Upcoming Events Archived Events Before and After: Mar 16 - Feb 16 - Jan 19

SME Morning Seminar & Luncheon

Location: Thunderbird Hotel 2201 East 78th Street Bloomington, MN

SME Member Only Roundtable: "Advertising and Promotion on a Small Budget"
Facilitator: Don Johnson of Don L. Johnson Enterprises - Coffee, juice and rolls provided.

Morning Workshop: "Beware; The New Employment Paradigm Affects Everyone"
George Davisson - VP Sales, Experiencenet.com

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George Davisson, VP Sales - experiencenet.com, an Internet company that has a sophisticated database for matching independent professionals with companies that need their services as freelancers, consultants, and contractors. Mr. Davisson, most recently with Tivoli Systems (Division of IBM), has over 25 years in product/service sales in technology (Computer software and hardware, Internet, Sales and sales management, Product development, Customer service, Marketing, Business Development, Strategic Alliances/Partnerships, Financial). Mr. Davisson, in his present position, has done a great deal of research on the new employment paradigm and has presented these findings to a number of different organizations and conferences.

• Tom Peters contends that 90 percent of white-collar jobs in the United States will be either destroyed or altered beyond recognition in the next 10 to 15 years.
• We're all going to be reinventing ourselves, or stranded like beached whales.
• A symptom of the sweeping changes to come is the fast-developing e-lance economy, freelancers who make their living via the web.
• Companies have a need for skilled and competent employees that verges on desperation, yet there is a very large pool of talent out there that is underutilized.
• The apparent discontinuity arises because many companies are stuck in a rut when it comes to hiring-the old paradigm.
• Many companies are scraping the bottom of the barrel with their cost-cutting initiatives, while leaving millions of dollars on the table due to archaic HR practices.
• If you think this doesn't affect you, think again. It already does, or soon will, affect everyone in business, government and the non-profit sector.
• Specific action steps for companies and individuals will be described.

Luncheon Presentation: "You Want Me To Do What? When, Where and How to Draw the Line at Work"
Nan DeMars - Office Ethics Trainer, Columnist, and Author "You Want Me To Do What? When, Where and How to Draw the Line at Work"

Successful offices establish ethics that "live" in every corner of the building. Organizations today are recognizing that if their employees have a basic understanding of management's stand on ethics, the company is more productive, delivers better customer service, retains the best people and posts higher profits. This session will address the reality-based "hot" ethical dilemmas facing employees on a daily basis (e.g. confidentiality, workplace romance, loyalty issues) and the resulting need for companies to create and maintain The Ethical Office.

Nan DeMars is a popular, internationally-recognized seminar leader, keynote speaker, columnist, media talk show guest and trainer of more than 100,000 office professionals on the topic of Office Ethics. She is author of the best-selling book: "You Want Me To Do What? When, Where and How to Draw the Line at Work" (Simon & Schuster).

A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in Business Administration, Ms. DeMars is President of Executary Services, a Minneapolis consulting firm providing Office Ethics seminars and recruitment/placement of the "boardroom" assistant. She is a Past International President of IAAP (the International Association of Administrative Professionals) and a regular columnist for "OfficePro" magazine and writes the weekly "Office Conscience" column for the managerial website: Officeclick.com.

A recognized authority on office ethics, Ms. DeMars weekly guests on radio/tv talk shows and has appeared on THE TODAY SHOW, DATELINE NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, NATIONAL AND CANADIAN PUBLIC RADIO, GOOD MORNING AMERICA AND VOICE OF AMERICA, to name a few. She is widely quoted in such publications as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, NATION'S BUSINESS, BUSINESS WEEK, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, LONDON DAILY MAIL, USA TODAY and THE WASHINGTON POST.

About Don L. Johnson Enterprises
We help leaders develop powerful Vision and gain loyalty from people. Usually this begins with a President or CEO who wants to help an already prosperous enterprise become even more focused and efficient in the delivery of its product or service. As agents of this refining corporate change, we...

• Develop Leaders, by facilitating individuals to heightened clarity of personal Vision and Mission.
  
  
• Enhance high performance, by Coaching key leaders in the skill of turning dreams to concrete achievement.
  
  
• Clarify Motivating Corporate Visions, by drawing deeply felt, shared values from Leadership Teams.
  
  
• Facilitate Strategic Plans that are directly linked to Vision.

With such a foundation in place, we have positioned ourselves to provide a full range of Organizational Development Services to our ongoing clients. These include Team Building, Interpersonal Management Skills Training and a variety of informal interventions to enhance working and professional relationships. We are doing whatever it takes to... support your Vision, inspire customer and team loyalty, and foster your prosperity.