4 workshops about what really matters
You need to make more PROFIT not have better accounting and operations.
You want RAVING FANS not better marketing
How about MORE RESULTS FOR LESS EFFORT rather than operations and HR.
YOU are the beginning and the end. You need to sharpen your saw; put your oxygen mask on first and build your capacity.
Let’s face it, most of us don’t have MBA’s. We keep hearing about how we need a Marketing Plan, Operations Systems, HR Policies and Accounting Procedures. We’re too busy selling, making, hiring (and firing) and counting our pennies to even think about all that.
There are 2 very important reasons why that thinking can’t work for small business:
- No one, I mean, no one, has all the skills and knowledge to design and implement all of that. Not any MBA, CEO or Business Guru. Not even Michael Gerber himself. So how can we?
- We are too busy running our business to step aside and work on things that don’t mean increased profit, more customers, saving time and helping us live better today.
I saw hundreds of business owners struggle with this thinking and everywhere they turned for help they were told the same things: you have to do all these things if you want to be successful. You just have to make the time to do it, take these courses to figure out how and train your staff. I saw the frustration and the burn out.
I knew there had to be a better way. So I studied and learned and asked and found best practices and that’s when I came up with the concept behind my book. Make your business predictable, create an environment that works for you, help your team support you (recognizing that most of your team is outside your business) and make sure that what you do pays you well. Do that and you will create a successful business. The real secret is that you will end up with systems that make sense for you, that you naturally implement and that slowly and surely mean your business is running smoothly with less effort from you.
Once you understand this, you will look at each problem differently – you’ll understand why you have that problem and what you have to do to make sure you never have it again.
This workshop series is for you if you have been in business for a while and you are struggling – to make enough profit, to get more customers, to get more results for the effort you put in and to grow as a business person.
This isn’t for everyone. We have a lot of years of conditioning to undo. You are an innovator in business and you are willing to change your thinking, then you will thrive here.
We will get together 4 times to work on specific areas of your business using the Your Effortless Business framework.
More Profit
April 10 – 10am to 2pm, lunch included.
We’ll look at what parts of your business are the most important for maximizing profit and what you can do next to make them work really well for your business.
Raving Fans
April 24 – 10am to 2pm, lunch included.
Customers buy from you. Raving fans evangelize you. They tell all their friends. What are the best steps you can take to help your customers become Raving Fans?
More results, Less Effort
May 8 – 10am to 2pm, lunch included.
It’s my belief and experience that people don’t need more information. Titles like: “10 tips to…” attract people, but they don’t really help. We will be a small enough group that we will be able to explore the 4 cornerstones from my book: predictability, environment, team and getting paid well so that each person will get one action in each to which they can commit. Then, as a group we will hold you to those commitments.
You
May 22 – 10am to 2pm, lunch included.
It all starts and ends with you. We have to sharpen our saw; put our oxygen mask on first and build our capacity if we want to have anything left to build epic projects. We are so lucky living here and at this time, that we have a responsibility to do big things. This session will help you dig deep so you can make the next big leap you need to make. We’ll explore courage, creativity, innovation and letting go.
Take all 4 workshops for $600 or bring a friend and you each pay $500. Space is limited to 20 people. Workbooks and refreshments included. We will stay in touch between workshops to keep you moving forward.
When you sign up, you will receive a pdf and kindle copy of the book. At the workshop you will receive an autographed copy of the paperback.
Each workshop is taking place at a different HUB location within an hour’s drive around Nova Scotia.
- As a HUB Instigator, myself, I want to support HUBs.
- HUBs are innovative and embody the changes we need to embrace for the new way business is done.
- This is a pretty radical concept and that means it won’t appeal to a large percentage of the population. We have to cast our net a little wider.
- There’s a huge value for you in knowing other innovative, creative business owners around the Province.
- Everyone does some of it well. We will find great examples of what is working in each community we visit.
Clear away the mundane
Build a business that works for you
Information is not enough, if it were, you’d be where you want to be already.
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