Phoenix Conference : Workshop Descriptions

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Workshops

Hitting a Home Run with Your Company: Expert Strategies to Maximize Your Future (Finance) (9:45-10:45am & 11-12 noon)

Speaker

Beth Polish, Director of Corporate Innovation for Hearst Corporation and Senior Vice President of Hearst Interactive Media

All good companies have opportunities. Great companies know which ones to choose.

Seizing the opportunities that matter brings major payoffs for your company and you.

In this workshop you will learn how to:

• identify opportunities
• choose the ones that count
• capitalize them for success
• evaluate them along the way

With this knowledge, you can reap results like successfully expanding your business model, adding revenue streams, effectively capitalizing your company, forging powerful strategic alliances and making more money. You’ll be putting your company on the road to reaching its greatest potential.

Be Your Own Therapist: Practical Tools for Impacting Your Business (9:45-10:45am & 11-12 noon)

Speaker

Ann Pardo, Director of Behavioral Health, Canyon Ranch Tucson

Ann Pardo, Director of Life Management at the renowned Canyon Ranch Resort in Tucson, will share the tried and true basics of therapeutic self-talk and self-assessment. Also to be gained is an awareness of interactions that will create seamless conversations for your business.

Attendees will learn to identify:

• The Most Useful Emotion
• The 4 Basic Personality Styles and how to navigate them

Attendees will walk away with:

• 3 Tried and True Stress Reducing Techniques
• The ability to create a plan to support their Purpose and Values

Say It, See It, Be It: Creating Sustainable Business Success (9:45-10:45am & 11-12 noon)

Speaker

Arlene Rosenberg, Founder, Leading Achievers Institute

It takes hard work to turn a good idea into a thriving, sustainable business. Yet, there are business leaders who succeed time and time again. How do they do it?

During this thought provoking, lively, interactive presentation you will learn some of their secrets, such as how to create a vision for your business and the importance of living that vision every day. You’ll understand how the law of attraction will help you win new clients or customers. You’ll know why a business support team is crucial to your success and you’ll learn proven techniques to improve your leadership ability and that of your team.

When they leave the session attendees will have the skills to create a roadmap for goal achievement and a method for planning the actions that will help them attain their goals and increase profitability.

At this workshop you'll learn:

• How to create a written vision for your business
• A sure fire method for attracting clients/customers
• How to build a strong support team
• The five most important characteristics of business success

Get More Business, Make More Money: Strategies to Grow Your Company (9:45-10:45am & 11-12 noon)

Speaker

Loretta Love Huff, President, Emerald Harvest Consulting

Do you need more clients? Better clients? Do you need to make more money with less effort? People in many businesses get the best results from active, time-dependent marketing strategies such as outreach, networking and referral-building rather than passive, money-dependent strategies such as advertising. Assess the effectiveness of your current strategies and refine your approach to gaining new clients in this hands-on, interactive workshop.

You'll discover:

• which marketing strategies are most effective for service professionals - and why - so you can stop wasting your time and money
• exactly where you are stuck in the marketing process so you concentrate on marketing strategies & tactics that will work best for your specific situation
• how to reduce your anxiety about marketing so you quit procrastinating and start making more money!!!
  Get focused and walk out with an action plan you can implement right away!