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10.11.09

Seminar: Rehab your Habits
Many people adopt destructive habits that lead to poor performance, high stress levels, reduced productivity and conflict within the work place. Our habits determine whether we achieve FLOW or not. In most cases individuals are not aware of the fact that their habits are detrimental and even if they are, they find it very difficult to change them.

27.10.09

Seminar: Retaining your Talent after the GFC
Good quality staff know their value and are confident and marketable, this is why they are your best they are the ones that pull you through the hard times, however start losing them and you may create a domino effect and even with job losses occurring there are still more people leaving the Australian workforce than are entering it.

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08.09.09

Seminar: High Impact Conversations
Setting performance levels, discussing expectationsand giving feedback are continually rated by 2 out of 3 managers as the hardest part of their job today!

10.08.09

Seminar: How to Conduct Panel Interviewing
How often have you thought you were hiring the right person for a role only to be disappointed with your decision? If this is occurring to you or people in your organisation, it is important to look at the effectiveness of your interviewing skills.

20.07.09

Breakfast Seminar: Background Screening and it's Importance in the Current Climate
The cost and damage arising from making the wrong hiring decision can be significant. Small businesses can go under and large businesses can experience damage to their reputation, poor performance, low morale and high staff turnover.

15.06.09

Breakfast Seminar: Psychopaths in the Workplace
This talk will examine what a psychopath is, their personality style, behaviors, interpersonal approach and thought processes. You will discover how they infiltrate companies undetected, as well as the strategies they use to manipulate those around them to achieve power and promotion.

11.05.09

Breakfast Seminar: Performing under Pressure
How easy do you find it to perform consistently in your industry? Does your or your team's productivity drop when the pressure is on? Come and learn how to achieve your absolute best when under extreme pressure.

20.04.09

Breakfast Seminar: Making Ice Burn - How to set a Cold Team on Fire
If morale's low, you'd better do something - Quick! Nothing can reduce your team's results faster than morale problem.

31.03.09

Breakfast Seminar: Managing staff through change
As employees see redundancies and other cost cutting changes, a psychological decline can set in - lower morale and productivity, increased stress and absenteeism.

16.03.09

Breakfast Seminar: Managing your Motivation
Explore how individuals can manage their "Emotional State" more effectively and by doing so, have greater control over their behaviour and results. We will explore the strategies behind performance improvement: focusing on an individual's ability to access their ability.

16.02.09

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16.02.09

Breakfast Seminar: The New Rules of Engagement
By outlining some of the key influences that are shaping youth culture and the mindsets of today's young people, by exploring Generation Y's paradigm when it comes to work ethic, patience, loyalty, respect and communication.

13.01.09

Breakfast Seminar: Dealing with Difficult People
Dealing with difficult people is criticalto the success of every relationship either business or personal. Many people are poor observers of behaviour and this lack of awareness is highly correlated with success in life and work.

27.10.08

Breakfast Seminar: Psychopaths in the Workplace
This talk will examine what a psychopath is, their personality style, behaviors, interpersonal approach and thought processes. You will discover how they infiltrate companies undetected, as well as the strategies they use to manipulate those around them to achieve power and promotion.

22.09.08

Breakfast Seminar: Emotional Intelligence
Learn the critical components of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and practical ways to demonstrate EI behaviours, allowing you to strengthen your relationships.

18.08.08

Breakfast Seminar: Making Fun Work - Creating Greater Productivity and Loyalty
Would you prefer to do business with someone with a sense of humour or without? Do you want to find out how to be a funnier you and how you can profit from the Power of Fun? Come along to this month's breakfast seminar!

29.07.08

Breakfast Seminar: How New is the New IR System - What has changed & Where are we going.
The Rudd Labor Government has made important changes to Australia's industrial relations system and is scheduled to make some further change very shortly - But what does this mean on a practical level for employers?

30.06.08

Breakfast Seminar: Conducting an Effective Performance Appraisal
Conducting an effective performance appraisal is an essential tool for motivating employees and inspiring quality work. This seminar will provide valuable tips on how to give clear, useful feedback and cover the fundamentals of conducting a successful performance appraisal.

12.05.08

Breakfast Seminar: Leadership Behavioural Style impacting your Climate, Engagement and Team Performance
Most organisations invest in leadership competency but consistently neglect the necessary investment in "Leadership Behaviour" that takes a business from adequate to high performance. Come and join this thought provoking and confronting breakfast seminar presented by Anthony Sork.

21.04.08

Breakfast Seminar: Winter Insurance
Influenza otherwise known as the flu, can land even the strongest of us flat on our back in bed. To ensure this doesn't happen to you and your staff, make sure you register for this informative seminar which will provide you with all the information you need to boost your immune system and deal with this season's colds and flu.

24.03.08

Breakfast Seminar: Flow - How to get Peak Performance at Work
Flow is the state where you achieve high performance with maximum efficiency and zero stress. Discover the 6 keys to getting into Flow, Adam's solutions are practical, innovative, scientifically supported and, most of all, effective.

18.02.08

Breakfast Seminar: Taming the Email Beast
Get opened, Get actioned, Get control!
Emails should make you more productive, not less. This practical, interactive seminar reveals a professional copywriter's insights into writing more effective and more persuasive emails!

30.01.08

Breakfast Seminar: Making Sense of the IR Maze - What you need to know about the ALP Alternative
If your head still spinning because of changes to Work Choices and you're not quite sure you want to look too closely at the ALP industrial relations policy, why don't you join us for a presentation to get an understanding of how the new ALP government's proposed legislation may impact your business?

08.10.07

Breakfast Seminar: Attracting and Engaging your Employees
As Managers and HR Professionals we therefore need to understand the psychology behind employee bonding and attachment, especially if we are to gain a return on investment for each employee hired.  This is crucial, particularly within an employee’s first 90 days of employment where they form sometimes irreversible perceptions of the organisation and management practices which directly impacts employee productivity and satisfaction levels.

27.08.07

Breakfast Seminar: Becoming an Emotional Intelligent Manager
Studies indicate that understanding and increasing emotional intelligence (EI) is essential to workplace effectiveness, management and leadership potential and career success.  All of us can boost our EI by understanding and using the skills which define it including self-awareness, empathy, self-confidence, self-control and the ability to listen.   

30.07.07

Breakfast Seminar: Gen Y: Solved! How to get the best out of Generation Y"
They're the least understood Generation that has a huge amount of potential to contribute to your organisation. The key is learning how to unlock the value they can add to your business. Instead of being a hassle to manage, Gen Ys have the ability to be your stars.

27.06.07

Breakfast Seminar: Talent Management
Talent Management is often part of organisation Succesion Planning. While everyone in an organisation is talented, most organisations are adopting a process of identifying some people to be part of high potential Talent Pools; the people that can fill critical organisation positions in the future.

16.04.07

Breakfast Seminar: The Importance of Pre-employment Screening
The cost and damage arising from making the wrong hiring decision can be significant. Small businesses can go under and large businesses can experience damage to their reputation, poor performance, low morale and high staff turnover - all of which can result in significantly reduced profits. Who and how you hire impacts every aspect of your business, so knowing the “true” facts about the person you are hiring is essential.

19.03.07

Breakfast Seminar: Managing your Motivation
In Managing your Motivation we will explore how individuals can manage their "emotional state" more effectively and by doing so, have greater control over their behaviour and results.  We will explore the strategies behind performance improvement: focusing on an individual's access to their ability.

12.02.07

Breakfast Seminar: Ignite your writing and your Results
The harsh truth is everything you write either: Enhances your brand and your chance of making a sale, or Erodes your brand and your sale chances. So how do you add sizzle to your communication and get people not only reading your writing, but acting on it?

15.01.07

Breakfast Seminar: Understanding Employment Engagement
Engagement can be defined as being the state of emotional and intellectual commitment of a group or organisation. Engagement is not "WHAT" our people do, it is the driver of "HOW" they do it, and "WHO" they do it for. Engaged employees create loyal customers who in turn create bigger profits.

23.10.06

Breakfast Seminar: Profiling for Talent Retention
Look at any business magazine on any given day and you will find an article relating to the "Skills Shortage" and/or "The War for Talent". These are two very real and very large issues for managers. Not only is there a shortage of skills but there is a battle over who gets them and more importantly who keeps them.

18.09.06

Breakfast Seminar: How to train, coach and develop Generation Y in an engaging way
Being a manager, coach, or trainer is hard enough without the challenge of having to develop employees of such diverse age ranges, this presentation, focuses on how to train, coach and develop Generation Y so that they're totally engaged.

21.08.06

Breakfast Seminar: New Generations, New Trends
The future is shaped not just by the technological changes but also the sociological changes. Indeed an understanding of the lifestyles and attitudes of the 21st Century workforce, as well as the new characteristics and expectations of today's clients is critical to future success.

17.07.06

Breakfast Seminar: How to Implement Employee Reward Schemes
This seminar will provide insight into how to implement a rewards and recognition scheme in to your company and is presented by Kevin Moore, Joint Managing Director of the Marketing Department.

8.05.06

Breakfast Seminar: The Rhythm of Success
Presented by Adam Fraser (www.energyfactory.com.au), this practical presentation will show you how to structure your day around your bio-rhythms to increase your productivity and well being.

18.04.06

Breakfast Seminar: Talent Management
Sarah Kearney, Managing Director of SHL Australia (www.shl.com.au), explains the importance of developing critical talent within your organisation. What does "talent" mean, why is it important and how do you identify it?

16.03.06

Breakfast Seminar: Managing your Time Effectively
Presented by Gabrielle Droulers, co-founder and Director of the Centre for Career Development (www.cfcd.com.au). This workshop will give you some tips on how to manage yourself more effectively, increase your personal performance and reduce your stress levels.

16.02.06

Breakfast Seminar: Maximising Your Vocal Power
What does your voice say about you? What is the voice of your employees saying about your company or product? Join us, as Cate Madill, a fully qualified Speech Pathologist and Voice specialist shares her insights.

16.01.06

Breakfast Seminar: Keeping Employees Engaged
Employee engagement is critical to an organisation's success. Learn easy-to-implement solutions that actually work from James Adonis, a proven employee engagement expert.

20.09.05

Breakfast Seminar: A Healthy Approach for Peak Performance
Presented by Louise O'Connor, Naturopath, this seminar will teach you about the impact food choices have on personal performance and health.

18.08.05

Breakfast Seminar: Staff Coaching for Super Success
Coaching is not just about fixing the "underperformers", it's about helping all staff to be the best they can be. Join us as Wayne Pearce shares his knowledge about performance psychology.

18.07.05

Breakfast Seminar: Managing Unsatisfactory Performance
All businesses need to know how to support staff to achieve good performance and to manage staff fairly and equitably if performance does not meet the standard needed.

17.06.05

Breakfast Seminar: Communicating Feedback Effectively
Each of us views our world, its expectations and our performance in it differently. How do we know that we and those to whom we give professional feedback are "all on the same page"?

02.06.05

Breakfast Seminar: The Rhythm of Success
This practical presentation will show you how to structure your day around your bio-rhythms to increase your productivity and well being; Adam's solutions are practical, innovative, scientifically supported and, most of all, effective.

07.04.05

Breakfast Seminar: Successful Project Management
By applying project management skills in your personal and professional life you can maximise performance and ensure the best results every time. Join us as Patricia Healy shows us how to focus on priorities and monitor progress and performance.

24.02.05

Breakfast Seminar: The Importance of Pre-employment Screening
Learn how to improve the quality of hiring decisions, reduce staff turnover, minimise fraud and promote a culture of integrity throughout your organisation. Sally Mooney, from Australian Background, will be presenting our next breakfast meeting.

24.01.05

Breakfast Seminar: Energy Management
Ever felt tired and lethargic at 3 in the afternoon, or woken up feeling worse than you went to bed? Adam Fraser (www.energyfactory.com.au) will be talking about our energy levels and its effect on performance.

21.09.04

Breakfast Seminar: Making Fun Work
Dennis Moore will be showing us how you can Profit from Fun in your business and personal lives and this is shared through a high energy, entertaining and thought provoking presentation.

12.08.04

Breakfast Seminar: Detecting Lies in Interviews and Communication
Recognising the tell-tale signs of deception is an essential skill for professionals conducting formal or informal interviews and in general communication.

20.07.04

Breakfast Seminar: Nothing but the Best
If you know being a front line telephone consultant can be exhausting and that some days the constant pressure to be professional, efficient and effective can take its toll on everyone, this seminar is for you.

22.06.04

Breakfast Seminar: Managing Change
If not properly implemented, change can leave employees feeling unmotivated, cynical and confused at a time when commitment to the organisation is most crucial.

04.06.04

Breakfast Seminar: Call Centre Attrition
Attrition is one of the most debated and controversial issues in the call and contact centre industry.

19.05.04

Breakfast Seminar: How to Create and Deliver a Dynamic Presentation
If you have ever prayed for the podium to open and swallow you up or cringed with embarrassment through a disastrous presentation, come and listen to tips from Adam Fraser (www.energyfactory.com.au).

23.04.04

Breakfast Seminar: Emotional Intelligence
Join our speakers Don Power and Sylvia Fernandes and come to understand how to better relate to yourself and others, to create a life of great relationships.

18.03.04

Breakfast Seminar: How old are you really?
Join Jennifer Blondel, director of Body Matters and learn about the effects of stress on your body, your overall health and vitality - to determine your 'real' age.

13.02.04

Breakfast Seminar: Generational Diversity at Work
Diversity is a key feature of the modern workplace. In addition to gender diversity and cultural diversity, is generational diversity

 

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