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Actual for You - How to Organise a Successful Business Event
Janet was frustrated with her team for not getting their status reports in on time, even after repeated requests.Bill couldn’t figure out why the volunteers for his professional organization weren’t accomplishing their tasks.Adam had people begging to work with him but trying to negotiate down his already very reasonable rates.Percy’s wife, who constantly complained about all of his business trips and expenses, was wearing him down.Helen was completely overwhelmed with the constant flood of changes, new demands and unreasonable turn-around requests from her highest paying client.Are you noticing a theme?Each of these entrepreneurs was struggling with a common problem. Energy drains. An energy drain is something that happens to you when you compromise your standards, have weak boundaries or allow people to dictate their needs and priorities onto you. Often times the energy leaks out of our life just like a leaky hose. Or worse, like a sieve.It happens to the best of us. In our desire to please our clients, teams and loved-ones, we just forget how to enforce our boundaries. Boundaries are like a cushion around what’s important to us. When boundaries are weak, we get holes in that cushion and our energy gets zapped.I’d like to help you get a crash-course in how to get back on the energy fast-track course. Let’s start with learning more about boundaries and standards. It’s one of the Power Tools in the ULTIMATE Wealth & Success Circle (http://www.ultimatewealthandsuccesscircle.com/). and it’s my gift to you. Get it at http://www.successconnectionezine.com/2006/12_19/b-and-s. (Document is in PDF format).Here are a few mor
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
<To learn a language for career advancement is one of the best ways to get ahead in the job market. In the 21st century you will need every advantage you can get to keep yourself competitive in the marketplace, and adding foreign language skills is a great way to gain an advantage. Here are just some of the reasons to learn a second language :Improved overall communication skills. Surprisingly, language learners improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in English as well as their new language. Overall communication skills improve, and that is a boon to any potential employer. For the business owner or entrepreneur, it is even more important for you to maximize your ability to communicate with employees, clients or potential business contacts.Improved problem solving abilities. Learning a language also develops analytical skills, improves problem solving ability and increases flexible thinking and creativity. Businesses need employees with a wide range of abilities. If you have your own business, there is an even greater need for you to cultivate these abilities in yourself.Broadens job skills and career options. Learning a foreign language improves your overall job skills, and makes you more valuable as an employee. It also broadens your potential career options, should you decide on a different career path.Opportunities in many industries. There are many industries in which adding a foreign language would immediately be useful. Tourism, hotels and restaurants, advertising, marketing, military and defense, security, communications and journalism, just to name a few. Being able to communicate with
1. Define your aims of the event
What is the concept? Before you can start to organise your event, write down a few lines about what the event is going to be about and what you hope to achieve. It’s helpful at this stage to have a meeting with everyone involved to discuss the event. Here is a list of points to cover:
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." — Eric Hoffer, American philosopher, Reflections on the Human ConditionHank had all the answers. He was a legend in his own mind. A very experienced and knowledgeable senior technician, people were constantly drawing on his analytical abilities. There didn't seem to be a technical or system problem he couldn't solve. Although you often got more "war stories" and background than you wanted, Hank could connect many current problems to similar ones that were faced in the past. He used his technical know-how like a sword to "cut down the fools" who didn't follow his flawless logic. If he wanted any of your bright ideas, he'd give them to you.Since changes were hitting the company from many sides at once, various changes and improvement efforts were underway. These included focusing on customer needs and improving service levels, cross-departmental teams, process improvements, leadership development, and an enterprise-wide integration of computer systems. Hank dismissed most of this with his usual cynicism. "If we lay low long enough, this too shall pass," he liked to quip. "I've been round and round the mulberry bush on this before. So many of these management fads are like the ties in my closet, if I wait long enough, they'll come back in fashion."Gillian was a very knowledgeable senior technician who worked along side Hank. They were about the same age and had both started in the company around the same time. She had a lot of respect for Hank's towering intellect, had learned a lot from him, and continue
1. Define your aims of the event
What is the concept? Before you can start to organise your event, write down a few lines about what the event is going to be about and what you hope to achieve. It’s helpful at this stage to have a meeting with everyone involved to discuss the event. Here is a list of points to cover:
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
<Several success stories have emanated from the lean manufacturing initiatives. Although some organizations were not able to sustain the success after a few years, many others kept building on the initial success through continual improvements in processes. Discussed below are the keys to lean manufacturing success that were common for most of the success stories:Prepare and motivate people: Widespread orientation was given to continuous improvement, quality, training, and recruiting workers with appropriate skills. A common understanding of need to change to lean manufacturing was created.Employee involvement: Decision making and system development was pushed down to the "lowest levels," which consisted of trained and truly empowered people. Sharing information and managing employee expectations along with identifying and empowering champions, particularly operations managers, also went a long way in involving in this initiative.Remove roadblocks: The initiative was made both directive and empowering, resulting in the successful creation of an experimental atmosphere.Tolerating mistakes: An atmosphere with a willingness to take risks was created.Implementing realistic performance measures, evaluation, and reward systems: Rigid performance goals were completely done away with during implementation. Results were measured instead by the number of activities/events.Execute pilot projects before complete implementation: After early wins in operations, successful pilot projects from the lean manufacturing initiative were extended across the entire organization.Toyota Motor's success story is possibly the most famous case study in lean ma
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
<Well not everyone is aware that McDonalds also owns several other bands such as Boston Markets; 650 stores in 23 states, Chipotle Mexican Grill; 230 stores in 10 states, Donato's Pizza 200 stores in 10 states, Pret a Manager 140 stores in 4 countries, Fazoli's 400 units in 32 states and two countries. Of this the company derives 2 Billion in annual sales, this is not even counting McDonalds. Many people are unaware of this because McDonald's has not connected the dots. However other franchise companies which franchise and have multiple brands have.The question shall always be to you co-market to the same customers or serve separate niches. It depends, McDonalds seems to be targeting different customers althoguh if you consider in the US people eat major meals 2-3 times per day and there are 7 days a week, we are talking about 14-21 opportunities to feed them, now obviously other than single males, most of our population will eat the majority of meals at home. However how many of those meals will be eaten out side the home and of those visits to QSRs how many can McDonalds pick up.Apparently after considering the additional 2 billion a year in sales, quite a few and remember McDonals is in 141 countries thus far so perhaps the cannibalization discussed in the franchising industry is a US thing for McDonalds and is not affecting it's other brands here yet or all of it's overseas markets for it's stead fast Micky Ds Brand. Think about it Pizza, Chicken, Tacos, Italian and Pretzels? Oh yah that Hamburger thing will never work? Sure, that is what they told Ray Kroc in the beginning, guess they were wrong.Are you sure it is just about the Real Estate? Or did you ju
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
<Let's start off with a given. The 2006 real estate market is tough and unlike anything we've seen in five years. The problem is if we go back five years, it was the advent of the Internet in residential brokerage. We're at an historical point in our business. While the go-go market was going on, real estate consumers changed. Now that we're in a more traditional market, we can't rely on our traditional habits of recruiting and training agents.It's painful, but I'll say it; if a prospective new agent meets with you and they don't have technology skills, won't get technology education, or don't have the money to purchase Internet marketing, take a pass on them. The most recurring theme I've heard from experienced agents this year is, "the market is forcing me to retire." Not really, they were so busy writing contracts the last couple of years they felt they didn't need an Internet presence. Yes they do and did. The market passed them by. Over three quarters of buyers use the Internet in their home search according in The National Association of Realtors. This number hasn't been static either, there is a healthy upward growth in it each and every year.Where do you find these new-age technology agents? Online! Is your brokerage web site easy to navigate, display a career link on the home page, and offer an updated career page? Do you advertise real estate careers with your firm online in places such as craigslist.org, monster.com, or in the online edition of your local newspaper? List your career opportunities on job boards, start a real estate career blog. Tag your print advertising with your career page on your web site. Start a email newsletter for those thinking abo
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
• Where do you want to hold it?
• Who do you want to come to the event? How many?
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have for the event?
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
• What else is going on at the same time as your event (both within your organisation and externally) – will this have an impact on your event?
• If you are, for example, running a training session, have you identified that there is a sufficient need for that particular topic?
• If you are inviting outsi
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