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NEXT SMART IDEAS SEMINAR

“How to Hold Effective Meetings.”
If you struggle with meetings, have too many ineffective meetings, or suffer meeting fatigue, this seminar will put your meeting process on a productive, (and popular) track.

Burnaby
June 14th, 8:01AM
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Breakfast is included.

For Reservations:
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Site training seminars on a budget!

Lunch and Learns you can book for your company only.

Any past BPG seminar can be conducted for your team only, on your premises. Use the lunch and learn idea. Order pizza in, we’ll do the seminar, and 1.5 hours later your people are back at work with a new attitude and new skills.

1. TIME MANAGEMENT—How to reduce your work container from 40 hours to 20.
Planning, organizing, prioritizing. Throughput velocity, relevant work, indulgent work, hobby work. Getting more done with less. 17 barriers and time wasters. Using the week as the central organizing unit. Resource leveraging, using goal power, reducing the work container from 40 hours to 20 / week, bringing your team into the loop, creativity and option thinking, handling incoming, managing multiple projects, paper, email, reports, chaos, - welcome to our company! 
Ask for workbook overview pdf. And review the content.

2. ABSENTEEISM. How to cut your sick days by 2/3’s.
2/3’s of all sick days don’t include a sick person. 2/3’s of all sick days are about employees not caring about their jobs. Why coaching managers have higher attendance than any other style.  Problems with attendance management and resulting legalism.  How to determine attendance habits at time of hiring. Using your company’s sick day average to manage for higher attendance.
Ask for workbook pdf and review the content.

3. SALES. How to Sell a Boeing 747 and other big ticket items.
B2B selling systems capable of manufacturing a sale. Change your sales team’s revenue generation plan. Introduce systems, KPI’s, measures, focus, and profiling.  Increase your sales by 40%, shift sales planning to market potential. Implement a system that scales, build your department. CRM based, pipeline stages, sales process engineering approach. 

What kinds of companies use sales process engineering?

B2B, (business to business, not B2C), with substantial market potential.  Often over wide geography, the America’s or world. Large ticket purchase or annual account value, short or long cycle time. For transaction or relationship buying patterns. Often multiple decision makers on the client / customer side, (complex sale). Products, services, service agreements, distribution, training, end users, resellers, VARs, distributors. Enterprise software sales, manufacturers, engineering projects, building construction, industrial sales, and more.

For pdf brochure overview of this training program please ask us.

4. Prices: For groups of 20 or less, $850 for local events.
Chamber of Commerce, Rotary or other Association events, free.
Convention keynotes, please ask for quote.

5. Book your Lunch ‘n Learn, these and other bpg subjects, 604-931-6813
Email wolf@managing.ca
Thank you.

 

Careers - FILLED!

Creativity First, Recruiting Second
Metrik Management Inc.

Smart, savvy, saucy, fat with business, concept-playful boutique consulting firm with down beat music & ambient endlessly on loop, seeks an HR minded someone, a problem solver, a thoughtful people finder, a coffee drinker, a carnivore, a verbally inclined “get them on the phone” type to take charge of client accounts, wrestle a workload to the ground: conducting insightful interviews, writing reports with the conviction of a prophet and having a sincere interest in the insanely great projects tossed at us and the insanity we dabble in to find an outcome.

We solve business process problems. We are paid to connect the dots differently. For the last 24 years some of BC’s most well known business have shown up at our door with outright fascinating and mind blowing projects. Some need strategy, some need people recruited, HR services, leadership. That’s where you come in. Helping us find the right people to fit into their businesses.

THE POSITION:

  • We want you to take care of our clients recruiting needs and to do it well.
     
  • Offer your knowledge and advice to those great clients of ours who currently do not use us for recruiting. Make the phone calls, and let them know that it’s a service we offer. If you're any good and they believe you feel their pain, they'll call us next time they have a hiring problem.
  • Have a fascination with leadership, morale, management, HR, retention, and the connection to profit and competitive advantage.
     
  • Have a sincere interest in interviewing great candidates. Around here we refer to it as unravelling a person's life. Do you care enough to connect the dots in ways our clients never thought of? To learn things not said? To read between the lines and get the rest of the story without even asking? Interviewing is a creative process. It's an art.
     
  • Creativity. We’re not your run of the mill Docker’s & polo shirt bunch. We don't dress formally and we don't think formally. We wear flip flops from Mexico in the winter and cultured pearls with jeans. What does that mean to you? Whiteboards all over our office, great music, good coffee. The creative process is no joke.
     
  • All our work is retainer work, like a law firm, if it moves the client's goal ahead, it's billable time. Be consciensious, be very good at what you do. Don't rush, don’t be silly. Think clearly, give a damn. Add value with your mind and crunching power.
     
  • Write well structured reports. We get paid to think while we work, but unless you write it down our non-mind reader clients simply won't know what's going on.
     
  • You must attend our monthly leadership breakfasts and get to know our clients, their aches and pains. This is who we work for, - this is who pays our bills.
     
  • When it comes to recruiting, we specialize in finding managers and team leaders at all levels. That includes general managers, engineers, construction site superintendents, senior sales executives in software, engineering, and construction, HR directors, marketing guru’s, advertising reps, inside sales people, all products and outside sales for more traditional industries. Additionally, strange creative postions in all mediums or system and process creative types seem to be probable for us to fill.
     
  • We don't sell, we service. We service so well, people give us their problems again and again. We’ve been in business 24 years. We have clients for life.

WHO YOU ARE:

  • Possibly you're currently working in a traditional recruiting firm but feel your skills aren't being utilized. You'd like to handle a few less accounts and do higher quality work.
     
  • You might be on a commission plan and find it's not working for you, you're not reaching your targets. That's fine. Call us anyways, we want to speak to you.
     
  • You're a capable sales person but prefer long term customer relationships.
     
  • You would like to broaden your skills to include consulting work where your HR and recruiting experience is recognized.
     
  • You might have a business or HR degree. But, your creativity and experience is more interesting to me than your formal education.
     
  • You have 2 - 3 years inside sales experience as well as interviewing skills.

WHAT WE WILL GIVE YOU:

  • A competitive base salary, depending on your experience.
     
  • A bonus, based on total billable hours to the client generated
     
  • A standing client base for you to go to work with.
     
  • Funky work environment. Our ‘Pier One’ inspired office occupies the entire third floor of the Perry Roe Professional Building – a one hundred year old turn of the century mansion, a landmark building in Port Moody.
     
  • We’re willing to look at this two ways. Either as a junior position or possibly a mid career position. We will structure the work and pay plan accordingly.

This is a truly unusual career opportunity. Interested applicants please send your resume to Heidi direct at

Let your cover letter drip with your creative abilities as well as your ability to write a short, lucid, one page report. To better understand us, check out our website at www.managing.ca

© 1981 - 2011 Metrik Management Inc.
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