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“Two-Faced” Networking™ is successfully balancing the “face” of our business identity with the “face” of the individual persona, with its own unique attractive endearing qualities, to gain prospects and win business. Each“face” must be genuine, credible, authentic and attractive. Each persona must operate simultaneously and intelligently within your chosen marketplace. If we use these “faces” effectively, we will win and retain loyal referral partners and clients.
“Two-Faced” Networking training is the brainchild of Bernie Jackson which evolved out of her own networking experiences and skills developed over the years.The 2010 training series was launched on the 16th February 2010 at the St. David’s Hotel & Spa in Cardiff Bay. There is a definite gap in the market place for dedicated and practical networking training and Bernie is committed to filling that void.
TESTIMONIALS
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / ESSENCE OF YOU RETREATS / "TWO-FACED" NETWORKING SEMINARS
"Bernie is such an inspirational person. She has helped me tremendously over the past few months to put vital things in place whilst setting up my business. I would recommend her services to anyone setting up in business who needs a professional and very knowledgeable mentor..and she is fun too!"
Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 2011
Top Qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative
Jean Fisher, The Occupational Health Business Ltd.
“Bernie has been my business coach and mentor, helping me to develop and market my bookkeeping and accounts business. She has a unique combination of professional expertise, intuition, inventiveness, warmth and kindness that has made working with her an enriching experience - and her knowledge of the South Wales business environment is exceptional. Our coaching sessions have been a mix of hard work, creativity and fun, that always leave me with a sense of increased motivation. I would strongly recommend that anyone who is facing challenges in developing their business should talk to Bernie.” August 10, 2011
Top qualities: Expert, High Integrity, Creative
Gillian Ormiston,Bluebird Bookkeeping
Hired Bernie as a Business Consultant in 2011
“Bernie has a gift for bringing out the best in people. The weekend retreat she recently organised and I attended was great fun, with lots of great companions and I left with a deeper understanding of myself as well as everyone else, along with pictures, goody bags, perfume, make up tips, nutrition advice etc etc. Can't wait for the reunion!” February 1, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable
Denise Jones,Owner, Lovingly Managed
hired Bernie as a Business Consultant in 2011
“I attended Bernie's Essence of You Retreat in January 2011 and found it to be a rewarding experience. Great company, top experts and thought provoking insights. A variety of topics to bring out the best in you. I particularly enjoyed the photography and the innovative perfume making, as well as meeting some top gals.” February 2, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value
Sue Wardle, Owner, Abelard
hired Bernie as a Business Consultant in 2011
“Wow, what a fantastic weekend! Thanks to Bernie and the team, we enjoyed a really positive voyage of discovery in a safe, fun environment. The trust we all felt immediately with the coaches & experts was amazing, as was their expertise. We made an instant bond by being brave and real!! Bernie is a beautiful soul who exudes warmth and kindess, I'm so pleased to have met her. All the activities, talks & exercises worked well together to add up to a great package of self-discovery & confidence-building whilst enjoying a girls weekend away in beautiful surroundings! A perfect early birthday present from my lovely husband! Can't thank you all enough and I look forwards to the next one........” January 31, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable
Karen Dell'Armi, Owner, Karen Dell'armi Contemporary Jewellery
hired Bernie as a Career Coach in 2011
“Bernie organised a retreat in great surroundings, supported by an excellent team of people with remarkable skills. I came away feeling elated, de-stressed and learnt some valuable personal life confidence lessons that will support my development and the growing challenges that face us in the business world. It was also great value for an extremely indulgent experience and I would highly recommend "Essence of you" retreat as an experience not to be missed.” January 31, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, Creative
Mary Lovell, Owner,7Side Ltd
hired Bernie as a business/life coach in 2011
“Bernie Jackson gets the best from people and that's a fact! I attended her first 'Essence of you seminar' which was a weekend of fun and self-discovery. Her team, who showed us how to make the most of our looks, our bodies and our personalities instilled us with confidence and offered us easy tips that we can carry into our working and home lives. And at the heart of the retreat was Bernie - encouraging, intuitive, challenging, perceptive. She taught me things without preaching or presenting, she made it sociable and significant. There is no doubt that I was taken out of my comfort zone, but by challenging me to look at areas I thought that I couldn't change and encouraging me to change them I believe she has given me the potential to be a better manager and perhaps entrepreneur in the months and years to come.
Ali McClintock” January 31, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, Creative
Alison McClintock, Group Editor, Redwood Group
hired Bernie as a Career Coach in 2011
“Bernie's insight into what makes people tick and identifying what they need is outstanding. She is an extremely adept business woman who makes everything that she does appear very easy when in fact she puts her heart and soul into making the events work for all personalities on a personal level. I would highly recommend Bernie to anyone who is looking for someone that understands what individuals and businesses need to be successful” January 31, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Creative
chris rice, Senior Project Officer, Agile Nation, Chwarae Teg
hired Bernie as a Personal Development in 2011
“I engaged Bernie to deliver some bespoke training to the Agile Nation staff team focussing on networking, lead generation and turning leads into business. Bernie executed this training superbly. She took time to get to know the business and the exact training requirements. She consulted on the programme she designed to make sure that it fitted the brief. Bernie's skill was apparent in a number of ways, and in particular raising the energy levels of participants and in being able to adapt the training to what also presented on the day. It was a pleasure to work with Bernie and I would engage her services againl.” December 22, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, Expert, Creative
Hayley Dunne MInstLM, Agile Nation project, Chwarae Teg
hired Bernie as a Trainer in 2010
“Having attended Bernie's 'Two-Faced Networking' workshop, I would like to recommend this to all newcomers to the world of Business Networking. Bernie dispels the myths and embeds the skills needed when meeting new people in order to project the right first impression. Using a combination of character actors, sound theory and practical application, plus of course her incomparable personality, Bernie's workshop is lively, wholly interactive and a 'must-attend' event.” August 23, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, Expert, Creative
Chris Harding, Mouse Proud
“Bernie Jackson is great communicator of the importance of face-to-face networking and the skills and etiquette that revolve around it. I would highly recommend 2 faced networking to any business owner that would like to understand, organise, and implement the tools that are critical to successful networking connections. Thanks again Bernie for your enlightening and very fun day of networking.” August 20, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative
Allan Blair Beaton II,Business Scene Cardiff
“Allow me to recommend to you “Two-Faced” Networking™ a very worthwhile seminar/workshop run by Bernie Jackson. Bernie has a great talent in that she lets her knowledge and experience flow in such an entertaining way that you do not realise, until later, that you have actually been taught valuable pointers on how to improve your networking skills. I am sure that no one could have left her workshop without picking up at least two or three pieces of useful advice that will be put into practice at a later date. Making new business contacts on the day was simply a bonus. In fact I was so impressed that we will, in the future, be involving Bernie in our own Training Days Dave Brassey FCII Director - Underwood Insurance Services Ltd daveb@underwoodisl.co.uk” August 10, 2010
Dave Brassey, Vice Chairman, South Wales Chamber of Commerce
worked directly with Bernie at Bernie Jackson Limited
“What can I say? Bernie is a phenomenon, I was at an event recently when in the middle of her presentation she burst into song; more importantly it was in tune and pertinent to the subject! I have attended Two-Faced Networking and Bernie has set a standard that anyone running a workshop should aspire to. The training is highly relevant and practical, the presentation is slick and well organised, it is interactive and innovative. If you get the chance to work with Bernie please do, she is fun and very very good at what she does - can't recommend her highly enough.” August 4, 2010
Phil Terrett, CEO and Owner, The Third Stage Group
“Two Faced Networking teaches you that you are the brand that people buy into and how to bring out the best aspects of your character when networking . Bernie’s warm Caribbean personality is engaging and compelling and I came away from the February event enthused and eager to try out the concepts learned during the day. With Bernie Jackson Limited your potential is unlimited !” August 4, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative
David Cummings, C.E.O and Owner, The Best Marketing Solutions & Chair of Monmouth Chamber of Commerce
"This course was a real "light bulb" moment for me. Networking is something we all have to do, professionally and personally - its all common sense you would think but Bernie has developed a course which helps you understand what works for you and how to relax and actually enjoy it. An inspirational course which will change the way you network. I would encourage anyone at any level in their careers, however much networking you currently do, to go on this course - it's money well spent."
Emma Richards MInstILM,Regional Project Manager , Chwarae Teg,South East Wales Regional Project Office
"Bernie provides up- beat, professional ,and focused sessions, but delivered in a relaxed way (plenty of laughs). Bernie provides a different take on networking. She reminds us (in original and ingenious ways) that networking requires skill and charm as well as dogged persistence, and whilst her course might be of particular value to those starting or thinking of expanding their networking activities it also certainly brings useful reminders of how it should be done to those more experienced networkers."
Alun Rees, Alun Rees Solicitors
www.arlaw.co.uk
"My name is Colin Campbell; I'm a business coach who focuses on Sales & Marketing. My business has been built through networking.
I recently attended Bernie Jackson's Network Training Workshop. The perspective I took gave me the opportunity to observe how things ran, how good Bernie is and what people made of the event.
The first thing that impressed me was the turn out. I estimated there must have been around 40 people present. In my opinion this is extremely good. The mix of people was very varied with a number of people who I'd not seen before in attendance. With people having to pay to be there the quality of the attendees was high, basically real business people, people who want to learn more and to advance their business opportunities.
The format worked well, with people meeting up and networking before lunch and the seminar/workshop on how to network following. Overall, I found Bernie's approach extremely practical, of great use to people new to networking and informative for the more experienced.
If you'd like to gain insider networking knowledge that is practical, gets results and puts you ahead of most other people fast, this is the event I'd recommend."
Colin Campbell
colinc@thesaleskey.com
"Many thanks for giving me the opportunity to attend what I thought to be one of the most humorous and educating networking events I have been on. Not only did you excel in your explanation of ‘Networking’ and put it in real terms, you actually kept us entertained. "
Sharon Liddon AICB CB Cert.PM Dip - The Local Bookkeeper, Pontypridd
www.linkedin.com/in/SharonLiddon
"I just wanted to say that I attended Bernie Jackson's Two Faced Networking Seminar and found it very enjoyable. Bernie presented the seminar in a very professional and slick way and got the audience interacting which is much more fun than just listening. For those companies that are new to networking, or would like to delve deeper on how networking works, it's worth attending. Well done Bernie,"
Tracey Jenkins - introbiz Ltd
www.introbiz.co.uk
"Bernie’s Two faced networking’ seminar was a novel take on how we tend to underestimate the complexity of the person standing before us at a networking event. Some of us are guilty of forgetting to network beyond the room, i.e. not just with the person before us but also with the people they may have in their database.
Even worse, we forget to delve into the personality and experience of our new acquaintance, ignoring how useful – and interesting – that might be. A timely reminder for us all, now that networking is the new advertising."
Susi Cernoch - Chair of the Abergavenny Chamber of Trade, Founder- Abergavenny Women’s Business Women’s Awards
"The second part of Bernie Jackson's "Two Faced" Networking training on 13th April 2010 was a great success. It offered a good opportunity to network with a variety of diverse businesses. Useful techniques for networking etiquette, recognising body language, and a whole host of "what not to do" whilst networking tips, along with some very amusing role play with professional actors was also on offer. Highly recommended for those not yet confident in the art of successful networking."
Claire Viader,Senses in the City Ltd
www.sensesinthecity.co.uk
"If networking is , or is going to be , part of your marketing mix then this is a non-miss event . Led by an inspired speaker,Bernie Jackson herself, aided by brilliant actors playing out role plays this non-threatening intro to networking is both fun and instructional. Highly recommended"
Barry Watson (Utility Warehouse)