Your Planning Partners - For Business Owners Who Want to Grow

workshop1 These workshops are designed specifically for small business owners and are full of practical tools and techniques you can take back to your business and start to implement immediately.

Each session is led by a specialist in their field, who in addition has small business experience and can relate to the specific needs of busy business owners.

Join a small group of business owners to further create your successful business.

Call Judi for more details and dates 416 429-2415 or email judi@yourplanningpartners.com

Getting off The Fragmented Focus Treadmill™

An Interactive Presentation For Groups Of Small Business Owners

Are you finding it difficult to stay focused on the "important" things because there are too many "urgent" things needing your immediate attention?
Do you start each day determined to achieve your goals but end the day with the important work undone?
To add misery to this confusion, are you working harder but not getting further ahead?
Have you found yourself losing sight of why you started your own business?

These are all indications that you are stuck on The Fragmented Focus Treadmill.

Your Planning Partners will introduce you to practical ways to get off the Fragmented Focus Treadmill and stay focused. Having clear focus will:

Give you new energy and enthusiasm.
Save you time & money.
Stop you from recreating the wheel.
Save you from making costly mistakes.

In this presentation, you will receive "tried and true" tools, tips and techniques to help you:

Create focus through realistic strategic action plans.
Identify, manage and monitor your Critical Success Factors.
Complete both the "important' and the "urgent" things.
Identify and stay focused on your Ideal Client.
Create your Marketing Numbers Game and Revenue Pipeline to keep your marketing and sales activities focused.

Here are some comments from attendees of past presentations:

"Your presentation put a fire under my butt and got me doing stuff I've been procrastinating on. Thanks for the eye opener."
"I want to thank you for your generosity and sharing of so much good information and so many helpful tools. All can be put to use immediately."
"I either love you or hate you, not sure. I'm so focused. .I have just spent the last 24 hours going like a mad woman. Thanks for spurring my passion."

Build Your Team by Hiring Right

prog3 Whether full-time, part-time or out-sourced, having the right people in place performing the right job to the best of their ability is absolutely critical to small business success.

You will learn how to:

Create the "new job" description.
Learn the right questions to ask in an interview.
Improve behavioural interviewing techniques.
Develop tools to enhance the recruitment and selection process.

This half-day program is designed to help you create the system you need to find the right people - those who will strive to exceed both their individual and your organizational objectives, meet the demands of the job, and who will demonstrate good potential for development.

For more information about these and other workshops call (416) 429-2415 or email judi@yourplanningpartners.com

Managing Your Team for Success

You have grown your business. You have hired employees and you are outsourcing other work. And, you know the performance of those who work for you is a direct reflection of your ability to manage.

In this half-day session you will learn:

How to set your employees up for success.
Communication skills that motivate.
A practical tool to help you train people on the job.
An effective feedback method that is easy to use.

This workshop will help you implement new ways of managing the people on your team in order to gain the greatest success for them and for your business.

Shining Your Diamonds

Customer Service That Sparkles

In order to succeed in business your relationships with your clients must be long-term, profitable, productive and rewarding in all respects. This workshop is all about building and keeping those relationships.