Workshop Presenters -- Breakout Sessions
Pick one presentation for each timeslot Click Here to read their Bio's
Session 1: 10:15 - 11:00 am
Alison Wheatley - Route One Research Services
Using a Business Plan as a Vehicle for Success
Many small business owners feel overwhelmed and unfocused, and their goals often don’t get done. Learn how to use a business plan as a roadmap to help you move your business from the current situation to your vision of a successful business. Packed with business management tips, this seminar teaches practical planning techniques that give you a clear direction and a workable action plan. Also find out how to analyze your business, clarify your markets, and develop strategies so your plan will lead to increased sales and improved profits.
Norma Watt - True Words Training and Consulting
What Does Your Body Say?
This interactive workshop will focus on the 3 main components of Body language interpretation: Facial, Proxemics (the use of space around us) and Body Position. Discover how these communication tools can be used to your advantage or disadvantage in the sales and customer service process. In addition, to reading other people, we’ll cover developing an awareness of our own signals. A segment will be devoted to presenting the major differences between men and women in how they read and use ‘Body Language’.
Fiona Walsh - FM Walsh & Associates
8 Deadly Sins of Business Development
Business Development is the lifeblood of any successful business. A continuous and methodical approach to developing new prospects, engaging markets with relevant information, and closing the deal is what separates companies that flourish from those that limp along. In this seminar, you will learn the top 8 bad habits that most business owners make, how to avoid these ‘sins’ and make different choices. These choices will ramp up your revenues, create new groups of niche markets, and develop a systemized approach to building business seven days a week, twelve months a year.
Tamara Throssell - Changing Point Coaching & Training
Mastermind for Success
Start a Mastermind group and give your business an energy boost! This presentation covers some of the “do’s and don’ts that guide groups to receive the greatest benefit from their time together. Creating a Mastermind group develops your very own “executive staff” to bounce ideas off of! Mastermind groups move members outside their comfort zone and s-t-r-e-t-c-h them to reach those scary but achievable goals. Create your inner supportive posy and improve your business!”
Session 2: 11:30 - 12:15 am
Isabelle Mercier - Catalyst LeapZone Strategies Inc.
Branding from the Inside Out
Branding from the Inside Out focuses first on the internal facet of your business (its personality) and second, on the external facet of your business (its behaviour). Isabelle Mercier Turcotte of LeapZone Strategies™ will walk you through a series of powerful insights + exercises to help you get started on your way to your version of massive success. Branding from the Inside Out provides the opportunity to set your brand success wheels in motion by opening up the gates to a higher level of clarity about who you are and where you want to stand in the market.
Mhairi Petrovic - Out-Smarts
How to Use Social Media Effectively for Business
With over 50% of Canadians using web 2.0 and social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and the blogosphere, its not surprising that professionals are turning to the Internet as a means to grow their network, establish their expertise and promote their personal brand. This workshop provides an introduction to social media: what it is, who uses it, how they use it and why. It will discuss the benefits from a professional / corporate perspective of being active in these communities and it explains how you can use these forums safely and appropriately to increase and enhance your on-line profile and build a strong brand.
Gina Best, Kendra Sivertson, Wanda Woods - Saving You from Debt, Death and Destruction
Saving You from Debt, Death and Destruction at Every Stage of Your Business
At some point we have all experienced debt, death and destruction. Have you been wondering what the downturn in the economy means to your business and financial success? Do you know how to structure your mortgage during the recession to protect your business? Do you have a financial plan to help keep you on track? Do you know how to save money on your life insurance and where to invest your money during a downturn? And do you know how to save money on your home and commercial insurance so you’ll have more money to invest back into your business and protect your assets? We'll empower you with the tools to protect yourself from Debt, Death and Destruction.
Cheryl Brewster - The Intuitive Life
Intuition - How to Sharpen Your Business Edge
Sharpen your business edge; intuition in business is knowing how to perceive your market to create your most profitable response. Intuition in communication goes beyond the surface to connect in more meaningful ways. Combining the two with the power of intention ensures your ladder is against the right wall to support personal and professional success. Harness your intuition to:
• Sharpen your decision making skills when you don’t have all the facts
• Spot opportunities you may not be aware of
• Problem solve, evaluate, predict and time your strategies
• Strengthen teambuilding and communication skills and outcomes
Session 3: 3:00 - 3:45 pm
Anita Webster - Anita Webster Communications
Press Release Me - Let Me Know
This session will show participants how they can partner with the media to produce great stories and spread the word about what they do. Participants will do a fun opening exercise called ‘How did that Story Get in the Paper?’ – encouraging them to think about how the news media gets its stories. It also may challenge their assumptions about what they’ve been reading, hearing and seeing. We’ll then talk about what PR is, how to make what they’re doing into a story idea and how to pitch that to the media. All while keeping in mind they are also running their business!
Carolyn Cooper-McOuatt - Inspired Business Development
The Customer Within
How can I attract more customers? We have an opportunity to re-focus our talents in how we serve our customers and how we attract new customers. You’ll leave this session with tools and skills to help you provide memorable service to your customers and discover how to be recognized as being a positive influence in your community. You will support your customers to take notice, appreciate and remember the positive contributions you make in your business. Your business reputation will soar when you gain an unparalleled competitive advantage through customer retention, referrals, and repeat business.
Pamela Chatry & Zoey Ryan - Entrepreneurial Superstars
The Yin/Yang of Strategic Business Design
Regardless of where you are in the business cycle, this dynamic workshop for “Entrepreneurial Superstars” will address your unique needs as a female business owner with a holistic and integrated approach to business planning and lifestyle design. You will be given the opportunity to “ignite your business success”, through a mix of inspirational stories, education and business development exercises and will walk away with solid practical tools & information, along with feeling of inspired potential. This is one workshop you can’t afford to miss. It’s where the mind and the heart meet for business!
Barbara Swanston - A Coach for Life
Find Your Island of Inner Joy in a Sea of Overwhelm
Everyone wants to be happy, yet happiness can seem illusive especially in these overwhelming and uncertain times. This workshop will introduce you to the Happiness Formula and the science behind it, explore the guiding principles that support inner happiness and give you some tools & techniques to find your own island of joy in a sea of overwhelm. Using interactive exercises, discussion & music participants will learn easy step by step exercises to access their inner wellspring of joy and ongoing actions to maintain their state of happiness.
“To promote the interests of women through networking, education and friendship.”
