CoREM Workshop, July 10, 2007.

To sign up for this free CoREM session, contact Kathi Bretcko
at 412-720-3450
or
KBretcko@InterLINKbusiness.com.

Selling Ideas to Management

So you have an idea. A GREAT idea. Now you have to sell it to your management….

Who hasn’t been in this position? Who hasn’t been frustrated by management’s inability to understand and to do the right thing? How many opportunities have been wasted by lack of approval of a good idea? And how much personal frustration has this caused over a career?

Our next CoREM presentation will offer you an opportunity to learn some immediately-applicable practices and principles to get management’s support for your ideas. In this fast-paced and highly participative session, Brien Palmer will offer you approaches informed by his 25 years as a practicing consultant. Come prepared to be challenged (hint: it’s not all management’s fault).

The workshop is based on a full-day seminar that Palmer has given for hundreds of people from all around the world. He presented a one-hour version of the program last month at the American Society for Quality’s International Quality Conference, and got comments like these:

° Excellent presentation skills; high energy level; good material; audience involvement. Very well attended – Great content with lots of tips for success.
° Very down to earth; good use of humor. Focus on consultative agreement; Good workshop topic
° Entertaining, valuable with excellent delivery AND tools to easily apply. Thank you!!!
° Outstanding speaker!! Motivating, useful information, practical
° Appreciated hearing success and failure experiences. Brien came across as being very genuine/real.
° The speaker has given me hope for myself!


To sign up for this free session, contact Kathi Bretcko at 412-720-3450 or KBretcko@InterLINKbusiness.com.

About the speaker: Brien Palmer is managing partner for InterLINK Management Consulting (www.InterLINKbusiness.com). He is also a board member and co-founder of CoREM, and author of Making Change Work: Practical Tools for Overcoming Organizational Resistance to Change http://www.asq.org/quality-press/display-item/index.html?item=H1202&author=Brien%20Palmer.

Palmer describes himself earlier in his career as the “world’s worst” salesman. His learned comfort in selling ideas to senior executives is proof that anybody can do it.

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Date: July 10, 2007
Time: Program - 4:00-6:00 PM, Social time - 6:00-6:45
Place: Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Monroeville (directions follow)
Sponsor: CoREM (the Council on Realizing Excellence in Management)
Cost: free
Registration: Contact Kathi Bretcko at 412-720-3450 or KBretcko@InterLINKbusiness.com.
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Directions to Forbes Road Career & Technology Center
The Center borders Boyce Campus of CCAC. Address: 607 Beatty Road, Monroeville, PA. 412-373-8100
From Downtown Pittsburgh: Go east on Interstate 376 (Parkway East) approximately 15 miles and get off the Parkway in Monroeville at exit 14B (Plum), just past exit 14A (Rt. 48). Proceed north through the intersection with the traffic light to the stop sign at Beatty Road. Van Horn’s Funeral Home will be on the far left corner. Turn right on to Beatty Road and drive to the second stop sign (Community College of Allegheny County--Boyce Campus entrance). Turn right and go approximately 100 feet. Turn left into the Forbes Road Career & Technology Center entrance (Gateway Press building is on the right).
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