What is the "Build a Better Business" Facilitation Showcase: 

Who Should Attend:  

• Those who want to experience QUALITY training at an AFFORDABLE price from Houston's TOP EXPERTS in their fields.
  
• Those who want to "try before you buy."  Enjoy the opportunity to experience EXCELLENT training programs by OUTSTANDING presenters before bringing us to your organizations to train on your site.
  
• Those who are responsible for identifying training resources for your clients or corporations. This is a ONE-OF-A-KIND event to identify Houston's TOP TRAINERS who can take their show on the road for global clients as well.

Cost:  $69 per person    REGISTER HERE

Date:  March 5, 2010

Time:  8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Location: 
Lake Houston Area Chamber of Commerce, 110 W. Main, Humble, TX  77038

Schedule of Speakers and Topics  

8:00 - 8:30           Welcome

8:30 - 9:30          Strategic Planning for 2010:  Achieving Results for You, Your Team, Your Company
                          Jill Hickman, SPHR of Jill Hickman Companies

Session Summary:  Utilizing a highly effective visual approach, Jill provides participants with the critical components of a strategic planning process.  With selected case studies, participants create wall-sized panoramic representations of organizational histories, current environments, shared visions of a desired future state, action plans or roadmaps needed to implement the strategic vision.  Combined with Jill's expertise in strategy and facilitation best practices, participants experience a highly interactive planning process designed to engage all stakeholders, productively, efficiently and with targeted results!

9:30 - 9:45          Break

9:45 - 10:45        Social Media 101: What is it & How to Use it for Business Results 
                          Shelley Roth of Springboard Works

Session Summary:  It's hard to ignore.  Blogs, Youtube, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook - the new social media is everywhere.  Companies that want to reach their customers are discovering the power of social media to drive business.  Social media is a complex, organic online conversation that is quickly turning the traditional ways of communicating your business value upside down. You can't afford to be invisible.  Networks of ordinary people have taken your brand online, and you need to be there with them, listening and interacting.  Developing a business plan to effectively implement social media begins with a customized strategy based on clear goals.  Examples include generating exposure for your business;p increasing website traffic; building new business partnerships; and capturing qualified sales leads.  You want to select the platforms with the largest opportuntiy for growth, and create messages that effectively communicate why your solution is unique and valuable.  Implementing a listening strategy will help you direct the conversation and transform relationships into clients.  In this session, Shelley provides a practical approach to tackling this new powerful medium and maximizing ROI. 

10:45 - 11:45      Effective Business Training:  Do-it-Yourself, Methodology, Structure & Leading Discussions
                          Alan Duncan of Alan Duncan Training

Session Summary:  In your company,  are your Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) tasked with sharing their knowledge and expertise to other employees and perhaps even customers?  Definitely EXPERTS in their subject matter, these SMEs often find themselves in unfamiliar territory when asked to provide training and/or coaching to others.  Providing these SMEs with opportunities to discover best practices in instructional design and learning and development will improve their performance and result in powerful training programs designed and delivered to your employees and customers!  In this session, Alan provides core concepts and techniques critical for SMEs to learn and apply when designing and delivering powerful training sessions. 

11:45 - 1:00         Lunch (On Your Own) Break

1:00 - 1:15           Welcome Back

1:15 - 2:15           Building High Performance Teams

                                              Michael Pope of Impact Training and Development

Session Summary:  Experiential teambuilding has a proven track record for improving organizational performance, regardless of current team performance!  It can help a low-performing team acknowledge and address the issues impeding their progress, rehearse new behaviors, and make a plan to get back on track.  It can help an already high-performing team to tap into their creativity and innovation to become "World Class."    Michael Pope has over 18 years of experience empowering teams through experiential training programs in several formats.  In this session, Mike will conduct a classroom experiential teambuilding challenge that will allow you to sample through experience the power of this modality.  He will share critical details regarding the characteristics of high performance teams.  Come discover how your company can embrace the human issues of organizations and harness them to "Build a Better Business."

2:15 - 3:15           Creativity & Innovation:  Critical Skills to Win in the New Economy 
                           Jill Hickman, SPHR of Jill Hickman Companies              

Session Summary:   What is creativity and what difference can it make between just getting by and being outrageously successful, from being ordinary to becoming extraordinary?  Inspired by a video of stunningly beautiful National Geographic photographs, participants learn powerful creativity techniques to apply in their everyday challenges.  With fun, interactive exercises, this session provides participants the opportunity to immediately apply these techniques, discuss insights, and determine applications within their own work environments.            

3:15 - 3:45           Meet the Trainers:  Jill, Shelley, Alan, & Mike

3:45 - 4:00           Closing Comments & Door Prizes

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