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Influencing the Influencers
Ben Angel – Personal Branding and Networking Specialist, Author of the soon to be released book Sleep Your Way to the Top in Business – The Ultimate Guide to Attracting & Seducing More Customers.
Are you tired of doing things the hard way? Are you trying to get buy-in for your projects and ideas from other staff and outside contacts? Do you fail to extract real value from your networks? Are you struggling to get your foot in the door without having it slammed in your face?
This presentation will inspire you to achieve more with less by perfecting the art of networking and influencing the influencers. Ben will share with you:

• Why Most People Fail at Networking & What You Can Do About It
• The 7 Missing Elements from a Complete Networking Strategy
• Personal Branding – The Art of Gaining More Influence and Credibility Quickly
• 7 Reasons Why Your Image Is Stopping You from Obtaining Buy-In from Key Contributors of Your Projects & What You Can Do About It
• Personal Billboard – What Your Clothes Are Telling Your Colleagues About You

A must for those wanting to obtain market share within their industry through building solid relationships that yield financial results. You’ll be motivated and informed, and leave ready to make a serious impact on your business.

Enhance Your Performance and Productivity Through Improved Relationships and Behaviours
Arthur Shelley – Capability Consultant, Change Agent and Author of The Organizational Zoo – A Survival Guide to Workplace Behavior.
Have you ever thought that you work with a bunch of animals? It’s a fair question to ask and Arthur agrees. In this engaging presentation, Arthur will introduce you to animal metaphors that enable “conversations that matter” to improve workplace effectiveness. The creature archetypes and environmental concepts from his first book The Organizational Zoo and the leadership capabilities from his second book, Being a Successful Knowledge Leader are combined to help you to:

• Understand people in your workplace and build effective relationships with them
• Lead effective change programs with sustainable outcomes
• Develop your team’s capabilities and improve productivity
• Understand the emotional impacts on (and of) decisions
• Engage your team and stakeholders and reduce office politics
• Foster collaboration and trust in your workplace, with a sense of fun
• Build wide, strong networks across your organisation and with other parties.

Applying these practical concepts in your workplace will enhance relationships and create a stronger workplace identity. Your team will embrace different perspectives, harness the positives from diversity and collaborate better. Arthur’s pragmatic, interactive and fun presentation style will ensure you get the most out of the session, to make your own zoo more fun and perform better together.

Beverley Brough – Master Networking
Beverley has conducted a variety of workshops and seminars in the public and corporate sector including Victoria University, C.P.A., recruitment, mortgage brokers, lawyers, insurance, Australian Institute of Management, Institute of Chartered Accountants, financial planners, lenders and relationship managers including the Commonwealth and Westpac banks. Beverley has recently co-authored a networking book ‘Strategic Networking - Your Guide To Networking Excellence’. Beverley is a professional speaker, coach, trainer and author with 25 years of mastering her networking skills..

‘FUN’ergize Your Workplace
Mike Symonds – Director of Interactive Events Pty Ltd
Mike Symonds will be running a series of ‘FUN’ergizer activities at key points throughout the forum, so you can experience firsthand the benefits of fun, interaction and laughter. ‘FUN’ergizers are simple 5 minute energizers and team activities. They are designed to inject more fun and energy into your team meetings, conferences, training programs and workplaces.
You’ll have the opportunity to:

• To laugh, play and interact
• Experience firsthand the benefits of fun
• Learn several 5 minute activities that you can use in your workplace

Slowing Down to Speed Up
Stephen Duns – Director of SuccessWorks and Transformation Consultant

Discover ways to lead and achieve profound and sustainable change in your workplace. This workshop will explore the latest in systems thinking – the need for people to work, not just from the rational perspective, but also to work from the heart and the will. With Stephen, you’ll explore some tried and tested techniques to support your organisation to open up the minds, hearts and wills of your people to engage in profound and sustainable change.

These techniques include:

• the circle
• world cafe
• open space technology
• appreciative inquiry – a strengths paradigm
• the flow game.   

You’ll gain an understanding of what makes deep change happen and learn about specific techniques in an action learning style by experiencing them in this workshop.

Entertain Your Staff for Larger Profits
Guy Moxley – Team Building Specialist
Your team is the key to your organisation’s success – but what are the real benefits of team building and how can you incorporate team building into your workplace?
Guy Moxley will share with you his ideas on:

• why happy workers work harder – does energising your staff and renewing their interest in work really pay off?
• how to build staff camaraderie –through corporate entertainment, you foster new interactions between co-workers that don’t happen at work. What impact does this have on your organisation’s productivity?
• how to strengthen business ties to suppliers and partners through corporate entertainment
• why you shouldn’t go overboard with team building.

PROCESS:

Rethinking Workforce Strategies: New Approaches to the Management of Human Capital
Colin Beames – Corporate Psychologist and Human Capital Expert
The Global Financial Crisis will leave an indelible footprint. Part of this footprint will include a more strategic and authentic focus on your people – your real source of sustainable profits. However, the impact of this crisis is only one of a number of factors that will shape the workplace of the future and the management of your staff. Global warming, the ‘demographic crunch’ of an ageing workforce and an ongoing skills shortage, coupled with a range of other emerging employment landscape trends, pose new challenges and risks for executives in managing your workforce. 

Employees now come in all shapes and sizes – one size doesn’t fit all. Dealing with this workforce management complexity calls for a more sophisticated and differentiated approach to the management of an organisation’s most vital intangible asset: its people. It requires a rethink of workforce strategies and enhanced human capital reporting. Colin will introduce you to his “3M approach” – enhanced Mindsets, Models and Measures – to deal with this complexity.

Katja Rembrandt
The presentation and workshop:
How emotional intelligence relates to you
Are you continuously:

• Dealing with conflict?
• Addressing concerns that leaders aren’t embodying your organisation’s values?
• Justifying money spent and ROI on developing leaders’ ‘soft skills’?
• Trying to identify high potentials and retain them?
• Trying to increase staff engagement?
• Seeking buy-in for strategic talent management?
• Looking for better recruitment tools to attract leaders?
• Elevating a focus on human capital so it’s part of your organisational strategy?

Emotional Intelligence could be the missing link

• Emotional Intelligence takes you further…. Researchers estimate that Emotional Intelligence (EI) accounts for 60% of performance ability and matters twice as much as technical efficiency or intelligence in some positions.

Emotional Intelligence and Professional Excellence
Sophie Trpcevski – Emotional Intelligence Expert and Executive Coach
Emotional intelligence (EI) is said to be the biggest predictor of performance in your workplace and the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence, more than IQ or experience. Enhancing EI can dramatically improve decisions, behaviours and performance at work as our moods, feelings and emotions influence us everyday. And since feelings underpin relationships and other issues like job satisfaction, engagement and team moral, enhancing EI can produce a huge effect on the bottom line.

Emotional Intelligence involves a set of seven skills:

• emotional self-awareness
• emotional expression
• emotional awareness of others
• emotional reasoning
• emotional self-management
• emotional management of others
• emotional self-control.

Sophie’s workshop will develop your understanding of these seven skills and provide you with some fun, interactive activities and tools that will enhance your decisions, behaviours and performance at work while effectively managing your emotions within yourself and others.

Like All Enviable Recipes, You Have to Have the Right Ingredients

Jo Banks – Strategic Interventions Consultant
Do you want to deliver winning strategies to:

• Improve the return on stakeholder’s investment?
• Create products and service solutions which enrich customers’ lives?
• Optimise the contribution made by the greatest asset of your business – its people?
• Enhance ethical behaviours, sustainability and contribute to improving the quality of life of your employees, their families, the local community and society at large?

Jo will share with you her most trusted ingredients for producing outstanding results.

Andrew Bloye/Michael Cagle (Mentor)
WORKSHOPS
Andrew Bloye and Michael
Innovative Training approaches through mentoring 
The workshop will focus on addressing the obstacles that commonly present themselves when organisations attempt to introduce a new learning strategy. 
Our workshop will explore the new Innovative training approaches such as blended eLearning that has the ability to provide a positive and beneficial effect on organizations, using a unique blend of mentoring and coaching along with traditional and innovative training methods. 
The blended approach reduces obstacles like, a culture of traditional learning practices, trainers being unwilling to try new methods and the ability of learners to access and retain information.

ENGAGEMENT:

Creating a Workplace Where People Want to Be … and Contribute to its Success!
Mark Bloodworth – Speaker on engagement and retention issues that impact Australian businesses
Who else wants to create a workplace that people want to be a part of and more importantly, make a contribution to? Discover how four business leaders from different industries took on this challenge and succeeded. With Mark’s skillful facilitation, these leaders will explain the challenges they overcame, through addressing the following questions:

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  • Why did you seek greater engagement in your organisation?
  • What were the biggest challenges you faced?
  • What strategy did you use to build momentum?
  • Who were your key players in the change process?
  • Did you undergo a significant milestone or turning point in the journey?
  • What is your most rewarding memory from your experience?
  • What advice would you give to people yet to embark on a similar journey?

You’ll come away from this compelling session with a guided action plan to take and immediately start to apply within your organisation.

The Power of Collaboration: Replicating Performance While Linking the Metrics and Payback!
Hunter Dean – The Human Performance and Behaviour Change Specialist and Author of “Replicating Expertise to Win”
This interactive workshop is a must for business unit heads, team leaders and high performers in sales, back office and production environments. You’ll learn the incredible value of collaboration to understand what your best people – ‘your experts’ – do. Hunter Dean will show you a simple process to replicate this expertise and, in most cases, create extraordinary gains in your organisation’s productivity. Hunter will use case studies of the highest performers in some of Australia’s biggest companies to highlight how they differ from their peers. You’ll discover the benefits and risks of working with your ‘internal experts’. You’ll realise that often the most precious people are already within your organisation.
Hunter will cover:

The Three Simple Steps to Success

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  • Recognise who your best people are
  • Roadmap what they do
  • Replicate them using leverage.

The Five Keys to Significant Results in Your Business

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  • Beliefs – how you can change them to significantly increase results
  • Language – the effect language has on building or destroying your business
  • Strengths and weaknesses – how knowing where you lack creates winners
  • Expectations – why you’d better have some and they’d better be high
  • Metrics – how linking everything back to metrics will help you win.

You’ll find out what you need to be able to map a high performer’s strategies, how to do this and who needs to be involved in the project for it to work.

Harness Individual Potential for Corporate Success (?)
Rik Schnabel – Australia’s No.1 Wholistic Wealth Coach, International Speaker and Author of ‘Life Beyond Limits: Infinity Belief’
Rik will discuss his role as a teacher in The Wheel Of Life a documentary film in the tradition of The Secret and What the Bleep. Based on the ancient concept of the Wheel Of Life, which represents the ever-changing cycle of all things, the film sheds light on how to achieve greater balance, fulfilment and peace in our lives today.
Passionate People = More Profit
Emmanuel Tsesmelis – Australia’s No.1 Passion Coach and Producer of ‘The Key’ Passion Program – Unlocking Your People’s

Passions to Increase Engagement, Retention, Productivity and Profit.
Is it a struggle getting your people to connect with your organisation’s vision? Do you find it impossible to get everyone working collaboratively toward the same outcomes? Are your people simply going through the motions rather than being passionate, engaged and committed to producing results?
This workshop will not only inspire you to create a culture of passion, productivity and success, it will also teach you on how to do it step-by-step.
Emmanuel will share with you:

• how to tap into your people’s passions to increase retention, productivity and profit
• the seven steps to creating engaged, committed and productive people
• how to communicate your vision and compel your people to accomplish it
• understand the six core needs that motivate your people to achieve the organisation’s mission
• collaboration – what it is, what it isn’t and how to instill this cooperative culture within your people

If you’re ready to create a collaborative, productive, engaged and passionate environment where your people are totally motivated to achieve the same outcomes you aspire to, are committed to your vision and absolutely love coming to work… the ‘Passionate People = More Profit’ workshop is for you.

Making your business m.a.d.

Melina Schamroth – m.a.d.woman, corporate social responsibility specialist and author of How to be m.a.d. (making a difference) and m.a.d. (making a difference) in a green way

Do you regularly receive requests for money and goods from charitable and community organisations? Do you want to make a difference in the community but are not sure how?
In this presentation, Melina will demonstrate ways your business can be m.a.d. (making a difference). She will discuss ways to make strategic decisions around corporate social responsibility for organisations of all sizes and industries, and show how tailored solutions can enable businesses to better contribute to their communities and help minimise their environmental impact.
You’ll learn how the benefits of strategic community programs and partnerships can include:

• improved staff morale and team work
• enhanced supplier and customer relationships
• a boost to media and c