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Making Work at Home Work: Successfully Growing
a Family and Business Under One Roof


This program is especially designed those who work at home and daily wrestle with the desire to be successful but not at the expense of one's family. Covers preserving profit while saving sanity and includes ideas gathered from over 125 work-at-home entrepreneurs. Focuses on planning for success but holding business lightly in order to hold family tightly.

Spend a Morning, Plan a Year: Developing a One-Page Strategic Plan


Feel like you're not getting anywhere? Attend this program and you'll learn how to develop a one-page strategic plan designed to take you place. In just one morning, you can set the course of your career for the next year (or two or three if you're really bold!) Taught by a entrepreneur that practices what she preaches, this session focuses on the value of determining what you want, being specific about it, and writing your goals down. Completing these three steps will move you closer to seeing your dreams come true and free you to work, rather  than wish.

How to Promote Your Business by Speaking


Learn from a professional speaker who has grown her consulting business each year by making presentations. Mary Byers is a member of the National Speakers Association and has been     speaking professionally for over 15 years. You'll learn how to find audiences to speak to, how to charge for your speaking appearances, how to develop promotional materials and how to make following up with audience members easier.

Creating Your Life as an Entrepreneur: Discovering and Embracing
What's Right for You


Some entrepreneurs work in the morning; some in the evening. Some need music in the background and some need total silence. What's right for you? You'll learn how to discover the environment that's best for you and then how to create it. This session features lots of audience participation and personal brainstorming. You'll leave with a "To Do" list designed to reenergize you as an entrepreneur and help you reflect your individuality in your work.

Get Out of That Rut!


Are you in a rut? If you are (or just want to learn how to avoid getting into one) this session is for you! You'll learn easy, practical rut-busting techniques you can put to work immediately in your personal and professional life. During this fun, fast-paced, interactive session, you'll learn: the value of focus pocus, how to master "What if?" thinking, utilizing brain-busting, and the value of one-page planning. You'll leave this session with specific ideas on how to get unstuck. The Power of Questions It's not want you do-it's what you ask. Great leaders ask great questions. In this session you'll learn what to ask, when to ask, and how to ask in order to get what you need for success. You'll also learn why you don't need all the answers, how to figure out what's next when you don't know what else to do, and the two questions every entrepreneur must ask, and answer, for herself.

Developing the CEO Mindset: Five Things Every Leader Must Know

Whether you're a solopreneur or supervise a team of dozens, your success is
determined by your mindset and your ability to think like a CEO, even if it
doesn't come naturally to you. And you don't have to be a CEO to benefit
from CEO thinking. You can apply it to your own life as well Learn what
smart CEOS know and do and use this knowledge to take your own business to
the next level.