THIS MONTH...
1.    The Quick Quiz
2.    This month’s Productivity Boosters
3.    Meet The Expert Webinar series
4.    Book now for the TIME Convention
5.    Answers to the quiz
6.    The final word

1. THE QUICK QUIZ

1.    Who are the 5 richest women in the world?
2.    Which is the most difficult country in the world to do business with?
3.    Where is the coldest place on earth?
4.    Which airline is asking people to go to the toilet BEFORE they get on their planes?
5.    What food staple is predicted to rocket in price?

2. THIS MONTH’S PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS (2 hour mini training sessions)

No More Debt!

Financial pressures are a constant source of stress for staff. Stress leads to absenteeism, poor time management, shrinkage and lower production outcomes. Bottom line results for the organization will be affected if you have stressed workers. This mini Productivity Booster is designed to give your staff the tools and motivation to sort out their financial lives so they don’t come to work worrying about their mortgage and/or debts!

Workshop Objectives:

• To provide the motivation and tools to map where they are now
  
• To put a plan in place to repay debt
  
• To create a cash fund that will break the credit trap
  
• To gain the knowledge and discipline to buy smart without resorting to credit
  
• To show people how to be successful in managing their finances FOREVER

This session will be run by Bill James. Bill has 20 years experience in financial services in both the insurance and finance sectors.  For more information contact ann@thecorporatetoolbox.com or phone (09) 528 0244.
 
How to Deal with Less than Fabulous Performance

There is nothing more time consuming and energy sapping than one person in a team who isn’t pulling their weight. If your managers or team leaders are being drained by poor performers, then this mini workshop could save their sanity.

Workshop Objectives:

• Discover what causes poor performance
  
• Learn what to say; when to say it and HOW should to say it so the employee doesn’t go rushing off to a lawyer
  
• Develop the skills to ensure that poor performance a thing of the past
  

This session will be run by Ann Andrews CSP, an HR Consultant with 20+ years experience and  survivor of thousands of poor performance discussions!

Investment:

We are holding our prices for one more month because we know that although there are signs that we are coming out of the recession, we are also conscious that investing in training is often way down the list of importance and urgency for most businesses.

It now doesn’t have to be that way…

Book ONE of the above sessions and pay $1450 + gst for the mini session – no limit on numbers. Book BOTH sessions and you need only pay $1000 + gst per session.

Training and improving morale, skills and motivation will never be cheaper than this.

To book contact ann@thecorporatetoolbox.com or phone (09) 528 0244 NOW!

3. MEET THE EXPERT WEBINAR SERIES

Passion: The Key to achieving Great Performance with Charles Kovess CSP
 
Passion is one of the keys to achieving great performance in any field. In this webinar, Charles Kovess, CSP – an ex barrister will help you to deeply understand the elements of passion, achievement, and success so that you and your employees can gain extraordinary clarity on how to unleash the passion and potential of your people so they achieve performance results which will astound you. To register click here.
 
4. BOOK NOW FOR THE TIME CONVENTION

This is NZ’s biggest business training day. On the 30 October 2009, Corporate Events Guide is hosting the annual TIME (Train • Inspire • Motivate • Empower) speaker and seminar programme at The Ellerslie Event Centre. 
 
TIME will feature appearances from a diverse, unparalleled list of motivational speakers and business trainers., you can’t see these speakers together in one day anywhere else in New Zealand.  (Bill and Ann are both speakers at this event!)
 
If you book here TIME will give you a very generous $100 discount off the regular price because you are booking through this newsletter.
 
5. ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ:

1.    Liliane Bettencourt (L’oreal), Christy Walton (Wal-mart Sam Walton’s widow), Alice Walton (his sister), Helen Walton (his Mother). Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Insurance). Oprah, J.K. Rowling and the Queen weren’t even in the top 10!
2.    Two opinions – Solomon Islands and India
3.    Vostok (Antarctica) recently registered minus 89.2C
4.    Nippon airways. They believe that with the weight saving of all those empty bladders, they should reduce carbon emissions by 5 tonnes per month!
5.    Sugar

6. THE FINAL WORD

We are passionate about training your staff. We believe that training should be a strategic decision, not something organizations do when they are forced to or because it ticks a box.

And because we are passionate about training, we want to make it as cost effective, as available, and as interesting as we can, so never again need any organization ever say – WE CAN’T AFFORD TO TRAIN OUR STAFF.

So this month, because we have been hearing so much about the ‘green shoots’ appearing in the business world,  we have left the last word to  Anais Nin who said:

“And then came the day when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more painful than to blossom."

Will you remain a tight bud: as a person; a manager, a team leader, a business owner? Or will you let us help you and your people, to blossom?

Ann, Bill and the team

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Ann Andrews, Dip Bus (Pmer) CSP, Immediate Past President NSANZ
PO Box 28731 Remuera Auckland NZ
Tel: +64 9 528 0244 Fax: +64 9 528 0544
Email: anand@woetogo.com  or info@thecorporatetoolbox.com
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