Barb speaks to audiences of business owners who are looking to address challenges in reaching their business goals. Both speaking events and workshops delivered by Barb provide a unique, hands-on understanding of entrepreneurship that develops key skills to help audiences to reach their target objectives. With big-picture thinking, Barb helps her audiences understand what it will really take to reach their biggest goals and breaks it down so they can make it happen easily.
Topics
Strategic Development for EXIT Readiness (For Entrepreneurs and employees of small business)
Format: 45 minutes – 3 Hour [training, webinar, live video, or as a facilitated workshop]
This program is perfect for:
- Entrepreneurs wanting to answer the question, “what does succession look like for me in my business?”
- Employees of small businesses that know how much the owner works and wonder, “what will happen when they decide to leave?”
The audience will leave with
- The key elements of a great readiness plan and how important it is to get your entire team in on the process.
- How to use evaluation to get started and to stay on track.
- What change will look like during your transition
During this presentation the participants will learn: The process to evaluate where the business is now, what actually needs to change, and how to go about the change. This will also include insights into the pitfalls of change and how to monitor great change, throughout the entire business.
In this presentation, your audience will learn why they need and EXIT plan and what is in the plan.
What Meeting Planners have said, “Barb provided useful information which [our members] could use immediately no matter what stage of business growth they were in.” J.O. Program Coordinator, Professional Organizers Toronto Chapter
Responsible Succession: How to get others to do the work as well as you (for Business Owners)
Format: 45 minute to 3 Hour – training, webinar, live video, or facilitated activities.
What Meeting Planners have said, “Barb provided useful information which [our members] could use immediately no matter what stage of business growth they were in.” J.O. Program Coordinator, Professional Organizers Toronto Chapter Format: 45 minutes – 3 Hour, or 1 Day – training, webinar, live video, or as a facilitated workshop.
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Entrepreneurs, business founders, and small business owners
If your audience believes working harder at what they’re already doing will grow your business, they’re probably WRONG. According to the Financial Performance Data from Canadian Industry Statistics, the average Canadian business is not sustainable and has annual profits of only $42,000 per year.
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Tools to identify their specific roles and responsibilities.
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The knowledge to ensure they are working in alignment with their passion and purpose.
What Meeting Planners have said, “Barb is a true professional and brings an incredible amount of knowledge to her speaking engagements.” M.M. Founder, H.U.B. Inc
Strategic Development Day for EXIT Readiness (For Business Owners & their teams)
Format: 1 Day for small business owner and their teams. Audience:
Are you an entrepreneur looking for ways to strategically add value to your business and create a real plan that is specific to your business needs? This training facilitates an EXIT readiness plan to create a business that can run successfully without the business owner always needed to control everything.
The process to evaluate where you are now, what actually needs to change and how to go about the change, including insights into the pitfalls of change and how to monitor great change, for you and your team.
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Evaluate Owner control and needs
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Identify roles and responsibilities of the team
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Discuss the change needed
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Decide on the plan and responsibilities within the plan
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commit to your next steps
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learn accountability tools to help you stay on track
What Clients have said: I was so pleased with the amount of value. I found I needed to make changes to my business structure to start, which saved me about $23,000 a year. My biggest discovery was the support systems and resources I already had in place and was not taking advantage of. By getting my team read-in to the plan early, together, we were able to see the big downfalls that were coming and avoid them. EF 2023
Strategies to Control Your Calendar and Get More (for Business Owners & Management)
Format: 45 minute to 3 Hour – training, webinar, live video, or facilitated activities.
Being busy is not the same as being productive. Getting everything done is not the same as getting everything done well. For people like us that are interested in being successful, we are busy. Sometimes this means we don’t get to things we should or we do get to everything but it affects us personally, showing up in relationships, health, and stress. Add in our responsibilities to others and their expectations of us and we can start to feel like there simply is not enough time. And you would be right.
How do you do all the things you want to do and need to do and continue to do it well? That is what this presentation is about. Learning how to define the system to maintain the workload, the rules that keeps you on track, and the language that helps you be comfortable saying yes (or no) to the work.
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Learn the system, rules, and language of being in control of your time.
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Set your boundaries and take control of your calendar.
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Feel great about saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the work.
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Create a To-Do list that allows you to know you can get it all done.
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Understand better when you will need more help so you can charge accordingly
What Meeting Planners have said, “Barb is a true professional and brings an incredible amount of knowledge to her speaking engagements.” M.M. Founder, H.U.B. Inc
What Clients have said: “An amazing day of breakthrough information and new pricing models. It’s been beyond great. This will take my business to a whole new, much more manageable level.” Cathleen Fillmore, Speakers Gold
