers

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