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Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Partners with Franklin Covey; Offering "7 Habits for Managers" Workshop
Attend this powerful FranklinCovey two-day workshop, April 29th - April 30th sponsored by the SBDC, and discover the same transforming principles that have led the world’s foremost business leaders to the professional and personal success they dreamed of. Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The... - April 11, 2008 - Small Business Development Center North San Diego County
Wild Alchemy Brings the Art of Branding to Life with BrandThinkTM
Wild Alchemy, announced it will deliver a BrandThinkTM workshop in Portland on Friday, April 25, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Riverplace Hotel (1510 SW Harbor Way). BrandThink shares innovative brand building, research and brief writing methodologies for marketing and branding professionals and advertising agency executives. The session includes in-depth case study illustrations from campaigns for clients including Miller High Life, Nike, Umpqua Bank and others. - April 11, 2008 - Wild Alchemy
t2’s Success with Welsh Flooring Company
Peter Evans Flooring Ltd. and t2 business solutions worked together for seven months to create 3 new jobs and increase turnover by £700k. Peter Evans Flooring offers a complete service for contract carpet and floor coverings for businesses. A family run business based in Barry, it was set up... - April 10, 2008 - t2 business solutions
McGrath Training Systems Supports Adoption of California Law Extending Sexual Misconduct Statute of Limitations
Mary Jo McGrath, investigative attorney and expert witness in cases of educator sexual misconduct, believes the California legislature must extend statute of limitation for educator sexual abuse to the alleged victim's 26th birthday. Current law allows school districts to benefit from their own negligence. - April 09, 2008 - McGrath Training Systems
TechBiz Connection Hosts Panel Discussion on Successful Strategies for Mergers and Acquisitions
TechBiz Connection (http://www.techbizconnection.org) will host a distinguished panel of local experts who will share their expertise in navigating a successful merger or acquisition at its monthly forum on Wednesday, April 16 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Calit2 at the University of California,... - April 09, 2008 - TechBiz Connection
Students Develop Entrepreneurial Skills
Extreme Success Summit provides stepping stone for the Nation’s Future Business Leaders. - April 09, 2008 - Extreme Success Society
Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Instructor Wins Consortium Fellowship
Janet Gold adds another award to her long list of accomplishments. - April 04, 2008 - The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Interior Design Instructor Wins Award in National Cooper Lighting Design Competition
Art Institute of Fort Lauderadle Jan Merle receives honor at Source Awards. - April 04, 2008 - The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Fashion, Photography, Interior Design and Industrial Design Career Event
Meet design pros and learn about what a day in their lives is all about before choosing a career. - April 04, 2008 - The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
WineAndHospitalityJobs.com Upgrades Their System for Connecting Employers and Job Seekers
Outside the Lines, Inc., operators of the popular industry job board WineAndHospitalityJobs.com, announced the addition of several new features to the job board, enhancing the functionality for both job seekers and employers. - April 03, 2008 - Community Cafe & Annex Wine Bar
National Career Options Week is April 7-14, 2008; Professional Stager Promotes Home Staging & Redesign as Hot New Careers
Does your current job make you want to throw in the towel, or at least call in sick? Interior Arrangements encourages those interesting in investigating a new career to use National Explore Your Career Options Week (April 7-14, 2008) as the perfect opportunity to explore what Entrepreneur Start Up... - April 02, 2008 - Interior Arrangements
E-Learning Fits Today’s Busy Senior Care Professional
Assisted living and nursing home administrators today have more tasks to juggle than ever before. Add to that the increasing requirements for continuing education, the high cost of fuel and lodging, and the result is many more administrators finding online, “e-learning” solutions to meet their continuing education unit (CEU) needs. - March 28, 2008 - EasyCEU.com
New Colorado Assisted Living Residence Owner/Operator Online Training Course Launched
Colorado Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (CAHSA) announced today the release of the first online training course approved by the state for new owners and operators of Assisted Living Residences in Colorado. Completion of this training is required by the state Department of Public Health and Environment Health Facilities to own and operate an assisted living residence in the state. This course marks the first time that the course has been available via the internet. - March 28, 2008 - EasyCEU.com
Delaware School and Government Officials Learn Effective Bullying Prevention and Intervention Strategies
Nearly all school districts in Delaware attend a half-day program to stop bullying and learn measures needed to comply with the new state anti-bullying law. Utica National Insurance Co. selected McGrath Training Systems, Santa Barbara, CA, to conduct the training because of its national reputation as the premier provider of legally fit and educationally sound compliance training for schools. - March 27, 2008 - McGrath Training Systems
High Impact Introductory Course Launches Next Month
Executive coaching is becoming a nationwide phenomenon and organisations throughout the country should not miss out on the benefits that accompany it. Training company, t2 business solutions, and reputed coaching company, Corporate and Executive Coaching Organisation (CECO), have teamed up to... - March 27, 2008 - t2 business solutions
ComputerTraining.com Launches New Microsoft Networking Technologies Program
In January 2008 ComputerTraining.com of Cleveland began the first class to train in their new “Microsoft Networking Technologies Program.” This enhanced program for the first time includes training on Microsoft Windows Vista. - March 26, 2008 - ComputerTraining.edu
Online Medical Coding Program Helps High School and GED Grads Earn Big
Online Career Advancement has developed a new 70% discounted program to help high school and GED graduates successfully pursue medical coding specialist national certification and get good paying jobs. The Certified Coding Associate (CCA) credential requires only a high school or GED diploma and average starting pay is about $35,000. - March 25, 2008 - Online Career Advancement
Winfree Business Growth Advisors’ Naperville Area Sales Training Center Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary
Christopher D. Bennett looks forward to celebrating the two-year anniversary of his Winfree Business Growth Advisors franchise — the premier sales training and small business advising and coaching organization in Chicago. - March 24, 2008 - Winfree Business Growth Advisors Results Guaranteed Chicago (Success Assured Inc.)
What It Takes to Become and Develop Great Business Leaders for Your Organization by Bristlecone Learning
Being a successful leader is more than being the best in your field, Bristlecone Learning will present a thought provoking program on Executive Leadership at the Morrisville Chamber on April 2, 2008. - March 22, 2008 - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group
Obtaining Financial Security Through Smart Investments Explained in The Real Estate Coach
Multimillionaire Founder of ActionCOACH Outlines Rules of Investing in Real Estate to Become Financially Successful. - March 20, 2008 - ActionCOACH
Los Angeles Life Coach Finds Wider Audience; Launches Group Bootcamp for Your Mind
With a fast-growing base of clients and fans, as well as features on The Learning Channel and ABC-TV, Amy Applebaum is a life coach who is quickly transforming herself into a well-recognized brand. With a forthcoming book, and her own TV show in the works for 2008, soon there won’t be many... - March 19, 2008 - Bootcamp For Your Mind
MindTools.com Announces Launch of New Online Media Press Room
Now the Press Room for Mind Tools, the most visited career skills site on the Internet, makes it easy for reporters to find special topics of interest for business news, features and columns. - March 17, 2008 - Mind Tools Ltd
Online Business Incubator Gives Solopreneurs Step-by-Step Guidance
San Antonio-based business development firm, Completely Virtual Group, announced the launch of its new online business incubator. - March 17, 2008 - Completely Virtual Group
Capital Style Luxury Transportation Chooses Dancing Elephants for Sales Training
Capital Style Luxury Transportation chooses Dancing Elephants Achievement Group for training of their sales and executive team. Dancing Elephants was chosen based on their focus on ethics and sound sales fundamentals. - March 16, 2008 - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group
"Speak With Power" - Chicagoland Coaching Firm Enerpace, Inc. Announces "Communication Pyramid" Approach to Enhance Speaking Effectiveness
Enerpace, Inc. will be presenting “Speak With Power” on Saturday, April 5th. This workshop is appropriate for all voice professionals – not just actors and singers. Anyone who needs to speak for their career or business can benefit from enhancing their vocal image. - March 15, 2008 - Enerpace Executive and Personal Coaching
Ajay Aggarwal - Modern Retailing
www.ajayaggarwal.com is a new initiative which addresses the shortage of professional retail skills in the modern Indian retail industry. Modern retail is changing lives at many levels. It is evident that consumers now have far more choices than previously, but more importantly the revolution in... - March 15, 2008 - Ajay Aggarwal
TechBiz Connection Hosts CEO Roundtable on Managing Business Growth in Early Stage Companies
TechBiz Connection (http://www.techbizconnection.org) will host a distinguished panel of local chief executive officers who will discuss how to manage growth in early stage companies at its monthly forum on Wednesday, March 19 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Calit2 at the University of California,... - March 14, 2008 - TechBiz Connection
InfoSource Learning Launches New Award Winning Soft Skills Library
InfoSource Learning, a leader in self-paced Web-based training solutions, announced today the launch of its new Soft Skills Library. Created using a unique model developed with the end user in mind to ensure skills are highly targeted, this interactive training is Flash-based and includes numerous... - March 13, 2008 - InfoSource Learning
Creating Buzz to Attract Dollars: Brad Sugars Releases Instant Promotions
Multimillionaire Founder of ActionCOACH Explains Keys to Crafting Smart Promotional Campaigns. - March 13, 2008 - ActionCOACH
Working On—Not in—Your Business: Brad Sugars Reveals How in Instant Systems
Multimillionaire Founder of ActionCOACH Explains Keys to Creating a Business that Works without its Owner. - March 12, 2008 - ActionCOACH
Directors Could Risk Imprisonment if Not Prepared for New Laws
Directors nationwide are at risk of imprisonment unless they are familiar with the new Corporate Manslaughter Act, coming into force in next month. The new act resolves problems in the present law in which organisations can only be convicted of manslaughter if a senior manager or director is... - March 12, 2008 - t2 business solutions
Firebrand Training Already Has 1,000 Qualified PRINCE2 Students
In the past two years 1,000 people have qualified in PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) project management method with Accelerated Learning company Firebrand Training. PRINCE2 is the leading project management method in the UK. - March 12, 2008 - Firebrand Training
APICS Toledo Seminar on the Purchasing Knowledge Revolution
Supply Chain and Operations professions are in the midst of a revolution, a knowledge revolution powered by the Internet. Professionals, who embrace it, gain a clear competitive advantage. - March 10, 2008 - Toledo APICS
Coaching for Commitment: “It Will Revolutionize the Way You Think About Coaching”
Cindy Coe, President of InsideOut Discovery™, Inc. (IOD) an international executive coaching and consulting firm based in Pueblo West, Colorado, today announced the much anticipated release of Coaching for Commitment: Achieving Superior Performance from Individuals and teams (Ed. 3) by John Wiley & Sons Publishers. - March 08, 2008 - InsideOut Discovery, Inc.
Multimillionaire Founder of ActionCOACH Drives Success with "Billionaire in Training"
McGraw-Hill Title Anchors Sugars’ 14th Book in “Instant Success Series” Best-Selling Books Prove Effective Guides to Business and Financial Success - March 08, 2008 - ActionCOACH
Personal Profiling (Psychometrics) as a Useful Tool in Professional Management Development
Businesses increasingly use psychometric testing, also known as personality profiling as part of professional development. It provides a greater understanding of how people relate to each other within an organisation. - March 08, 2008 - Mind Gliding, Ltd.
Use Existing Customers to Market Your Business: Brad Sugars Shares Expertise in Instant Referrals
Multimillionaire Founder of ActionCOACH Explains the Keys to Generating New and Repeat Business as part of “Instant Success Series” - March 08, 2008 - ActionCOACH
Repeat Business Equals Profit: Brad Sugars Reveals Techniques for Instant Repeat Business
Multimillionaire Founder of ActionCOACH Explains How to Turn Existing Customers into Repeat Business and “Raving Fans” - March 08, 2008 - ActionCOACH
Entrée Vous Finds Success Sponsoring Dancing Elephants’ Final Friday Forum
Entrée Vous sponsored Dancing Elephants’ Final Friday Forum for February 2008 and distributed their dining fare to everyone in attendance, a crowd of approximately 80 small business owners and sales professionals. - March 07, 2008 - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group
ITIL Benchmarks and ROI Research Study
A research study released today by Glomark-Governan research analysts identified several key benchmarks from companies that have implemented ITIL version 2 processes. These benchmarks include: a reduction in overall IT department operational costs of 6%-13%; a reduction in help desk calls of... - March 07, 2008 - Glomark-Governan
Cutter Summit Explores Business-IT Success in a Slowing Economy
Business-IT leaders find themselves caught between a slowing economy and and ever-accelerating technology. Cutter Summit 2008, 5-7 May 2008 in Cambridge, MA addresses success despite these challenges. - March 06, 2008 - Cutter Consortium
IT Buyers and Vendors Implement ROI Tools and Solutions
In addition to several orders received during the first quarter of 2008 from existing clients, including Ashland Inc., EDS Mexico, and CA, Glomark-Governan is pleased to announce recent orders from new clients including: TATA Consultancy Services, IRIDE, and Microsoft Spain. “While new... - March 06, 2008 - Glomark-Governan
New Findings: The Benefits, Costs, and Risks of It Mobility Research Study
A research study released today by Glomark-Governan research analysts indicates that two of the largest economic benefits that companies can realize from implementing an IT Mobility initiative are Improved Employee Productivity and Increased Revenue from Increased Customer Attention. The two main... - March 05, 2008 - Glomark-Governan
Cold Calling Seminar Presented by Dancing Elephants
Deidre Hughey, partner of Dancing Elephants Achievement Group, will present “Cold Calling…for People Who Hate to Cold Call!” at the Cary Chamber of Commerce on Mar. 12, 2008. - March 05, 2008 - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group
Professional Networks, Headquartered in Greenville, SC Hires Three to Their Management Team
Professional Network Connections hires four to their Network Management Team. Jon Grandrath as Sales Manager for Charleston through Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Ted Hackett as Tennessee State Director, Dawoud Charles as the Georgia State Director, and Myndi Ziemann as Sales Manager for the Jacksonville, Florida area. - March 04, 2008 - Professional Network Connections
Professional Network Connections Launches in Delaware
Professional Network Connections, the newest business networking organization, is launching in Delaware, Florida, and Tennessee during the month of March. Professional Network Connections was founded by Debbie Griffith-Brown in Greenville, South Carolina over three years ago. It was built on four... - March 04, 2008 - Professional Network Connections
Operational Excellence Seminar to be Held in Cleveland, Ohio
An operational excellence training event will be held by Process Coaching Incorporated. This event, which teaches participants how to use lean tools, will be conducted on Sept 24 and 25, 2008 at the Airport Hilton Garden Inn in Cleveland, Ohio. It is designed for engineers, executives, managers and... - March 03, 2008 - Process Coaching Incorporated
Lean Training Seminar to be Held in Toledo, Ohio
Process Coaching Incorporated will be conducting a two day training event on Operational Excellence in Toledo, Ohio on OCt 22 and 23. This event is designed for executives, managers, supervisors, and engineers for manufacturing and service companies. - March 03, 2008 - Process Coaching Incorporated
The Risk and ROI of ERP Implementations
A research study released today by Glomark-Governan research analysts shows how executives can reduce their exposure to economic risk, and increase the probability of achieving the desired economic outcome and Return-on-Investment (ROI) of any ERP initiative. Today, when either investing in a new... - March 02, 2008 - Glomark-Governan
Jones Logic Creates New Decision Implementation Internet Service
Jones Logic presents Interactive Requirements, a real-time Internet service that supports business decision makers. The Company's mission is to make Interactive Requirements the most effective means to collaboratively capture, document, and disseminate business decisions for organizations of any size. - March 01, 2008 - Jones Logic, LLC