The Show Thursday 22 June

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Event Date Time Investment Venue Speaker

The Etiquette of Good Business Thursday 29th June 2006 3pm - 5pm $20.00 (GST Inc). Level 19, 323 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (near Central) Elena Reed

Etiquette is essentially about building relationships with colleagues, clients or customers. In the business world, it is these people that can influence your success or failure. Etiquette is simply a means of maximizing your business potential by presenting yourself favourably.

Many think that etiquette is a boring subject, but let Elena Reed, internationally-certified image and etiquette professional, shows you that this theory is wrong. With Elena the rules of proper etiquette are more fun to learn than ever!

'The Etiquette of Good Business' will help you:

• Build up new levels of social & business skills to go out into the world and shine with confidence
• Overcome the anxieties about 'how do I look, what do I say, and what do I do'
• Develop ability to stand out as a person with ethics and manners
• Learn valuable communication skills for connecting with people
• Gain the knowledge to consistently present at your best and leverage your success

This event is brought to you by the following sponsors:

• Clearly Business

Eastern Suburbs Business Enterprise Centre

Leadership lessons from the Australian Military

Guest Ken Macleod

Ken will be here to talk about alternative funding methods

Himself & whatever takes our fancy

Most military services around the world do not want to fight against us Aussies

Here is a good reason for that; they don’t thing we are any good we great.

In the WW1 we were 10% of the men on the ground & took 25% of the captives & over 25% of the captured land. Shattered the Hindenburg Line and that has been how it is with us in was. In most services they have a thing called collateral damage & acceptable losses. Those jumping out planes about 20% were not expected to make it.

Going into battle there are a number not expected to make it.

Australians going in all are expected to make it however just incase; every man knows the objective! & why so that they know that what is dependant on their action.

We have to do this because when we do this that is going to happen and more of our mates are going to do something decisive & we are apart of it.

Most other services take hill 308 or else???

So what can we in business learn form this?

Do our people know our strategy?

So do your key people know what you want, & how you want to get there?

Have they had input?

I call my business Lachlan Laing & Associated because I know I don’t know everything!

We see from out perspective someone on the floor or dealing with your customers has knowledge that you may not have and the adjustment just might be what you need to take you where you want to go!

How well are our people trained?

I recently had a short term contract with a few people working in a very large organisation but one of my people was there for them & me.

It does make a difference that way if something happens there is someone they can talk to instantly. They don’t have to find you before they make decision concerning your people

For instance they wanted to keep them on pasted when the contract finished they went to the person in charge on the floor it was organised before I knew about it.