Owning a business is a challenging task. Stress is a constant concern as you balance both business and personal objectives.

This webinar focuses on:
                  
understanding stress, the sources of stress and strategies for managing personal stress levels;
examining some proven techniques for business owners; and
the application of proven techniques through interactive exercises
Meet Your Facilitator: 

Dawn Watson is a Manager in the MNP Consulting Practice, in Saskatoon. Drawing on more than 18 years of professional experience across 3 continents, Dawn brings a strong background in IT service delivery, business transformation and organizational change management.  Dawn is an experienced consultant and coach, with a focus on transition & transformation through people, culture & engagement. Dawn encourages transparent collaboration, appreciative inquiry and appropriate, effective communication. Alongside her clients, they work together to break down silos, build strong teams and connect stakeholders to work towards a unified vision. 

Dawn has worked with public and private sector organizations developing and implementing service delivery models that focus on improving and enabling outcomes.  Her expertise and focus on change management ensures that people, process and technology are supported through design, transition and sustainability.  


            
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As a business owner, your plans for the business are highly dependent on the relationship you have with your financial institution.  This relationship starts with development and start up and will continue throughout the life of your business as your needs grow and change.  

In this session we will:
                
investigate various observations on raising early development/start-up money;
focus on identifying the need for both debt and equity financing as well as potential strategies for sourcing corporate requirements;
provide participants with information on strategies for raising second stage financing, including alternative debt and equity instruments and potential sources for expansion capital; and
discuss banking issues related to business operations, loan applications, collateral issues and financing proposals.
Meet Your Facilitator: 

Ron Brown is a Partner and Business Advisor in MNP’s Assurance Services group in Saskatoon. Ron draws on his personal business experience as well as his years in public practice to help owner-managers of small to mid-sized businesses in a range of industries overcome challenges and improve operations. He gets to know his clients and their businesses very well, allowing him to provide strong advice related to business and marketing. In addition, he assists with financial modeling, business planning, and succession planning. Ron is MNP’s succession lead in our North Saskatchewan region and has been focussing on this area over the past few years.  

Ron also owned and operated his own business for a number of years and was part of MNP’s corporate finance group so is very familiar with the challenges businesses face, in particular around financing. He relies on his diverse background, international work experience, business ownership skills and MNP’s broad-based expertise across the firm to find innovative and practical solutions to the everyday problems of business owners.


            
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A competitive strategy identifies how a business intends to compete in the markets it serves. This strategy provides the glue that gives shared meaning to all the activities within the business. 

In this session we will:
                
set effective strategies that are straightforward in their intent and direction;
determine how to create a clear sense of direction for their business, and;
position themselves to grow and develop their business with confidence.
Meet Your Facilitator: 

Janice Decelles is a Senior Consultant in the Consulting practice of MNP.  Her focus since joining the firm in 2005 Is to provide training and consulting to self employment clients and general human resource services.  An expert facilitator and instructional designer, she has extensive training management experience in the insurance and financial services sectors and is a certified customer service trainer.  Skilled in both individual and group training, Janice prides herself on being a positive contributor to her clients’ overall success.  Janice holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Advanced Certificate in Human Resources. 

            
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A good succession plan not only deals with the transfer of ownership but also the transfer of leadership. Without a clean transition of leadership, relationships and people the chances of failing are much higher. This webinar is designed to cover the essential components of succession planning and provide participants with possible exit strategies for transferring their business. 

In this session we will:
                
Where to begin and the succession planning process;
The benefits to succession planning;
Traps to avoid when establishing a succession plan; and
Blind spots to be aware of during the succession planning process.
Meet Your Facilitator: 

Lynne Fisher is the National Team Leader of MNP’s ExitSMART™ service. Located in the firm’s Edmonton office and drawing on more than 15 years of direct experience, Lynne brings her expertise to MNP’s comprehensive succession program, ExitSMARTTM, which offers end-to-end succession planning for privately held companies. She has worked with clients in a variety of industries and brings expertise from having been a business owner, commercial banker, consultant and educator.

As a Certified Family Council Facilitator, Lynne has worked as a trusted advisor with some of western Canada’s leading privately held and family-owned companies, helping in the transition of ownership and leadership from the founder(s) to the next generation of leaders and establishing governance structures to preserve and progress the wealth and wisdom of families. Lynne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and is a Certified Family Council Facilitator. 

            
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Business owners need to build high performance teams to operate effectively as a business and to most effectively service customers.  As a business owner or engaged team member you will explore personal and corporate values and discover how corporate values can be integrated into your day-to -day operations and observable behaviours.

Upon completion of this two part webinar series, participants will:
                
understand the importance of employee relationships as well as the impact and associated cost of turnover,;
understand team dynamics and identify strategies to enhance team effectiveness,;
understand and identify leadership philosophy and personal values and be able to connect these and the corporate values to identified observable actions,;
understand the concept of Group Think and discovering the strength and value of “two heads are better than one”,;
be able to utilize a model for decision making and effective communication, and;
understand the value of employee engagement and identify ways to fully engage team members
Meet Your Facilitator: 

Lynne Fisher is the National Team Leader of MNP’s ExitSMART™ service. Located in the firm’s Edmonton office and drawing on more than 15 years of direct experience, Lynne brings her expertise to MNP’s comprehensive succession program, ExitSMARTTM, which offers end-to-end succession planning for privately held companies. She has worked with clients in a variety of industries and brings expertise from having been a business owner, commercial banker, consultant and educator.

As a Certified Family Council Facilitator, Lynne has worked as a trusted advisor with some of western Canada’s leading privately held and family-owned companies, helping in the transition of ownership and leadership from the founder(s) to the next generation of leaders and establishing governance structures to preserve and progress the wealth and wisdom of families. Lynne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and is a Certified Family Council Facilitator. 

            
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