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Make Your Small Business Look and Perform Like a Big Business on 12-Aug-10 11:30 AM

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:30:00 GMT

Make Your Small Business Look and Perform Like a Big Business
Start Date: 12-Aug-10 11:30 AM
End Time: 12-Aug-10 1:00 PM
Location: The Fabulous La Griglia, Houston, TX 77019
Speaker: Byron Hebert , CPA, CTP

Event Details:

Make Your Small Business Look and Perform Like a Big Business

Today’s tough economic environment makes running a small business a challenge. To stay ahead of the game, your company needs to produce results and operate like a big business.

Understanding the critical operational elements of your business will help you increase growth, keep costs down and maximize revenue. Hebert serves as the director of Entrepreneurial Advisory Services at PKF Texas and is an industry expert specializing in small businesses. He has worked with hundreds of companies throughout his career and will bring that vast knowledge to this presentation.

Hebert will discuss key components to building up your small business, including identifying your competitive advantage and uncovering the root causes of vexing issues within your company. He also will help you determine how to set key performance indicators and then track your improvement.

The Fabulous La Griglia

2002 West Gray

Houston, TX 77019

Here Everything's Better -- H-E-B Employee Communications and Lunch at Brennan's of Houston! on 26-Aug-10 11:15 AM

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Here Everything's Better -- H-E-B Employee Communications and Lunch at Brennan's of Houston!
Start Date: 26-Aug-10 11:15 AM
End Time: 26-Aug-10 1:00 PM
Location: Brennan's of Houston, Houston, TX 77006
Speaker: Kate Rogers

Event Details:

Here Everything's Better: Employee Communications the H-E-B Way . . . and Lunch at Brennan's of Houston

Join us for an interesting, behind-the-scene peek at how one of Texas' most successful companies does Employee Communications.

Bring a notepad and come prepared to take lots of notes as Kate Rogers, H-E-B Chief Communications Officer, talks about

Driving employee engagement through multiple communication channels
Development of our Employer Brand – Because People Matter
Creating and sustaining a culture of service and appreciation – Partner Recognition
Development & management of PartnerNet – our web-based portal
Connecting employees through technology/ creative ways to use internal social media
Measurement and Results

And, clearly, everything in Houston will be better on that day as IABC Houston returns to Brennan's after a long absence. Brennan's is better, more beautiful than ever! They're thrilled to welcome us back, and we can't wait to be there! Join us for this very special return "home."

Finally, we are ever so grateful to the AWESOME team at Schipul, the Web Marketing Company, for sponsoring this event. These guys have been a primary source of programming for us over the years, taught a lot of us most of what we know about social media, and are an awesome business partner. Thanks to all!

Brennan's of Houston

3300 Smith Street

Houston, TX USA 77006

What's Next? Evolving With Relevance on 9-Sep-10 11:30 AM

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:30:00 GMT

What's Next? Evolving With Relevance
Start Date: 9-Sep-10 11:30 AM
End Time: 9-Sep-10 1:00 PM
Location: The Fabulous La Griglia, Houston, TX 77019
Speaker: Panel Presentation

Event Details:

What’s Next? Evolving with Relevance

Many of our communication entrepreneurs are finding themselves at a stage in their career where they’re asking, “What’s next?” This is the question that three senior communicators, each with a slightly different approach, will discuss at the September 9 ESIG program.

Giving back to the community: Jim Boyles, Sr., founded Artisan Field in 1968, growing it into a major Houston marketing and design firm with national recognition. The company became the family business as Jim’s children applied their creative talents to the thriving company. In 2005, Jim and Artisan Field began St. Basil’s Coffee, a non-profit coffee company whose proceeds promote social justice and provide help for impoverished people in Latin America. Jim retired from Artisan Field to become a full-time president to St. Basil’s and manage this important family project.

Adapting to a country home: Elaine McCasland Thomas, ABC, began her career in 1980 with Enron predecessor Houston Natural Gas and stayed until 1999 when she retired and started her own company, Calla Communications, Inc. She moved to an 80-acre farm at the end of a dead end road in Fayette County south of La Grange to join her husband, Emil, who also had fled Enron. In the last 11 years, Elaine has been instrumental in the birth of a new county hospital, written more than 165 columns for the local newspaper, worked as a writer and public relations consultant for organizations in Fayette County and Houston, and recently started a new venture that involves recording, writing and producing family stories.

Giving back to the profession: Mark Schumann, ABC, says he’s been communicating since birth but only in a professional manner for 33 years. He began his career as the Director of Employee Communications for Denver-based Frontier Airlines, then, became a Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson) consultant and leader, spearheading major change communication/brand/merger and acquisition assignments for ExxonMobil, American Express, and JPMorgan Chase, to name just a few.

For the past year, as Chair of IABC, International, he traveled over 110,000 miles to five continents to share conversations with business communicators about the profession, its future, its challenges, its essentials. Recently retired from Towers Watson, Mark is an independent consultant and looking at the world from A Communicator’s View, sharing his thoughts on the countless opportunities for us all to continue to learn what it takes to effectively connect people, organizations and nations through effective communication.

Come hear this spirited and inspiring panel, then participate in a discussion on how you might take the next steps in your career, with relevance.

Join us at the fabulous LaGriglia, Thursday, September 9, at 11:30 a.m.

The Fabulous La Griglia

2002 West Gray

Houston, TX 77019

Beyond the Carrot and Stick: How to Win Commitment on 23-Sep-10 11:15 AM

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Beyond the Carrot and Stick: How to Win Commitment
Start Date: 23-Sep-10 11:15 AM
End Time: 23-Sep-10 1:00 PM
Location: Brennan's of Houston, Houston, TX 77006
Speaker: Kathi Crawford

Event Details:

Beyond the Carrot and Stick: How to Win Commitment

Whether you’re dealing with boards, bosses, colleagues, staff members or senior management, winning respect and cultivating influence, cooperation and commitment is a critical skill in today’s business environment. We can no longer “order” things to be done – people don’t respond to the “carrot and stick” approach today. The problems we are solving are no longer simple enough to gain agreement on one solution. We must work through the complexity of work challenges and have the ability to get other people to endorse our initiatives.

If you need to get work done through other people or need to convince another person to buy into an idea or follow up on a request, come to this session to:

Understand your personal power
Learn how to let work styles and communication differences work for, not against, you
Understand the person you’re trying to influence
Learn how to adapt your style to the person or situation you’re dealing with

Brennan's of Houston

3300 Smith Street

Houston, TX USA 77006

10-10 in 2010 -- Selling the 2010 Census to a Reluctant Audience on 28-Oct-10 11:15 AM

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:15:00 GMT

10-10 in 2010 -- Selling the 2010 Census to a Reluctant Audience
Start Date: 28-Oct-10 11:15 AM
End Time: 28-Oct-10 1:00 PM
Location: Brennan's of Houston, Houston, TX 77006
Speaker: Panel Presentation, Presenters Listed Below.

Event Details:

10-10 in 2010: Selling the 2010 Census to a Reluctant Audience

Program details to follow.

Brennan's of Houston

3300 Smith Street

Houston, TX USA 77006

Amateur Tools in a Professional World: FlipCams, and Other Fun Toys You Can Use at Work on 18-Nov-10 11:15 AM

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Amateur Tools in a Professional World: FlipCams, and Other Fun Toys You Can Use at Work
Start Date: 18-Nov-10 11:15 AM
End Time: 18-Nov-10 1:00 PM
Location: Brennan's of Houston, Houston, TX 77006
Speaker: Panel Presentation, Presenters Listed Below.

Event Details:

NOTE: This luncheon is one week early, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

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We use a lot of "toys" at home or on vacation which also can be used to good effect at work. Join us as the staff of Neighborhood Centers Inc. shows us some new tricks to pep up our communications and social media repertoire.

Brennan's of Houston

3300 Smith Street

Houston, TX USA 77006

Test Student Pricing on 4-Apr-12 8:30 AM

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:30:00 GMT

Test Student Pricing
Start Date: 4-Apr-12 8:30 AM
End Time: 4-Apr-12 5:30 PM
Location: test

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