Tamara Simon

Build Your BPS Roadmap For Success

5 Steps for getting CLEAR on your Business, People and Systems
(from Tamara’s book)

Clarity about the 7C’s (Core, Clients, Cash, Culture, Context, Capacity, Capability)

Leadership as you DARE to Lead (Direction, Accountability, Responsibility, Example)

Establish the PLAN (Past, Landscape, Attitude, Numbers)

Analysis is when you start to SMILE (Systems, Meetings, Information, Language, Expectation)

Reality is all about CHANGE (Consistency, Holidays, Achievements, No as an acceptable word, Generosity, Energy)

• Whether you’re a Reluctant Business Owner
• The 5 stages in the life of a small business owner
• Common mistakes in building your Business, People and Systems (BPS)
• 5 steps to getting CLEAR on your BPD Roadmap for success

Tamara Simon is an accomplished Keynote Speaker, Workshop Presenter, Facilitator and Trainer who provides audiences with simple solutions to their problems in her passionate, high energy and fun manner (and a bit of tough love thrown in).

For over 25 years, she has spoken at business conferences and been voted by delegates as one of their TOP 5 PRESENTERS.

Tamara is the SIMPLE SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST driven by CURIOSITY, CHANGE and SIMPLICITY, and is affectionately known as Australia’s small business answer to Bob the Builder (can she fix it, yes she can).

Where most people see things as they are, Tamara sees things differently – she sees things as problems, possibilities and simple systems which reveal how things can and should be.

And that’s why she wrote her first business book The Five Little Business Pigs: Helping Reluctant Build Simple Profitable Businesses They Love
which uses the analogy of the fairytale of The Three Little Pigs because that’s how we build our small businesses: from Straw to Stick to Brick. But there’s two other Business Pigs: The Reno and The Rundown

Tamara understands it’s the PROBLEMS
(ie the cracks in the bricks) which holds small business owners back and stop….:

• Them from growing – both personally and professionally
• Them from having the success they desire
• Them from doing the work they really love
• Their businesses from being profitable.

This is why she knows the key to small business success lies in building five essential foundations:

1. Focus Your TIME
2. Embrace Your ROLE
3. Design Your SYSTEMS
4. Guide Your PEOPLE
5. Constantly Renovate Your BUSINESS

Tamara’s understanding of the problems facing small business owners and CEOs as they juggle managing their time, staff, systems AND growing the business is evident in her stories and ability to think on her feet and problem solve on the go.

With over twenty-five years experience in change management, business improvement, organisational development and training, she has worked with over twelve industry sectors across public, private and not-for-profit organisations.

Tamara’s leadership and management expertise has been formally recognised as a:

• Queensland Finalist in the Telstra Young Business Women’s Awards
• Brisbane Finalist in the Institute of Manager and Leaders’ Excellence Awards
• Recipient of the Queensland Industry Training Council’s ‘Leadership in VET’ Award.

Dr Deniese Cox

Avatar-presented content: What’s the impact on learning and outcomes?

Deniese is known as the go-to source for exceptional online teaching strategies that really are effective. Every research-driven strategy presented by Deniese has been extensively trialed, refined, and proven to work in a variety of VET settings by diverse educators, designers, and learners.

With extensive hands-on experience of her own in the online space, a Masters in L&D, and a PhD in online education, Deniese is ideally placed to help teams cut through the noise around teaching online.

Her ongoing research is what enables Deniese to continuously share up-to-date insights, and her commitment to developing practical strategies is what makes her PD sessions really stand out. Consistently one of the highest rated speakers at conferences and events, you don’t want to miss this session.

Leanne Hughes

How to design fast, without the stress

Overview: Let’s face it, designing a workshop can be a daunting task.

There are so many variables and decision points:
– How do you start the session?
– What activities can you use to bring content to life?
– What information should you share?

It’s no wonder that we often spend days (or weeks) searching online for the perfect activity.

After spending far too much time designing her own workshops, Leanne developed a formula that allows her to create sessions that hit the mark every time.

And she’s sharing her secrets with you in this 90 minute virtual masterclass.

Dan Hill

Design and Deliver

Over the last three decades, Dan has had the fortune of working in several industry sectors including defence, retail, wholesale distribution, mining, education and ITC. As a published author of several industry-leading titles, and a regular contributor to most social platforms, Dan has gained a considerable reputation in adult education, and education leadership and management.

He designs and facilitates nationally accredited courses in vocational education and leadership. Dan has also developed and run several specialised programs in the fields of emotional intelligence, workplace training and assessment, brain-based learning, and organisational culture.

As a passionate facilitator and speaker, Dan is able to engage groups with the right mix of humour, theory, practical activities and self-reflection. His professional experience allows him to draw upon interesting and poignant anecdotes and examples that link past experience in management, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, operations and strategy to the context of any workplace or training environment.

Qualifications and Accreditations

Doctor of Philosophy (Diversity Management), RU (2008)

Graduate Certificate in Business, QUT (2000)

Master of Business Administration, QUT (2001)

Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (2013)

Laurie Kelly

Power up the Learning -Maximise the Impact

When we use Brain-Friendly delivery techniques – Participants learn, and learning Sticks !

In this workshop you will experience the five principles of Brain-Friendly Training in action. You will experience simple, practical things to include in training delivery, so that you know you are getting your message across, and you know it will stick and transfer back into the workplace.

It is a workshop full of ideas to excite and engage your participants no matter what content you are covering. You will experience PROCESSES that are simple, refreshing, practical and totally relevant to the challenges of educating and facilitating today.

Learning outcomes

• You will experience and understand the five principles of Brain Friendly Training so you can use the latest understanding of the Brain to assist students’ learning.
• By experiencing these principles throughout the session you will know they work and will be confident to use them with your content and within your context.
• Expect to re-ignite the passion about how great teaching and facilitation can make a difference.
• Expect word of mouth referrals from happy successful students, L and D sponsors and workplace supervisors.
• It does not matter what modes of delivery you use or the content you deliver, you will accelerate learning with an understanding of current research in how the Brain learns.

Who should attend:

Word of Mouth referrals are the life-blood for any trainer or L and D team They are the most cost effective marketing tool that we have. These referrals come from happy clients. These clients are participants who received great training that engaged and inspired them with practical learning transfer into the workplace. Maintain your currency and competency with cutting edge skills and  be prepared to have fun whilst stretching  your own thinking  as you experience some Brain Friendly training and lots of ideas you can immediately use in your own practice. Be inspired to ignite the desire for continuous improvement. You and your participants will love it.

It is, however absolutely essential, to have an open mind and a sense of adventure, where you may learn techniques that will make your teaching and training design even better.

Presenter:

Laurie Kelly from Brain Friendly Training is a leading provider of Professional Development for Educators and Trainers around Australia. Laurie has had excellent feedback with the delivery of these programs to facilitators and educators, in both the Private and Public sectors throughout Australia and Internationally.

Laurie is passionate about the importance of the information he shares.

Everybody can learn a little bit more about how to use their brain and Laurie has the ability to explain just how to do that. Don’t expect to just hear about Brain friendly training – expect to experience it.

It’s not about hype, it’s not about complicated theories, and it’s not about hollow words. It’s about taking a common sense approach, coupled with new information, in order to make a big difference.

Train the brain-friendly way, and all hemispheres will love you

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Neil Von Heupt

Every single L&D person who finds out I work in social media says ‘Cool … you can help me with mine’. So here’s that help – to make social media work for you. In an interactive session, you’ll learn how to create a professional profile and how to build your network. You’ll learn the secrets to creating great content and engaging your audience, and how you can use social media to enhance your professional development.

The endgame? Bringing learning, jobs, great content, awesome people and leads TO you.

Neil Von Heupt is one of Australia’s top learning designers. He’s worked on award-winning projects, is a conference, festival and event speaker, podcast guest, and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Training and Development, and the Institute of Learning Professionals Asia Pacific. He’s a blogger and an experienced social media user across multiple platforms since their earliest days.

Neil designs learning to deliver performance and business outcomes. Nothing boring, no ‘click next’ snooze-fests – purposeful, engaging, collaborative, practical experiences that deliver results. As former Head of Learning Design at Social Media College, and founder of the social media agency ‘circusocial’, Neil is perfectly placed to bring the worlds of social media and L&D together.And he has an awesome kombi.

Melanie Martinelli

Demonstrating Training effectiveness – how to make this bane into a boon

Have you ever told yourself that evaluating to show results is too difficult? Have you ever wondered if there are easier, more fun ways to build a cohesive chain of evidence that is both useful and credible to your stakeholders?

If either yes or no, then this session is definitely for you! If you answered yes above, you will go away with ideas and practical tips on how to evaluate across the four Kirkpatrick levels in a simple, fun and cost effective manner. If you answered no to the above question, you are either currently not evaluating enough and could start with these techniques, OR you have it all figured out and can get into a great exchange of ideas with like-minded people!

During this session we will look at 4 key principles for a more purposeful approach to evaluation. We will share success stories from our clients and easy to adopt examples that you can quickly start building into your own evaluation charter.

Melanie combines her entrepreneurial spirit with her 15+ years of experience in L&D to help build memorable & results-based learning experiences. Being a Certified KP Facilitator and Transfer Enabler, she applies strong business acumen & a deep understanding of what makes learning stick to support clients in being more strategic in their L&D initiatives. Melanie is the co-owner of the Learning Gym, where the focus is on upskilling learning professionals in the field of training design, delivery, and evaluation.

Adam Le Good

Presenting with purpose
A vital component of a successful presentation is a clearly formulated, well written goal. It is essential to the success of your session. Without it you have no specific direction to follow. No way of knowing what to include, what to leave out and what to emphasise.

Developing effective goals begins with defining the purpose of your presentation and building specific measurable goals based on that. In this session we will look at the different reasons for a presentation and develop effective learning goals.

Adam is a facilitator and consultant with over 25 years’ experience. Over that time, he has developed and conducted a wide variety of management and personal development programs for a broad cross section of clients.
As well as being the General Manager for the ILP Academy he still runs his successful Training business, Fundamental Training and Development.

As well as a degree in Psychology, Adam has completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, an Advanced Train the Trainer, a Creative Training Techniques workshop and a Diploma of Management. He is currently completing the new Certificate IV in Learning Design and Facilitation.

As an avid student of human behaviour, he is a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Step I and Step II), the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, the Team Management Systems, DISC Advanced, the Belbin Team Roles, CCS Cards and Collaborizza.

Adam is also a member of the Australian Association of Psychological Type (AUSAPT) and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce.

Outside of Learning and Development Adam is a father to the multi-talented Josh who also runs his own business and is known in musical circles as Calavera. He is also an avid photographer and is the current president of the Knox Photographic Society.

Lison Mage

Professional Attributes

In “Purple Cow”, the best-selling author and marketing guru Seth Godin explains how businesses can leverage uniqueness to achieve incredible results.

Similarly, L&D professionals can help businesses form and foster purple teams. Building on a confrontational military technique, the innovative “purple team” concept pushes the boundaries of critical and creative thinking, improving decision-making and challenging status quo cultures.

In this presentation, Lison Mage will give the keys for L&D professionals to support their leaders and effectively assemble powerful “purple teams” with unique individuals who think remarkably and act decisively.

Key Takeaways:

• Gain insights into the business benefits of cognitive diversity,
• Learn how purple teams create a culture championing critical and creative thinking,
• Know how L&D can encourage one’s to think differently and maximise their learning outcomes.

Lison Mage, author of “Act Before You Overthink,” is a captivating keynote speaker and highly skilled trainer/facilitator. With a background in engineering and experience working on three continents, Lison brings a multicultural perspective and insights from psychology and behavioural sciences into her work. From extreme sports enthusiast to expert in high-performance, her engaging approach and practical tools foster sustainable performance and strategic decision-making for individuals and teams.

Trinity Ryan

Strategy & Planning

Whether you’re an internal learning and development (L&D) expert or an external provider, there are several keys to managing an L&D project from concept to delivery – and beyond! Join experienced project manager, Trinity Ryan, as she provides practical, hands-on advice for navigating three of the most challenging project management issues we face on a regular basis.

With reflections from her 27 years of experience in the industry, you’ll learn how to tame stubborn scope creep, wrangle unwieldy stakeholders, and remain Zen through constantly-changing project deadlines.