In this presentation called, "Vital & Vibrant at Any Age," e4e partner Dr. Dan Fazio gives a "Greatest Hits" talk featuring some of his favorite topics. The presentation melds them together to give a picture of Vibrance and Vitality.
In this presentation called, "Happy Detours," e4e partner Karen Fox tells her life journey and focuses on times in her life when she had to make life changing decisions. She explains that even unexpected life events and stressful situations can lead to positive outcomes.
In this presentation called, "How to Set Your Business on Auto-Pilot," e4e partner Will Hanke explains how he uses automation to make his business operations more efficient. He makes suggestions about what web applications have helped him, describes the types of tasks that are easily automated and show us how we can save a significant amount of time during our work day.
In this presentation called, "Happily Handling a Health Scare," e4e partner Mary Kutheis tells her story of when she suffered a heart attack. She explains how she handled the situation, what she would do differently and offers advice on handling a health emergency before, during and after the event.
In this presentation called, "Power & Path to Self-Management & Shared Leadership," e4e partner Les Landes explains a new method of employee management. He advocates for giving workers more freedom of self-management and dismantling some of the traditional power structures in today's businesses that get in the way of productivity.
In this episode of Business APProved called, "Help My Website's Been Hacked!," e4e partner Will Hanke explains how you can protect your website from being hacked and what to do if you think it's been compromised. He discusses the importance of regularly backing up your website, a variety of apps and plugins that help make the process easier and how to make your website more secure.
In this Wisdom of the Community Workshop called, "Don't Wing It! Design Your Negotiations," e4e partner Glenda Woolley leads a discussion about how business leaders can plan their negotiation and difficult discussions. She describes key turning points in her own development as a business professional and team leader. E4e members and guests also contribute and offer advice on how to best communicate with your coworkers and employees.
In this presentation called "Cybercrime: Preventing a Victim Mindset," e4e partner Jared Peno explains how to be proactive about protecting personal and business information from cyber criminals. He describes common types if internet fraud, how cyber criminals obtain your information and questions you need to ask yourself when trying to protect your information.
In this presentation called "Work The System - Applied," e4e partner Andy Magnus explains the importance of implementing effective systems within a business. He highlights three primary responsibilities of every business owner and then describes how his experience taking a "Work the System" course helped him navigate those responsibilities more efficiently.
In this presentation called "Baseball: A Metaphor for Business and Life," e4e partner Josh Levey describes his experience playing in the minor leagues and what it taught him about building a team. He explains his current team in business and life is largely made up of family members and life mentors, and offers advice on choosing the people who support you.
In this presentation called "Running a Business While Life Happens," e4e partner Lisa Oxenhandler explains how she maintains a work/life balance and how "giving back" helps her through the stresses of running a business. She also opens a discussion on the importance of being grateful and not taking yourself too seriously.
In this presentation called "Using Your Brain & Heart to Kick Butt," e4e partner Mary Kuthies explains the different aspects of emotional intelligence (EQ), how it relates to your success and how you can work to improve it.
In this presentation called "Leveraging LinkedIn," e4e partner Josh Levey explains how you can use your LinkedIn connections to produce quality leads for your business. He takes the audience through a simple three-step marketing campaign, explains the different statistics to pay attention to and gives examples of the types of copy that have proven most successful.
In this presentation called "Just Wing It: Business and Life Lessons from My Adventure in New Zealand," e4e partner Tom Ruwitch offers an entertaining story about his trip to New Zealand and gives advice about the occasional need to drop the detailed playbook and just go for it. As a strong believer in planning himself, Tom warns against analysis paralysis and explains the value of "making the leap" when life throws you a curveball.
In this presentation the e4e group participates in a goal setting workshop for the upcoming year of 2018. The workshop teaches you how to create and organize measurable goals to give you the best chance of success.
In this segment of Business Approved, e4e partner Will Hanke discusses some of his favorite scheduling applications including Google Calender, Calendly and x.ai.
In this presentation called "It's All There... At the Library," e4e partner Lisa Oxenhandler talks about the value the public library can bring to businesses. She explains that the library can put together call lists, provide publications such as Forbes Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, offer research consulting and much more... All for free.
In this presentation called "What Every Business Owner Should Know About the Law," e4e partner Brian Rogers offers a few little known legal details that can significantly affect businesses and business owners. He covers some important technicalities of copy-write laws, how to protect trade secrets and things to watch out for in boilerplate documents.
In this presentation called "How Show-And-Tell Can Help You Sell," e4e partner Cynthia Correll explains how to present intangible services to prospects and the importance of communicating value. She offers different examples of businesses successfully showing the value of their services that can't be "shown" through conventional means.
In this presentation called "When Do You Cut the Cord, and Let That Prospect Go?," e4e partner John Eyres discusses the results of a survey answering that exact question. He offers different strategies for following up with prospects and explains how they might work differently in different industries. At the end of the presentation, John opens the floor for questions and advice from the audience.
Led by e4e partner Dale Furtwengler, the "Contrarian Panel" asks the audience to quickly create a fictional character using the popular Dungeons & Dragons roll playing game as a guideline. As part of the exercise, the audience is asked how closely their actual selves resemble their character and what they learned about themselves. The panel and audience had a lively discussion, captured in this video...
In this presentation called "Don’t Divorce Your Past - Embrace It," e4e partner Karen Fox describes her experience with overcoming a professional tragedy and how she learned to move forward. She explains how these types of life events can impact our identity and the importance of re-creating positive self perceptions.
In this presentation called "Overcoming Mistrust: Injecting Credence and Credibility into Your Content," e4e partner Will Hanke discusses five strategies to increase the credibility of your web content. He explains how to use academic research, expand on ideas effectively, avoid link baiting, use active voice and he stresses the importance of taking the highroad.
In this segment of Business Approved, e4e partner Will Hanke discusses some of his favorite financial phone applications including Quick Books, Square's Cash App and Facebook Messenger.
In this presentation called "Do Only the Strong Survive?," e4e partner Mary Kutheis leads a discussion about the assumptions we make in the workplace. She stresses the importance of questioning assumptions and the ability to change your own perspective.
