Key Questions for Developing Your Business Plan & Strategy using the Business Model Canvas, and

Sharing Fire: How to Ignite the Potential of Your Team 

Organizational success relies on two key factors:                                            A solid business plan, and developing a team to make it happen.

8:30 to 10:30am - By asking key questions, SCORE's Business Model Canvas has helped hundreds of small business owners and entrepreneurs to develop their business plan and build effective strategies for growing their business. Presenter Terry Deegan will show how to capture your business elements using the Business Model Canvas to give you a high level point-of-view; to draft, evaluate and adjust your business model before investing. A Canvas helps you test new products, programs, markets or customer group ideas earlier and at less cost.

A Lake Forest School of Management graduate, Deegan became a Certified SCORE Mentor after retirement from Whirlpool Corporation as a Director in Global Sourcing.  Prior to Whirlpool, Deegan spent 28 years with Zenith Electronics Corporation.

'Sharing Fire' helps you attract talented, self-motivated people to your company and develop employee loyalty that encourages innovation, creativity and productivity.  Dr. Marc Hardy will discuss steps to create a personal commitment culture that increases sales through deepened customer relations.

• Develop rock-solid employee loyalty
• Attract talented people who seek out your company
• Inspire employees to look forward to Monday instead of Friday
• Create a culture of personal commitment to the organization’s mission
• Develop employees who don’t need to be managed because they are self-motivated and practically   manage themselves.
• Drastically decrease absenteeism.
• Grow the number of employees who tell powerful, positive public stories about the organization and its leadership
• Increase sales, attract top talent, and retain top talent.
• Encourage innovation, creativity
• Increase employee morale and productivity.
• Build and deepen customer relations
• Create customers that tell positive stories about the organization

Dr. Hardy is the Director of Nonprofit Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame.  He holds a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University and has taught leadership and management at IU and Butler University. 

Attend only one or both workshops by clicking on the Registration link.

Space is limited, so do it today, and we hope to see you there!