Events

No prior bonding experience? Have difficulty qualifying for bonds? Want to increase your bond limits? Not even sure what bonding is and how it might affect your company? The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Surety Bond Guarantee Program can help your small business obtain contract bonds up to $10 million. Find out more in this free webinar July 24.

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Webinar Access: https://meet.lync.com/sba123/temurray/S3NTBBYW

Conference ID: 3074712

Access the webinar 5-10 minutes prior to start time. Click or copy the link above into your browser to attend. Instructions for connecting to audio will be presented on screen.

Questions? Contact Deputy District Director Marty Anderson at martin.anderson@sba.gov or 317-226-7272 ext. 111

All SBA programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance

Join us for a free workshop!   The presenters are Jacob Laskowski of 86 Creative and SCORE mentor, Bill Causey.

Jacob will first introduce the nuanced tendencies and characteristics of the millennial generation, and then share best practices for reaching them, showcasing a number of corporations and non-profits that are doing it well.

Registration recommended; space is limited.  Register here

Presented by SCORE Northeast Indiana

Entrepreneurial mentoring means wearing a lot of hats. Let us help define the role and expectations.

In this friendly, interactive workshop, you will learn about ‘Imposter Syndrome”. This is not a mental illness, it is a pattern of thinking in which a person, womenespecially, doubt their accomplishments and fear they will be exposed as a ‘fraud’. Even though a person can be quite competent, achieve high praise, academic honors, professional recognition and public accolades, they can still believe they aren’t good enough and lack confidence in their skills and abilities.

Fear of failure, guilt and denial of one’s own ability can create the Imposter Syndrome. The internal dialog that “I’m a fake” or “I was just lucky” or “I’m not good enough” becomes prevalent as women try to meet the image of perfection created by society. We struggle to meet the expectation of the perfect family, the perfect job, the perfect life. Internally we fear evaluation, we fear not being successful, we fear we aren’t being as ‘good’ as others and we fear we will be ‘exposed’ and we don’t deserve the recognition we have received.

• Do you feel like a phony?
• Do you believe you are letting yourself and others down?
• Do you think you aren’t doing a good job?
• Do you doubt your accomplishments?
• Do you feel like you are deceiving the people around you when it comes to your knowledge, skills and abilities?

FEAR NOT!

In reality, you are actually accomplishing quite a lot and you are NOT a fraud! You DO deserve praise! You ARE intelligent! You ARE successful! Are you perfect? No, but no one is perfect!
In this workshop you will learn:

• Why do we strive for this image of perfection?
• How to stop the negative talk.
• Quit beating yourself up with unrealistic demands and expectations you impose on yourself.
• How to squash feelings of self-doubt when it creeps into your thoughts
• Accept your achievements and praise from others.

Presented by Leslee Hill, Director of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC) Cost is $15 per person. Space is limited, you must RSVP by Friday, July 20 to attend. To reserve your seat, contact the Chamber of Commerce by calling 248-8131 or via email: office@whitleychamber.com.

Social & Marketing Breakfast Fort Wayne (@smbftw) is held the last Tuesday of each month at The NIIC.  Kevin Mullet, Cirrus ABS,  leads the program.  WEOC sponsors this event, so there’s no charge to attend.    We talk about social media and online marketing to help Fort Wayne businesses and professionals learn more about the ever-changing marketing landscape.  Attendance runs from 20 to 50 people depending on subject and time of year.  Oh yeah, bacon and bagels are served.  Registration runs from 7:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m..  The event runs from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m.

To learn more, please click on this link:  https://www.facebook.com/smbftw

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The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administraiton.

Cost:  Free

Social & Marketing Breakfast Fort Wayne (@smbftw) is held the last Tuesday of each month at The NIIC.  Kevin Mullet, Cirrus ABS, leads the program.   WEOC sponsors this event, so there’s no charge to attend.   We talk about social media and online marketing to help Fort Wayne businesses and professionals learn more about the ever-changing  marketing landscape.  Attendance runs from 20 to 50 people depending on the subject and time of year.  Oh yeah, bacon and bagels are served.  Registration runs from 7:30 until 8:00 a.m.   The event runs from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m.

For more information, click on this link:  https://www.facebook.com/smbftw/

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The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Cost:  Free

Hone your professional communication skills through the Strengthen Professional Communication Skills Workshop Series. This four-part workshop series focuses on how to build stronger overall professional communication effectiveness and is offered through the Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC). Elizabeth MacDonald, Communications Skills Advisor and Owner, The Verbal Edge, LLC, teaches each workshop and includes actionable items for attendees to use right away. Each workshop in the series focuses on a different topic.

Overview:

This workshop equips you with skills to confidently and respectfully initiate and/or take part in conversations you may normally avoid.

What you will learn:

• How to diplomatically, assertively, and successfully approach aggressive people
• Words, phrases, and demeanor that neutralize potentially challenging situations
• How to decrease gossip in the workplace
• How to professionally say “no”

Who should attend? Professionals who want to:

• amass skills to professionally and assertively approach, connect with, and/or confront difficult people in the workplace
• contribute to making the office/workplace a safe place to ask for assistance with projects, state ideas, disagree, give feedback, and collaborate

When: Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Location: The NIIC Cole Auditorium

Workshop Leader: Elizabeth MacDonald, The Verbal Edge, LLC

Agenda:

7:30-8 a.m.
8-8:05 Kickoff/Introduction
8:05-8:45 Program
8:45-8:55 Q&A
8:55 Survey
9 a.m. Adjourn

Light breakfast will be provided courtesy of WEOC

Registration is required. There is no cost to attend this workshop, sponsored by the WEOC.

Social & Marketing Breakfast Fort Wayne (@smbftw) is held the last Tuesday of each month at The NIIC.  Kevin Mullet, Cirrus ABS, leads the program.  WEOC sponsors this event, so there’s no charge to attend.  We talk about social media and online marketing to help Fort Wayne businesses and professionals learn more about the ever-changing marketing landscape.  Attendance runs from 20 to 50 people depending on the subject and time of year.  Oh yeah, bacon and bagels are served.  Networking runs from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m with the event running from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

For more information, click on this link:  https://www.facebook.com/smbftw/

Powered by:

The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Cost:  Free

Social & Marketing Breakfast Fort Wayne (@smbftw) is held the last Tuesday of each month at The NIIC.  Kevin Mullet, Cirrus ABS, leads the program.  WEOC sponsors this event, so there’s no charge to attend.   We talk about social media and online marketing to help Fort Wayne businesses and professionals learn more about the ever-changing marketing landscape.  Attendance runs from 20 to 50 people depending on the subject and time of year.  Oh yeah, bacon and bagels are served.  Networking runs from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. and the event runs from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

For more information, click the following link:  https://www.facebook.com/smbftw/

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The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Cost:  Free

Social & Marketing Breakfast Fort Wayne (@smbftw) is held the last Tuesday of each month at The NIIC.  Kevin Mullet, Cirrus ABS, leads the program.   WEOC sponsors this event, so there’s no charge to attend.  We talk about social media and online marketing to help Fort Wayne businesses and professionals learn more about the ever-changing  marketing landscape.  Attendance runs from 20 to 50 people depending on the subject and time of year.  Oh yeah, bacon and bagels are served.  Registration runs from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. and the event runs from 8:00  to 9:00 a.m.

For more information, please click this link:  https://www.facebook.com/smbftw/

Powered by:

The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Cost:  Free