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  Using Emotional Intelligence Skills to Survive and Thrive During Tough Conversations

  Laura Lewis-Barr, Founder, Training 4 Breakthroughs

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Prepare yourself to face difficult conversations with courage and confidence. Discover best practices in preparation and delivery of challenging content. During this interactive workshop participants will: MORE >

  > Explore how basic Emotional Intelligence concepts of self-awareness, empathy, triggers, and hijacking can help or hinder us during emotional conversations.
  > Recognize the many benefits of not avoiding, but instead “leaning into” challenging conversations.
  > Understand and practice a proven 3-part method for conducting difficult conversations to produce good outcomes.
  > Explore different delivery habits that help and hinder communication including observation vs. evaluation, and owning vs. projecting a message.

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  Reliable Investing: Is It Possible?

  Renee N. Duba, Founder, Sonder Private Wealth Management

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Is it possible to build a reliable investment portfolio in today's market environment? This talk discusses what a reliable portfolio is, and how one might change their thought process when it comes to saving and investing.

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  Invest In Yourself

  John Pankau, Attorney, The Law Offices of John Pankau

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Learn what a Will can and can’t do for you and your estate plan. What is a Living Trust and why do you need one? What are the differences between a Will and a Trust and what does that mean for your estate plan?

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  You Can Still Win, It’s Your Choice

  Will (William) Ramey, President, ABBA Teaching Institute

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  Here’s the good news… You are closer than you think to making better choices. No matter your current position, you can become the driving force behind lasting change. You can be the catalyst who ignites innovation, inspires action, and initiates new possibilities. MORE >

  Shawn discussions the choices that we make and the ripple effect our choices cause in professional and personal lives with family, friends and colleagues. A number of examples of are used from the author's professional and personal life as illustrations of some excellent choices and really bad decisions made.

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  Home Access for Everyone

  Lea Ann Skogsberg, Founder, Dollars and Sense

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  The number one desire of people as we age is to remain in our own homes. Yet many of us are one mobility impairment away from not even being able to enter or exit our homes. This challenge for society will continue to grow as Baby Boomers age. Most needs are short-term yet most commercial answers require permanent changes to a property making them undesirable to homeowners and impossible for renters. MORE >

  There is a community-based solution to address this growing need to make home accessibility affordable for everyone. If you ever carried anyone into your home for a Holiday meal or experienced even "minor" surgery that affected mobility, you'll know why this is such an important topic.

  Ramps provide access for people with both temporary and long-term mobility issues. Yet while Medicare and Medicaid as well as private insurance programs underwrite the wheelchairs, walkers and assistive devices individuals require for mobility—except in some cases for veterans—there is no standard way to acquire and/or pay for the ramps. This concept, a community-based inventory of modular ramps, seeks to establish a pilot project to demonstrate the value of borrowing (rather than owning) home access products. Rentals respond to occasional as well as temporary needs for residential ramps. Except for the screws, each component is reusable; the units are American made.

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  Why Should I Buy From You?

  Thomas Herman, Managing Director, CRO RoundTable

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Whether you own a business, lead a sales team or are an individual contributor, this question is constantly being posed to you by potential customer(s). Even existing customers ask the question when they are trying to decide if they should continue to do business with you. It does not matter how big or small your business or team is, nor does it matter what your product or service is ... this question is being asked. The question comes in many formats and learning to recognize the question and, more importantly, learning how to answer this question is critical to a successful outcome. What are the underlying reasons you are being asked this question? What is the most effective way to answer? MORE >

  The proper response is not what most business owners and leaders expect and is not the response that is given the majority of the time. You can improve your 'win ratio' by understanding the motivation behind the question and learning techniques that speak to the underlying motivation.

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  When The Well Runs Dry – Turning Your Sales Up When The Market Is Down

  Tom Kelly, Business Coach, Potential In Motion

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Are you a real estate agent that has been struggling with your sales since the real estate boom has ended? Are you wondering how you can turn your business around and have just as much, if not more success during a market downturn? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Master Certified Business Coach Tom Kelly will teach you the 5 key shifts that you need to make to turn your sales up when the market is down! MORE >

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  Stress – How to Minimize Its Impact on Your Health

  Scott Cabrera, DC, Clinic Director, Higgins Sports & Spinal Rehab, SC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  With the demands of work and family combined with a lackluster economy, people need to know how to minimize the physical effects of stress. This engaging seminar presents simple and healthy ways to deal with stress.

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  Awaken: How to Motivate the Unmotivated

  Susan Neustrom, Ed.D., Leadership Coach, Author, Speaker, Educator, Leading to Action

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  Are you struggling with trying to motivate and inspire your team, employees, clients, or even yourself? Encouraging an unmotivated individual is a challenge and regardless of the reward, nothing seems to work. Based on years of experience working with challenging populations - jail inmates, the homeless, people living with developmental disabilities, Dr.Susan Neustrom teaches you how to motivate and inspire even the most unmotivated by sharing five new ideas for awakening, igniting, and maintaining self-motivation for long term success. MORE >

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