| September 8, 2010 | ||
| 1:00 PM | to | 6:00 PM |
Forum meetings are scheduled the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Location is set by forum.
| September 9, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 12:00 PM |
This is a comprehensive two-day workshop that delivers what you need to achieve business success.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to really discover first-hand how your marketing strategy impacts revenue growth and long term success.
During this two-day event you will:
- Uncover the secrets to formulating a “can’t lose” entrepreneurial business model
- Determine the sources of your revenue growth
- Unlock your competitive differentiation
- Put it all together into an actionable plan
This class is designed for the business owner wanting to make a serious commitment to growing their business. You’ll leave with a marketing plan, including an action calendar, checklists for marketing and sales tactics, measurement tools and the know-how to implement a truly effective growth strategy.
The class is limited to 10 companies in order to allow for maximum interaction and personalization.
Presenter:
Denise Patrick, vice president, marketing and creative services, Pierpont Communications
Please Note:
This workshop is 2 sessions for a total of 6 hours. The price includes both sessions.
Workshop dates:
1. Thursday, September 9 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2.Thursday, September 16 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Cost: $199.00 Online / $219.00 At door
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002
| September 10, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
The Keys to Working Smarter Together … with Less Stress, Fewer Headaches More Success Than Ever Before!
It’s a simple fact that in today’s world, you’ll go farther – faster – if you have outstanding collaborative skills.
No matter what your job is, you need the ability to work effectively with others. And, if you are also able to bring out the best in everyone you work with, the sky’s the limit for your success.
Top executives repeatedly tell us that the employees who stand out are the ones with great communication and collaboration skills. In fact, most of them rank that capability higher than technical know-how.
So where can you go to find these skills in a fast-paced and fun learning environment?
An Unusual Training Event That Offers an Extraordinary Opportunity to Increase Your Success
Join us for The Essentials of Effective Communication & Collaboration, a powerful, cutting-edge training event that will teach you the essential communication techniques that facilitate cooperation and collaboration at work.
In just one day with us, you’ll learn how strengthening your collaboration skills will increase your personal productivity a hundred times over. And, in turn, you’ll help all of the people you work with achieve more too – which will make you even more popular around the office!
Discover How to Break Down Barriers and Work Through Differences
Learn how to work with people more effectively in all kinds of business circumstances: one-on-one situations … temporary work groups … or even long-term project teams.
You’ll discover how to identify diverse and difficult behaviors in both yourself and others – and use that information to get your work done more efficiently! You’ll eliminate all your unnecessary stress and frustration and achieve more success than you ever thought possible.
Cost: $249.00
Hotel Indigo at The Galleria 5160 Hidalgo St. Houston, TX 77056
| September 15, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
How to teach yourself and others to find innovative answers and make better decisions!
Think for a moment about the tough challenges you face today. Focus on those pain-in-the-neck problems that seem to rear their ugly heads time and time again. Now, ask yourself why you haven’t solved these challenges yet. It’s frustrating, isn’t it?
Let’s face facts: The same age-old problems will undoubtedly come back to haunt you if you continue to apply the same old problem-solving paradigms to fix them. That’s why it’s so important that you take the time to step back and rethink the way you’re approaching your challenges.
And that’s why we have created, Thinking Outside the Lines, a powerful one-day workshop guaranteed to get you thinking differently.
It’s not about thinking MORE … it’s about thinking DIFFERENTLY
This intensive workshop was made for professionals like you – key decision makers whose organizations are counting on them for both the vision and the strategic thinking skills crucial to every organization’s ongoing success.
This workshop will teach you invaluable thinking tools and techniques that lead to true breakthrough solutions. It’s a no-nonsense, results-focused day of training guaranteed to help you find better ways to approach the real-world problems you face every day.
You’ll discover how to:
- Break unproductive thinking habits that hold you back
- Tap into – and build upon – the potential of every idea
- Avoid costly mistakes using “what if” thinking
- Challenge old assumptions about how your organization “must” run
- Empower your people to perform at higher levels by using new thinking techniques
Become a true leader who nourishes new ideas
You’ll learn how to evaluate team members’ ideas in a way that encourages – rather than squashes – their creative processes. You’ll be amazed at what your people are capable of producing once you show them how to explore in new directions!
Tap into every ounce of idea power at your disposal!
To succeed as a leader today, you’ve got to be able to tap every ounce of idea power available to you, to think and plan and make decisions in a strategic new way. Thinking Outside the Lines trains you to do exactly that – in just one intensive day spent with other key business leaders and decision makers.
Make a commitment right now to attend this innovative workshop!
Cost: $249.00
Holiday Inn Galleria 3131 West Loop South Houston, TX 77027
| September 16, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 12:00 PM |
This is a comprehensive two-day workshop that delivers what you need to achieve business success.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to really discover first-hand how your marketing strategy impacts revenue growth and long term success.
During this two-day event you will:
- Uncover the secrets to formulating a “can’t lose” entrepreneurial business model
- Determine the sources of your revenue growth
- Unlock your competitive differentiation
- Put it all together into an actionable plan
This class is designed for the business owner wanting to make a serious commitment to growing their business. You’ll leave with a marketing plan, including an action calendar, checklists for marketing and sales tactics, measurement tools and the know-how to implement a truly effective growth strategy.
The class is limited to 10 companies in order to allow for maximum interaction and personalization.
Presenter:
Denise Patrick, vice president, marketing and creative services, Pierpont Communications
Please Note:
This workshop is 2 sessions for a total of 6 hours. The price includes both sessions.
Workshop dates:
1. Thursday, September 9 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2. Thursday, September 16 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Cost: $199.00 Online / $219.00 At door
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002
| September 16, 2010 | ||
| 12:30 PM | to | 4:00 PM |
The SuperGreen Execution Workshop provides simple, practical tools for growth companies to execute their strategic plan with 100% confidence and avoid being blindsided.
The SuperGreen Execution Workshop is for companies that are good at figuring out what they want to do, but need help executing their plan.
Overview of the 4 Critical Decisions all growth companies must get right:
- People, Strategy, Execution, & Cash (the focus of this workshop will be on Execution)
- How to get everyone executing off your One Page Strategic Plan with crystal clear, “no drama” metrics.
- How to set your quarter up for success by applying the RIGHT Red Yellow Green metrics to your company and individual priorities
- How to use metrics, KPIs and dashboards in your weekly meetings to figure out the most important things your team needs to focus on so you can hit your quarterly goals Read More
| September 17, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 12:00 PM |
Blogging is a powerful marketing tool you can use for communicating with your customers, employees, and vendors. It’s fast, efficient and a terrific way to share your knowledge and expertise. Best of all — it allows you to be seen as the industry expert.
A frequently read company blog is an exceptionally powerful SEO weapon. Statistics indicate companies that blog often see an increase in traffic to their site, more inbound links, and have more pages indexed in search engines, resulting in increased SEO.
Register now for this hands-on workshop – you’ll discover how to get your business blog started and what you need to do to increase your SEO.
Prerequisites:
- Proficient using a mouse and keyboard
- Proficient navigating the Internet
- Able to save and retrieve files in various formats
- An email account you can access remotely
- Basic understanding of SEO
Presenter:
Jenn Korell, Founder & Creative Director, New Nectar Media
Cost: $49.00 Online / $69.00 At door
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002
| September 21, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
TWO-DAY EVENT – Sept 21-22, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. each day
Accelerate your success! Attend this exhilarating 2-day training program and master the strategic leadership skills required to perform at your absolute peak.
The question most often asked from leaders today is, “What’s next?” What they’re really asking is, “What’s the next step I should take in my professional development to get to the next level in my career?”
If you’re truly serious about building the leadership expertise that will fuel your organization’s success and drive your career to new heights, there’s only one answer: enroll in the Strategic Leadership Skills intensive two-day seminar.
Here’s why:
If you’re like most managers and supervisors, you’re trapped in the ‘day to day’ activities of the workplace. You’re answering questions … calling the shots …putting out fires … setting priorities and then rearranging priorities based on an ever-changing climate. You spend hours in meetings with colleagues and higher-ups. And, you spend even more time and effort managing people problems.
With all you have to get done each day, it’s no wonder that you don’t have time to step back and look at the big picture. That’s where this training comes in. When you attend Strategic Leadership Skills, you’ll spend two days immersed in the conceptualizing, planning, and strategizing required to expand your leadership perspective … and dramatically improve your effectiveness!
This isn’t about theoretical stuff here; we’ll get to the heart of the issues and challenges you’re struggling with, including how to:
- Develop a strategic vision for your team that’s aligned with your organization’s mission
- Make better decisions by better understanding the drivers, strengths, and vulnerabilities of any tough situation
- Improve your working relationships with your team, colleagues, and upper management
- Successfully introduce important change initiatives with less resistance
- Get better results from every member on your team
Years from now you’ll consider the investment you made in yourself by participating in this training to be among your smartest investments ever!
Don’t allow a busy calendar to get in the way of your career success. Make plans to attend today!
Cost: $299.00
Hotel Indigo at The Galleria 5160 Hidalgo St. Houston, TX 77056
| September 22, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 PM | to | 9:00 PM |
These presentations cover all aspects of Internet marketing from planning an effective site to optimizing and maintaining the search engine rankings that you have achieved.
Changes in the search engine marketing world are covered as they occur.
Stay up to date with the latest information!
Cost: Free
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002
| September 28, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 3:00 PM |
Selling In Tough Times
If you have to sell to survive and are frustrated by any of the following problems then don’t miss this fast paced course on how to differentiate yourself from all the others especially in this turbulent “non-trusting” economy.
Are the following factors preventing you from reaching your sales goals?
- Price is a key factor in getting and keeping business. Are you selling “value” and still lowering your price?
- Your sales cycle is getting longer and you’re not sure why.
- Prospects are eager to see you and get your information but they never buy. Are they using your expertise and turning you into an unpaid consultant?
- Are you doing stellar proposals and presentations only to get “I have to think it over”?
- I don’t know how to differentiate my company from the competition especially since everybody has the best service, highest quality, best relationships, etc.
- To overcome these obstacles and get solutions register now!
You’ll receive:
- A system to help you close more deals
- Tips on how to reduce discounting your products and services
- A methodology to help shorten your sales cycles
- Recommendations on how to sell without giving away your valuable expertise
- Top reasons on why people really buy
Lunch included.
Presenter:
Troy Elmore, Sandler Sales Institute
Cost: $59.00 Online / $79.00 At door
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002
