Monday, November 28, 2011

Christmas Charity Hamper

 
 

We would like to invite Swappers to make a donation for the needy on the Northern Beaches.

The Salvos need non perishable items such as tinned ham, fruit cake, Christmas puddings and long life custards etc to make hampers to distribute to these families in less fortunate situations.

If you are interested in helping please donate to this by Tuesday 13th December, bring any items along to our breakfast.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Shopping & How to Save Money Shopping Online.

Kathy Sheeran

Outcomes from Kathy's presentation:

• Tips on online shopping
• How to shop stress free for xmas
• Some of the best websites to shop from Australia, US & UK
• Best times to shop
• How to save money shopping online

Kathy is a self confessed ‘shopaholic’ and the author of Shopping Confessions, shoppingconfessions.com.au the popular website and ebook which is a one-stop-shop introduction to shopping online.

Kathy has quickly become the ‘online shopping guru’ for Australia and is heavily in demand to share her knowledge on the subject. There is hardly a week that goes by without Kathy commenting on online shopping trends on primetime TV from ‘A Current Affair’ to ‘The Morning Show’, with her own segment ‘Bag a Bargain’.

As well as appearing on TV she also has a weekly column and blog for Sunday Telegraph ‘shop SMART’ which is now one of the most read sections on the paper.

Kathy says “There are so many different areas of your life where dollars can be saved. The trick to getting value for money is in the research and being informed. I’m thrilled to be able to share all of my shopping experiences and money saving ideas - whatever you’re looking for”

Kathy saw the opportunity to take the hard work out of online shopping, compiling a list of the best websites from Australia and around the world. After years of research, Kathy's shopping secrets and confessions make up her eBook, Shopping Confessions, which is soon to be updated with a much bigger A-Z online shopping directory.

Kathy is married with 2 teenage step children, but before she was married her motto was “Dress for Success”, and presentation was everything! Kathy always dressed to the nines and money was not a problem when it came to fashion, her clients knew her as the girl with the fab shoes in finance!

Once she was married and had other financial priorities, Kathy started to learn how to shop for a bargain online and she has not looked back since.

Kathy resonates with viewers and shoppers because they relate to her, she is from Greek heritage, lives in the burbs, has children and tells it as it really is, and her passion for shopping and getting a bargain is quite infectious.

People are so inspired and influenced by Kathy’s tips on what sites to use, that companies have reported to have had their biggest day of business ever following Kathy giving them a mention on TV or in her column.

So Kathy certainly has quite a powerful story for the girl who has made her hobby into her profession and is loving every moment of it!

Kathy will talk about how she turned a hobby into a full time business that has expanded to importing a clothing label from Miami and the launch of shoe confessions in a couple of weeks. 

 w: www.shoppingconfessions.com.au

e:  kathy@shoppingconfessions.com.au

Friday, November 04, 2011

Grant Lenaarts

Outcomes from Grant's presentation:

Establish your Expert Identity - How to build the key components, so you can maximise the key behaviour in the online space – uploading content and insights.

Build Digital Assets - The new wealth building strategy and the two exponential curves you need to know about. How scale and the language landscape mean you may have an advantage in your marketplace.

Business is always personal – How your relationships and market knowledge can now be used to be a digital salesperson and build digital assets for your enterprise or yourself.

Grant Lenaarts

Grant has worked with advertising and digital agencies in Singapore, Melbourne, Auckland and Sydney.
He has delivered video in email solutions and trackable phone numbers systems, including designing and delivering campaigns for MNCs in Asia – IBM & Oracle video in email campaigns.

He has rebuilt and managed Greenpeace New Zealand’s merchandising division.  
Grant is currently working with Australian clients building corporate social presence, lead generation and content based profile building.

Grant has training in NLP and enjoys executive and corporate coaching. Grant has built performance management systems from the ground up , don’t get him going on KPI’s, lies and the one question that made his clients millions!!

His background is in sales, marketing and account management.
Grant enjoys business development most especially in cutting edge technology spaces.

Grant Lenaarts
grant@bluemap.com.au
(+61) 0405 250 590
www.bluemap.com.au

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

"Use the natural talent of your people"

Geoff Appleton

Outcomes from Geoff's presentation:

-Understand how to pick the best from your short list of candidates.
-Get the best out of your team by using each person more effectively.
-Recognise the time to move people out of your business

Geoff Appleton

Working for large corporations, primarily in the travel and tourism industry, has given Geoff a real insight to how individuals respond to leadership styles, both in small and large teams. His work with major global airlines has seen him living in more than 20 countries providing a thorough cross cultural background, often leading teams of locally employed managers.

An appointment to oversee a cabin crew workforce of several thousand people provided a peak experience and understanding of delegation, people involvement and industrial relations negotiations, having also been involved in collective bargaining through the Betriebsrat system in Germany.

Geoff is a planner and strategist at heart but has had many operational roles including day to day management at major airports. This has led to more General Management roles including the control of one of the largest national corporate travel agencies, which experienced a significant financial turnaround during his leadership of the small management team there.

His sales and marketing activities have brought him close to advertising agencies, hotels and National Tourism Organisations, latterly becoming involved directly in the business of Outdoor Advertising.

More recently, Geoff was appointed by a major financial institution to manage their key national and global relationships in Sydney. This brought him alongside corporate executives in a variety of market segments, allowing an opportunity to study similarities and differences in the way business was being conducted.

During the last 7 years he has been running a small business helping leaders get the best from themselves and from the people that they lead.  He is the Joint Founder and Managing Partner of Polonious Resources, a Human Resource Consultancy.

 

http://www.polonious.com

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Adrian Rainey

Adrian Rainey is a world-leading authority on the power of commitment. He played professional rugby league at 18 years of age and was crowned rookie of the year. At 19 years of age, he tested positive for a performance enhancing substance. Banned from playing for two years, he worked and trained alone. Returning two years later, he played in a grand final squad with the Parramatta Eels. As if he had never been away from the game, he reestablished his early momentum. Soon an opportunity to move to England and play for Hull KR was given to him and he took it. At the age of 25, back in Australia playing for the Bulldogs, he decided to retire from playing professional rugby league. The thought of investing boundless energy into business excited him too much. He opened his first business and started training people outdoors.Very quickly he moved into a premises and went from no income to turning over black belt income in less than 6 months. Within 12 months he was managing up to 12 staff and became one of Australia's most successful personal training studios. Over the last 5 years he has sold millions of dollars worth of training programs by understanding the changing nature of consumer behavior.After starting out his career in the National Rugby League and overcoming a major setback to return to this elite level and then becoming a successful entrepreneur, he most recently authored his first pocket book, Blood In The Water: The Power Of Commitment.

Adrian shares his real world experience on commitment along with his natural ability to create a powerful message that will literally transform the way you think and feel about your career, business and your life.


Blood In The Water-

Blood in the water is a metaphor for whatever it takes commitment. This session looks at how to boost individual commitment in your  career or organization. Adrian uses his real world experience outlining how to start and build sustainable commitment with three  questions:  Why?    When?   How much?

What is in the workshop?
●Defining the most valuable asset in your team
●Understand what drives commitment
●Clearly exploring the benefits of commitment for you and your world
●Overcoming the limiting beliefs created by the conversation around your weaknesses
●Discovering the processes that will help you become a top performer and produce sustainable results in business today

What will attendees get out of the workshop?
1.You will learn how to shift,drive and get the results you want (step up)
2.You will learn the three questions that allow you to create 100% commitment and allow you to influence others with your ideas (commitment)
3.You will learn the key distinction for routine addicts and how you can use it to go all out and get what you want (mentally tough)
4.You will learn how to unlock your deepest motivation and how to enhance it in some satisfying way.(motivation)
5.You will learn that finishing things is all in your head and how you can use it to become a great finisher (nail it)
6.You will learn the inside secret professional athletes use to turn up and turn on (emotions)
7.You will leave with a far better predicator to your long term performance than your academic achivement or title. (dig deep)
8.You will learn how to talk about your weakness in a powerful way so others can be inspired by you. (authenticity)

Who should attend?
This workshop is perfect for managers, business leaders, innovators and people charged with the responsibility for enrolling commitment in their business or project to thrive in the next 5-10 years. Any one in an advice or strategy role must attend.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Dominique Beck

This presentation will enlighten NBBS members about the latest insights from neuroscience and what this means for business. You will find out that this knowledge is not only intriguing but also very practical when managing others or when dealing with clients.

NBBS members will hear about:

- Neuroscience: How the brain works
- Why you want to apply this knowledge in business
- Specific brain based strategies to use with staff and clients

Dominique presents insights from neuroscience research in a very hands-on, practical way. Her goal is to inspire business owners, managers and leaders to work with others in ways that will really bring about positive results. Once we understand how our brain works, we realise our amazing potential - it is about learning how to tap into that, for our own benefit and the benefit of others.  

Dominique has two special coaching offers for NBBS members: one for group coaching and one for individual coaching sessions.


About Dominique:

Dominique's coaching philosophy is based on knowing that we can optimise our thinking in order to maximise our performance - in the areas of leadership, personal and work performance, interpersonal skills and goal achievement. Coaching is neither only for athletes nor is it a random meeting over a cappuccino: It is a science-based art - nurturing possibilities to create realities.

Dominique is an experienced neuroscience-based coach and trainer. She works with people one on one, with leaders as well as management teams, specialising in leadership, personal and work performance, interpersonal skills and goal achievement. She has an innate capacity to surface deeper issues, facilitated with rigorous technical skills. Through a clearly structured, strategic and solution-focused process, clients optimise their thinking for improved performance as leaders, (business) partners and human beings.
Dominique has a multi-disciplinary academic background and worked as a research consultant in private and public sector organisations. The focus on this work was on organisational effectiveness, workplace flexibility and more. She is involved in teaching 'Leadership in Management' at Macquarie University and does pro bono mentoring.

The coaching approach that Dominique uses is based on neuroscience, ie how the brain works. She blends that with Crucial Conversations, Non-Violent Communication, Psychodrama and Energy Psychology. Dominique is enrolled in a postgraduate certificate on the neuroscience of leadership.

Connect on LinkedIn: Dominique Beck, PhD

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Paul Burges

Paul has over 20 years experience in commerce and the profession, joining BRI Ferrier as a Director in March 2009. Immediately prior to that, he had been a Partner at a mid-sized specialist insolvency firm.

His expertise in insolvency and business reconstruction has been strengthened by his broad experiences in commerce. His vocational studies, and his many years of experience, both in public practise and in commerce, equip him with very solid technical skills and a wealth of commercial experience – this enables Paul to quickly come to grips with the central issues confronting a company in financial distress.

His ability to build and maintain a rapport with the stakeholders, whilst working through the difficulties, enhances the outcome for all stakeholders. Further, it ensures that all parties clearly understand the range of probable outcomes and the processes involved.

Paul is very involved in the community, serving on the Management Committee of The Curran Foundation, a charitable foundation established to support the works of St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst. He also acts as Treasurer for the Northern Nursery School, a community based preschool in Mosman.

His key areas of expertise are:

• All Forms of External Administration
• Investigating Accountant’s Reports / Expert Opinions
• Commercial Contracts
• Jurisdictional Issues
• Retail / Franchise Arrangements
• Aged Care Facilities
• Agribusiness
• Manufacturing, particularly Marine

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Iven Frangi

There is a small revolution going on in the business world that is based around how customers want to be treated and how businesses need to look after them. Beneath the surface its been bubbling along and now the planets have aligned and the impacts are being felt.

These forces are effecting every business and enterprise and need to be understood to be mastered. The good news is that this is not rocket science and no brain surgery is needed! Of course the internet is part of this mix but it's not the biggest part. The factors are a mix of human and commercial pressures that have come to play and will form what happens in the future.                   

Discover:
•    the three BIG factors that are, and will affect customer interactions
•    what you can do to leverage your business to take advantage of what is happening
•    what not to do so you avoid some easy traps

Iven Frangi has a career rich with success and results. He has been working with businesses to drive their sales and customer service standards for over 20 years. He is Australasia's Customer Experience design specialists and a Fellow of the Customer Service Institute of Australia. Academically he is also a graduate in marketing form the University of Technology.

Iven is one of our favourite presenters and is back by request.

www.frangi.com

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Peter Shaw

Here is a quick summary of Peter's presentation
The presentation was a small piece borrowed from our 4 day business workshop. We looked at some questions you can easily insert into your business, especially if you can harness the power of the clipboard!
-"What is important to you about [product/service]?"
-"How will you know when you've got what you want?"
-"How many options do you need to consider?"
-Ask them if they have made a similar purchase before... then "How did you know it was the one for you?"

For all of these questions, you record the answers in your mind, or on the clipboard, and then feed the answers back and ALLOW them to buy during your sales interaction. You should find yourself speaking directly to the core of the person, and lighting them up!

Of course, these are just a small part of an entire business, but very important parts to have and refine.

For those NBBS members who want to further explore and get results we have two offers.

Offer 1: For the person who wants to break through limitations to attain new levels of performance and satisfaction..
Skydiving workshop - 2 Day workshop where we reprogram your limitations, remove your fears and teach you how to take control of your emotional state (usually $1,500 plus cost of skydive)
Personal Coaching with Peter Shaw - Work with Peter to produce the results you always thought possible, and some you never knew were possible! Peter's reputation has been built on the amazing results he has produced with clients over the last nine years. (usually $5,000)
Usually $1,500 plus $5,000 for a 3-5 hour breakthrough session..
For NBBS members: $5,000 for 10 hours of coaching with Peter PLUS you get the skydiving workshop/skydive and video as our gift to you!

Offer 2:
Professional photo shoot for you, your staff, products etc plus 20 professionally retouched photos ready to use (usually $700)
Ten 90 second videos (a must-have for small business to express your message) - filmed and edited professionally (usually $2,000)
check out www.lionmilk.com.au to see the quality of our work
Our 4 Day (2 x 2 day) Business Workshop that teaches you top to bottom, in full, the mindset, strategies, marketing and sales for any small business. Usually $3,500
For NBBS members: You get to come to the Business Workshop PLUS get the full photography and video for just $2,000. Plus if you have someone else working with you or for you (in the same business) they can come as your guest at no extra charge.

These offers are valid for one week, so contact peter@scaryandexciting.com today.
We understand small business and are open to discussing flexible payment plans so you get a maximum return on your investment.

There you have it folks! Incredible value from one of Australia's best trainers. Contact Peter today, and check out  www.scaryandexciting.com

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How to Build the Profile of your Business

Dale Beaumont

In Dale Beaumont's presentation you'll discover...

• Why developing your profile is the fastest way to increase your fees
• How to write own best-selling book as a powerful positioning tool
• How to tap into the media and generate loads of free publicity
• What are the key factors to a successful website presence
• How to use the power of video marketing to land your next job
• The secret to securing testimonials from high-powered clients
• Why bother with Social Media and tips for getting started today


About Dale:
Dale Beaumont is the author of 16 best-selling books, which have collectively sold over 250,000 copies. Incredibly, 11 of those books were published in a single year, a feat that earned him the title ‘Australia’s Most Prolific Author’.

Dale is also a popular speaker on a range of business and success topics. Since the age of 19 he’s delivered over 500 presentations in 9 countries.

Dale has been interviewed on Sunrise, Today Show, Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Cheez TV, Ten News, ABC Radio, Radio 2UE as well as being featured in over one hundred newspapers and magazines, including Wealth Creator, My Business Magazine, AFR Boss and Virgin’s In-flight magazine.

So, if you are looking to build profile and fast-track your personal and business success, then pay close attention to exactly what Dale Beaumont has to say.

www.businessblueprint.com.au