Date:	Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Time:	8:00am - 9:00pm
Location:	The Quality Hotel – Parkway Convention Centre 327 Ontario Street St. Catharines, ON L2R 5L3 Telephone: (905) 688-2324 Toll Free: 1.877-688.2324 www.qhparkway.com
Directions:	http://www.qhparkway.com/directions/

 

Agenda:       

8:30am – 9:00am              Registration

9:00am – 9:30am              Welcome

9:15am – 9:30am              Presentation – Vittoria Wikston

“Peak performance through persistence”

9:30am – 10:45am            Presentation – Gerry Visca

“Inspire to action”

11:00am – 12:00pm         Concurrent Workshops (one hour each)

12:00pm – 1:00pm           Lunch

1:00pm – 1:45pm             Presentation – CJ Calvert

“Living the exceptional life”

1:45pm – 2:45pm             Presentation – Gerry Visca

“Innovate & thrive”

3:00pm – 5:30pm             Concurrent Workshops (two hours each)

5:30pm – 7:00pm             Cocktail Reception & Dinner

7:00pm – 8:30pm             Key Note Presentation – Mike Lipkin

“One life – one meeting”

8:30pm – 9:00pm             Event Wrap-up, Thank you’s & Good Byes

 

Registration Fees:

Full Day Registration includes:

-          Conference Agenda (as noted above)

-          Continental Welcome Breakfast

-          Continuous “all day” Refreshment Breaks

-          Lunch Buffet

-          Reception (complimentary drink ticket)

-          Dinner

@ $299.00 person
@ $259.00 40 under 40 Alumni
@ $149.00 person Students (with valid student card)

 

Reception & Dinner Event ONLY includes:

-          Reception (complimentary drink ticket)

-          Dinner

-          Key Note Address by Mike Lipkin

@ $99.00 person

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Workshops

Morning Sessions – 11:00am – 12:00pm

 

(A)Breaking Down the Barriers to Building Positive Relationships

Presenter: Wendy Murdock | Partner, Redchair Branding™ RedSPARK Leadership Facilitator

Creating healthy, strong, positive relationships at work is a challenge.  We all want to work in an environment that is positive, supportive, empowering and where there are strong interpersonal relationships, good problem solving, open communication and healthy methods for dealing with conflict.  This absorbing and important presentation will address the challenges inherent in confronting workplace problems and will give participants tools to strengthen communication and breakdown the barriers to positive workplace relationships.

Session Outcomes:

• To identify behavior or actions that contribute to positive or negative workplace relationships
• To plan and execute a process for improving any business relationship
• Recognize that business relationships with a personal connection are an important part of success
• Relate relationship experiences to aspects that achieve success
• Use Relationship Management principles to plan and formulate keys to personal and career success
• Learn how to build deeper existing relationships and create opportunities with inspirational contacts through the use of sharing universal, personal, and solution-based  remedies
• Align existing people/resources already available in a way that can help achieve goals
• Create a specific relationship-building plan for key relationships using innovative tactics.

 

(B) Creating Stimuli by introducing Team Incentive Programs

Presenter: Vittoria Wikston, CMP | Partner, Redchair™ Branding

Numerous properties have been transform from the traditional commissioned sales office to a unified “team incentive” oriented program.  Having team incentives vs. individual commissions ensures the company is meeting their goals prior to financial pay-out.  In addition, it ensures a united, dedicated and industrious team: working together to complete all their sales initiatives as well as securing the BEST business at the highest rate for the company. 

 

NOT JUST FOR SALES - Uncover and identify what services and/or products your business needs to encourage and/or improve.  From this we’ll drill down to the types of behaviours that will satisfy such needs and goals.  We’ll conclude with developing a system to creating and implementing rewarding team incentive programs.  You’ll walk away from this interactive session with Incentive Program samples and case studies. 

Session Outcomes:

• Identifying services & products that require improving/encouraging
• What behaviours need to be put into place
• Program Development & actual program samples

 

(C)Small Biz Technology - Leveling the playing field against Big Business

Presenter: Todd Krauss & Roger Bird | Partners & CEO’s, Stanley Armour Inc.

"Small Biz Technology - Leveling the playing field against Big Business"
In today's ever changing world of business, technology has never played a more important role to the small and medium businesses (SMB). Technologies and products that previously were only available to large and enterprise level companies due to their cost can now be obtained by SMBs at a fraction of the cost. In this session we will discuss some of the these technologies and discuss how they can be integrated into your business today. When properly integrated into an SMB, technology can provide a business with the ability to provide faster response to clients and can allow it to change quickly to adapt to changes in their market .

Some discussion areas will be:
• Messaging, Email and mobility (Exchange, Outlook, Blackberries, PDAs, Wireless Internet)
• VoIP, PBX Systems and other IP based communication technology
• Website technologies (e-commerce, content management, customer support)
• Disaster recovery and offsite backup

(D)  Discovery Your Strengths Using Personality Dimensions© - Part I
(OPEN TO the  40 under 40 Business Link Alumni ONLY – limited registration to 25 participates)

Presenter: Laurie Flasko | President, Laurie Flasko Consulting

Personality Dimensions© is a new and exciting way of understanding ourselves and others!  PD is a personality inventory based on leading edge research into human motivation and behaviour, and helps to explain what motivates behaviour in people with different personalities or temperaments.

This seminar is highly interactive and fun! Utilizing personality “colours” we gain a deeper understanding into our own strengths, characteristics, values, and motivators.  This creates an uncomplicated language for every individual to convey complex ideas very simply. � A self-discovery process will assist in enhancing interpersonal skills, communication, team-building, and improved living and working environments. It helps employees build better relationships by understanding themselves and others better.

Session Outcomes:

• Discover individual preferences, styles and temperament types

• Appreciate own strengths and qualities
• Understand strengths/ preferences of others
• Improve interpersonal communications
• Capitalise on differences and diversity
• Improve leadership and motivational skills

 

Each participant in a Personality Dimensions® seminar will receive a copy of the PD In Action take home booklet.  This handy booklet includes brief descriptions of introversion and extraversion, as well as descriptions of: core needs, characteristics, strengths, skills, weaknesses, likes, and various other areas for each of the four temperaments.

Afternoon Sessions – 3:00pm – 5:30pm

(A)The INSPIRED Sales & Marketing Plan

Presenter: Vittoria Wikston, CMP | Partner, Redchair™ Branding

Unlike the traditional plans that are left to collect dust on a shelf – in this session, you’ll learn how to creatively prepare and implement a living and breathing sales & marketing plan that will inspire, motivate and more importantly engage all members of your team. Having an upfront, clear vision for your company eliminates confusion and inefficiencies while promoting and capitalizing on proactive behaviours, idea generation and a better ROI on advertising initiatives.

 

Session Outcomes:

• Elements to include within your plan
• Learn who should be involved
• Learn how to communicate your plan (throughout the year)
• Understanding the importance of supplier involvement in the plan creation
• Time management to action plans

 

 

(B) “Bounce Back” From Too Much Pressure

Presenter: Wendy Murdock | Partner, Redchair Branding™ RedSPARK Leadership Facilitator

In this session we will look at levels of stress both at home and work and how it impacts how we relate to others, our job performance and our overall quality of life! This session will assist you in achieving a ‘bounce back approach’ to a more resilient lifestyle where you can get past barriers, condition your mind and body to rise above your business, work and life pressures, and accomplish what you want from life.

 

Session Outcomes:

• Discover your individual stress issues in all areas of your life.
• Capitalize on your coping strengths to manage stress.
• Learn to minimize or eliminate daily stressors.
• Identify areas for coping skills improvement.
• Improve problem solving skills to create breakthrough solutions.
• Learn to communicate more effectively and objectively.
• Develop flexibility in responding to change.
• Gain greater life satisfaction and enhance your overall performance.

By learning to apply these powerful methods, you will be able to practice self-empowering strategies to:

• Improve teamwork
• Increase productivity
• Meet customer demands
• Experience a more resilient lifestyle

 

(C) Google Me This, Batman! Media Literacy in the 21st Century

Presenter: Kevin Dunn | President & CEO, DunnMedia

Marketing ‘the new you’ involves a solid understanding of how today’s media works. From Google to CNN, movies to Michael Moore, the media bombards us with thousands of messages each day, trying to influence how we think, feel and spend. Join award winning broadcaster, documentary producer, entertainer and family man Kevin Dunn for an entertaining yet sobering look at the importance of media literacy in our lives.

 

Session Outcomes:

·         Learn how to leverage the media to strengthen your brand.

·         Discover how to manipulate the media for your personal marketing strategies

·         How to optimize the use of social media

·         How to convert a press release into news worthy material

·         Learn how to use the media as a marketing tool

 

(D)Discovery Your Strengths Using Personality Dimensions© - Part II

(OPEN TO the  40 under 40 Business Link Alumni ONLY– limited registration to 25 participates)

Presenter: Laurie Flasko | President, Laurie Flasko Consulting

Part II – In conjunction and conclusion to the morning session.  Participants must partake in morning session to fully appreciate the workshop content of the afternoon session