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An advocate says....
"In his role as facilitator, David has the ability to generate enthusiasm, promote ideas, and encourage people to perform. He gives direction without being overbearing, and infuses new ideas without being dominating. David's technical knowledge and business acumen is extensive and diverse. I have found him dynamic and exciting to work with."
TOM GREEN, EDGE Management |
Together with Mindshop, we have developed the 'Sprint Series'. The series consists of 13 fast, challenging, interactive, informative and fun workshops aimed to fast track your skills and strategies in every part of your business to get you out of the starting blocks quick and easy!
You will be encouraged to look at your business strategically, and you will learn planning and decision-making skills that you can apply again and again.
At the completion of each 4 hour workshop you will have developed a One Page Plan for yourself or your own business for the topic that the workshop covers, whether it be recruitment, negotiation skills or time management.
Set out below is a timetable of the future workshops to be held from 9.00am to 1.00pm at our Dubbo office.
We encourage businesses to send teams so that new learning is distributed throughout your organisation. At $198 per person, the workshops are true value for money (you would pay in excess of $1,000 in Sydney for a similar course). For groups of four or more from the same company, you pay only $178 per person per workshop. If you wish to complete the whole 'Sprint Series' you will save almost $400.
NB: Dates are subject to change to accommodate interested parties and for their convenience. Please refer to the timetable regularly for updates.
Growing Your Business
Many companies are finding the process of growing their business using traditional methods increasingly difficult and hard to sustain.
Effective Marketing and Sales are the front end of any business. The two disciplines are linked, but different. Marketing is the preparation of people to buy, whereas sales is the conversion of the buying desire into an actual sale. In this program we will merge the marketing and sales issues into one. By following the steps you are shown you will end up with a One Page Plan that will assist you develop your brand and grow your business. ...click here to register
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Waste Reduction
Waste in an organisation is an opportunity to make more profit. Studies have found that waste in a company can be as much as thirty per cent of the operating costs of the business.
Waste is often accepted because the employees have stopped seeing the waste around them. Once it gets a hold in your business it can become ingrained in the culture and difficult to remove.
The Mindshop process provides your teams with the tools and processes to reduce waste. Management provides the commitment and the teams the energy. When combined, increased profits and efficiencies result. ...click here to register
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Time Management
Time Management is all about making things happen, rather than having them just happen to you. It is about taking control.
We all have only 168 hours in a week. How well are you identifying the issues that need your prioritised attention? Are you working on the 20% of issues that will give you 80% of your success? This program will show you time management techniques that will enable you to effectively and efficiently plan your time and your life. ...click here to register
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Vision Setting Process
Visioning is the mental image that a business must have of its goals before it sets out to reach them. It describes aspiration for the future, without specifying the means that will be used to achieve those desired ends.
A clear and concise vision that is well communicated to all stakeholders can give your business a sustainable competitive advantage and it will serve to energise employees to work towards a common goal. ...click here to register
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Personal Growth
Everyone accepts the need to continuously improve a business but too often we accept that once we have finished our formal education our personal improvement slows.
There are many skills required to be successful in business. Too often we concentrate on the hard business issues such as marketing, sales, manufacturing, quality or finance. Where can you be trained in the soft issues such as listening, communication, time management and intuition. ...click here to register
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Planning & Developing Your Business
Are you finding traditional business planning hard to sustain? Have you noticed how traditional financial tools fail to deliver the insights demanded by today's competitive environment? Are you winning or losing?
The key to success when developing a business plan is: clear vision, simple planning tools, focusing on only the strategic issues and most importantly, implementation.
Learn simple processes to make your plans strategic, linked to a defined vision and easy to communicate to your team. ...click here to register
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Customer Service
Businesses loose tens of millions of dollars annually in potential profits due to poor customer service skills at all levels.
The reputation and image of your organisation, and yourself, depends largely upon your ability and desire to maintain the highest standards of service to customers who make an enquiry, request, purchase or complaint. ...click here to register
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Presentation Skills
The delivery of powerful presentations is a critical factor for successful business people. Whether you are new to presenting or a veteran, you can always become better.
Your ability to sell your skills and knowledge is more important than ever. Whether you are seeking to improve your presentation skills or sell yourself more effectively, this course provides practical tools enabling attendees to learn and practice their techniques. ...click here to register
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Leadership Skills
The leadership skills workshop is a unique program that allows you to develop your own leadership plan. Anyone can read on the theory of leadership; this program focuses on implementation. We create challenges and experiences that focus attention on leadership solutions for critical organisational performance issues. This is achieved through the use of the Mindshop business and problem solving tools and processes.
The program enables people to identify their emotional drivers, become more conscious of their resultant behaviours and more competent influencers of their follower's actions and behaviours. ...click here to register
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Recruitment Process
What are your current recruitment skills like? What style of interviewer are you? 
What results do you currently get from your recruitment system? Do you hire in your own image? Do you match the applicants with your specific needs? Can you tell the difference between a top performer and the eloquent incompetent?
No matter the size of the organisation or the industry in which it operates, recruitment is always a very important function. The recruitment process can be used to handle entry positions as well as internal promotions.
The right applicant will add value to your team. The wrong applicant can, at best, reduce productivity and team morale and at worst destroy carefully laid out strategic plans and visions.
Your new skills gained in facilitating this process will reinforce to your staff and to any external applicant that your organisation is professional. ...click here to register
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Growth & Profit
We offer you a short, dynamic, cost effective, interactive workshop designed to help you and your fellow managers cope, compete and win in today's business environment by achieving greater growth & profit in your business. By focusing on growth and profit the most strategic issues/opportunities in your organisation quickly come to the top. ...click here to register
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Building an Effective Team
We have all worked in teams and committed to a common purpose, whether it may be a senior management team, basketball team or a family unit.
For teams to work effectively its members need to trust one another. They need to be sure that everyone will fulfil his or her obligations and behave in a consistent manner. Whilst our focus is on work-based teams, the tools and processes that you will be trained in apply to any organisation.
Teamwork is important. In teams you will work with people with similar skills and with people who will have completely different skills. You may have been a member of a team already, but professional teamwork involves more than just being a team. ...click here to register
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Negotiation Process
Negotiating is a part of life. You do it every day to get along with your co-workers, get your family to do things that you want them to do and in general just keep everyone including yourself, happy. A successful negotiation is a process that yields an agreement each party will willingly fulfil. Treating negotiation as a competition with winners and losers guarantees that the losers will not be committed to fulfiling the agreement.
Negotiation is a process civilised people use to reach agreement, not warfare. The goal of negotiation is not to win, it is to succeed. The mechanism of successful negotiation is collaboration, the work of a partnership rather than a means for kicking butt! ...click here to register
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