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Happy New Year and welcome back to the Brighton Media Centre! 2010 promises to be a year of success, and here at the BMC with a multitude of media talent rubbing shoulders that can only mean a year of more glittering opportunities!    

FACILITIES UPDATE

Photographic Studio and Green Screen -

All office space clients get a third off plus 10% for January and February. 

Meeting room prices are now easily accessible on our website -

All Office space clients get 2 hours free a month and a 30% discount.

If you are interested in any of  the offers then please contact Carl on 01273 201375 or carl@mediacentre.org.
 

Welcome Space Doctors!

Space Doctors is Europe’s leading marketing semiotics agency.

They focus on anticipating tomorrow’s culture and creating tomorrow’s brand languages.

Space Doctors work with brands to understand their core cultural and communication assets. Their methodology ensures accessible and effective application of the analysis to concept development and testing, brand positioning, design, innovation and communication optimisation challenges.  

 http://www.space-doctors.com

We currently have some spectacular office space and facilities offers for all clients. Firstly if you take extra office space you will get the first 2 months HALF PRICE, including not only the licence but all broadband and phone lines. This offer will allow companies to expand into extra space while reducing the cost for the initial stage, making it easier and more affordable. A selection of the office space we currently have available is;

Middle Street:

Suite 305 (270sq ft) - £999.00+vat per month
Suite 205 (837sq ft) - £3099.00+vat per month

Old Steine:

Lower Ground Floor (929sq ft) - £1999.00+vat per month
Suite G02 (328sq ft) - £1199.00+vat per month
Suite 205 (140sq ft) - £449.00+vat per month

If you are interested in any of the office space then please contact Carl on 01273 201375 or carl@mediacentre.org.

 
3 Men; 1 Flat and a Corpse, Friendships in flux, skeletons in closets - Do yourself a favour and go see Calolm MacGregor's New Play its FRANKLY OUTRAGEOUS. A dark comedy.
 

MARCH 9th-13th
 
£6.00 advanced via the website and £7.50 on the door
 

www.ticketsource.co.uk/smartypants

www.smartypantsproductions.org.uk

 
CAST

Calolm MacGregor

Sam Parsons

Mike Weedon
 

Directed by James Weisz

Written by Calolm MacGregor
 

Produced by Being Frank Productions in association with Smarty Pants Productions

Cambodian Childrens Art Exhibition

March 6th
7-9pm at the Brighton Media Centre Gallery

Tickets Cost £10. This is a non-profit event and all funds raised from ticket sales, auction and paintings will go directly to the Cambodian Children's Paintings Project.

Tel: 07963296149
email: ccpp@brighton@gmail.com
www.letuscreatecambodia.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=286625317993&ref=nf

CCPP is a grass roots project that works with underprivileged children in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Our objective is to provide these vulnerable children with the opportunity to develop their imagination and skills through artistic expression, and providing them a safe place to play, learn and dream.

The project director, Felix, is coming to the UK for a series of planned exhibition events, including one in Brighton.

Come along and support a very good cause, make a bid for some excellent prizes in the charity auction (surf lessons and meals out in Brighton restaurants, for example), and watch a 25-minute film about the project. You will also get a free drink and a chance to browse some of the children’s paintings and buy some to take home!

Our children struggle daily with uncaring or abusive parents, living in extremely impoverished households, lacking regular access to food, clean drinking water and medical care.
 

The Brighton Media Centre is currently exhibiting the fantastic work of Mnkyvision, alias Mark Hooley, in our Freise-Greene building in Middle street.

Mark Hooley has been working as an artist in Brighton since graduating in 1998.

He studied illustration, but turns his hand to design, painting and more recently screen-printing.

Using a variety of styles, he adopts different names for each, most notably MNKY.

Now working at Another Fine Mesh studio in Lewes and living in Glynde.

He enjoys the harsh weather with his family in front of the fire.

http://mnkyvision.co.uk

Motivating Your Team When The Going Gets Tough
By Richard Leech

With all the talk of down-turn and the impact it has on people, managers have to work even smarter to maintain the motivation of their colleagues.
Adversity is a time when leadership shines through and as all supervisors and managers have leadership responsibility isn't now the time to step forward and lead from the front?

Motivation is one of those fuzzy topics that many managers struggle with. What, for instance, are people motivated by? How do you work out each individual's motivations? How do you know what techniques to use? These are all questions that go through our minds. Motivation theory is also riddled with high-faluting, academic content which in itself is a mine field.
However, there are four key motivators which apply to all of us who go to work each day.

These are:
- The motivation to acquire things such as food and housing, at the
basic end, through to things which give us status and enjoyment. When the opportunity to buy these disappears it leaves a vacuum.

- The motivation to bond with colleagues, teams, companies and
managers. People like to belong and need to know they are 'part of the team'.

- The motivation to understand what is going on. Our instincts drive
us to process information - if the information stops flowing this unsettles us.

- The motivation to defend what we have. In the simplest terms humans
don't like moving backwards, so if we can't go forward we will fight hard to stand still!

In these tough times, managers would do well to focus on six activities.
Each of these will help team leaders make the best from an uncertain situation and build motivation - if they are delivered well.

1. Aim for and celebrate quick wins - set short term goals and make a
fuss when they are achieved.

2. Think and do things differently - encourage people to be creative,
if you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always got.

3. Be inclusive - remember that everyone has a need to bond and
understand.

4. Listen to your people - let them air their concerns and listen
intently, don't flannel them.

5. Learn and act on learning - actively work out what you are going to
stop, start and continue doing.

And finally

6. Keep positive - if you are negative and downbeat, this will filter
through to your colleagues and is hugely demotivating.

All management challenges have one thing in common - they are easy to talk about and much harder to do. Execution, commitment and follow through will determine those organisations that succeed in the face of adversity.
Equally, great motivation comes from great leadership so now is the time to lead from the front if you want your people to stay engaged and deliver great results.