About People
This site is about people; people like you and me, the future and the possibilities of our potential.To think outside the box to take the seemingly impossible and make it possible to create the
futures we desire.
This site is about providing a resource to help create the change that will be our future.
Join us on the journey "About People" moving "Toward Sustainable Futures"
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 representivesin attendance to dicuss ways they can help SME's.
4:15 pm to 5.30pm - After all presentations there will be a panel dicussion which will include representatives from state and federal govenments. This will be a moderated open dicussioin on the days events where attendees can dicuss 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 confenernce 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 dicuss 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 dicussion. This will be a moderated open dicussion 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 impove 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 stratgies.
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 suppling 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:
Sustainability Awards for Sydney
Ian Cleland was a judge on Pittwater's sustainability awards in October this year and he is now looking into what interest there is by councils across Sydney having a city sustainability awards. This would involve individual councils running their own awards then having city awards following on from the individual council wards. This could follow into a state then a national wards, maybe.
The whole idea behind this is to engage local communities and give the opportunity for the individual to be involved in sustainability in areas of landscaping, building/built environment and business. This would also speed up the process of integrating sustainability into the whole of society. This is an idea and like all ideas it will require a lot of effort and money to get it of the ground.
"Keep Australia Beutiful has a Sustainable Cities Awards whose focus is on community and councils. Last years winner of the Sustainable City Awards was Canada Bay Council.
What "About People" is proposing are individual awards in local council areas. We have to move away from governments being the recipiant of awards to individuals or community groups. Could even be the like the Australian Honours awards and have the Australian Sustainability Honours Awards for individuals and community groups.
As Bill McDonough says, the thrill is not "getting to zero waste, but in unleashing creativity through a new vision of abundance."
Become part of the solution not the problem
Moving "Toward Sustainable Futures"
Watch for future seminars & workshops in 2010
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