Free Business Topics in Chicago

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  Non-Profit Business Strategies

  Lea Ann Skogsberg, Founder, Dollars and Sense

  With 30 years experience, Lea Ann offers customized talks on using social media, blogging, endowment, creating access for middle income donors, fundraising, new business models, grantwriting and trends across sectors.

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  Optimize your Brand on LinkedIn

  Janeen McGreal, CEO, Real Connections Coaching

  Janeen provides tactical advice and strategy on the LinkedIn platform. She is an expert in helping students, professionals in transition and companies use the platform to maximize their Brand. Janeen's positive personality and enthusiasm about LinkedIn make for a memorable and useful presentation.

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  Optimize Your Customer Journey! Rebuild Your Marketing & Sales Infrastructure For Revenue

  Troy Sandidge, Keynote Speaker • Emcee • Fractional CMO • Podcaster • Author, Strategy Hackers

  Are sales nonexistent? Marketing not working? Have you evaluated your customer journey through the eyes of your customer? Are you optimized to give the right value at every stage? Are your marketing and selling initiatives aligned with revenue-generating activities? Is your business stuck on awareness mode desperately needing to switch to sales, acquisition, and conversions mode? Let's break down how to stop marketing for fans and start marketing and selling to drive revenue! MORE >

  Takeaways:
  • Learn a 5-point customer journey blueprint that you can modify to fit your current situation.
  • Discover how to expand your marketing and sales tactics and effectiveness using your actual customers as advocates.
  • Debunk myths and old "best practices" many businesses still use that's costing sales and repeatable buyers.

  Best For:
  • New Entrepreneurs & Startups Looking To Improve Marketing & Sales ROI
  • Businesses With Small Or No Marketing Team Or An Army-Of-One Marketing Leader
  • New Marketing & Sales Managers for Small Businesses

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  Performance Management

  Bernard Liebowitz, PhD, CMC, President, Liebowitz & Associates

  Performance management is a process ensuring that a firm’s strategy and goals are cascaded down throughout the organization. The net result is a workforce that is fully identified with the organization.

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  POSSIBILITY PARTNERS WORKPLACES . . . HOW HUMAN RESOURCES CAN LEAD A WORKPLACE RESET.

  Dianne M. Michels, Human Resources Futurist, possibilitypartners.org

  Transition Human Resources from a transactional role to a strategic one and become a trusted, indispensable business partner for maximum impact on the enterprise and the people as they fulfill on their mission of "Results Matter . . . and people are at the heart of it! MORE >

  Learn about the key components of a Possibility Partners Workplace and the consequential role HR can play in that workplace transformation. You will gain an understanding of the following components:
  - Cultures where "Everybody Matters" and everybody believes in the inherent worth and dignity of every human being;
  - Communications "Best Practices" that are a demand for authenticity and openness as possibility partners engage in conversations that ignite collaboration, creativity, and community in unleashing our purpose, power, and potential, to actualize new possibilities and partnerships in the world for the greater good;
  - Replacing the annual performance review -- I have yet to meet ANYONE (employee or employer) who says they owe their success to their annual review process -- with regularly scheduled, year-round conversations that build mutual respect and trust, while focusing on results!
  - Defining the 12 conditions required to support the people in accomplishing the results that matter;
  - Shifting the experience of work as a burden to survive to one of a gift of participation, contribution, and self-expression;
  - Developing leaders who are supportive, encouraging, and insightful, without diminishing your sense of choice, agency, and ownership for results. Agency is defined as the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.

  Can be presented virtually via ZOOM.

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  Power of Stories for Business

  Valerie Fuson, Author & Certified Speaking Coach, Empowered Speaking

  Whether you are a CEO, entrepreneur, sales professional or business expert, your story is the deciding factor of why people will do business with you. Valerie’s talk shows how to bring your stories to life to attract the ideal client and increase profits.

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  Preliminary Blocking and Tackling to Start a Debt or Equity Capital Raise

  Barrett Willich, CFO, Bear & Kenmore LLC

  In this presentation, we will do a quick introduction to things to think about and how to start preparing when you are ready to raise debt or equity capital. After this presentation, you will have a better idea of advisors to connect with as well as tasks your internal team can start preparing. We will also walk you through the key milestones of a process. MORE >

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  Process Improvement Strategies for Smaller Businesses and Non-Profit Organizations

  Robert Starinsky, MBA, MS, CCP, ASBC, Principal, Tradewinds Group, Inc.

  Business process improvements can have a transformational effect on any business or non-profit organization. Processes that remain the same over time can impede an organization's efficiency and growth prospects; However, any organization that works to continuously improve its' processes can create opportunities well beyond its current capacity. MORE >

  Process improvement takes on many different forms and every organization has its own unique processes and systems in place.

  Attendees of this presentation will learn valuable techniques to help them engage their own organizations in meaningful process improvement.

  This presentation is available virtually to audiences across the country, or locally, on an in-person basis, COVID restrictions permitting.

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  Project Management Essentials for the “Accidental” Project Manager

  Robert Starinsky, MBA, MS, CCP, ASBC, Principal, Tradewinds Group, Inc.

  People often start working on (and managing) projects almost by accident. When you suddenly find yourself responsible for managing an important project but aren't really sure about how to go about making it happen, you’re an "accidental" project manager. Whether you're a newly minted "accidental" project manager, or you're someone who frequently finds yourself serving on a client-focused project team, or you simply want to know more about project management, this is the right workshop for you. MORE >

  Have you recently "fallen" into the role of an accidental project manager? At one time or another, we all do (or will)! The good news is that you can be successful - without being an expert on project management! This short workshop is designed for individuals with little or no prior knowledge of project management, but who know what they’re doing now is either not enough, or simply isn’t working.

  This workshop covers what you need you know about managing a small to medium-sized project with confidence. You'll learn an easy-to-follow process for taking your project - regardless of its' purpose or size - from beginning to "done", as well as the critical "need to know" project management terminology, concepts and techniques that you can apply immediately toward helping you keep your project running smoothly.

  This presentation is available virtually to audiences across the country, or locally, on an in-person basis, COVID restrictions permitting.

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  Six Sigma and Finance Intersections

  Diane Davidson, Finance Transformation Leader, Clever Fox, LLC

  As a practitioner with a Six Sigma Green Belt, I am seeing demand for Six Sigma principles being used in the Finance industry. Six Sigma is typically viewed as a tool only used for Supply Chain, Logistics or Operations. Finance organizations are using Six Sigma principles such as Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen Events to bring standardization and efficiencies to their business processes. MORE >

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