| August 27, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
From the podium to the boardroom, this one-day workshop is for business professionals who want to learn how to stand up and convey ideas with passion … inform with pizzazz … and motivate people to take action.
Grab Your Audience’s Attention – and Inspire Them to Act!
Like many businesspeople, you may suffer from pre-presentation butterflies … have trouble organizing your thoughts … or get so tongue-tied the words just won’t come. If you’re the type of speaker who occasionally “ums” and “ahs” your way through a presentation, this workshop is just what you need to boost your confidence and credibility. Read More
| July 12, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
You’d like to be a successful leader, right? Of course you would, or you wouldn’t be reading this. Still, you’re probably asking yourself, “How can I make sure I’m as effective as I can be? How do I get results when the role of leader keeps changing?”
Your job IS changing all the time. It’s a sign of the times: There’s more to be done and fewer employees on your staff to get things done; employees change jobs more frequently, leaving you in constant retraining mode; your staff feels frazzled by the hectic pace; the talent pool for the skills you need seems to be more shallow than ever before; and you’re wondering how to clear all these leadership hurdles to get the results you need. Read More
| June 18, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 1:00 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| June 14, 2010 9:00 AM | to | June 15, 2010 4:00 PM |
Nothing matters more to your leadership success than your ability to read and work effectively with all types of people. Nothing. That’s why attending this training is so important.
People are confusing. Yet, how can you be an effective leader if you can’t figure them out?
Every day, you work with employees, other managers, bosses, clients, vendors, and others up and down the org chart. They come from different backgrounds and experiences, so they don’t all think and feel the way you do. Some are relatively easy to work with. Others confuse you. And yet others flat-out irritate you. Read More
| June 11, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 12:00 PM |
YouTube hosts the world’s largest collection of online video and is providing small businesses the means to visually engage their customers. You don’t need to be a director or have fancy equipment to start creating videos to share with the world.
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create a YouTube channel
- Upload videos to your channel
- Embed videos
- Utilize YouTube to help your search engine optimization
Prerequisites:
Before taking this workshop, you should be familiar with personal computers and the use of a keyboard and a mouse.
Presenter: Jenn Korell, Founder & Creative Director, New Nectar Media
Cost: $39.00 online / $59.00 at door
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002| June 10, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
As a manager, what kind of relationship would you like to have with your employees … Leader? Friend? Teacher? Mentor?
… the person who motivates them, guides them, encourages them, and makes them want to win?
Forward-thinking managers have discovered that the same skills that coaches use to create winners in athletics work in a business setting as well. This innovative one-day team-building seminar is designed to teach you powerful employee coaching methods to turn even problem employees into superproductive, motivated winners!
Make your team members want to give 110% — for themselves, and for their team!
You’ll instill the kind of energy and enthusiasm that makes productivity soar. How? Supplement your own managerial abilities with compelling employee coaching and counseling skills, and watch the incredible results.
This team-building seminar will teach you step by step, how to produce a manager’s “game plan” that ensures you’ll reach your goals and objectives. Plus, find out how to maximize every employee’s abilities … and uncover strengths and talents you never knew existed!
Transform your work group into a cohesive, coordinated team!
Imagine how much your team could accomplish if it functioned as one well-organized unit. This team-building training shows you how to pull everyone together with a shared drive and purpose.
Invest just one day of your time, and the benefits of employee coaching will change your life as a manager; you’ll witness an exciting synergy among your employees, mutual support within your group, a sense of interdependence and exchange, and most of all, incredible productivity from your team as a unit.
Cost: $149.00
Hilton Hotel Houston Plaza 6633 Travis St. Houston, TX 77030| June 9, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
Learn a positive approach that takes the stress, anxiety and frustration out of dealing with disagreements and conflict.
Unresolved Conflict Can Cost You Plenty
If you dread confrontation, chances are you could be paying a heavy price, at the expense of your career success and personal happiness. In just one day, you can learn the rock-solid conflict-management skills you need to succeed on the job and get ahead in your career.
At How to Handle Conflict and Confrontation, you’ll discover how to get to the real cause of the problem, how to disarm disagreeable people, how to defuse tense situations, how to handle anger (your own and others’). You’ll also learn “what to say when” scripts for specific conflict situations that arise at work, so you will NEVER be at a loss for the right words again.
Mastering Conflict-Resolution Skills Will Change Your Life
We know that conflict comes in all shapes and sizes, and as long as two or more people work together, it will never go away. But if we don’t learn to master the art of managing conflict, we will continue to hurt ourselves and others. The skills and tips you’ll get at this workshop will change your life and put you in a position for amazing career success. You’ll gain more cooperation from others, strengthen workplace relationships, enjoy your job more, be more productive, decrease your stress, and earn the respect of everyone you work with.
Cost: $199.00
Hotel Indigo at The Galleria 5160 Hidalgo Street Houston, TX 77056
| June 4, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 12:00 PM |
With amazing speed Twitter has become a must have for businesses. It is a powerful and highly effective way to engage your target audience. To get the most from Twitter it is absolutely essential your company’s brand is reinforced on your account. Don’t miss this hands-on workshop where you will use Photoshop to create a customized profile that ties into your company’s current branding and marketing efforts. Seating is limited and fills quickly.
Prerequisites:
- A company logo on a flash drive
- A Twitter account
- Intermediate computer knowledge
- 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 (if you prefer to email yourself your logo)
Presenter:
Judi Burton, Owner, Judi Burton Design
Cost: $39.00 online / $59.00 at door
UH Small Business Development Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002| June 4, 2010 | ||
| 7:15 AM | to | 9:00 AM |
Discover three of Houston’s hottest technology start-ups at this gathering of entrepreneurs and community business leaders who work together to help grow technology in our city. And hear our featured presenter Houston Mayor Annise Parker speak on “The State of Houston Technology.”
Cost: $25.00
Houston Technology Center 410 Pierce Street Houston TX 77002| May 28, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 AM | to | 12:00 PM |
Are you still wondering if you need to use Twitter for your business? If so, attend this workshop and learn how social media is allowing businesses to inexpensively step up their marketing activities in more creative ways to produce tangible results. Small businesses are using Twitter to keep in touch, promote their products and services, fill jobs and find new clients. It is changing how business and networking is done, so don’t let fear of the unknown cause you to get left behind.
In this hands-on workshop, you will:
- Setup a Twitter account for your business
- Write your bio/profile and understand its significance
- Create a customized background image
- Get listed in directories
- Learn how to effectively search on Twitter (for specific people and topics, etc)
- Learn what type of information to share and with what frequency
- Learn how to integrate Twitter into your marketing strategy and branding
- Learn Twitter lingo and etiquette
Prerequisites: Before taking this workshop, you should be familiar with personal computers and the use of a keyboard and a mouse.
Presenter: Jenn Korell, Founder & Creative Director, New Nectar Media
Cost: $39.00 online / $59.00 at door
UH Small Business Develpment Center 2302 Fannin St., Ste. 200 Houston, TX 77002
