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Suisse Romande, and particularly the Arc Lémanique, boasts some of the brightest and most talented management resources in Europe.

Many star performers prefer to work as independent contractors, brought into recruiting companies to fulfil a specific purpose. Once the mission is accomplished and the work is complete, they prefer to hand back the day-to-day operations back to your management team and seek out their next big challenge.

Despite our talents, finding new engagements is a time-consuming part of an independent contractor's workplan. While we differ about our preferred methods, we tend to agree that networking plays an important role in finding challenging engagements.

One of the drawbacks to being independent, is that it is not easy to become a supplier to the big recruiting companies in the region. Many of us are simply not big enough to light-up on their radar screen. In addition to 'visibility', it takes imaculate timing for us to communicate our specialist services to a recruiting company at exactly the same time as they have articulated their need for this solution.

«BusNet» resolves this stalemate by offering 'strength through unity'. As a "network of networks" we provide access to a constellation of independent contractors. With the critical mass this brings, big companies now contact us when they require specialist skills to unlock a specific problem.

BusNet preforms three important roles:
  Making Connections
  Opening Doors
  Shaping Solutions
Come and live your potential with us.



Email us at support@localbusnet.com for a brief presentation of how BusNet helps independent contractors as well as major recruiting companies in the region.

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Are you a "TasteMaster"?

We all like to read, watch a good movie or enjoy a concert. Or just walk around a museum and get lost in the art. To savour fine food, and admire the rich colour of a heavy red wine as you swirl it in your glass. To allow a particular taste or fragrance to transport us back to our childhood.

Starting next month, BusNet will be organizing selective "boutique" cultural soirées - the chance to explore a new taste or to fall in love with an unusual combination of ingredients. These "TasteMasters" events are designed to promote a prominent local artist, share innovative ideas and add a dash of insight from the world of art and culture.

Our first event, still to be announced, will be an atmospheric journey into the literature of Carla Haas, accredited with the best book in Switzerland for La Nuit, accompanied by the double bass of Gerard Perera, and a complemented by a glass of fine malt whisky.

Let art and taste take you on a journey for a night. Here is a chance to meet friends and business partners in an environment that promotes your cultural sensitivity and encourages your hedonistic passions.

Let’s create a new style of business networking!

Energy & Inspiration

Running BusNet gives us the rare opportunity to spend time scanning facebook and local websites (and still call it work - in any other job it can get you fired! We find topical information for the local business community and share some of our discoveries here. These are authentic, commission-free recommendations!

The Grinberg Method

Learn to deal with stress using the Grinberg method, a physical approach that lets you reduce painful symptoms, change an aspect of your life and develop your qualities. I can strongly recommend these individual sessions by Jennie Klein, who is based in Nyon. She is offering a free 20min relaxation session. Contact Jennie Klein, 078 697 6026 or by email.

The Nyon Practice of Grinberg is offering a day workshop on Reducing Stress on Saturday 27th February, which will take place in French.

Comment se fait-il que quand la vie me demande «plus» je devienne «moins» ? Pourquoi en situation d’examen, j’oublie ce que je sais alors que chez moi je maîtrise ? Pourquoi quand je dois parler à un groupe, je bafouille alors que je sais ce que je veux dire? Pourquoi quand je veux vraiment quelque chose, je me heurte à mes propres limites ?

Cet atelier aborde de façon efficace comment mieux gérer nos situations intenses pour ne pas les transformer en stress.

Quand nous sommes stressés, nous nous diminuons, nous perdons nos objectifs, nous nous arrêtons à ce qui est difficile. Nous voulons vivre «à fond» mais nous ne savons pas comment gérer ces pics d’énergie. Nous ne savons pas nous préparer, nous ne savons pas non plus digérer.

Au travers des exercices d’attention, de mouvement et de respiration, nous identifions comment nous réagissons quand nous sommes sous pression, pour pouvoir ensuite arrêter de le faire.

Download the brochure here.

Past News

25 October 2009

Business Networking in Romandie

Freelance writer Catherine Nelson-Pollard is a respected anchor for local perspectives and a specialist in issues related to expat life.

Catherine receives continuous acclaim for her numerous articles, blogsites and columns, including Living In Nyon, La Côte, Hello Switzerland, Living Abroad and The Telegraph.

Read what she had to say about BusNet here.



4 November 2009

Film Premiere: Coeur Animal

Séverine Cornamusaz is a Film Director who personifies the mindset of Right Place, Right Time, Same Wavelength. She will be talking us through her inspiration for her acclaimed new film at it's release on Wednesday 4 November at the Pathé Galerie in Lausanne. To find out what company directors can learn from a film director, read the comment and synopsis here.



26 November 2009

BusNet Launch Event

Join us for our "take-off" event on Thursday 26th November from 9pm

   Cafe du Simplon
   Rue Simplon 17
   1006 Lausanne

Entrance is free, your friends are welcome, please bring your business cards.

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Insights, Workshops and Development

Insights

BusNet now includes a Twitter feed on this page to share rich insight and opinion as it arises. Share in the insights of local experts and international luminaries such as Brent Hoberman and Julie Meyer.



At BusNet, we believe in simplicity — that less is more!

For this reason, we do not 'push' hundreds of tweets at you, but we have set up a 'listening' channel that allows you to access information quickly. We've chosen under the following categories:

Newsflow | Innovation | Tech | Politics | Journalists | Info | Favourites

Find out more about our tweets here.

Workshops

SANDLER TRAINING, Executive Briefing
Professional Advantage Sales Training

Thurs 14 or Tues 19 January 18:00 - 20:00 Morges

To introduce you to their Professional Advantage programme, Sandler Training is offering Executive Briefings for business consultants.

Sandler will run a Sales Training course specifically for Business Consultants from early February to the end of March. This will enable you to focus on the key selling areas that are particularly important for your business delvelopment. Learn how "the buyer's system" operates, and how to avoid unpaid consulting. More details

Register here

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Commentary and Featured Articles

Book Review: ‘Brand You’
John Purkiss and David Royston-Lee

Self help books need to be inspirational, and Brand You passes the test with flying colours. Starting with a quote from Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, "your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room", it goes on to describe more than a dozen characteristics that combine to define your brand, and more importantly, differentiate you from others. This analysis is both more sophisticated, detailed, and motivational than I recall seeing elsewhere. The book gives clear examples of how to get a handle on some of the more slippery, but important concepts such as your values, and the archetypes you invoke when dealing with other people. The authors’ backgrounds as students of human behaviour are strongly evident here.

The advice on networking is refreshingly original. Thankfully there is no reference to elevator conversations or tedious 60-second homilies. Instead the authors recommend using a three-second introductory statement that encapsulates your ‘unique combination’. For example "I am a business psychologist with a marketing background".

Brand You has to be one of the most comprehensible and credible works of its kind to appear for many years. I cannot recommend it too strongly, both to people running their own businesses and those working, or looking to work, in corporates. It is marred only by one inexplicable omission: the lack of an index. I found it frustrating that I could not easily get back to great ideas that had impressed me on first reading.

Brand you, written by John Purkiss and one of our founding members, David Royston-Lee, is available to buy now from the publishers, http://www.artpub.co.uk/brandyou.htm. Further information, including the YouTube video, can be viewed at http://www.brandyou.info. Here you can also access a free download of the contents and a sample chapter.

Revied by Peter Burton
July 2nd 2009

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About BusNet

Our history and objectives

BusNet is a "network of networks" designed to help you find new ways to collaborate.

Based on the mantra of 'Right Place, Right Time, Same Wavelength' we provide Your 'at-a-glance' listing of business events from over 50 local business networks.

By bringing independent stars into our constellation, we are actively making connections, opening doors and shaping solutions

BusNet was launched by two entrepreneurs,
James Cullinan and Andrea Lung, in the Summer of 2009.

James Cullinan Griffon Conseils		Andrea Lung Feel Think Act

Email us at info@localbusnet.com for a brief presentation of how BusNet helps independent contractors as well as recruiting companies in the region.



The initiative is currently supported by our respective businesses:
Griffon Conseils SA, a specialist innovation company
Feel Think Act, a specialist coaching company

We would also like to thank our principal sponsor:
Trans-adapt, a translation and publishing company
This article by Swisster article explains the origins of Trans-adapt.

Press Articles

25 October 2009 - Business Networking in Romandie - LivingInNyon

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Our aim is to build a network that represents the entire business community in Suisse Romande, however for the present time, our service is only available in English. We hope to bring you French and German versions of Busnet early in 2010. Thanks for your patience, and please stay with us while we build your network of networks.

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Notre objectif est de construire un réseau qui représente l'ensemble des entreprises en Suisse Romande, mais notre service est actuellement disponible uniquement en anglais. Nous espérons vous proposer des versions française et allemande de Busnet au début de 2010. Merci de votre patience et s'il vous plaît rester avec nous pendant que nous construisons votre réseau de réseaux.

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Unser Ziel ist es, ein Netzwerk, das die gesamte Wirtschaft in Suisse Romande stellt bauen, aber für die Gegenwart, unser Service ist nur in Englisch verfügbar. Wir hoffen, bringen Sie Französisch und Deutsch-Versionen BUSNET Anfang 2010. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld, und bitte bei uns bleiben, während wir bauen Ihr Netz der Netze