Talk: Leading You and Your Business to Peak Performance

• The Essence of Leadership
• Formula for Success
• Importance of Attitude
• Turning Solutions into Actions

If you’re a business owner looking to enhance your business with great leadership strategies, you won’t want to miss this event. Rick will discuss ideas that can improve your leadership style to benefit the entire organization.

About Rick Lochner:

Rick Lochner started RPC Leadership Associates, Inc. after nearly 30 years of Management and Executive Leadership experience in a variety of service industries. As a graduate of West Point, Rick immediately saw first hand results of effective leadership leading soldiers in environments as extreme as the interior of Alaska to the front-lines of Germany. Following, he has effectively led organizations through organizational change in a wide variety of industries. Rick holds an MS and MBA, and serves as a Senior Adjunct Faulty member at Keller Graduate School of Management where he teaches Leadership, Organizational Behavior and Managing Organizational Change.

Join us on Thursday, August 1st for the opportunity to network with other business leaders in and around the Naperville area. We look forward to you joining us for breakfast, networking, and an opportunity to grow your business with our guest speaker, Rick Lochner.

Date And Time

Thursday, August 1, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT

Location

Naperville Public Library 95th Street Library
3015 Cedar Glade Road, Room A
Naperville, IL 60564 (View Map)

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

*No refunds on monthly meetings or transfers to other events.*

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OutThink – OutMarket – OutSell Your Competition
(6) Strategies to Double Revenues

During Scott’s presentation, you will walk away with new strategies that will help any business owner with getting new clients, closing more business, being more productive; while ultimately separating themselves from their competition. If you’re a business owner looking to grow your business, this is a can’t miss event! Scott will also be giving away some gifts to select attendees.

About Scott Hansen:

As a business strategist, Scott Hansen helps business owners increase sales, get booked solid with clients, double their revenues, break through barriers, and become high performers.

His work has been seen in Entrepreneur magazine, NBC, FOX, CBS, Forbes, Inc, and Business Innovators. He is also a nationally recognized speaker, best-selling author, and the host of one of the top business/Entrepreneurial podcasts on iTunes listened to in multiple countries. In addition, Six Figure Coach Magazine has labeled Scott as one of the top business coaches in the country to follow.

Join us on Thursday, July 11th for the opportunity to network with other business leaders in and around the Naperville area. We look forward to you joining us for breakfast, networking, and an opportunity to grow your business with our guest speaker, Scott Hansen.

Date And Time

Thursday, June 11, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST

Location

Naperville Public Library 95th Street Library
3015 Cedar Glade Road
Room A
Naperville, IL 60564
View Map

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

*No refunds on monthly meetings or transfers to other events.*

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As business owners, we all carry a lot of stress and it overflows into our health and personal lives. Audrey will talk to us about different techniques and exercises to reduce this stress and ultimately save our lives.

Stress: How You Can Effectively Decrease the Effects of Stress in Your Life

When you understand what causes stress in your life you can start to use different techniques that will in time minimize it all together. Leaving you with a healthier more productive life.

Key Takeaways:

• What is your stress level and triggers
• Breathing techniques
• Techniques for managing stress
• Brain training exercises to minimize the stress in your life

About Audrey Weidman:

https://www.audreyweidman.com/

We hope that you can join us and other leaders in our area on June 6th. Join us for our monthly event, networking, and of course our guest speaker Audrey Weidman. Learn some tips to grow your business and make connections with other business leaders. We look forward to meeting you.

Date And Time

Thursday, June 6, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST

Location

Naperville Public Library 95th Street Library
3015 Cedar Glade Road
Room A
Naperville, IL 60564
View Map

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

*No refunds on monthly meetings or transfers to other events.*

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Change the Direction of Your Connection

When you understand personalities, you communicate with far greater influence and move your audience from resistance to action.

Whether you’re trying to motivate your team or influence potential customers to buy from you, understanding behaviors helps you speak the right language and get the results you want.

In this keynote, learn how to:

• Understand the differences between the 4 personality styles
• Identify your own style
• Spot cues to identify the styles of others
• Use communication techniques that improve your influence with your audience

About Marianne Renner:

Marianne Renner is a transformational leadership coach and keynote speaker. She has inspired hundreds of leaders to move from chaos to clarity and become all they were meant to become.

Marianne understands the importance of setting goals and having a clear plan to reach those goals. She has owned two businesses, founded a not-for-profit organization for at-risk youths, and was a bodybuilding champion and highly sought-after fitness instructor, having led two youth dance teams to win Gold Medals in the National Junior Olympics. Visit her website at: www.MarianneRenner.com

We hope that you can join us and other leaders in our area on April 4th. Join us for our monthly meeting, networking, and of course our guest speaker Marianne Renner. Learn some tips to grow your business and make connections with other business leaders. We look forward to meeting you.

Date And Time

Thursday, April 4, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST

Location

Naperville Public Library 95th Street Library
3015 Cedar Glade Road
Room A
Naperville, IL 60564
View Map

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

*No refunds on monthly meetings or transfers to other events.*

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How Well Do You Know Your Customers?

Your customers drive everything about your business – but what do you really know about them?

Beth will show you how to understand what makes a good customer a great customer, so you can attract more great customers to your business and delight them with exactly what they want. By better understanding the mindset of these customers, you’ll be able to make more strategic decisions that pull your company ahead of the competition.

About Beth Carter:

Beth Carter, founder of Clariant Creative, helps clients figure out what their marketing should say. She specializes in creating marketing communications – including website content, blog posts, case studies, white papers and more – that are focused, polished and effective. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies, small mom & pop shops and everything in between. An award-winning writer, she loves to share her passion with the local business community by delivering hands-on seminars, conferences, and workshops.

We look forward to you joining us for breakfast, group meeting, networking, and an opportunity to grow your business.

Date And Time

Thursday, March 7, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST

Location

Naperville Public Library 95th Street Library
3015 Cedar Glade Road
Room A
Naperville, IL 60564
View Map

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

*No refunds on monthly meetings or transfers to other events.*

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Coaching For The Win!

This workshop covers the basics of a Coaching Approach to Leadership. A coaching approach is marked by the ability to help others arrive at the best solution. In today ’s fast-paced and complex world, being the smartest person in the room is far less valuable than being the best coach. Leaders who coach are able to manage companies with greater levels of creativity and create captivating cultures.

Takeaways Include:

• We don’t see the world as it is, we see what we notice. Be a first-class noticer!
• How to create a coaching habit
• Small changes can lead to big results
• How to ask Coaching Questions

Date And Time

Thu, February 7, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST

Location

We look forward to you joining us for breakfast, group meeting, networking, and an opportunity to grow your business.

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

*No refunds on monthly meetings or transfers to other events.

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Social Media Marketing: Using Analytics to Boost ROI

For many business owners, the thought of investing large amounts of money into marketing is a risky proposition: feeling as if one is throwing money into a black hole and hoping that something good comes out of it. Rather than hoping or praying, doing some solid market research can help design marketing solutions that are guaranteed to work, with a positive ROI.

How can social media help? It can serve as a means of interacting with your customers to gather feedback and offer things of interest. Social media provides a unique way to start conversations with customers and promote your business.

Topics:

• Asking / observing WHY people use your product or service
  • Learn about perceived strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis) in comparison to direct competitors
• Creating goals for marketing campaigns
  • Setting realistic targets to hit within a time frame, which can be quantified
• Crafting marketing that addresses the specific needs of your customers
  • Using customer feedback to craft custom ads that match their interests
  • Marketing can target business strengths/opportunities, or negate weaknesses/threats
  • Creating A/B marketing strategies to achieve the best results in future campaigns
  • Using social media platforms of highest relevance to your business and marketing objectives
• Measuring success and ROI
  • Determine whether the marketing campaign had a significant impact on the business
  • Compare A/B tests, inform the design of future marketing efforts
  • Calculate the return on marketing efforts/dollars spent (ROI)

Rather than discussing current trends, this talk focuses on the growing your business through the creation of targeted marketing that is based on data, from the customers themselves. In addition, quantifying the ROI of marketing efforts can inform the design of future marketing campaigns. Join us at this interactive talk to learn how to make the most of your marketing efforts and bring your business new customers.

This month we have our very own Michel Ann Sharritt as our guest speaker. Michel is the owner and Vice President of CueCamp and Situated Research, which are both located in Naperville. Michel has the creative ability to market businesses with new media, done successfully at both CueCamp and Situated Research, using a combination of web design, interactive marketing, and social media. Michel has been working with clients on their marketing strategies for over 20 years now and speaks frequently on this topic.

We look forward to you joining us for breakfast, networking, and an opportunity to grow your business.

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite:

* Tickets at door are $35. Tickets are non-transferable & non-refundable.
* Bring plenty of business cards!

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Whatever your current role – the employer or employed – this discussion will provide keys you can utilize to avoid the courtroom and help your business and career thrive.

Topics will include:

• What am I signing? Must-have contract terms and policies to protect your valuable business interests.
• Tough Talk: Conducting difficult conversations with your employee or employer, from hiring to firing, and everything in between.
• Avoiding discrimination, harassment and retaliation in a post- #Metoo environment.
• Train, train, train! Why management training is vital to litigation avoidance.

Drawing on more than a decade of experience litigating, negotiating, drafting, and advising employers and employees regarding virtually all aspects of employment law, Christina Hynes Mesco will provide valuable insights you need to avoid costly mistakes and succeed at work.

You can visit Christina’s website and learn more about her at: https://www.prinz-lawfirm.com

We hope that you will join us for a light breakfast, networking, and of course our guest speaker, Christina Hynes Mesco.

To attend, buy a ticket at Eventbrite: 

Tickets at door are $35. Tickets are non-transferable & non-refundable.

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The meeting focused on teaching skills to foster open dialogue around high stakes, emotional or risky topics. The skills that we learned will help us to gain confidence to respectfully say almost anything to almost anyone. During the talk, we identified what constitutes a crucial conversation, explored strategies to manage emotions and “stories” within self that could derail the conversation and reviewed the STATE model that’s used to share your perspective and invites others to share theirs.

To learn more about Laticia Thompson please visit her website at: https://www.legacy-blueprint.com/

Thank you again to Laticia and to all that attended. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Thursday, October 4th.

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