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01

Setting Goals & 90-day plans for your Business

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm

Drifting along from day to day, fighting fires within your business and feeling frustrated with the lack of results? If some or all of this sounds like you, then you're normal. But you can maximise your time and your profits and enjoy a sense of purpose that makes you spring out of bed in the morning - that's what having an inspiring plan is all about. We'll show you how to do this easily, with a template that fits every business. Watch how your plan makes life smoother and your profits per hour increase. As a bonus, you may even get to work on your personal goals!

 
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Understanding your Finances and Financial Planning

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
Managing your money is fundamental to your business success. This course will help you create a financial plan for your business and understand financial reports. Your trainer will also explain cash flow management, control and forecasting, as well as covering tax, VAT, shares and sources of finance. The course concludes with strategies for solving financial problems.

03

Excel at Sales

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
Sales leads are the lifeblood of any company and your trainer on this course is an expert in the subject. He will teach you how to find the right people, build desire, focus on the benefits and close the sale. You will learn how to make effective presentations which result in a great outcome for both you and your customers - they'll be so happy, they'll want to recommend your services to others.

Conference Call

Managing Your Money

Conference Call / Podcast
Leading tips on generating money and keeping hold of it from some of the best books on the subject, including The Richest Man of Babylon and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. This call also includes tips on cost-cutting and elements of protecting your financial position and building a solid platform, early in the course, on which you can build and drive profit through your business.
04

Money-making Marketing Strategies                          

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
One of only 300 Female Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the world, your trainer loves helping companies grow through cost-effective marketing. She will give you practical examples to ramp up your marketing and create a daily method of operation to keep the phone ringing. With one eye permanently focused on your profits, she will teach you how to measure your results and ensure you're generating a return on your investment.

05  Effective Presentation Skills

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking - number two is death. That means that, at a funeral, most people would rather be in the coffin than giving the eulogy. On this course, your trainer will help you overcome that fear and help you understand that great speakers are made, not born. His practical style will provide you with tools for planning and delivering an effective presentation, every time.

06   Inspiring & Motivating Others
Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
Delivered by a top coach whose specialist area is leadership; this course will help you revisit your business vision. She will also share her tips for enhancing your ability to motivate and lead your team. And teach you effective communication skills to help you become the leader you long to be.
Conference Call

Managing Your Team

Conference Call / Podcast
How do you achieve a team with all the members doing one thing, rather than one person doing everything – even in a business of one? This call focuses on interdependence and leverage; tools we can all use to grow our business by focusing on our strengths and sourcing help to bolster our weaknesses.
07

Building Your Business Through Referrals

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
Word of mouth marketing is one of the most powerful tools you have in your business. Your trainer on this course is an expert in helping you achieve your business goals through referral marketing and networking. She will share with you proven systems for success and help you develop and encourage profitable relationships. The day will finish with networking skills, how to introduce yourself in technicolour and how to work a room.

08

Protecting your ass-ets

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
When a crisis or emergency strikes your organisation, are you content in the knowledge that you've planned and written those all important procedures? To what depth have they been written? Have you examined their accuracy and feasibility? Are your plans really ready for use? They will be after this course, which is designed to give you peace of mind that your 'worst case scenarios' are covered.

09

Managing Your Time & Mastering the Art of Delegation

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
Time is a great leveller - we all have 24 hours in a day. What differentiates those who lead exceptional lives is the way they use their time. This course will teach you how to make more effective use of your 24 hours; providing you with skills and techniques to improve the management of your workload. Your trainer will also share her tips for the art of effective delegation.

Masterclass

Masterclass - HR
With the themes of delegation and leadership fresh in your mind, this quarter's masterclass will cover recruitment and developing your employees. It will help you build positive working relationships and improve customer service. The masterclass will also include tips on working with poor performers.

Conference Call

Managing Your Physical Health

Conference Call / Podcast
Health and Nutrition advice from the world's leading Wellness company. This call will help you feed your body well, boost your vitality, optimise your sports performance and generate more hours in the day.
10

Using technology to generate income and savings

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
With twenty years' experience in IT systems and processes, your trainer will help you understand where technology can practically help your business. The course will cover internet marketing and online sales, as well as using technology as a tool within your business. He will also help you manage your communications, so you can work from anywhere in the world and perhaps achieve a much-improved life-work balance.

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How to keep the customers you have

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
One definition of a business is "to profitably create raving fans". In this simple and fun seminar your trainer will illustrate the importance of raving fans, show you how to create them and retain them. She'll show you the difference it makes to your business and help you look at systems and techniques you can apply in your business today, to make sure every customer you deal with goes away as a raving fan and an advocate; spreading good news about you and your team.

Conference Call

Managing Your Mental Health

Conference Call / Podcast
This call focuses on stress; a cause or aggravator for 80% of medical conditions. Stress is on the increase, but how can you identify it in yourself, and your subcontractors or staff? Once you have identified it, what can you do to help relieve stress and ensure people are working at their optimum levels? This call will give you some practical tips from an expert in the subject; helping you understand the impact stress has on your body and your business.
12

Implementing your Learning through a Board of Directors

Training Session
9.30-4.30pm
This final session is a chance to review what you have learnt on the programme and work together to create a plan for the next stage in your personal and business development. It will be run as a Board of Directors; enabling you each to share ideas and cement your journeys over the past twelve months.

 

22nd February 2011
9.30-4.30pm
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