This month’s Business Women’s Link meeting was held at Langleys Solicitors and saw more than 20 members networking and catching up after the Christmas break.

 

We were delighted to welcome a very brave Mark Rind from Lincoln Academy of Dramatic Arts, who coped admirably with being surrounded by chatty women!

 

Mark is a trained actor with extensive professional experience. He has worked in all areas of young peoples theatre for the last 5 years. Mark joined LADA from a high achieving school where he was Acting Head of Drama teaching A-Level and G.C.S.E. courses. He has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed productions with youth theatres and schools around the country.

 

Mark gave a really enjoyable talk on communication skills, particularly focusing on body language and eye contact, which made a few of the audience think twice about the visual clues they were giving off at work.

 

There was also plenty of discussion about communication in the workplace and we even ended up having a mini ‘advice workshop’ for one member who was experiencing particular staffing issues, who welcomed suggestions from the group about how she should solve them.

 

In fact, this was such a success, there was a proposal that we should incorporate a short ‘spotlight’ feature each month, where anyone needing help with something in particular could raise it with the group.

 

More information on LADA can be found at http://lada.org.uk/