Business Seminars
Here are just some of our business seminars!

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Center of Influence - How To Change Your World
How can you make a difference in your world - no matter who you are
and no matter what you do? In this comprehensive presentation, a wide
range of topics are covered to make you someone who is influential. Unlike
people who control others, people who influence can have a much more profound
and long-lasting impact on the lives and futures of others. Learn what it
takes to prepare yourself to be a center of influence. Then learn methods
to change the course of your history by being a positive force in the lives
around you. Increase your effectiveness as a leader or team member, increase
your sales, set a new standard in customer service, redefine your relationships,
find a new level of personal insight and peace that will free you to be your
best self. This powerful presentation is a whole person approach to
business and life to become a center of influence where ever you are. Like
a pebble tossed into the water - your influence will be felt in the lives of
those around you and for generations to come.
Grant Fairley
From his upcoming book on the subject.

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Defining Your Organization's Myth -
Toward Organizational Effectiveness
The organizational myth is how we see our ourselves and our organization in the
big picture. Often discouraged by hard times - each organization needs to have a
story that is understood and owned from CEO to newest employee to defines its
identity. Renew your organization's effectiveness and become a place the best
people want to be by discovering or revitalizing your organization's myth.
Grant
Fairley
Seeing Your Organization As The Organism It Is &
How To Keep It
Healthy
Organizations are often defined by flow-charts and quarterly financials. But
every corporation, government department or community group is as much an
organism as the people who work and serve there. The organic view of your group
can allow it to be a healthy and productive place that can unleash the untapped
potential trapped within the bureaucracy, traditions and rules.

Grant Fairley
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Corporate Values For A Secular Workplace
Companies need to understand and commit to a healthy value system to function
well. Beyond just the legal rules and their penalties - every member of a
company benefits when a value system that includes values such as a work ethic,
a respect for others in the company, customer service, concern for the community
and environment. What does it cost a company and its shareholders that does not
have these ethical principles at work? What are the benefits of having a company
that is long on values? How do you establish and communicate those values in a
secular workplace? Find out how a return to values is a return to health for
the company and its stakeholders.
Grant Fairley

Insights into why the United States has been and will continue to be the
dominant economic force in our world. What are the ingredients that will keep
the American Advantage in spite of competition from the "flat earth" competition
of China and India and the current economic meltdown. Why Canada and Europe are at a disadvantage. How individuals
and companies can incorporate the American Advantage into their thinking,
business and approach to life.
Grant
Fairley
It is great to be established and successful in your current
place of business. But what if you want to expand into other markets? What
challenges are there when you try to penetrate a new city, state or
country? What should you learn about the new market to have an easy landing
when you arrive? How do you adapt your product or services message to be
heard by the new community or country? How do you identify cultural
differences and use them to your advantage? This process is available as a
seminar or as a consulting service of Strategic Seminars.
Gary Carter, Grant Fairley
A Renewal Of Your Corporate Or Group's Vision
A clear and useful vision that is meaningful to the leadership and entire team
will boost your effectiveness and health as an organism. How to move your
company from a "motherhood & apple pie" vision statement where no one can
disagree to a purpose that motivates and equips everyone to succeed.
Grant
Fairley
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Tick-Tock - Finding The 25th Hour In Your Day
Practical seminar rooted in a commitment to service on how to make the best use
of your time. How to be no only efficient but effective. Solving the email trap.
Sharpening your communication skills. To delegate or not to delegate. Finding
that 25th hour in your 24 hour day. Personal balance and values as a key to use
your off-work time to make your at-work time work!
Grant
Fairley

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Fairy Tales for Business

An entertaining look at how classic fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes
describe business life and the business environment. Refreshing insights into
human behavior and values in the workplace. You would be surprised how many
ideas are hidden in these old stories and how relevant they are to business and
relationships in the new millennium. From his upcoming book on the subject.
Grant Fairley
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Personal Mythology - Understanding,
Owning & Celebrating Your Story
The people who have been most successful and most satisfied in life have
one thing in common. They live out their personal myth. Learn how
understand, own and celebrate your personal mythology as a way to maximize your
potential as a person in any area of life. Discover the power that comes
from seeing your self inside your life story as you experience the chapters of
your life. See how a positive personal mythology enables you to handle
success and failures in a constructive way. Grow through seeing how your
story relates to the needs of those around you. You'll never see yourself
in the same way after this seminar.
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Kindling A Creative Spirit
More than anything else, creativity and imagination are the source of effective
leaders in business. Pressure and neglect of the spiritual dimensions of life
often lead to a lack of creativity. This seminar concentrates on how to rekindle
the spiritual side of your person. This allows your drive and commitment to find
purpose and meaning. It is the key to unlocking your creative spirit.
Grant D.
Fairley
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Circling Your Customers
Customer retention saves money and increases your bottom line. Customers who are
happy are key to your word-of-mouth referrals. Discover the 15 strategies every
business can use to keep customers staying with you. Circle your customers in
ways that they'll never want to go anywhere else. Grant Fairley
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Win/Win Thinking in a Win/Lose World

Turning competition into cooperation within your organization. Improving
productivity through increased commitment to the company and each other.
Grant Fairley
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What Have You Done For Me Lately?
THE question of the new century for business. Ways to improve customer
satisfaction. Ensure customers know you're working hard for them today.
Resolving issues with unhappy customers.
Gary Carter, Grant Fairley

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Sharp Triangles & Round Circles
How to recognize different personality types in your company and use their
personalities to make your group more successful. Important tools for the hiring
process. Motivating different personalities with different kinds of rewards and
incentives. Communicating effectively with different personality types.
Different learning styles - how people learn will influence how they do their
job.
Grant Fairley

Communicating effectively. How to engage your customers and prospects more
effectively through increased telephone, email and meeting strategies. Learn how
to make your conversations meaningful and productive. Telephone skills to make
your customer feel at ease and nurtured. How to make emails work for you rather
than against you. In person skills to make your contacts fruitful and effective.
Gary Carter & Grant Fairley
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Hello! Customer Service Telephone Skills Training

Telephone skills will make or break a business opportunity. It is a key part of
customer service and often is the first contact with your business, organization
or government department. How you answer, forward and hold calls comes down to
some important steps that everyone can learn and use. Don't let those sales
disappear on hold. Learn the 20 steps to effective telephone skills. Practical
and memorable approach.
Grant Fairley

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Speak To Be Heard
Learn the basics of making an effective talk or speech in this easy to learn
method that concentrates on the big ideas of public speaking - whether you're
making a sales presentation or giving a toast at a wedding.

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