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Professional and Business Development


The programs described below are designed to sharpen business skills, including those necessary to grow a small business.

Professional Development Series

 Area academics and consultants share updates on current best practices and innovations in business. Winter 2012  programs include:

       Effective Use of Power and Influence
       Thursday, January 12   Noon,    CX South

         For details and to register, click here.

       It's Not Just What You Say, It's HOW You Say It
       Thursday, January 26     Noon    CX South

         For details and to register, click here.

      Women & Leadership: You Can't Kill All the Men
      Friday, February 3      11:45 a.m.   CX Downtown

        For details and to register, click here.

      What is EQ and Why Does It Matter to My Success?
      Tuesday, March 6        11:45 a.m.   CX Downtown

        For details and to register, click here.

Working ON - Not IN - Your Business

This series focuses on the challenges business owners face as they decide whether - and how - to take their companies to the next level. Watch the calender for monthly programs in this series.

The Leadership Forum

The Leadership Forum offers interactive meetings to resolve real life, real time leadership issues. Participants have leadership roles in organizations or are responsible for getting results through the efforts of others. Each month, participants select discussion topics or meet with guest speakers on specific issues.

Meets: 7:30 a.m., First Tuesday of month / CX South
Facilitator: Donna Craig, Leadership Resources

Toastmasters

In a supportive environment, Central Exchange members learn to become more effective communicators by presenting prepared speeches, giving impromptu speeches and offering and receiving constructive evaluations.

Meets: 11:45 a.m., Second Tuesdays of the month / CX Downtown. 
Noon, Fourth Tuesdays of month / CX South

Marketing Roundtable

If the day-to-day job of running your business gets in the way of making more money or bringing in more clients, the Marketing Roundtable will empower you to think outside the box. The group is designed for entrepreneurs, independent sales professionals, and independent commissioned contractors. So if you feel stuck in a marketing rut, aren’t sure if you have the right marketing mix, need to bounce some ideas or need accountability for your actions, the Marketing Roundtable will provide the support you need.

Meets: 7:30 a.m., first Wednesday of month / CX South
8:00 a.m., fourth Thursday of month/Downtown
Facilitated by: Sherri Becker

Business Collaboration Network

With the current economic climate keeping us guessing, you need to have the right tools to stay afloat.  The Business Collaboration network focuses on how prospecting trends change and how to keep our toolkit up to date.  We also network with other CX members for great resources and referral partners!  Each month we’ll look at different prospecting methods and discuss how to effectively implement what we learn.  Come join us for great information and better connections!
Meets: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., third Friday of month/CX South
Facilitated by: Breandan Filbert

Social Media Users Group

Are you engaged in social media activities to build your personal or company brand and/or influence? Do you blog, use Facebook, Twitter, or You-Tube and want to keep up with the latest technologies and best practices? This group is a forum for sharing expertise, case histories and best practices among those who are using social media (or want to use social media) as an influence tool for their expertise, products, services, cause and/or company.
Meets: Third Thursday of the month, 8:00 a.m. at alternating CX locations.
Facilitators: Janis Jones and Jennifer Peek

 


 
 
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