Business & Professional Women of Nevada County present: How to Stop Managing and Start Leading

Dates:	January 20, 2010
Days of Week:	Wednesday
Target Audience:	General Audience
Time:	5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Phone:	530-263-4827
Location:	Holbooke Hotel
Ticket Information
Price:	$20.00 members – $18.00 guests
Event Details/Other Comments:
Business & Professional Women of Nevada County present Ruth Schwartz, founder of High Performance Advocates, a company that facilitates strategy building and employee development. Schwartz will direct an interactive presentation specifically on the difference between management and leadership and on how to stop managing and start leading. Schwartz is a certified business coach and peer advisory facilitator and the only consultant and speaker in Northern California who knows firsthand the fortitude it takes to start and maintain an organization. Don’t miss this essential program for business owners and professionals. Please make reservations by Sunday, January 17.

Mark Your Calendar:

Friday Nov. 13,  The Holbrook Hotel , Grass Valley

The Nevada County Bar Association together with The Economic Resource Council and The Alternative Board present:
“Riding the Wave -  – Navigating the Legal Challenges of the New Digital Revolution.”

Learn what you need to know about:
*           Blogs, Avatars and Cloud Computing: Business in Web 3.0
*          Trademark and domain name basics – understanding the difference  between the two.
*           Copyright basics -  how to negotiate for the right to use  copyright protected properties (graphics, text, music, film).
*            How to deal with employee blogs, social networking, employee  misuse of websites and email.

Speaker:  Professor Marc Greenberg is a veteran intellectual property, entertainment and business attorney who joined the faculty of Golden Gate University School of Law in 2000 as its first Director of the Intellectual Property Program of the Law School.He is the author of a series of law review articles focusing on Internet and Copyright law issues, and is currently completing an article on China, Copyright and Calligraphy.  His next article will discuss legal issues confronting the comic book and graphic arts industries. Over the years, Prof. Greenberg’s Entertainment law clients have included Aerosmith, Wesley Snipes, Shaunna Hall (4 Non Blondes), Janis Tanaka (Pink, L7), Ray Lynch, Music from the Hearts of Space, Testament, and many others.

Noon- 1:15

$26 includes lunch / Buy a ticket

Yesterday was part one of a two part workshop to create strategic plans that can be easily implemented by businesses in Nevada County. Members of this group say that they appreciated the time spent looking at the big picture and stepping out of the day to day activities of their business.

We are using highly dynamic software developed by The Alternative Board to help businesses of any size  have a versatile process for management and any number of project teams. Not only will SBL’s  set of exercises help lay the ground work for great planning, it also has the ability to delegate to  planning teams assigned to strategies and action steps.  You can then keep track by email, layers of access and the web. It is truly phenomenal.And comes with the price of TAB membership… or workshops like these.

There is still one more sitting if you are curious. Click here to sign up.

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Do you have a five year or a five day plan?

For two nights, you have the opportunity to experience a sophisticated, interactive, state of the art, strategy software tool that would normally cost thousands of dollars.

Strategic Business Planning:: Take Your Business to the Next Level
Sponsored by YCCD, SBDC, NCCA, ERC and The GV/ NC Chamber of Commerce.
Wednesday Sept 30 and Oct.7     Grass Valley
WHERE:        Nevada County Contractors Assoc. 149 Crown Point Court, GV
TIME:             8:00- 11:00 AM (lie breakfast)

Thursday  Oct.1 and Oct. 8        Yuba City
WHERE:        Small Business Development Center. 1227 Bridge St. #C Yuba City
TIME:             5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
COST :        $65 each or 2 seminars for $99

RSVP: 530 288-0180 or  by online. Please bring a laptop to these sessions.
Session one: Get your business working for you rather than you working for your business.
•    Develop a focus that considers what you and your family want out of life.
•    Develop a Company Vision to establish a long term direction.
•    Create Critical Success Factors of what you want to focus on first.
Session Two: Turn your plans into reality.
•    Create specific, measurable goals for each Critical Success Factor.
•    Create a series of strategies and each strategy, a series of action plans.
•    Involve your whole team in managing and completing each action step.
•    Experience how a strategic plan will catapult your business forward.

My favorite group of networking gals are having me in to present “The Three High Payoff Activities Guaranteed to Grow Your Business Today.” Here is more about the presentation. Here is EWomen’s link if you’d like to attend and meet over 50 Sacramento networkers. See you there!

Tuesday May 19 Creative Employees: Good to Great

Do your employees live up to your expectations? Do they fall short? Or are there simply fewer of them to do more work? In either case it is important to move employees from an attitude of compliance to an attitude of commitment. In this workshop you will learn:
• The tools you can use to move from compliance and commitment motivation.
• The four elements of empowerment and how to use them.
• How to move to and beyond delegation and transfer power to others.

TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Nevada County Contractors Assoc. 149 Crown Point Court, Grass Valley, CA
COST : $45

You must reserve a seat: Contact High Performance Advocates at 288-0180 or buy online at www.http://highperformanceadvocates.com/events.html.

Credit cards and checks accepted