Business Development Seminars 2009/2010

Step Up and Take the Lead

Fall 2009

Winter/Spring 2010

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Please note the location of each seminar

Bergen Community College Paramus Campus
Moses Family Meeting and Training Center/Technology Education Building
400 Paramus Road, Paramus - Room Tec 128 (Enter Parking Lot B)
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Bergen Community College Meadowlands Campus
1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst, NJ - Room 315
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Hilton Woodcliff Lake
200 Tice Blvd, Woodcliff Lake, N J
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Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst
1 Polito Avenue, Lyndhurst, NJ
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For additional information, please contact Andrea Schaffel

Registration : 8:30 A.M.
Seminar: 9:00 - Noon

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"Step Up and Take the Lead" Fall 2009

Diana Morris

August 18, 2009 Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - No Doubt About You: The Art of Skillful Self Promotion - BCC Paramus Campus
A life-changing workshop, filled with encouragement and practical ideas for building your unstoppable career. Whatever your goal, Skillful Self Promotion can help you get there faster.

Cynthia Clark
September 16, 2009 Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - Effective Performance Management - Hilton Woodcliff Lake
Do you dread employee evaluation time, with those awkward forms and uncomfortable employee meetings? Join us for an invigorating and informative seminar on Performance Management and learn how to you can change your annual employee appraisal program into a collaborative, interactive process that satisfies both you and your employees. Learn Performance Management tools and techniques that can help you enhance employee performance and actually improve employee morale!

TBA - 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - Case Closed Part III - Hot Legal HR Topics - Hilton Woodcliff Lake
This seminar will feature presentations on The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as proposed and the recent amendments to the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Join us to see how these important pieces of legislation will affect you and your company.

Debra Hamilton
TBA - 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - The 30-Second Email: How to Write Clear and Productive E-mail Messages - BCC Paramus Campus
In this workshop participants will learn to structure their email messages by using the 30-Second Email Writing Template to grab attention, organize the essential points, and clarify action steps needed. Participants are encouraged to bring a few recent email messages they have written to the workshop. During the session, participants will complete short writing exercises and discuss when email is not the best communication tool.

Michael Goldman

October 28, 2009 Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - The Four Secrets of Passionate Organizations - Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst
In this challenging economic environment, it takes more than the right skills and strategies to beat your competition. Corporate cultures are suffering, or even disintegrating, as companies cut costs, freeze salaries and layoff employees. Today’s most successful companies have employees with an incredible passion for what they do.

Maureen McGuire
Rita Williams Bogar
November 11, 2009 Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - Coach Yourself to Success, Happiness and Reinvention - BCC Meadowlands Campus
Have you made the decision to stay put in a less than perfect work situation? Uncover several ways to get unstuck and get more from your work now. Learn techniques for discovering the work that will make you happier.
November 20, 2009 Friday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - Mindful Leadership: Personal Mastery for Challenging Times: Strategies for Sustaining Focused, Effective Leadership - BCC Paramus Campus
In this half-day workshop, participants will learn how Mindful Leadership helps leaders, teams, and organizations excel during challenging times. Participants will take away a Personal Mastery Plan with specific strategies and practices for developing themselves and others as agile and resilient leaders.

Gene Sower

December 3, 2009 Thursday 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - Search Engine Optimization - Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst
What good is having a website if no one can find it, right? This workshop on search engine optimization (SEO) will examine some tips and tricks that you can deploy right now to generate the search engine traffic that sends you new sales and prospects interested in your business. In this workshop we’ll explain exactly what SEO is…and isn’t, discuss illegal practices to avoid and how you can make some minor adjustments now that can significantly increase your online visibility causing a positive impact to your bottom line.

Marc D. Ensign
December 10, 2009 Thursday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - Business Growth Through Social Networking - BCC Paramus Campus
Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are incredibly powerful tools that can be used to dramatically increase your business when used properly. If you’re not quite sure how you should be using Social Media, you are not alone. The purpose of this workshop is to show you the most efficient and effective ways of using Social Media websites in order to increase your web presence and ultimately grow your business.

 

"Step Up and Take the Lead" Winter/Spring 2010
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Mark M. Cohen

January 15, 2010 Friday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - Goal Setting…It Is Not About Making A Wish!!! - BCC Paramus Campus
Many people say that they set goals, but few write them down, set specific action steps, understand the obstacles/solutions in front of them and establish realistically high expectations; therefore, few achieve their goals. This seminar will teach you a proven system for setting and achieving goals. You will learn a practical approach that will allow you to take away from the seminar a usable process that you can utilize immediately.

Linda Trignano

January 20, 2010 Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - Communicating with Difficult People - BCC Meadowlands Campus
Effective communication skills are some of the most sought after strengths you can possess. If you have ever had the experience of interacting with a “difficult” person and wondered the best way to handle the situation, this workshop is for you. Understanding your own style of communicating will be the basis of understanding how you relate to others and from there we’ll look at some tips and strategies to better manage “difficult” people.

Christopher D'Marco

February 5, 2010 Friday 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - Lean Six Sigma Basics - Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst
“Lean Six Sigma” is a discipline that integrates the body of knowledge and methodologies of both Lean and Six Sigma in such a way that makes it much easier for any business in any sector to optimize the benefits from both disciplines. Come to this workshop to learn about the primary outcomes of Lean and Six Sigma and numerous tools such as 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Work Flow Diagrams, Lead Time Analysis, Theory of Constraints, Error Proofing, Kanban systems, Kaizen Events as well as some Six Sigma problem solving and Statistical Process Control Tools.

February 26, 2010 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon - No Doubt About You: The Art of Skillful Self Promotion Part 2 - BCC Paramus Campus
A life-changing workshop, filled with encouragement and practical ideas for building your unstoppable career. Whatever your goal, Skillful Self Promotion can help you get there faster.

Elaine Padva
March 3, 2010 Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - HR 101 for Managers and Supervisors - BCC Meadowlands Campus
If you’re a supervisor or manager, there are some HR “basics” you need to know to do your job effectively. This course will touch on those basics – from understanding the legal landscape of the HR “alphabet soup” (FMLA, FSLA, ADA, EEO, etc.), through selecting, managing and motivating staff. If you have the support of an HR department, this program will reinforce the existing structure/policies. If not, this program will provide you with basic guidelines to maximize your effectiveness as a supervisor and reduce your risk getting sued

March 19, 2010 Friday, 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - Applying Process Management Techniques to Your Company - BCC Paramus Campus
In this interactive workshop, learn how applying process improvement techniques can help your business become more competitive and more efficient quickly. This easy to understand process works in a small size company or a large size company and every company in between. When you leave this workshop, you will be able to implement this system to achieve greater results for yourself and your organization.

Ellen Lubin-Sherman

April 16, 2010 Friday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - How To Ask for the Legion of Honor (as well as other terrific things) That Can Change Your Life - BCC Paramus Campus 
This is a high-spirited look at the importance of asking for things, whether it’s professional advice, an introduction to a potential client or an interview. Most people err on the side of not asking enough. My seminar offers tips and strategies for identifying the people who can give you what you want and how to approach them to ensure your success.

April 30, 2010 Friday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - How to Effectively use Email Marketing and Blogs to Grow your Business - Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst
Email marketing is a highly cost effective tool for growing your business---if it’s done right! This workshop will examine the tools needed to be an email marketing pro, help you avoid SPAM traps and offer some automated methods for turning your website into a non-commissioned sales person. The workshop is offered at the intermediate to advanced level for businesses that already have a website and want to turn it into a 27/7 lead generating machine!

May 14, 2010 Friday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - Emotional Intelligence – for Personal Success - BCC Paramus Campus
This workshop will focus on the Personal Competence aspect. How you understand and manage yourself impact how others view you. Learn to capitalize on your strengths and minimize areas of concern to position yourself for greater success

June 25, 2010 Friday 9:00 AM - 12 Noon - The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence, Level Five Leadership and a Healthy 3 BL - Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst
Today organizations need to pay attention to the  triple bottom line (abbreviated as "TBL" or "3BL ", also known as "people, planet, profit"). This workshop addresses what has to be in place in your organization on a visionary, strategic, and operational level in order to readily realize a healthy 3BL. Examine the obvious and not so obvious organizational elements necessary to realize your 3BL goals as well as an interesting and significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and realizing your 3BL goals.