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Linkedin:
Relationships Matter
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Our
Linkedin group is going from strength to strength and we
have just broken through the 2,000 members mark!
For more
information about professional networking site Linkedin
and how to join our dedicated Open University Business
School alumni group, click here
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Call
for profiles and testimonials
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Look out for MBA Graduate Rob Parker's testimonial
in a UK press campaign starting this January. If, like Rob, you would be
prepared to be contacted by our Marketing and Communications teams regarding
future ad campaigns and media activity, please contact Armelle
Griffin. It would be very useful if you could enclose a short paragraph
about yourself, including your sector of activity and job title, what inspired
you to join the Open University Business School, and what difference your
qualification has made to your professional and/or personal life.
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Regional
events
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Guests welcome, Certificate of
attendance available.
For more information or to make a booking, click on the events
below or ring Sarah on +44(0)1908 652 874
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Date
for your diary: Open University Business School Annual
Lecture, Thursday 2nd April 2009
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The 2009 Open University
Business School Annual Lecture will take place on
Thursday 2nd April at Chatham House, a prestigious venue
in Central London. We will send you more information
about the evening in the coming days. To watch the
Annual Lecture 2008 via our new podcast service, click
here
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Alumni Professional Development Friday
Workshops
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6 February (Full day), OU Campus, Milton
Keynes, Inspired Influence - Understanding and using unconscious motivators to
get your message across. The real clues to what motivates people lie in
how they speak. People use a number of simple language patterns whenever they
communicate. Once a pattern is identified it becomes possible to understand
others better, predict their behaviour in a given context and influence them
with empathy and integrity. It is said that "The Language and Behaviour
Profile (LAB Profile) can help you learn more about someone in 20 minutes of
conversation than 20 years of marriage" and the LAB Profile is now being
used in a variety of contexts from coaching, marketing, sales and business
meetings to personal relationships, health and education. In this session you
will discover simple ways to identify people's 'Hot Buttons' and the most
appropriate ways to deliver information to them in order to motivate them.
Once you have had a go at asking some of the very specific questions from the
LAB Profile you will begin to hear the language patterns in the answers and
transform the way you listen to people. There will be plenty of opportunities
to practice and develop your linguistic influencing skills. We will also be
looking at how to present your ideas to sceptical people in a way that ensures
that you can open their minds… For more information or to make a booking,
Click here or ring Janet or Sarah on +44(0)1908
652874
3rd April, Manchester (half day or full
day), Strategy Update and Powerful Presentations. 'A la carte' workshop,
made of two very distinct but complementary sessions - Strategy Update
(Presented by Paul temple) in the morning and Powerful Presentations
(presented by Peter Kennedy) in the afternoon. You can choose to attend both
sessions as part of a full-day workshop, or to attend the morning session or
the afternoon session only. For full details, click
here
24 April, OU Campus, Milton Keynes, Less
Pain - More Gain: Do you want to create change that is successful and
lasting? Do you want to do it with less pain and more gain? This workshop will
provide you with an insight in to Solutions Focus (SF), an approach to change
that is simple, effective and subtle. You will take away practical tools to
help you create change at an individual, team and organisational level… For
more information or to make a booking, Click
here or ring Janet or Sarah on +44(0)1908 652874
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Course
news: 2 Courses to Earn an MIFM
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Did you know you that
if you have studied B821 or an equivalent course, you can earn an MSc in
International Finance and Management (MIFM) by just studying two more courses?
B854 Issues in International Finance and Investment starts in May 2009.
You can then study B853 Issues in International Financial Reporting starting
in November 2009 to complete your MScIFM.
MIFM(Award F39) is a specialist masters
degree designed for people working in finance who want to broaden their
perspectives by adding international accounting and finance knowledge and
wider management skills. To find out more, contact Pauline Gleadle on m.p.r.gleadle@open.ac.uk.
Alternatively, if you have the equivalent of
a UK honours degree, you can study for the Postgraduate Certificate (Award
C59) by completing B853 and B854.
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Professional
Development - Learn while you earn
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The OU's Centre for Professional Learning and
Development has developed an extensive range of short online courses which
allow people to develop their skills and can be used towards their continuous
professional development (CPD). These courses cover over 50 topics in
strategy, leadership, people management, and communications as well as more
specialist areas such as travel planning and food science and technology.
Recently launched CPD courses include Mentoring
at Work, How to Use Coaching at Work and Effective Virtual Teams,
which are open for registration. For more information, visit www.open.ac.uk/cpd
which features online courses in the section called 'Flexible Online courses'.
OU Alumni are entitled to a 10% discount on course fee
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News
(Click here for the News section of
the Alumni website)
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Book releases - MBA graduates Bridget
Grenville-Cleave, Jo Salter and Andrew Humphries have new books out. For more
details, click on the following titles:
The
Happiness Equation, Bridget Grenville-Cleave
Energize,
Jo Salter
Strategic
Alliances and Marketing Partnerships, Dr Andrew Humphries and Richard Gibbs
MBA Fairs - The Open University
Business School is on the road again! We will have representatives at
forthcoming fairs in New York (22nd February), Washington (24th February),
Boston (26th February), Moscow (23rd March), St Petersburg (25th March).
Following some successful meetings in the autumn, we will organise reunions
between our visiting academics and the local alumni
10 Funniest exchanges from the British
courts: Professor Gary Slapper lists 10 of the funniest exchanges from the
British courts. Times
online article
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Quick
Links
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Membership directory
This secure online directory
is a great tool that will enable you to network with fellow OU
Business School alumni. The directory is an opt-in service only, so
if you would like to give us permission to publish your details,
please register online.
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OU
Business School group
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Your alumni association has
launched a dedicated OU Business School group on Linkedin. Linkedin
is an online professional networking service, used by over 8 million
professionals worldwide. It allows members to connect with each
other and expand their business contacts. Through this website you
are able to search and view OU Business School group members'
profiles as well as their networks. You see much more than a
name. All connections are controlled by you, this is an opt in
only.
How to join: Joining
LinkedIn is free, as is membership of the OU Business School group
in Linked In. You are pre-approved as a member of the OU MBA
alumni association and can join the group immediately by clicking on
this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/2297/739F3E3270B6/
You will need to use the same e-mail address with Linkedin as the one to which
this e-newsletter is sent. You can add this address
additionally to your existing
LinkedIn account.
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Alumni
Offers
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Magazine subscription
offers
Take advantage of the lowest prices available on subscriptions to
magazines such as The Economist, Time, National Geographic, Vogue and
many others. www.alumni-subscriptions.co.uk
Continuing Professional
Development
Make the most of your OU Alumni status by taking advantage of a special
course fee with the OU which allows you to study our short, online CPD
courses at a discount of 10% off the published course fee. For more
details, visit http://www.open.ac.uk/cpd/
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About
this newsletter
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This newsletter's purpose
is to keep you updated on news about the OU/OU Business
School and its various products, the alumni association,
offers and affinity deals, alumni events and just about
anything else that you request. Offers have been
selected as appropriate for our readership. The
companies and people offering them are not necessarily
connected to or endorsed by the OU Business School.
You will see that many
of the items link back to the alumni website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni,
where you will also find news and events listings, the
detail of all our services and benefits, as well as
useful links and the online membership directory.
If your details don't
appear in the directory, it is probably because you have
not opted in yet. For data protection reasons, we need
your permission to publish your details in the
directory. You can register online at (check link)
We would also like to
receive news from you (with web links) that we can
circulate to the rest of the alumni association, as well
as your comments and ideas for improvement. Please send
your suggestions using our online feedback form (check
link), or email me at c.sargent@open.ac.uk
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Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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