2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE / SCHEDULE / WORKSHOPS
Workshops
Designed for Sales Representatives, Business Owners, Sales Managers and other professionals, our interactive sessions are a rich source of ideas, resources, and information to boost your sales to a new level!
Topics Include:
- The 10 L’s of Leadership
- Maximize Your Career Path
- Growing Any Business or Non-Profit Idea in 16 Weeks
- Sell Yourself First!
Special Sessions Include:
- Career Strategies For The Professional Woman
- Tomorrows Sales Executives Today
- Sales Executive Leadership Round Table (By Invitation ONLY)
Career Strategies for the Professional Woman
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012
Time: 9 am – 10:30 am
Session Link: http://www.salesnetwork.org/2012-schedule/for-women
This session will have a panel comprised of C-Level Executives who will provide women with a better understanding of how to strategically prepare for their career development, find and confirm mentors and supporters and outline the behaviors and core competencies that result in successful careers.
Learn how to:
- Balance career and personal goals
- Think like a woman and act like an executive
- Drive results without appearing to be overly aggressive
- Develop a strong network at work and at home
As a future, or current female executive, you won’t want to miss informative session.
The 10 L's of Leadership
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012
Time: 9 am – 10:30 am
Speaker: Kaplan Mobray, Best-Selling Author, Career Consultant, Motivational Speaker
With the increasing need for effective leaders, this innovative session will take an unconventional spin on leadership by challenging its audience participants to understand their unique leadership qualities in the absence of a role or title.
Learn how to:
- Improve your management skills
- Use leadership vision to plan for success
- Learn techniques to motivate your people
- Become an inspired leader through listening
The 10 L's is a formula for leadership success!
Maximize Your Career Path
Date: Friday, August 10, 2012
Time: 9 am – 10:30 am and 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Speaker: Ginny Clarke, President and CEO, Talent Optimization Partners, LLC
When mapping your career, there are two principles; the power of choice and the courage to act. This session provides individuals with a series of tools and techniques to assist in the growth of their personal and company goals.
Learn how to:
- Adopt a free agent mindset
- Leverage past experiences for future success
- Make your elevator pitch as good as your sales pitch
- Avoid the devastating pitfalls that have derailed careers
Be inspired, be energized, and gain confidence and clarity by mapping your career.
Growing Any Business or Non-Profit Idea in 16 Weeks
Date: Friday, August 10, 2012
Time: 9 am – 10:30 am and 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Speaker: Andrew Morrison, President, Small Business Camp
Your business runs on customers and it thrives when you convert potential prospects to customers. By using the latest marketing trends and technologies, your business or non-profit can be successful.
Learn how to:
- Select the right idea for the right season
- Build and attract a high performance team
- Develop an effective social media plan
- Raise your visibility with PR
- Secure investment dollars
- Discover freedom from stress
If you’re an entrepreneur, executive or non-profit leader, you won’t want to miss this session.
Sell Yourself First!
Date: Friday, August 10, 2012
Time: 9 am – 10:30 am and 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Speaker: Kali Raoul, President, The Image Studios
Professional poise is a powerful force in the corporate world. Your personal image is crucial to individual success and a necessity in competitive environments. Sell Yourself First is designed to develop confident, poised, effective leaders.
Learn how to:
- Access the power of interpersonal interaction
- Strengthen your social-professional I.Q
- Develop a savvy, professional presence
Use tools you learn in this workshop to move out of the shadows and be seen and heard.
Presenters:
Kaplan Mobray, award-winning author, thought leader, career coach and motivational speaker, is recognized as one of the nation’s leading career experts and an authority on personal branding. Extolled as truly life-changing events, Mobray’s engaging presentations provide practical strategies to help individuals succeed in all aspects of life. Based on his forthcoming book, this innovative seminar takes an unconventional spin on leadership by challenging audience participants to understand their unique leadership qualities in the absence of a role or title. The presentation will challenge the audience through concepts like having a formula for vision, planning for success in succession planning, and how to really know your people. Participants will be inspired to focus on how they make choices as a leader in their daily living that drive impact and create value for others. The 10Ls is a formula for leadership success.
Ginny Clarke, President and CEO of Talent Optimization Partners, LLC, founded this talent and career management firm which offers live and web-enabled career management programs and services. Ginny is also the successful author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and tips to businessmen and women regarding how to discover new strategies for success. Individuals who attend her workshop will learn how to adopt a free agent mindset, leverage past experiences for future success, discover how competencies allow you to do what you’ve never done before, make your elevator pitch as good as your sales pitch, take charge of your career by not falling victim to market conditions, and how to avoid the devastating pitfalls that have derailed careers.
Andrew Morrison is the founder of Small Business Camp, an entrepreneurial training and marketing services firm that provides high-impact strategies for entrepreneurs, executives and non-profit leaders. He has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Network Journal, Crain’s Magazine 40 Under 40 and Advertising Age. This seasoned professional is hosting a workshop where he will guide attendees on how to select the right idea for the right season, how to build and attract a high performance team, how to secure investment dollars and how to discover freedom from stress. Given his numerous experiences with print and media, he will also speak on how to develop an effective social media plan, how to raise your visibility with PR and how to communicate effectively on TV and radio.
Kali Raoul is a published author, facilitator and entrepreneur. This graduate of Carnegie Mellon University is also the founder and president of The Image Studios, a Chicago-based image communication firm that helps women and minorities thrive within Corporate America. Kali has been featured by ABC, FOX, and has been covered in Self, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Where and Crain’s Chicago Business. Attendees of her workshop will learn how to access the power of interpersonal interaction by understanding how people receive verbal and nonverbal communication, how to strengthen one’s awareness of the attitude, manners, and gracious communication required for polished interactions with customers and co-workers, and how to develop a savvy, professional presence.
