Looking to understand some of the essentials related to taxes? Join us for a session designed to help the small business owner understand basic concepts related to understanding taxes, and tips to help save on fees. Topics vary from a general overview of taxes to how to implement a tax strategy that makes sense for you and your business.

Other topics:

• 5 factors impacting your tax position
• Standard and Itemized Deductions
• Common business and personal deductions to help you reduce your tax liability
• A basic overview of reading your personal tax return
• Know when you’re taxed if taking money out of your business
• Tax saving vehicles like Retirement Plans and HSA’s
• Red Flags to help you avoid an audit
• Maintaining an Audit Trail to account for all cash coming in and out
• How Section 179 and Cost Segregation studies can lower your tax liability
• Why paying off your business’s loans doesn’t reduce your taxes
• Pass-through entities and the S Corporation option
• What is double taxation on C Corporations?
• Tax terminology converted to easy-to-understand terms

In this fast-paced break-out session, we will cover what sales is, and make selling easy and fun for anyone! With three simple topics: asking for the business, handling objections, and closing the sale, you will never look at Sales the same again. After this workshop, you will find the joy, passion, and fun of selling with your new-found skills and perspective on the ins and outs of Sales!

A system for how to make cold calls, and how to introduce yourself

• Easy steps to handling objections and how to avoid them altogether
• Learn how to take a no and turn it into a yes, by asking 3 simple questions
• Learn how to overcome sales resistance and discover sales in a new way that will inspire you
• Learn how to make asking for the business, or closing the sale, in a way that feels good for you and the prospect
• Plus, additional tools and insights to accelerate your business sales!

Currently, with the tight job market, finding qualified talent is getting harder. Having the essential skills to hire, motivate, and communicate is essential for your business.

In this workshop, you will learn the 6 key motivators that every person has and how understanding these and knowing their motivators can help you improve your communication, relationships, and leadership. Utilizing this with DISC and behavioral styles, we will explore how to use these tools in the hiring process, helping you better understand how to communicate, support, and train your new hires. This also will help you establish job benchmarking to best match candidates to the position you are hiring to reduce turnover and increase employee retention and fulfillment.

• Learn the 6 key motivators that drive every human being
• Understand how to utilize the 6 motivators to improve your communication & leadership
• Discover how to better match candidates to the job using benchmarking
• Learn how to use DISC and Motivators to develop benchmarks for the position
• Know the 5 values in which people know they are appreciated
• Better ways to communicate during the hiring process, setting yourself and the new hire up to succeed
• Additional tools and insights to improve your hiring and retention.

Coaching, Feedback, and the Principles that guide you are essential qualities of high-quality leadership. In this Mastery class, you will learn the fundamentals of giving quality feedback to help people hear what they need to hear so that they can understand it. You will learn the steps to providing feedback and a framework to guide you in the different aspects of those crucial conversations with your team members. This session will give you the tools to facilitate conversations you need with your team to acknowledge them for what they did great and areas of improvement.

• Essential steps to high-quality feedback and coaching
• How to focus on what is great
• How to share areas of improvements

Part 1: Coaching and Feedback Mastering

Coaching, Feedback, and the Principles that guide you are essential qualities of high-quality leadership. In this session, you will learn the fundamentals of giving quality feedback to help people hear what they need to hear so that they can understand it. You will learn the steps to providing feedback and a framework to guide you in the different aspects of those crucial conversations with your team members. This session will give you the tools to facilitate conversations you need with your team to acknowledge them for what they did great and areas of improvement.

Part 2: Conflict & Conflict Resolution

Conflict, unfortunately, is inevitable in any business and team. Understanding how to turn conflict around to build trust can turn challenges into opportunities and, most importantly, trust! In this session, we will focus on facilitating difficult conversations and sharing strategies to get through conflict.