Past events

Date: May 19, 2021

Time: 18.30 — 19.30

 

The Eurovision Song Contest is finally taking place in Rotterdam, and what better way to get into the mood than with other fellow Nordic Young Professionals! The Nordic Chambers of Commerce in the Netherlands are organising “Nordic YP Afterwork: Eurovision Challenge” on Wednesday 19th of May at 18:30 CET, just between the two semifinals. Join us to demonstrate your Eurovision knowledge and compete against others for a chance of winning a prize!

 

What is the challenge all about?

Our challenge will consist of two activities which will put your Eurovision knowledge on test. First, you and your team have to demonstrate both speed and information seeking skills as you compete in our virtual scavenger hunt and try to find answers to our tricky and fun Eurovision-related questions. In our second activity, you and your team have an opportunity to get points from our game “On the rails” where you have to figure out based on our clues to which Eurovision destination the train is heading to!

This will be an evening you don’t want to miss!

Register here: https://forms.gle/hAaqfscDQi6znuSe8

 

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Date: April 22, 2021

Time: 12.00 – 13.00

Where: Webinar 

Interactive Lunch Talk with Charlotta Björk Danielsen

Engagement Strategy – How to use customer stories and storytelling to engage with customers in a new way

 

In this interactive webinar with Charlotta Björk Danielsen — Engagement Strategy Manager at Oracle I Storytelling and Member of the Young Professional Committee of the Swedish Chamber — we will discuss the importance of Customer engagement in times of change, including clear examples of storytelling and how it can enhance customer relations at your business.

 

Do you want to build confidence and skills to use storytelling as a part of your sales conversation?

Join our workshop to get inspired and discover how storytelling can help you have more interesting and engaging meetings with your customers and colleagues in this zoom era.

Several hundred sales professionals from all over the world have attended this workshop with Charlotta Björk Danielsen, Engagement Strategy Manager at Oracle, and when asked “How likely are you to recommended this training to a colleague gave it a Net Promoter Score of 9.3

“As an Engagement Strategy Manager, I combine my background in core technology sales at Oracle, with my years in narrative research, to help sales representatives have more interesting conversations with their customers.”

Charlotta Björk Danielsen

 

Workshop Flow: 

30 min “Storytelling theory”

– How and why should we use storytelling

– Tips and tricks for using storytelling in a sales conversation

20 min “Hands on practice”

– Introduction and practice with the “focus” technique

10 min Summary and Wrap up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                         

 

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The Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Young Professionals of the Swedish Chamber welcomes the participants of the Mentorship Program 2020-2021 to Meet Up IV.

 

When: April 22, 2021
Time: 18.30 – 20.15


Venue:
Webinar Zoom


Theme: Personal development and growth

Hendrik Jan Guitink

 

Guest Speaker: Niels Thijssen
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Program

In this session we will be joined by Niels Thijssen, one of Hendrik Jans associated partners. Nils is young talented Leadership consultant with a background as an international hockey coach.  Niels was the national coach of the Belgium ladies team who have climbed up the world ranking during his leadership. Since early this year his is part of Hendrik Jan Guitink s team at AIMS.

 

At our Meetup on April 22 Niels will present what personal development/growth can be, using the elite sport as an analogy. He has witnessed from his own experience what it means to try and reach the top of your passion, what it takes to grow and develop.

We will extrapolate that in our Meetup and work on this together in breakout sessions.

 

 

Next Meet up:

June 10, 2021
18.30 – 21.00
Venue Swedish Chamber of Commerce Amsterdam
Recruitment strategies
Hendrik Jan Guitink
Guest Speaker: Tba

At this final meeting we will also  evaluate on personal lessons learned and you  will receive a certificate for accomplishing the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Mentorship Program 2020-2021.

 

 

This webinar is a part of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Young Professionals Mentorship Program 2020-2021 and open for Mentors and Mentees of this program only. Next Mentorship Program will start fall 2021. Welcome to send an emai to events@swedishchamber.nl for more information.

 

 

 

 

About Hendrik Jan Guitink, Managing Partner of AIMS International Netherlands B.V. , member of AIMS International, a global leader in Executive Search and Leadership Consulting

“My name is Hendrik Jan Guitink, I am the Managing Partner of AIMS International Netherlands B.V., member of AIMS International, a global leader in Executive Search and Leadership Consulting with offices in over 50 countries. We Find&Grow Your Leaders. Within our Talent Management Practice, coaching and mentoring are two aspects that we specialize in as part of Leadership Development Programs or for individual cases. Having been a Mentor within this program for the past 2 years and being a professional business coach and trainer, I am very excited to take on the challenge. As Mentor, I have had the privilege to partner with 2 very bright and ambitious young professionals. I think I can say that both the mentees and I learned a lot from each other.

I am married to a Swedish beauty and also have a very strong business relationship with our AIMS partner in Sweden, delivering our services to our mutual clients.  Hence the membership of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce.

The ambition for the Mentorship Program is to give young professionals the opportunity to connect with a senior business executive outside of his or her direct environment. Giving the participants access to guidance in issues concerning their future career.

As a group we will work on specific topics such as culture and building trusted relationships and we will invite subject matter experts to come and talk to us. The Mentees and Mentors will also spend time together on subjects of their own choice.”

Hendrik Jan Guitink

 

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce Mentorship Program 2020-2021 is supported by:

 

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When: April 7, 2021

Time: 12.00 – 12.45 CET

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When: March 8, 2021

Time: 12.00 – 13.00 CET

How to be a changemaker – Are you curious to know how to impact people and planet in a positive way?

In this Lunch Talk Lisen Wirén, Programme Manager at the IKEA Social Entrepreneurship at Inter IKEA Group will share her thoughts and drive to work with social  entrepreneurship and to contribute to positive change.

 

IKEA has been collaborating with social businesses since 2012, and currently, the initiative is generating work for more than 30,000 people. Handcrafted collections and products produced in collaborations with social businesses are sold in IKEA stores worldwide. Today, IKEA announces scaling up social entrepreneurship business with the ambition to reach 95,000 jobs by 2025.

For several years, IKEA has been working with social entrepreneurs to create a better everyday life through long-term job opportunities and livelihood for people who need it the most. The social businesses produce unique handcrafted products in order to create financial independence and life-changing opportunities for marginalized groups and women in vulnerable communities. The ability to earn an income also has a direct and positive effect on nearly 150,000 family members of these artisans today.

 

Opening by Ambassador of Sweden for the Nehterlands, Annika Markovic
PROGRAM
Welcome by Kerstin Gerlagh
Opening words by Ambassador of Sweden for the Netherlands, Annika Markovic
Keynote speaker: Lisen Wirén
Iinteractive Discussion and Q&A
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About International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

 

 

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Date: March 2, 2021

Time: 15.00 – 16.30

Where: Digital event

 

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce is very pleased to invite you to an online training “Stop Motivating Your Employees” together with Swedish Chamber Member company Tuff Leadership Training.

What’s needed for managers to really become involving?

Stop motivating your employees! – A webinar for HR professionals and senior leaders.

Many would say that we’re in midst of a paradigm shift, where we, on a large scale, are moving from more traditional hierarchical top-down ways of working to less hierarchical more bottom-up self-directed or self-managed ways. We see that in all this there is a crucial piece missing, something which gets in the way for things to work well, a piece that we are unaware of. The webinar Stop Motivating Your Employees is about that missing piece.

 

What to expect:

In the seminar you will discover how you can view leadership and its role in an empowering way that stimulates engagement and adult-adult relationships, and what new skills leaders today need to develop. As well as what it takes to shift working climate to create trust-based culture. Especially when it comes to the impact of the Covid-19 situation on leadership and remote working together.

 

Tuff Leadership Training is known for training managers so that change really happens. Read our feature article with Co-founder Carl Erik Herlitz here to learn more about their background and vision.

 

 

 

 

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Did you miss out on the success of YP’s last Virtual Escape Room? This is your opportunity to take part of the fun!

On February 25, 2021 we welcome you to tune in for an hour filled with fun, adventures and challenges — testing your ability to collaborate in order to find clues and escape before time runs out.

The theme for this time is Escaping the 80’s — the most popular escape room according to our organizer — inspired by the prominent 80’s star Simon Richards and his mysterious disappearance after recording the film “REC”.

Immersed in an 80’s workout world, you will be divided into teams and compete against each other by trying to uncover the hidden secrets of Richard’s disappearance and his “REC” film.

Date: 25 February
Time: 19:00-20:30 CET

 

SIGN UP HERE

 

 

In November the YP Nordic held a Virtual Escape Room event with young professionals from both Netherlands and the Nordic countries.

It was great fun, challenging and a great way to connect even during a pandemic!

And to brag about all our amazing Young Professionals we have in our network, only 28% playing this game manage to complete the game in time, and we all made it!
A much appreciated event! And we are looking forward to inviting you to an YP event soon again!
Thanks to virtualescapegames.com for the game!
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Date: February 18, 2021
Time: 15.30 –
Zoom Webinar

Which impact will the pandemic situation  have on the Event Industry in 2021? What are the trends and possibilities? How can your business thrive in times of uncertainty? 

 

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the Finnish, Danish and Norwegian Chambers of Commerce in the Netherlands are very pleased to invite our members to an interactive webinar to discuss upcoming trends and possibilities within the Event industry 2021 together with the event companies Lyytti and MeetApp.

 

Though the current pandemic situation  forces the event industry to host virtual events in stead of IRL, there are a range of possibilities regarding planning and organising events.  Our experienced speakers will provide you with the insights of the current developments within the event sector. MeetApp will make interactive discussions possible during the session and all participants will be able to engage and share their experiences.

 

Welcome to join us on February 18, 2021 at 15.30 CET to learn how to pivot your event business during the pandemic.

 

Click here to sign up

 

This is a collaboration by the Nordic Chambers of Commerce in the Netherlands:

 

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