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- Mary Trost
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Calendar
Upcoming event dates are shown or call 623.444.5927 for information on workshops that are now forming.
Professional Development WorkshopsTitle: Success Is Not Accidental!
Description: You have to make it happen. Learn how to effectively plan for success and how to develop the skills and resources you need to realize your goals. You CAN create your own opportunities. We’ll show you how. |
Title: Management Boot Camp
Description: This workshop is designed to give new (and aspiring) managers and executives the perspective (and possibly the people skills) they need to fulfill their new leadership role, including strength-based leadership, collaborative communication, teambuilding, effective delegation and more. Participants learn to make sense of the administrative requirements of supervision to help them achieve success in their new position, or to make them a great candidate for promotion! |
Title: Planning for Success
Description: You've heard about strategic planning, but have you heard about personal strategic planning? Learn how to create a personal plan to guide your professional success, utilizing realistic assessment tools, goal-setting techniques and a personal mission statement that will help you achieve your goals! |
Title: Create the Success You Want!
Description: How do you measure success when it comes to your business? Strictly by the P&L? Do your personal goals fit with the business that you’ve created? Are you doing your life’s work or just working for a living? They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. Get more out of your business, in many ways. We’ll show you how. |
Title: Be Your Own Best Coach!
Description: After the coach, the counselor, the consultant or the franchisor is gone, you'll still have to run your business. Learn how to motivate yourself to succeed through multi-level goal setting, benchmarking, incentives and performance rewards. You'll learn how to create your own 'applause' through publicity and positive word of mouth that keeps you motivated and energized ... and your customers coming back for more. |
Title: Unleash the Entrepreneur Within!
Description: Learn to think, plan and act like the successful entrepreneur you always knew you could be! We'll focus on strength-based business modeling and show you how to identify and reach out to your Ideal Customer. Find out what successful entrepreneurs know (and it's no secret!): If you make your living doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Workshop includes a breakout in which you'll work with other participants to prepare a two-minute pitch to solicit venture funding based on a (provided) business concept. The goal? To learn to act like an entrepreneur and think like a customer! | | November 7, 2008 | | | |
Unleash the Entrepreneur Within! will be featured at the 2008 Conference | Location
WomenVenture Conference
, Minneapolis MN |
Title: Learn To Pitch Like A Pro!
Description: You'll learn how to structure and develop a three-minute 'pitch' on your new or existing business that is ideal for presentations to venture funding prospects, angel investors, loan officers or your next big customer. Learn how to get audiences as excited about your business as you are. We'll show you how! |
Organizational Planning and Success WorkshopsTitle: Ready, Set, SWOT
Description: Learn the ABC’s of SWOT analysis, including how to turn threats
and weaknesses into opportunities and challenges into the potential to learn. MBA students learn the ins and outs of SWOTs for a reason: the process, as well as the answers, reveal A LOT about a business and the environment that it competes in. We’ll show you how to develop strategies that maximize your opportunities to succeed! |
Title: Change Management: When Doing It Like You Always Have Is Not An Option
Description: The ability to recognize and deal with change is critical to your survival as a business. Learn to see change as the opportunity that it is, to integrate it effectively into your business, and to encourage employees to embrace it as positive progress in the workplace. |
Title: Expand Without Fear!
Description: Unplanned growth can be disastrous for a company. Learn the special issues associated with expansion planning and management, and what you need to know before you make the leap. |
Title: Great Customer Service: The KEY to Success!
Description: Does your company have a 'service mentality'? Do you know what your customers are really looking for, why they buy from you or what it would take to grow their business? Learn how to identify and serve both your Internal and External Customers with value-adding program, service, communication and marketing strategies that meet the needs of your markets. |
Title: Train Your Employees to Succeed
Description: Motivated, goal-oriented workers are more productive and involved in their work. We'll teach your employees the basics of goal setting and achievement in their work, their career and their lives. They'll also learn team problem-solving techniques for both short-term and long-term needs. Make the most of your best assets: your people, by preparing them for future leadership and success! |
Title: Organizational Turnaround
Description: We’ll show you how to turn possible failure into screaming success by focusing on the core issues and elemental business needs that are the lifeline of any business. Learn how to use assessment tools and benchmarks to spot trouble before it becomes disaster, and innovative brainstorming and ‘objective view’ techniques that can breath new energy into your company. Learn how to look for new options. This workshop will teach you how. |
Marketing and Branding WorkshopsTitle: Be the Brand!
Description: Learn how to create a winning brand strategy that sets you and your company apart from the competition. Our seven-point brand development strategy is the same one the giants use. Why? Because it works. Learn how to be visible and get found. A must for those who want to be seen AND heard. |
Title: Reach Out to Your Ideal Customer
Description: Learn how to identify, target and serve the ideal customer for your business. You'll leave this workshop well-versed in the benefits of target marketing techniques, database contact marketing, online marketing trends (including social marketing) and customer communication and retention. |
Title: Get in the Game! Build a Name for Your Business Online
Description: You'll learn how to put your business in front of a limitless audience of potential customers by developing a relevant, affordable online marketing and selling strategy. We'll teach you the ABC's of online branding, including brand development, search engine and social marketing strategies and other ways to create the 'word of mouse' that turns prospects into customers ... and customers into your best salespeople! |
Title: Crisis Marketing: Short-Term Strategies for Survival
Description: Do you have a plan to continue selling and serving customers when construction, competitors or catastrophe get in the way? Learn creative marketing, staffing, service and cost containment strategies that will help you survive -- and possibly thrive! -- during periods of turmoil. |
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