Every day, millions of people dream of starting a business. Every day, hundreds of entrepreneurs turn their dreams of starting a business into reality. What is the difference between those who dream about it, and those who do it?
Michael Gerber |
Over the past 30 years, Michael Gerber, author of best-sellers The E-Myth Revisited and E-Myth Mastery, has coached and trained thousands of small business owners, finding ways to help them improve and expand their businesses. In his latest book, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within (Collins; March, 2008), Gerber argues that anyone can become an entrepreneur and create a successful company, a departure from the conventional wisdom on the question of whether entrepreneurs are born or made. Using a framework he calls the "Dreaming Room," Gerber identifies four dimensions of the entrepreneurial personality and recommends a pathway to conceive of and develop a small business. |
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Who should attend?
♦ if you have always wanted to realize the American dream of being in business for yourself.
♦ if you want to learn what it takes to start and run a successful business.
♦ if you have or expect to have as few as zero or as many as 200 employees.
♦ if you are an unemployed manager and want to go into business for yourself.
♦ if you want to understand the stages of growth your company will experience or is going through, and how things can change without your realization.
♦ if you have survived long enough to realize you need guidance and knowledge to achieve more of your dreams.
♦ if you’re puzzled by the changes in your business that happened just because it grew.
♦ if you don’t understand why growth has stalled when you still do things the way you used to.
♦ if you have invested in your business every cent you own and all you can borrow, and you still need more.
♦ if you are searching for a mental spark plug to give you new ideas and knowledge for solving your most pressing problems.
♦ if you think business is a game and money is the way to keep score.
Join us Wednesday, October 8, 2008 to learn from the world’s leading small business guru The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company.
And there’s more….
Norma Havens &
Bob Belknap |
Business can be tough and economic conditions can make it tougher. Companies lose opportunity and revenue every day due to lack of clarity.
What kind of Company are you? What do you really sell?
Tough questions. And when you ask them, do all of your employees have absolute clarity as to the answers?
Companies we have worked with have experienced solid growth patterns through all kinds of economic conditions.
Norma Havens and Bob Belknap, founders of BelHavens, LLC and the University of Street Smarts bring their inspiring message designed to help you communicate what kind of company you have and what you really sell to all of your staff and ultimately to your customers.
There are a couple of surprises in this presentation that will prove things aren’t always what they seem and you’ll walk away with ideas you can take back to your company and implement the very next day. |
Dr. Meggin McIntosh |
Dr. Meggin McIntosh is “The Productivity Professor!” Through her company, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc. she has helped thousands of people become more productive through the seminars she teaches on best use of time, paper, information and life management. Founded in 1996, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc. serves individuals, associations, schools, universities, colleges, and companies through workshops, seminars, coaching, and consulting. Her company's purpose is to help those with whom we work to know, feel, dream, and do more and differently so that they are living the best and most productive lives possible—and doing so with consciousness, clarity, and conviction.
The Symptoms:
1. You steer colleagues, clients, and customers to meet somewhere other than your office.
2. You sometimes (often, always) apologize for the state of your desk and work area.
3. You spend time looking for items that you *know* are somewhere in your office.
4. You have missed a deadline, lost a file, neglected an important project, been late to an appointment, justified a tardy response, or other similar career- (and self-esteem) hampering behaviors.
The Diagnosis:
1. Disorganized, possibly messy, office.
2. No system(s) for filing, keeping up with appointments, tracking projects, etc.
The Treatment:
1. Set up a system (Saving You Space Time Effort Money™) that works for you, not against you.
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Cheri Hill |
Super Networking
♦ Networking is much more than meeting someone and getting a business card to add to your collection.
♦ Much more than "working a room" and handing out a stack of your own cards.
♦ A vitally important skill that most people don't take seriously enough. (In fact, most people are bad at it.)
Good Networking will enhance both your personal and professional life by increasing your power, position and influence, and quality of life. It's a lifestyle, not a workstyle. Top Networkers don't even know they are Networking because for them it's a way of life. They Network because they love helping people and playing matchmaker. It starts with the understanding that Networking is a reciprocal process based on the exchange of ideas, advice, information, referrals, leads, and contacts where resources are shared and acknowledged.
Zig Ziglar said it best, "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Cheri S. Hill, President & CEO of Sage International, Inc. who introduced Super Networking last year to the Sparks Chamber will facilitate a Super Networking session during lunch. If you have ever heard, "luck is when preparation meets opportunity," this is your opportunity to create your own luck!
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2008 Business Forum Agenda/Schedule:
Event |
Location |
Time |
Registration |
Foyer |
7:00 – 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
Rose Ballroom B |
7:00 – 9:30 am |
Business to Business Booths |
Pavilions A B C D |
7:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Welcome Remarks, Len Stevens |
Rose Ballroom B |
7:45 am |
Program Overview, Intros, Pete Copeland
Chamber Video Production |
Rose Ballroom B |
7:50 – 8:00 am |
Opening Session
What Do You REALLY Sell?
Norma Havens & Bob Belknap |
Rose Ballroom B |
8:00 – 9:00 am |
Feature Seminar
Take the Pulse on Your Productivity
Dr. Meggin McIntosh |
Pavilion E |
9:30 – 10:30 am |
Vendor Raffles
Len Stevens with Microphone |
Pavilion A B C D |
10:30 – 11:15 am |
Lunch Begins |
Rose Ballroom B |
11:30am |
Welcome Remarks, Len Stevens |
Rose Ballroom B |
12:00 – 12:10 |
Power Networking & Michael Gerber Intro, Cheri Hill |
Rose Ballroom B |
12:10 – 12:30 pm |
Luncheon Keynotes
Michael Gerber |
Rose Ballroom B |
12:30 – 1:30 pm |
Book Signing
Michael Gerber |
Rose Ballroom B |
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm |
Don't wait! Buy your tickets online NOW before we are sold out!
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