Past Events 2008
Past Events 2007
July 2010
Winning Ways With Words
Tania Tytherleigh from WorkPlace Coach showed us how to:
- learn how talk about your business in a way that will interest, impress and entice?
- discover how to define your unique edge and deliver this to another person, a group or even a crowd?
- boost the effectiveness of your networking activities?
- leverage your time in order to increase your customer or client base?
- swap one-to-one 'sales' meetings to one-to-many sales opportunities? This session was totally interactive and gave participants a lot of great information to take away to start using straight away.
June 2010
Psychology of Money
Peter Cook talked about the psychology of money, and how it applies to business success. In this seminar with a difference, participants worked on a snapshot of the financial health of their own business. Peter talked about the link between your mindset around money and the financial results in your business, and provided people with insights that address this, and some actions to take.
Peter is the CEO of Love Your Business, a master business coach and financial independence coach, writer, speaker and a warm, engaging presenter. Peter loves helping people thrive, both in their businesses and in their personal finances – and he does so with passion, respect and a healthy sense of humour.
Speed Networking Night #2 May 2010
Back by popular demand - you asked for it so we brought it to you! Speed Networking #2!
The Speed Networking night is a real opportunity to make some new connections that will help you build your business referral base.
Speed Networking involves people meeting each other one at a time for a short interval and then moving on to the next person in line. It’s a fairly structured way to meet other business people and creates a different environment to the usual networking events.
It’s a bit like speed dating with one key difference. The purpose of Speed Networking is not to eliminate potential business contacts. Rather it is to meet a wide variety of people, even those with whom you may think you have nothing in common with, and form a connection that may at some stage develop into a mutually beneficial business relationship.
Tax Tactics for Small Business April 2010
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TAX it is one of those powerful words, it either makes our eyes gloss over, or puts us to sleep!
But TAX is a part of our life. Maeve has a passion for small business, and believes we need to plan for tax or rather plan to minimise TAX and now is the time to start looking at your business and see where you are heading before June end. Maeve took us through the important considerations of tax and gave us tips on what and what not to do.
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Internet Marketing Strategy and Tactics March 2010 |
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In this jam-packed workshop, Renee Hasseldine and Geoff Lee demystified the unknowns and provided some clear & simple strategies that could be implemented straight away in our businesses. The workshop was interactive and practical - with a "no question too stupid" policy.
This workshop covered
- Driving People to Your Website: Strategies to Do This For FREE
- The Primary Purpose of a Successful Website (for first time visitors)
- Converting Your List into Paying Clients Renee Hasseldine is the founder of CoachNetwork - a global network of life coaches, business coaches & executive coaches. Her business is primarily built around her website and she is keen to share the strategies and tactics that she has learned and is implementing in her own business.
Geoff Lee owns I.W.S. - Internet Web Solutions, started in 1998 and is operated as a home based business. When he started I.W.S. he had one client and through many techniques he has grow his business to where it is today.
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Speed Networking Night February 2010
Back by popular demand - you asked for it so we brought it to you! Speed Networking!
The Speed Networking night is a real opportunity to make some new connections that will help you build your business referral base.
Speed Networking involves people meeting each other one at a time for a short interval and then moving on to the next person in line. It’s a fairly structured way to meet other business people and creates a different environment to the usual networking events.
It’s a bit like speed dating with one key difference. The purpose of Speed Networking is not to eliminate potential business contacts. Rather it is to meet a wide variety of people, even those with whom you may think you have nothing in common with, and form a connection that may at some stage develop into a mutually beneficial business relationship.
Member Forum and Christmas Dinner November 2009
The purpose of a forum is to understand what members want from the network who we are and what we are about, reflect on where we've come from and where we want to go. This was your chance to have your say, be heard and contribute to the future of the network. BYO Opinions, ideas and constructive feedback. Our members' forum was facilitated by Nigel (Will) Polak. The boundaries framework he used took us through this process and was an application of an extremely valuable framework that can be applied in our own businesses and lives.
Nigel is a Life Coach, lawyer, psychotherapist, mediator and philosopher (of sorts). He is a father, friend and lover. He's a window onto a world of unforeseen possibility. At the core of his life and practice is the willingness to live authentically. He believes that authenticity requires an honest awareness of one's self and one's role in relationships with other people. His personal philosophy is: maximise my own choices while maximising the choice of the maximum number of people around me. And the universe is a very BIG place!! His philosophy and coaching includes: finding your true path and purpose (however you choose to define it); living authentically with others and assisting others to resolve 'conflicts' in their lives; living in harmony with nature; and tapping into the outermost possibilities of authentic living.
Turn Your Vision into Action
October 2009
Daryl Brooke took us through the process he uses with business owners. He provided us with a valuable tool to take home to apply to our own businesses.
Daryl is the owner/consultant of One Tree Hill Consulting. He works with small businesses to identify key issues and opportunities in their business and then assists them to determine the actions they can take to mitigate the issues and take advantages of the opportunities.
Is Networking up to Speed?
September 2009
The Speed Networking night was a real opportunity to make some new connections that will help you build your business referral base.
Speed Networking involves people meeting each other one at a time for a short interval and then moving on to the next person in line. It’s a fairly structured way to meet other business people and creates a different environment to the usual networking events.
It’s a bit like speed dating with one key difference. The purpose of Speed Networking is not to eliminate potential business contacts. Rather it is to meet a wide variety of people, even those with whom you may think you have nothing in common with, and form a connection that may at some stage develop into a mutually beneficial business relationship.
Buildng a Customer Database
August 2009
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Panel Session with Lucinda Flynn - Going Green Solutions, Geoff Lee - Internet Web Solutions, Julie French - prior owner of French's Tearooms and now Business and Tourism Development Office with Shire of Nillumbik |
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The most effective, and affordable, way to build your business is to create strong positive word of mouth. Lucinda, Geoff and Julie shared their personal stories with us and told how they each built their own strong customer database using referrals and networking. They shared their secrets, and talked about their unique ways and experiences of buliding a database, advertising on a budget, mistakes they made, customer service, using the internet to your advantage and more.
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Emotional Intelligence in financial crisis
July 2009
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Emotional Intelligence is associated with life success including career, relationships, health and well-being. Using your Emotional Intelligence will help you to manage difficult situations more effectively including financial loss. Jeanne helped usl gain a better understanding of Emotional Intelligence, individual emotional responses, and a range of strategies to manage emotions. Applying this knowledge will lead to less stress and a more positive and effective approach during financial crisis and other challenges that life may bring.
Jeanne Snider is a psychologist and a dynamic presenter. She has worked in presenting, coaching, training and consulting since 1999. Jeanne's areas of expertise are in personal development and people management including communication style, leadership, career development, stress management, team-building, and handling difficult workplace dynamics. She has particular expertise in the area of Emotional Intelligence, which is widely accepted as the basis of good communication and healthy relationships.
Jeanne has written two major papers and a psychological test as well as several training programs in Emotional Intelligence. She has a passion for promoting individual personal development, effective communication, and self-awareness for better outcomes.
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Excel 2007 - Productivity Power UNPLUGGED
June 2009 |
| Donna Hanson is The Technology Translator! |
Donna specialises in taking the “Techno-Babble” out of everyday computer software and turning it into plain English we can all understand.
Donna regularly appears on Channel 7’s SUNRISE program as an Email Expert and is only of only 4 people globally certified to train Microsoft staff in Email Productivity Processes and is passionate about ensuring people get the most out of software everyday.
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You don’t know what you don’t know.....how much timeand money are you losing as a result of not knowing about the hidden capabilities of Excel. Donna removed the mystery of simple Excel processes and showedn us how to capitalise on Excel® many features to TURBO CHARGE our productivity.
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Values & Vision - GROWING YOUR BUSINESS
May 2009 |
Jan Tinsley is a huge supporter of self employment! She started, and has grown, her two businesses, ‘secondsite secretarial services’ and ‘Connect2Clean’ into successful business concerns and has never looked back. When Jan has a vision she has learnt to take the risk and go with it. She has learnt more working for herself than she ever learnt working for someone else. Jan shared her story with us and explained how she made this happen!
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