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Breaking the Ice: How to Meet More People, Do More Business and MAKE MORE MONEY!
The easiest way to grow your business is to meet and develop new relationships with people every single day. Unfortunately, most people have NO idea how relationships are started or what it takes to nurture and grow them.
In this interactive, informative, and fun-filled program, you will learn how to become more comfortable, confident and successful when meeting people and creating relationships with them. You will learn:
- What it takes to INSTANTLY create relationships with people
- How to walk up to just about anyone and make a great introduction
- The art of starting engaging conversations with everyone you meet
- AND SO MUCH MORE
Jump Starting your Success Attitude: How to INSTANTLY Improve Your Attitude so You Can Start Succeeding Today
Imagine being able to hear something today and be able to use it tomorrow to help you close more sales, develop better relationships with those around you and start loving the life you’re living? Well, this program will do all of that and so much more!
In this interactive, fun-filled, and amazingly fast-paced program, you will learn tips, tricks and techniques to help create an attitude that can withstand even the toughest of situations and the most caustic of people. You will learn how to:
- Improve your attitude in 30 seconds or less
- Maintain a positive, upbeat attitude throughout your entire day
- Deal positively with the negative people in your life
- Take back TOTAL control of your life
- AND SO MUCH MORE
Upping the Ante: The Next Generation of Banquet Dining
In this session, you will learn about current and future food & beverage trends, as well as how to communicate more efficiently with your chef to ensure a creative and tasty menu.
High Productivity On-Site Meeting Management
You have completed the pre-planning process . . . Now learn new methods and strategies to greatly increase effectiveness and productivity to your on-site meeting management.
Learner Outcomes
- How to efficiently set-up your on-site office (key components to assure success)
- Planning and procedures for your hotel pre & post conference meetings
- Set-up effective communications and reporting system with all hotel departments and outside suppliers and vendors
- Your all important handouts: ship, store, schedule & deliver
- The “Care & Feeding” of your VIP’s and speakers
- Food and beverage guarantees/hosted bar inventory (to boost your bottom line)
- BEO’s: Plan, review and manage the overall BEO process
- Power Accounting: Setting-up master accounts, daily hotel accounting, simplify the reconciliation (and accuracy) process
- Preparation of staff binders/scheduling your staff to work as a team
- Your action plan for success (including systems, procedures, forms and checklists)
TGIM (Thank Goodness It's Monday): how to get your team to love their jobs and go the extra mile
This fast-paced, content-packed, humor-laced session shows you how to reduce employee turn-over, increase employee productivity and enhance employee morale. The program is based on the premise that happy, turned-on employees provide the best service to customers and performance on the job. TGIM gives you easy-to-use tools to help you motivate your employees to be those happy, turned on service providers and performers.You will learn how to get the most from your team by:
* Applying the 12 critical factors that effect motivation
* Stretching your trust level to help your team grow
* Identifying what makes each individual strive to exceed herself or himself
* Giving your team members a therapeutic taste of terror for which they will thank you
* Lifting your team's sights while expanding your own
PARS, BIRDIES and DOUBLE BOGEYS - The fun and facts of maximizing event potential, changes and opportunities
Speaker Bios
Dave Sherman
Dave Sherman considers himself one of the luckiest men alive. He has found a way to make a living by showing organizations how to experience more fun, laughs and smiles, while reaching more success than they ever thought was possible.
Dave has founded two great companies. He is the chief attitude officer for Attitude Check.com, a company dedicated to helping corporations, associations, and just about everybody else develop and maintain a positive and upbeat attitude.
He is also a professional icebreaker for Connection Pros, an organization that inspires people to be more comfortable, more confident and more successful when creating and developing relationships with others. He is the best selling author of 50 TOP TIPS, A Simple Guide to Networking Success, Breaking the Ice - 306 Great Conversation Starters, Elevating Your Elevator Speech, A Powerful Way to Answer the Question, "What do you do?" as well as numerous other programs.
Paul Carter
Paul Carter is the Executive Chef at The Phoenician. According to Carter, “Perfecting simplicity” is the essence to great food. Chef Carter’s worldwide background has provided him with a culinary expertise that far exceeds his 17 years of cooking. His love affair with the kitchen dates back to his early teens. A native of London, Carter attended Colchester Institute of Culinary Arts in Essex, at the young age of 15. Upon earning a three-year culinary degree, he began his cooking career at the Hotel Sonnenhügel in Bad Kissingham, Germany where he held the title of Commis de Cuisine. He later served in the same capacity at Chateau de Montreil in France for three years. After rising through the ranks in the kitchens, he moved to the venerable Connaught Hotel in London. In 1992, Carter moved to the United States to head up kitchens at world-class resorts. Prior to joining The Phoenician, he was Executive Chef at the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland, Ohio.
Jennifer W. Brown
Jennifer W. Brown, CMP is a Partner at Meeting Sites Resource, a global specialist in meeting site research and hotel/contract negotiations. MSR also offers full-service planning and Staff On-Site (SOS) for professional on-site meeting management/logistics support. Corporate offices are in Irvine, California with satellite offices located in San Diego, Long Beach, Palm Desert, Kansas City, New York and Dallas. The company services over 300 meetings annually. Jennifer was formerly Director of the Meeting Services Department for Price Waterhouse LLP for 15 years, and was responsible for more than 150 conferences, training and management meetings annually. She has contributed to articles in major trade publications, has presented workshops for the past seven years for the Hyatt Basics meeting-planning curriculum, is a faculty member of Meeting Professionals International and NYU and was selected by MPI to serve as an educator for the Platinum Series Workshops.
Jennifer has been a member of MPI for 21 years and is past president of the Southern California Chapter. Jennifer was selected by MPI as one of 10 goodwill ambassadors to travel to Singapore and Japan and participate in the MPI Asia Forum. She earned her CMP in 1992 and has won such awards as MPI’s Planner of the Year in 1987 and was a recognition recipient of MPI’s Global Paragon Award in 1997. She is a graduate of Woodbury University with a BS degree in Business Administration.
Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson delivers fresh insights and practical "how to's" for leading change, retaining customers, and developing effective work relationships. His clients include Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Nordstrom Department Stores, American Express, United States Telecom Association, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Lloyds of London, Tektronix, the HON Company, and the American Medical Association.
Larry was awarded the City of Phoenix Award of Excellence for designing and implementing that city's team based quality improvement program. This program was featured in a PBS televised documentary by Tom Peters (co-author of In Search of Excellence). Since 1986, Larry has presented to more than 3000 audiences in every state in the Union, as well as in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. Larry was the #1 ranked speaker at the Inc. Magazine Workforce 2000 Conference. He has been invited to speak at eight International Customer Service Association Conferences.
Peter Longo
A world-class golf trick shot artist since 1979, a veteran of over 2,500 exhibitions worldwide and known as “The King of Clubs,” Peter Longo connects with any audience - hitting incredible shots, joking with the guests, and shaking hands with everyone. Peter Longo has earned a reputation for keeping things fresh and lively, both on the exhibition tee as well as behind the banquet microphone. Realizing many events require more than just a golf exhibition, Peter Longo’s versatility is showcased behind the microphone with his clever story telling and customized presentations. The Peter Longo Golf Show is a quick paced, fun filled hour of golf; as a former PGA Tour player, master teacher, and show business entertainer, Peter Longo amazes and amuses audiences with his creative trick shot spectacular. Peter Longo also enhances the day on the course, performing a “Beat the Pro” or other type of fun activity. After golf, Peter Longo is a highly skilled banquet speaker and emcee and completes the day with laughs and applause at the microphone.... |
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