Style for Success

Your bearing, manners and behavior in any business situation largely determine your success or failure. Etiquette Power is a must seminar for anyone who wants to give themselves a clear advantage in today’s marketplace.

All successful business is about relationships. It takes ten times the effort and expense to acquire a new client than it does to maintain an existing one. How are you at building and maintaining those relationships? What about internal client relationships and civility towards colleagues?

The client experience and relationship is based on all your personal interactions whether at your place of work or theirs. This hands-on business protocol program is designed to provide the skills to build rapport and long lasting business relationships whether your role is guest or host or co-worker.

Seminar Content:

Maximize Your Hosting Skills	Creating Memorable Introductions
- 3 keys to get business off to a great start - Finessing internal relationships - Effective faux pas recovery techniques - Improving each point of client contact	- The protocol of introductions - Utilizing the “tag line technique” - Smooth business card practices - Crafting a powerful self-introduction
Master Face-to-face Communications	Expand Your Positive Reputation
- The 3 second first impression - 4 secrets of body language - Inspire confidence with your handshake - Approachability from across the room	- Strengthening team spirit - leaders' ways to acknowledge others - Effective ways to build trust

Who Will Benefit:

Anyone who wants to build credibility and make a great impression with employers, clients and colleagues.

Etiquette Power - Next seminar TBA

Please call 780-472-0767 for details

Seminar Leaders: Joanne Blake and Terry Pithers

Joanne Blake and Terry Pithers are internationally known speakers, trainers and image/etiquette experts. For almost 20 years, their company, Style For Success has been helping organizations and their people become more polished and confident. Their seminars are both fun and effective and boast an extremely high level of participant satisfaction

Savvy Networking -- Taking the Work - Out of Networking!

According to studies by Harvard and Stanford business schools, the ability to converse and build relationships with employers, colleagues and clients is identified as the #1 success factor.

For any professional, the ability to communicate and network effectively can boost your profile and engender better business alliances and connections for mutual benefit. This seminar will enhance both your professional and personal life by providing you with some simple strategies to quickly build rapport with others.

Learn to start small talk and take it to big talk, enter and exit conversations with finesse and methods to personalize ongoing follow-up to ensure long-term relationships. At the end of this seminar you will be able to experience more confidence when interacting with new contacts.

Step-by-step approach to effectively connect with anyone, anywhere and move into and out of conversations with ease. There will be plenty of scenario demonstrations, skills practice, lively mini lectures and group discussions.

Seminar Content:

Maximize Your Effectiveness	Charismatic Conversation
- Leverage results with ‘sphere of influence’ - Finessing the business card exchange - Become your own marketing director - 7 secrets of successful mingling	- Move small talk to big talk - Exiting conversations with class - 3 steps to build your comfort zone - Moving in and out of groups
Methods of Initiating Conversation	Organic Follow-up for Results
- Effortless ways to break the ice - Drawing out shy people - Effective ways to connect with anyone - Benefit by becoming the ‘unofficial host’	- Shrink the “6 degrees of separation” - Contact management to set you apart - Influencing within your organization - Organic opportunities for reconnection

Who Will Benefit:

Anyone who wants to gain a higher profile, build stronger client relationships and be more effective, comfortable and confident in mixing and mingling situations.

Savvy Networking - Next seminar TBA

Please call 780-472-0767 for details

Seminar Leaders: Joanne Blake and Terry Pithers

'Brand' New You - Image Enhancement Workshops for Career Women

Invest in yourself to look as vibrant as you feel!

Join image expert Joanne Blake for a transformational full day workshop.

Limited to 8 participants so you receive expert personal advice
and tools to revitalize your personal image in a safe, supportive environment.

This fun and cost effective full day workshop combines Joanne’s exclusive individual consulting with the best of her popular image seminars to give you a Brand New You. Joanne’s warmth enables her to give you honest supportive advice and tell you what your best friends won’t.

Brand New You workshop has plenty of interactive hands-on skills practice:

Discover your best colours - to look more visible and attractive
Focus on shape, not size - no matter your weight, look well-proportioned
Critique of your career outfit - what works, what doesn’t & gameplan
Make-up to look your best - ‘how to’ easy steps with a top make-up expert
Update your hair - advice on colour, style & stylist to revitalize your look
Explore the fashion trends - what makes you look current & what doesn’t

Comments from previous participants:

Course was great. I loved it! Invaluable – dead on

I am going to look at what I have and capsule my wardrobe identifying where I need to add.

Donna Joy Loe

Joanne, thank you so much! This was exactly what I needed and very much appreciate your feedback and your ability to make a potentially sensitive topic into a safe, comfortable conversation and learning experience.

Charmaine Hammond

Joanne is warm, genuine and caring and the women in my class felt very cared for, enlightened and surprised at all the eye opening things we learned. If you are trying to change, update or just get a handle on building a professional look, I know you will love this day as much as I did.

Lisa Chell

Thank you so much! I had a great day and learned so much. Even some things I’m doing right.

Sharon Gowling

You will be asking yourself - why didn’t I do this sooner!

Workshop Leader:

Joanne Blake is an internationally known speaker, trainer and one of only 125 image consultants world-wide to earn the “Certified Image Professional” designation. She and her company, Style for Success have been setting the standard in image training in Canada for almost 20 years. Joanne has been featured on television, radio, The Globe and Mail and The New York Times. She helps people look and feel their best to become more successful

Give yourself a gift that will make you look and feel your best!

Location:	#1, 9750 – 51 Avenue, Edmonton

Dates:	March Workshop Fri. Mar. 26th Includes lunch,refreshments & workbook 9:00 to 4:30 pm	April Workshop TBA call 780-472-0767 for details

Investment:	$650 +gst Early Bird $550 until Mar. 15th
	Plus earlybird registrants receive a free copy of Joanne's new book

Only 8 spots in each Brand New You workshop.

Bonus:

Early bird registrants also receive a free copy of Joanne's new book Executive Image Power

Registering two or more people? Call for group discount rates.

To register and pay using credit card click on workshop button

Mar. 26th Brand New You - Full Day Workshop

Save $100 Early Bird Only $550 (+gst) before Mar. 8th

View or print Brand New You Brochure (pdf)

Image Power For Men - Dressing for Credibility and Success!

Your image speaks volumes,
make sure it sends the message you want.

Are You
• Looking to communicate a successful professional image?
• Too busy to follow trends but want to look up-to-date?
• Wanting to look great when casually dressed
• Needing simple image advice to take you to your next career level

This is the seminar for you standout & boost your career & reputation.
This engaging seminar will provide you with logical easy to understand image advice to ensure you look your best in your career and life.

Seminar Content:

Maximize Your First Impression	Looking Great in your Casual Wear
• The 3 second first impression • Your industry’s secret dress code • 10 decisions others make based on image • Dressing for the job you want	• 4 secrets of great casual wear • Khakis versus jeans versus dress slacks • Patterns and styles that suit your body • Avoiding the 7 casual wear traps
Looking credible in business wear	Simplifying Your Wardrobe
• Suits versus sport jackets • Updating your image • Signaling power and/or approachability • Paying attention to the details	• Quality versus quantity • Suiting your career and lifestyle • Accessories that round out

Who Will Benefit:

Men who want to refine their image to appear at their best in every business and social situation.

Image Power For Men - Next seminar TBA

Please call 780-472-0767 for details

Seminar Leaders: Joanne Blake and Terry Pithers

Dress Code Compliance and Coaching Techniques for HR Professionals

- Achieving Brand Congruence and Buy-in

Clothing issues often fall at HR’s door and can be challenging to deal with.

This seminar will help:

Develop an awareness of the power of personal image and brand
Supply language and tools to evaluate and discuss dress
Raise the bar with casual wear and build brand congruence
Provide a forum to develop and discuss best practices

Seminar Content:

Achieving Brand Congruence	Credible Business Casual
• What brand congruence looks like • Awareness of the power of image • Management’s role • Achieving employee buy-in	• Defining casual wear • Preventing casual wear casualties • Jean strategies • Pre-empting “summertime dress issues” • Situational dressing
Communicating and Empowering	Effective Image Coaching
• Understanding your industry standards • The clothing hierarchy in business • Image management tools • Establishing your standards	• Sensitive issues – “skin” & “grooming” • Successful dress guidelines • Sharing best practices - group discussion • Game plan for success

This engaging seminar is designed for HR professionals to give you tools and tips to effectively assist supervisors and employees to make better clothing choices to represent themselves and your organization in a more credible fashion.

Dress Standards and Coaching for HR Professionals

- Next seminar TBA

Please call 780-472-0767 for details

Seminar Leaders: Joanne Blake and Terry Pithers

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