Skillshop Descriptions
Keynote: Ignite Your Purpose with the Passion Triad!
Join America’s Reinvention Coach, Kimberly Fulcher, to align your priorities, reignite your passion, and engage your purpose. Define your strengths, uncover the clues to your most deeply held passion, and turn your work into a mission-driven purpose using the Passion Triad from Kim’s new book, Remodel Your Reality.
Keynote: Living the Life of Your Dreams
Beautiful things can be yours…if you listen to your heart and match your outer “doing” with your inner “being.” Learn to live your most authentic life by aligning your life’s purpose with your values and passions. Whatever stage you’re in, you have the power to lead life on purpose, being true to yourself and your dreams.
In this program, meet Tené Wells, president of WomenVenture, and hear her story of living a life guided by a passion for women, families, and the community. You’ll also be inspired by stories of WomenVenture’s clients who have found fulfillment through career transition and entrepreneurship. Tené will leave you energized and passionate about your own goals!
Career Transitions: Strategies for Successfully Changing Lanes
Whatever your circumstances, transitions affecting your career may be frightening and confusing. April knows that a career transition can erode your confidence. She is passionate about helping women have the confidence and moxie to transition successfully. April will help you clarify your career path and give you practical strategies for identifying your passion and purpose, implementing new interviewing tips, negotiating your salary and writing powerful resumes.
Effectively Communicating: As If Your Success Depended on It
Effectively communicating your ideas, proposals, work plans, or directives is the key to buy-in, follow-through, and implementation. Knowing not only what to say, but how others will receive, interpret, and act upon what you say is critical for communications to deliver desired results. Effective communicators make better leaders, and people more readily follow their lead.
From Employee to Entrepreneur: Business Ownership as a Career Option
We’ve all been taught that if we follow our passion, we will be successful. If that’s the case, the failure rate of small business wouldn’t be so abysmal! For the aspiring entrepreneur, this presentation puts the concept of self-employment and business ownership into very simple, logical terms; encourages participants to consider all of their options with an open mind; and challenges them to explore their options based on their goals vs. sacrificing their goals as a result of their business.
Growing Your Business: Discovering Ways to Make Your Good Business Great
What does it take to be wildly successful in business? Learn the approach, the practical skills, and the attitude needed to accelerate growth? What are the best practices each day? Who do you need to surround yourself with as your business grows??? All of this and more in an active and lively discussion? You’ll learn about the power of your past victories and challenges, how to expand and create strategies and how to make it happen and watch your business explode.
I’m Divorced, Now What? Tools to Rebuild Your Life, Career and Money
Whether divorce is just a fleeting thought or a reality in your life, Chris will guide you through the many issues surrounding divorce from the emotional to the financial. A divorce doesn’t need to leave you destitute and floundering. It can be a sane and successful experience if you follow some practical steps. Chris will outline for you the divorce process and leave you with various resources to help you take your life back!
Making Money Grow on Trees
We all know that money doesn't grow on trees or magically come from ATM's even though we wish it would! Attend this workshop to hear from FM 107's "More Than Money" radio show host Nicole Middendorf. We all work hard for our money so come attend this session which will give you the tools to make your money work harder for you. You will learn the answers to some of the most common questions you have about your money and you will learn how to work to achieve financial independence. If you feel you don't have all the knowledge you need about investing you will not want to miss this session!
Money Skills: Managing Your Credit and its Impact on Your Cash Flow
Understand credit and its purpose with money management. The impact credit has on managing your cash flow and the importance of maintaining credit as an asset. Learn to read a credit report and identify inaccuracies as well as the process to improve your credit report. Learn how credit scores impact your financial life and what options are available to improve and manage your credit score and financial life. Information regarding how to access your credit report and breaking through credit myths to simply how credit works and how credit can be used as a tool and not a liability.
Polish the Diamond™: Your Presence Matters
This proprietary presentation system helps those who fear speaking develop authentic confidence and competence. Without the use of a written speech, by integrating storytelling and personal reflection inside a structured system, PTD has been used by speakers from CEO’s to non-profit leaders to share what matters most. The system works in 1:1 sessions, staff meetings and large audience platform speeches. The PTD success stories are amazing--- just ask about the introverted insurance executive who got a standing ovation talking about The Role of the Independent Auditor by using the analogy, Bridge Over Troubled Water!
Relentless Self-Promotion: Learning to Promote Yourself in Every Situation
Relentless self-promotion. Men have been doing it for ages—on golf courses, at conferences, during cocktail parties and around boardroom tables. Women need to learn how to do it, and how to do it right! Sandra Vargas, the head of Hennepin County, will use humor, experience and examples to teach you how to become a smart, savvy self-promoter—without coming across as a ‘member of the B-team!’
Recipe for a Successful Estate Plan
Come and learn the secret recipe to preparing a successful estate plan. The first step in preparing your estate plan is to understand the various ingredients. We will unravel the mysteries surrounding the key ingredients, including: wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, probate, estate taxes, health care directives and powers of attorney.
Running Your Own Business: Managing Liabilities and Taxes
Have you considered all the insurance options that are available to you from
all points of view? You are so concentrated on your business but have you
forgotten about your personal needs? Are you using your Employee Benefit Plans to secure your valuable employee assets? Ensure your future by getting a full picture of all your options and create the stability you need professionally and
personally.
Sales Skills: The Art of Selling Ice Cubes to Eskimos
This presentation will not only discuss the importance of relationships to the sales process, but offer practical processes and documents for participants to take back to their companies/jobs. She will be touching on three areas where this applies: discovering what your customers want through a needs analysis, managing your customer relationships (CRM), and adapting to the needs of your customers. She will be providing guidance to the participants on how to create and utilize an effective needs analysis form, as well as walking them through a sample CRM process.
Show me the Money: Negotiating for More of What You Deserve
Almost every interaction we have involves some form of negotiation whether it’s who will take out the trash to what raise you are going to receive to the price you will pay on your next new car. Participants will learn how to create opportunities for mutual gains that enhance relationships, identify ways in which we get in our own way, and learn strategies for getting out of our own way. Through self-analysis, case studies and discussions, participants will learn the basics of negotiating with an emphasis on improving their bottom line.
So You Want to Be An Entrepreneur: Learning From Women Who Have Been There
You may be asking yourself, “Is the entrepreneurial spirit genetic, or is the craziness learned?” Then, “Do I have those genes, talents, skills, or whatever I need to make it as an entrepreneur?” Karen Stinson will help participants discover the answers to these questions and more. Come and learn how Karen and thousands like her have succeeded in following their dreams and building successful enterprises. You will take a quiz that will provide insights, based on the latest research, into what it takes to be successful and gather valuable data on if you want to take this giant step and, if so, how to be as successful.
Strategic Planning for Your Financial Life: Learning the Tools to Create Your Future
Come listen to FM 107's More Than Money radio show host Nicole Middendorf for a fun and energetic workshop about money! You will learn Nicole's 10 secrets about money and walk away with a few things you can immediately do to change your financial life. Topics include retirement planning, estate planning, asset allocation, insurance, college education planning, your goals about money and MUCH MORE! You will learn what makes us unique as women when it comes to our money. This workshop will open your minds to money and make it fun!
The Brand of You! Creating Yourself as a Brand
Everyone knows a product needs to have a strong brand identity. As women, we need to communicate our own personal brand as well. This session will show you why it’s important to know your personal brand message, how to develop your personal brand, and how to use that brand to gain more economic and professional power in your life. Women are not usually very good at promoting themselves, in the workplace or at home. Bonnie Harris will show you how to position your personal brand to achieve the life you really want.
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