This is for the business owner who wants to find out how to make their business sustainable and profitable.The conference will be run over two days being 21st and 22nd May 2010
The conference will cover the following areas:
- What your business needs to do to keep your business plan on track.
- What you need to do to keep your business profitable in a changing business landscape.
- What you need to know about additional compliance and reporting requirements.
- What the regulatory requirements are in running your business
- How you can market your business and target you clients.
- How to better serve your clients.
- How to cut your energy bills and carry out energy auditing.
- How to be part of the future of sustainable businesses.
- How government departments can help fund plans for changing your business to be part of the future of sustainable business.
Friday 21st May 2010
Mona Vale Memorial Hall
Registration 8:00 am for 8:45 am start
Morning Session:
8.45am to 9.15am - Keynote speaker address
9:25am to 1.30pm - "Sustainability Challenge". click to download PDF
1:30pm to 2.15pm - Lunch
2:15 pm to 4.15pm - Three SME companies that have already implemented sustainable practices. Each will discuss their approach to sustainability and the outcomes they have achieved to date and what the future holds. They will cover all areas of operation. There will also be government represent attendance to discuss ways they can help SME's.
4:15 pm to 5.30pm - After all presentations there will be a panel discussion which will include representatives from state and federal governments. This will be a moderated open discussion on the days events where attendees can discuss sustainable business.
Find out where you want your business to be with regard to sustainability. Educate, debate and model to define how your business can be more profitable through being greener and sustainable.
Evening function: to be held at the Mini Bar and restaurant next to conference venue
Saturday 22nd May 2010 - Start 9:00am finish 4.30pm
9.00am to 10.00am - How to add value to your bottom line through sustainable business practice. Two speakers will discuss what you need to do to reduce your energy overheads and what pay-back periods you can expect. The speakers will have extensive industry experience both in consulting and supply of product and services.
10.00am to 10.30am - How well do you project manage your business? See it through the eyes of a project manager and work through the processes of running your business as a well oiled machine. Look at the human elements of running a business and how well you manage your staff to obtain the best out them. Managing client expectations.
10.30am to 11.00am - After all presentations there will be a panel discussion. This will be a moderated open discussion session.
Morning coffee
11:15am to 1.00pm - Is you bank manager working for you? This section will be presented by the banking industry on how it is working with small business to improve the services to SME's. After presentations there will be a panel discussion.
1.00pm to 1.45pm - Lunch
1.45pm to 3.30pm - Educating your customers; having your customers sell for you. Three speakers with the experience to show different techniques to market your business and provide proven strategies.
3.30pm to 4.30pm - This session will be a mediated session where attendees of the conference can discuss different situations that occur in their business in an open forum with the panel of presenters and workshop attendees.
Who should be attending?
- All people in small to medium enterprises.
- All who want to find out ways to make their business more profitable, efficient, effective and one that fills their needs as a business owner.
- All who want to be with other businesses that have different approaches, which will help you learn new approaches to be successful and profitable.
- All businesses who want to find out about future requirements for business and reporting compliance.
- All who wish to be in a great place to network with positive motivated people that are like you
- All who wish to be in a place of learning that is fun.
There will also be trade displays by companies supplying products and services to business.
Costs for conference and dinner to be confirmed by the end of February 2010
If you are interested in attending or participating, please go to link below:
About People Newsletter
The next newsletter will be out at the end of February. "About People No.04" will change its format back to what it was originally intended.The April issue will focus on stories and articles about people and how, what where and when of people. It was felt that sustainability stories would be more appropriate to have a new newsletter called "Toward Sustainable Futures" with its first issue out end of March 2010. There will be some cross over with people who are running their business sustain ably and who have a personal story to tell.
Toward Sustainable Futures newsletter
As part of improving the information and the relevance of information, About People is now going to be to split into two newsletters.
"Toward Sustainable Futures" newsletter will focus on sustainability in business and people and will be solution focused. Stories and articles will not just be reporting the issues but also presenting the possible solutions.
About People newsletter will focus on great stories and articles of the people behind the business and people in our community. The stories are about how we connect with each other and the focus is on stories and articles that are positive, uplifting and solution focused.
The first issue of Toward Sustainable Futures will be published at the end of March and will be bi-monthly alternating with About People. At the end of the year there will a magazine of About People and Toward Sustainable Futures.
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