Bright Ideas
Bright Ideas is an information-packed half-day event that will provide participants with a host of opportunities to increase their knowledge and grow their businesses.
The event features a keynote speaker with attendees also participating in two of the four workshops being offered.
Bright Ideas was held on May 21, 2010. Information on the 2011 event will be announced soon.
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Keynote Speaker
Creating A Positive Charge
Mark Henson | sparkspace
Get your business and your life on the right track by shedding the fear, pride, and preconceptions that are holding you back from the future you really want. You'll learn just how powerful you can be and exactly what you will gain by discharging the negative mojo you're carrying and creating a positive charge in your life.
This is not a "sit back and relax" kind of keynote. It’s more of a "sit up and engage" kind of keynote. If you pay attention and participate, you'll gain some great insight to:
- deal with change and uncertainty using some simple, but powerful tools
- break through the negativity of the present and the past
- make a conscious decision to look forward
- discover what you need to be the absolute best right now
- find hope during these tough times
- see the positive future in front of you
- create energy and options to move your team, your business, and your dreams forward.
Workshops 8:10 am
Attendees select one
Liquid Leadership: Adapting Your Leadership Style in an Age of Radical Disruption
Brad Szollose | Business Coach
Businesses that are growing in today’s bumpy economy are more flexible, efficient, dynamic and talent-rich than the companies of our forefathers. Simply put, we are in the throes of a global transition – from Industrial Age thinking into the Information Age of collaboration and leadership will need to adapt. Discover why collaboration does not work (but how to make it work for you), why big brands have trouble with social media, the three secrets of the world's largest corporations, the surprising habits of Generation Y and how to attract them and the one key that keeps all top corporations on top.
Red Hot Customer Service: 35 Ways to Heat Up Your Sales and Improve Your Bottom Line
Lisbeth Calandrino | Improving Human Performance
Changing consumer values and the economy over the past five years have radically changed what influences today’s consumer to buy. Providing product and getting the job done right used to be considered "customer service." Today it’s the "price of admission" if you want to sell product. These days you must be better, smarter, faster and more caring if you are to keep present customers and attract new ones. Find out what is influencing your customers and what you need to do to deliver the "outstanding" rather than the old "ordinary."
Workshops 9:20 am
Attendees select one
Indispensable By Monday
Larry Myler | More or Less, Inc.
You become indispensable at your company when you improve profits. Many employees and job seekers miss this hidden-in-plainsight point. The ones who don’t miss this point, who understand how to incorporate profit-making, value-adding behaviors into everything they do — they’re the indispensable few. Learn the skills and behaviors you need to start adding financial value for your organization and increase success for yourself right now. If you’ve got a job, you’ll find out how to improve and advance in it. If you’re searching for a job, you’ll get the tools you need to beat the competition.
The Road to Top-Notch Teaming: The Best and Brightest Ideas of Successful Teams
Lisa Dunbar | New Directions Consulting
Teaming is a part of our everyday life: at home, at work, in the community. We are expected to team up with all types of people and produce top-notch results in record time. In reality, it’s easier said than done. There’s the team leader who really doesn’t want to collaborate on anything and team members who would rather argue endlessly than reach consensus. This dynamic and insightful workshop will explore the best and brightest ideas of all successful teams, include a teaming simulation to experience the ideas firsthand and provide you with take-away tools to implement immediately at your organization.