“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” Henry Ford
All of these topics can be run as live interactive workshops for your group as half day or full day sessions.
Entrepreneurship Workshops for Small Business:
The Business of Doing Business
You may excel in your particular field but if you have not run your own business you may not be prepared for all the details of how to successfully play the game of business. Running a business is an art and skill set all of its own. This workshop reveals all the tips you need to become a successful entrepreneur and grow and manage a business.
Think Like an Entrepreneur, Speak Like a Business Manager
This fast paced, interactive workshop helps you to communicate to others your business management ideas, while helping you to think through the major components of business development. We also highlight the difference between the skills you need as an entrepreneur, and the skills you need to develop as a business manager. You will get the opportunity to speak about your business development while inviting insights from other business owners in the workshop. This is a fun communication, networking and idea sharing event.
Business Mapping: Create the Map so You Don’t Get Lost!
In this workshop we learn to set clear and focused goals that will create a map to take your business to the profitable destination that you always dreamed of. The map must be clear because it is so easy to get busy with crisis management that you forget where you are going. To be successful a business must have a clear map, constantly refer to their map so they stay on track, and easily find detours when they hit road blocks. Come learn the art of business mapping and be sure everyone on your team knows the route you are taking so they can go with you.
Business Basics – Keep It Focused!
This workshop helps to get your mind focused on the core of business development: ‘Can my business make money?’ ‘What is my breakeven?’ ‘What is the profit potential this year and in the years to come?’ Once you are clear on the amount of money you need to make, then you can focus on creating good products, good customer service, and developing your marketing plan. Start with a solid foundation by knowing your numbers. Stay centered on the basics and grow a strong, healthy business.
Strategy is the Key
Strategic planning is not always our favorite thing to do, we love to just jump in and make business happen. But without learning the art of strategy, setting goals and measuring results, you will likely be all over the place and achieve varied results. This workshop shows you easy methods for strategic planning and how to take control of your business.
The Art of Customer Service
Sometimes people are complicated and learning to understand human behavior will give you great insight into your customer service strategies. You can’t just be a friendly person, you need to understand the skills necessary to pull off excellent customer service. Learn how to communicate what your business offers in a way that will make more sales and create great relationships with your customers.
The Dance of Selling
In this workshop you will learn to smooth out your language, and choose words that entice not just inform. Every explanation about your products and services needs to have emotion and enthusiasm behind it. Learn to dance through the sales process, create great rapport with customers and represent your business professionally at the same time.
Selling the WHY
Selling is the process of answering all the questions of why someone should buy your product or service. Learning what the customer is really wanting to know and having enthusiastic answers for everyone of their WHYs is the art of selling. Come practice and discuss with others all the possible WHYs you should be answering. Learn how to answer the WHYs with clarity and professionalism, while creating a desire to buy in your customer.
Marketing Mosaics
Marketing is an art, a very creative process. There are bits and pieces that need to fit together in one integrated whole. It must blend, support, enhance and showcase your business in a picturesque way. You are not just distributing information, but creating a story, a presence and a personality that customers will be drawn to. The field of business marketing has changed so much it can become overwhelming. Business owners need to reflect on how they present their business to the marketplace and whether they are creating a picture that customers are attracted to. This workshop will help you to see marketing as art and will give you the opportunity to make changes and become more attractive to your customers.
How to Develop A Kick Ass Marketing Plan
Once you understand the basics of marketing, and you have your branding and image worked out, it’s time to really get down to business. The marketing plan gets you organized and motivates you to get going. It’s the part that says: this is who I am, this is what I want and this is how I will get it! You set clear, measurable goals, and constantly track them. You make realistic changes based on market research and attention to customer buying patterns. This is the life and action of your business. Get ready to create a Kick Ass plan that keeps your business hopping.
Time Management – It’s All About the Choices!
Time Management is about clarity, direction, accomplishment and creating space for the things you want in life. Life gets more complicated everyday. If you are not careful you will have given your life away to tasks, people and events that may or may not have anything to do with what you wanted your life to look like. This workshop provides you with the tools necessary to find clarity of mind, make decisions and accomplish what needs to be done, all while refining your lifestyle into something beautiful.
Decision Making for Business Owners
Making good decisions is the key to your business success. This workshop delves into the processes we use to make our decisions and how to better access that information.
- Learn to utilize all levels of your mind’s information storage.
- Determine the difference between intellectual and emotional information.
- Understand when you are using logic, gut reactions, evidence or second guessing
- Learn to access your intuition and use it in business decision making.
Intuition in Business
Learn how to use your intuition to make excellent business decisions. Quieting the intellectual mind for a moment to access a different aspect of your mind for creative and inspirational ideas is a great skill in business.
“The really valuable thing is intuition.” – Albert Einstein.
“The intuitive mind will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” Dr. Jonas Salk
“The mind, when it is quiet, delivers up phenomenal intuition which can then be focused to design a next-generation product or to understand what’s driving particular customers.” Ed McCraken, CEO, Silicon Graphics
Operations – Mazes and Mudholes
Running a small business can be very challenging. There is never enough time or help to get all the potential work done. By reviewing your daily operations you can create a plan to help you become more effective and see where potential problems may arise. There are classic mudholes entrepreneurs run into that stop them from being as efficient as they could be. Most business owners start out working as if running through a maze, just turning corners after each dead end. Planning, preparation and strategy are the keys to creating a plan for your business that will ensure a smoother and more successful operation. Join us as we discuss the keys to creating operating systems that inspire growth and organization.
The Psychology of Money
Your hidden thoughts around money and success are contributing to the outcome of your business and life. In this workshop we take a look at all your beliefs and values around money to be sure you are free from hidden prejudice and blocks against making money.
Stress Management & Balance – Don’t Let the Game Consume You!
Your health and well-being are critical if you are going to be a business leader or owner. This workshop looks into all the variables that contribute to stress and how they are influencing you. We also look at tools and strategies to overcome stress and live with vibrant health and clarity of mind.
Entrepreneurial Success Skills – What’s it take to be great?
This workshop addresses you as the business owner or business leader. We look at what it takes to become successful and the personality traits developed by the most successful entrepreneurs. We will cover beliefs, thought processes, emotional intelligence, desire, interpersonal relationships, organizational skills and personal motivation.