Vistas Blog Archive
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- January 2010 (7)
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- July 2010 (14)
Managing
Focus On Your Vision: Bring Your Future Into Laser Focus!
| Date/Time | Wednesday, June 30, 1pm - 2pm ET |
First envision it, then make it happen. In this free online seminar, you and core team members will develop a common vision, firmly rooted in the values of your organization, and the tools to implement it, whether you are a business or a nonprofit. (Yes, vision, motivation, and leadership are common to both.)
Focus on encouraging collaboration and active participation by all levels of the organization. "Visioning" fosters increased ownership by team members, which increases the likelihood that you'll achieve your goals. After all, if you don't all know where you're going, how can you all pull in the same direction? Being part of the team and clear on its vision will improve staff productivity, morale, and motivation so you'll all be able to pull together to meet challenges.
In this free webinar, you and your core team members will learn to:
If you’re serious about making some real headway for your team as the economy rebounds, gather your core team members in the conference room and get energized, focused, and motivated to grow. | |
Giving and Receiving Feedback for Nonprofit Leaders, Consultants, and Small Business Owners
| Instructor | Laura Jacob, President, Pro Way Development Laura Jacob is the President of Pro Way Development based in Stamford, CT. Pro Way helps businesses develop human resource strategies, a plan to hire, manage, and motivate employees. Organizations can maximize their human capital by establishing sound human resource practices that include recruiting, on-boarding, employee relations and retention, and employee development.  |
| Date | May 11, 2010 |
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Feedback has been described as the “breakfast of champions,” but does the thought of receiving it make you lose your appetite? Join us to learn how to give and receive feedback effectively. When you're the head honcho such as a small business owner or nonprofit executive director, you may know how to give feedback, but do you know how ask for and listen to feedback from your clients? From your staff? From consultants you hired to do just that? And are you sure that the feedback you give to employees is constructive? In this webinar, you'll learn:
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Declaring and Executing an Order of Magnitude Future For Your Business
| Instructor | Jeff Silbert, Managing Director and Founder, Order of Magnitude Group Jeff Silbert is an expert in helping CEOs and owners radically increase shareholder value by inspiring them to take action in Declaring and Executing a conscious future that is much more exciting and valuable than their current unconscious path. Jeff brings over 20 years of field proven experience focused on increasing revenue, building brands, forging alliances, and dramatically increasing shareholder value for technology, media, web, and professional service firms.
As a speaker, Jeff always leads with actionable content that leaves his audiences committed to declaring a more valuable and specific future along with the actions required to make it happen.
Jeff is an active writer on the subject of value creation via his own blog, Order of Magnitude CEOs, as well as a biweekly blog entitled The CEO’s Ear for The New York Enterprise Report.
Jeff, who lives in Holmdel NJ with his wife and two daughters, received his MBA from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.  |
| Date | March 8, 2010 |
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Wouldn’t it be great if you knew today with certainty that the value of your business in three years had grown by 10 times today’s value? The one catch (there’s always a catch): you had to spend a portion of your day/week/month working on making sure that future happened.
Would you do it?
Dramatically increasing the value of your business doesn’t happen by accident and it doesn’t happen if as the CEO or owner you are spending time on only the urgent and tactical as opposed to making sure the future you design happens.
In this FREE webinar, Order of Magnitude Group Managing Director and Founder, Jeff Silbert, outlines in depth a thought provoking approach for ambitious CEOs and owners to achieve game changing valuation growth for their business. Jeff provides an iterative process for designing an Order of Magnitude future that starts with creating an initial 3 Year Order of Magnitude Business Snapshot so that in three years the business is valued 10 times more than it is today - 1 Order of Magnitude (OoM).
Attendees will leave the session with:
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Focus All Spending On Your Mission and Increase Success
| Instructor | Randy Joy Epstein, CPA, Founder, Randy Joy Consulting Randy Joy Epstein helps her exceptional clients build extraordinary companies by utilizing all their financial resources and energy to fulfill their personal and businesses missions. Ms. Epstein is a business expert who writes and speaks on entrepreneurship, business planning, systems creation and building financial independence. Prior to starting her own company, Ms. Epstein worked for a startup .com which was sold for $125 million and for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she worked with entrepreneurial, real estate, and technology companies ranging from Fortune 500 clients to startups.
Ms. Epstein’s current and prior boards, committees and affiliations include WNED’s PBS/NPR stations, the Wharton Club, IREM, CCIM, Steinhardt Heritage Center and NAWBO.
Ms. Epstein holds her CPA license in New York, graduated from the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Buffalo, and holds her degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Business.  |
| Date | January 27, 2010 |
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Some businesses are like wishing wells. Money and time gets tossed in with vague wishes for success. By first clarifying what your want and defining your mission you will be well positioned to make intelligent financial decisions to use all your money and energy to fulfill that mission. This free webinar will teach you how to make each dollar and minute count. By helping you build a great, intelligent business you will attract customers, investors, partners, and employees to your business. After all, everyone wants to be associated with success.
When every dollar and moment is spent to fulfill a company’s mission the success of that mission is imminent.
Learn how to do it today, by signing up for this course. | |
Effective Strategies for Screening/Interviewing the Highest Quality Applicants
| Instructor | Leslie Pankowski, Marketing & Recruitment Consultant Leslie is a consultant on marketing and recruitment strategies for non-profits and small businesses. She has taught Marketing for Marymount University. Leslie has led the recruitment efforts of nationally-recognized non-profit which recruits hundreds of candidates each year. She has a B.S. in Marketing from Syracuse University and an MBA in Human Capital and Marketing from the University of Maryland.  |
| Date | October 7, 2009 |
| Time | 1 hour |
The recession has resulted in a flood of applications for each advertised position. With so many applicants to choose from, how do you insure you are interviewing and the highest quality candidates?
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