Networking & Speed Learning

Last week we conducted our Circle of Influence Networking evening for PA’s and EA’s. We were delighted to have more than 120 participants. The feedback was excellent and we will certainly organise another similar event before Christmas. If you would like more information just email us.
Our next event is very exciting. We are combining the skills of networking and learning simultaneously. The theme of the night is ‘How to overcome the 4 most common dysfunctions in teams’.

How many times have you left a networking session with a bundle of business cards that you have later thrown in the rubbish bin? How many times have you found yourself seated between two uninteresting characters at a long drawn out presentation?

The Speed Learning Network is a breath of fresh air and the first event of its kind. Learn a brand new skill and be engaged by a key note speaker, whilst also reaping the benefits of your networking session. The Speed Learning Network was developed specifically to connect high achievers, professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs with like minded individuals.

The next Speed Learning and Networking Event will be conducted on Thursday, October 8, 2009 from 6.00 pm – 8.30 pm at CQ, Level 1, 113 Queen Street, Melbourne. To get a brochure and registration form click here.

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So you did not win the lotto or did you?

Our people at Preferred Training Networks are always positive, enjoying the comradery and banter. However, the faces on Friday morning were not happy when we discovered we did not win anything in our pooled resources for the $80 Million Jackpot.

So like us you probably did not win either. Now think of what would happen if at the very end of your life you opened a drawer in your attic and there was a government bond Pay Bearer $80 Million. How would you react? All the hardships you endured and you had this $80 million all this time that could have been cashed much earlier.

Now back to reality. You are probably reading this in a very rich country. You have a computer and you probably have a job. Hopefully your health is good too. You might have beautiful children, siblings and parents. When you think of your friends you reflect on how lucky you have been. You might think of your partner and all the people who love you in this world.

Do you see – You have already won the lottery. You have been blessed with such a fortune.

My lottery win is 3 beautiful children, a beautiful partner, a reliable car, a great team of people to work with and working in an organisation that can positively change people’s lives.

So remember you have already won the lottery and do not waste a minute whinging and complaining. Embrace and cherish what you have already won.

Spotting Middlers

Middlers are fantastic at stringing along tasks. No matter what the task is, middlers are always in the middle of it. Deadlines are seldom met and it is always someone else’s fault.

Middlers often operate beneath the radar; as their performing neither exceptional or poorly. Middlers are at the opposite end of the continuum to action orientated people.

4 reasons to confront workplace middlers:

1. Improved performance – Once a middler knows they have been spotted their performance picks up immediately.
2. Middlers like company – Unless middlers are confronted they will attract some higher performers to become middlers.
3. Middlers often carry resentment – Resentment is a productivity killer. This course helps unearth any resentment killers.
4. Improved Engagement levels – Middlers are not engaged employees and often fool surveys with their pretended enthusiasm.
   

Imagine, if there was a program primarily developed to shake up middlers. This program can be conducted for a group of middlers and/or it can be conducted for the managers who mange middlers.

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