Events

DO YOU NEED HELP UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS?

If so, attend our seminar: Finances for Non-Financial Managers

Topics:

• What is a Cash Flow Statement
• Learn to understand Gross Profit Margin
• Operating Profit Margin
• Net Profit Margin
• Return of Assets
• Return on Equity

Learn about:

• Liquidity-Current Ratio
• Quick Ratio
• Inventory Turnover Ratio
• Receivables Turnover Ratio
• Days Payable Outstanding and Debt Ratio

Presenter:

Tim Meyer, CPA, CMA, CGMA & Score Mentor in Warsaw. 35 years Controllership in the Orthopedic Industry.

Your only cost to participate is your commitment, your time and a “No Excuses” Mindset.

If you have a scheduling conflict, send your backup.

When: May 29, 2018, 5 to 7 pm

Where: Ivy Tech North Campus off St. Joe Road, first Left off Dean Dr. at the Keith Busse Technology Center, Room TC1315/17

Click here to register.

Take this crash course to pick up valuable tips on how to get the most out of your mentoring relationships. At the end of this crash course you’ll be able to:

• Identify and implement the habits that will allow you to get exceptional value from your mentor relationship
• prepare, plan and structure the mentoring meeting
• know how to identify your mentors’ communication style and how to speak to it
• understand importance of following up on mentoring advice
• know what it means to be coachable and the difference it makes in your mentoring relationship

When: Wednesday, May 30, 2018
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Where: Cole Auditorium

Hosted by: Toni Widman, President, Integrated Talent Solutions

Registration is required

This workshop shows the pervasiveness of negative speaking (and thinking) in the business world and how we can switch that to the positive and transform our communication with our colleagues, clients, and ourselves. Bonus: this also applies to our personal lives!

What you will learn:

• The various negative phrases we say without thinking
• Why these phrases are confusing, as well as counterproductive
• How to detect and reword negative phrases

Who should attend? Professionals who want:

• their communication to be effective, clear, and productive
• to become aware of certain phrases and words that need to be changed

When: Wednesday, June 13, 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. Breakfast/Networking
8-8:05 Kickoff/Introduction
8:05-8:45 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.

Each year United States businesses lose over $1 Trillion of revenue due to fraudulent accounting practices and embezzlement. Small businesses are most commonly victimized. Losses are generally substantially higher, and the duration until discovery is much longer. Oftentimes, the result is closure of the business.

Abigail Grenfell, MBA, CFE, CIA, CPA, President, Internal Control and Anti-Fraud Experts, LLC, Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC), The NIIC, and Fort Wayne SCORE are partnering to offer an anti-fraud workshop for business owners and CFOs/Controllers.

The objective is to train on 10 easy things you can do to reduce your risk without spending a dime. There is no charge to attend this workshop. Registration is required, and seating is limited to 80 individuals.

When: Thursday, June 21, 2018

7:30 – 8:00 am: Check-in / Networking

8:00 – 10:00 am: Workshop

Where:
The NIIC – Cole Auditorium
3201 Stellhorn Rd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46815

Click here to register.

Ms. Grenfell is passionate about serving small to mid-sized business owners. Internal Control and Anti-Fraud Experts was formed in 2013 to assist public reporting companies with their required internal control compliance and reporting requirements in a cost-effective manner. The company’s expanded services include internal control assistance to privately held companies and a full range of forensic accounting and litigation support services for all companies. Grenfell has authored multiple articles published by Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants. For more information about Ms. Grenfell and Internal Control and Anti-Fraud Experts, LLC, visit www.icafemn.com.

Trust is complex and multi-faceted. In this crash course, we simplify it and provide examples of how trust is essential for mentoring success. At the end of this crash course you’ll be able to:

• Identify how to maximize trust in the mentoring relationship
• Apply tactics for developing trust in your mentoring relationship

When: Wednesday, June 27, 2018
8:00 am – 9:30 am

Where: Cole Auditorium

Hosted by: Toni Widman, President of Integrated Talent Solutions

Registration is required.

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

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.