The Antidote welcomed Barry Dennis on 15th October who spoke about finding effective ways of getting great publicity for your business absolutely free of charge.

Barry is a well known Business and Media Advisor who was formerly the Managing Director of Archant for eight years. With over 30 years of experience in the industry Barry started out in journalism as a young reporter for a local paper and rose to become Managing Director of not one but two multi-million pound publishing operations.

Barry currently runs his own business media consultancy and also holds a number of non-executive positions with high profile organisations, including our own local Chamber of Commerce. He is also involved in a number of exciting ventures including Future Radio, the new community station for Norwich.

Very few of our presenters can ever lay claim to a royal recommendation but Barry was recognised by Prince Charles, who in 2006 described him as a business leader with drive and appointed him Ambassador for Business in the Community.

The Antidote Team thank Barry for his excellent presentation that contained many useful ideas.

How important is it for you to maximize your personal and professional performance?

Gavin Drake, the owner and Founder of Inspire International, discussed some of the tried and tested methods he has used to positively transform individual and organizational performance.

The presentation focussed on:
1. Some real examples of effective goal setting.
2. The importance of considering and knowing what you want to improve.
3. How to strengthen and simplify your goals the 'Peak Performance' Way.
4. The crucial part your beliefs and emotions play in maximizing or limiting your success.
5. How to use 'visualization' to speed and move you closer to your ambitions and dreams.
6. How to use psycho-linguistics to defeat negative self-talk and create a winning mindset and internal dialogue.

The Antidote team thank Gavin for his motivational presentation.

Handling 'difficult' Personalities with our very own Business Relationships Doctor, Chris Liles.

Chris introduced his increasingly popular relationships model, the 'Personality Palette' and gave insight how to recognize personality traits in others. For more information about Chris and how he can help you business visit The Relationships Doctor website at www.relationshipsdoctor.co.uk