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Cultivating Culture: A playbook for decreasing turnover, increasing productivity, and improving employee engagement
Andrew Adeniyi, CEO, Co-Founder and Consultant, AAA Solutions LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
This presentation takes the framework used in my book titled "The Circle of Leadership" and provides an entrepreneurial playbook on how to create and leverage culture to sustain a competitive advantage. This presentation can cover the following topics: MORE >
-Cultivating & Leveraging Culture
-Mission Statements
-Vision Statements
-Core Values
-Hiring
-Firing
-Accountability
-Training
-Delegation
-Diversity & Inclusion
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Critical Tax Decisions That Will Impact Your Retirement
Joseph A. Clark CFP, Managing Partner, The Financial Enhancement Group
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
During the 50 minute conversation Joe will guide you through the pitfalls and failing to understand how taxes work with retirement. "Markets go up and down but when you send a check to the IRS rarely is it returned!" This discussion will help you to better plan a strategy that gets the most out of your retirement by paying the IRS the right amount and at the right time. MORE >
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Creating Your Small Business’ Sales Plan
Natalie Menke, Business Coach and Sales Expert, Inspire Results Business Coaching
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Natalie Menke, Inspire Results Business Coaching sales expert, will walk through how to identify your sales team’s development needs. She’ll talk about how to create accountability and ensure that your salespeople are engaged and organized, how to balance results goals with activities goals, and provide you with simple changes to implement, improving prospecting, sales, & growth & exponentially improving your bottom line. MORE >
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Creating Positive Habits & Reducing Stress
Samantha Tishner, Relationship Coach, Speaker, Author, Heal First Coaching
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
Our world is wonderful, we can receive instant responses to communication and google any topic we have a question about and receive answers in moments. Having a minicomputer at our fingertips has opened a whole new world for us; some positive opportunities and some negative ones. MORE >
The downside, it has created a new path for bad habits and stress to take over. It has provided a space where people can be negative and hurtful to other people with little consequence. It has opened the door to create bad habits that help raise our stress level and anxiety. It’s important to find the balance between our face-paced world and finding time to shut down (creating 'white space') and focus on taking care of one’s self by reducing stress and creating positive change in our lives. -
Connecting youth with nature: The Bicentennial Nature Center Network at Conner Prairie’s Treetop Outpost
Norman Burns, President and CEO, Conner Prairie
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Youth today spend less than half as much time outdoors as children did 20 years ago yet several studies have shown that children need plenty of time outdoors to live happy and healthy. Just as concerning, the average American child today spends at least 45 hours a week staring at some kind of electronic screen which has led to the appearance of what some are calling ‘nature-deficit disorder’ in many children. MORE >
Along with expanding its outdoor programming opportunities, Cope Environmental Center, located in Centerville, Ind., has been reaching out across the state to ensure that every child in Indiana is within 60 miles of a partner nature center that will provide environmental education and creative outdoor experiences.Conner Prairie is a partner in the network and in July opened a new outdoor nature experience called Treetop Outpost. I'll share what this four-story treehouse surrounded by hands-on, immersive activities is, its intent to connect children and families with nature and how it fits into both the missions of the network and Conner Prairie.
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Connect & Succeed: A Communication Style to Engage and Motivate Your Employees
David Bennett, Owner, Common Ground Communication
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Those in management are constantly seeking ways to relate to and work with their direct reports. This presentation, based on the book by the same name, provides managers with guidelines for developing a communication style that will enable them to engage and motivate those people with whom they work. MORE >
All people in management start with basic communication skills which they use as their default. Some of those skills work for them, some of them do not. A Connect & Succeed Communication Style helps managers to identify the communication skills that work for them and enhance those skills even further. This approach also helps those in management find common ground and connections with all of their employees/associates making the work more rewarding and productive for everyone. -
Collective Impact – Community Change
Carla Biro, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Specialist, Beautifully Biro
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Collective Impact model is utilized as the core framework of bringing stakeholders together to accomplish an identified community and/or organizational goals. Carla utilizes the stakeholder engagement process to bring businesses, city and state officials, and community organizations to the table to maximizes the probability of achieving an identified mission and vision. MORE >
As action groups are formulated the visitation of the “stakeholder engagement wheel” is imperative. This wheel is utilized to ensure we have the right people at the table committed to the work and creates a platform for stakeholders to “liberate” themselves when the work they have committed to is accomplished and a plan for sustainability is in place. -
Change Management & The Art of Being Curious
Alexandrea NeSmith, MSc., Founder & Strategist, Cancer Survivor, Patent Owner, Life Enthusiast!, Rocket Profit Group, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Business owners often fail not because of a lack of passion or effort, but because of a lack of clear brand messaging that drives their ideal client to them. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, understanding how you are using your time to create sustainable changes in your business is the first step to change management. MORE >
The easiest way to get there? By remaining curious! Alexandrea will help walk you through using questions to gather information and seek clarity in those conversations. Knowledge is power, and gaining insight into how your client perceives your business, how you perceive your business and closing the gap on the variance will drive brand loyalty and profits.The art of being curious isn't just about asking a plethora of questions, it's about understanding how to interpret the information and apply it across your business verticals to impact change.
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Business Trends 2016
Mark A. Roger, Business Broker, FranNet MidAmerica | Indiana
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
A practical guide to business trends important to successful entrepreneurship in 2016. Mark will identify these trends and teach how to use them to your advantage as a business owner. Highlights include: MORE >
- identifying the state of entrepreneurship marketplace,
- evaluating the new business fundamentals and “profit models,”
- understanding the new strategies of business ownership,
- exploring the teachings of Shark Tank and The Profit, and
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Business Ideation, Strategy, Implementation
Alexandrea NeSmith, MSc., Founder & Strategist, Cancer Survivor, Patent Owner, Life Enthusiast!, Rocket Profit Group, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Looking at your business objectively and finding ways to capitalize on more profitable revenue is a key opportunity for most business owners. Business owners started with a passion, and work hard and invest significant amounts of time into their business, only to be strapped for cash due to poor profit margins, but often these business owners don't have or don't know how to read their profit statements. MORE >
Learning how to deconstruct your business into specific profit verticals is one area Alexandrea will discuss. Followed by understanding your conversation equation which is where success is measured at your current strategy and implementation program.Bringing all of this together to understand your market dominating position is where change will happen.