Want to visit with Ellen on the phone to talk about her speaking at your next event?
Hi! I am Ellen's "Right Hand Person." I am in charge of connecting Ellen with organizations, businesses and trades people who are looking for a powerful, informative and attention-getting presentation for their employees, members and clients. Ellen has traveled all over the country and in Canada talking about Business Basics and is always a smashing hit!
If you would like to meet and visit with Ellen on the phone just click here to fill out our Seminar Questionnaire. Once we receive your completed questionnaire, I will send over a couple of options for a date/time for her to call you…FUN!
WARNING! Ellen’s programs are not lectures! And, they are not boring or stiff. They ARE powerful, informative and FUN. Your attendees will leave with tools and strategies to implement right away.
Where do you learn business basics? Unfortunately, not in school! No wonder you don’t know your assets from your liabilities! In this seminar, you will dive into the numbers and the financial reports… the keys to making money!
Why are you here? There is only ONE answer!
The REAL reason you aren’t as successful as you would like to be!
How to read Financial Reports… Why? Because it is fun to WIN the game of business. Because it’s fun to MAKE MONEY.
Introducing Bob Bird…we’ll follow a true-to-life business owner as he sets up his company and grows his business. And we’ll de-mystify all the weird business and financial words as we go.
What’s a Balance Sheet? You’ll learn financial basics that will serve you…from Main Street to Wall Street.
What’s an Income Statement? DiscoverEASY ways to build this “Scorecard” so that you will know the score…while the game is ON!
How to manage your company from a ONE PAGE report. Want to learn how to make money EVERY MONTH? This is the KEY.
Discuss the industry at large. What are the opportunities in these exciting, challenging times?
This is no lecture! This program will be filled with Role Plays, hands-on exercises and lively discussion.
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate the Financial Quick Check. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
"Thank you so much for your incredible support as we prepared for our convention at Mohegan Sun! Ellen, the response has been incredible on all three of your presentations. Thank you again for your enthusiasm and the overall professionalism and quality of your program. I hope our members take advantage of the follow up services you have offered to them! I would certainly be interested in incorporating you and your message into our ongoing member programs!"
Did you call your competitors and ask them how much they charged? Then, charged the same thing? Or LESS? It’s time to get REAL. This seminar will teach you how to budget, how to create a selling price…and how to tackle the underlying issues that are keeping you from making the money you deserve.
Are you in the WRONG profession? Find out if you are on a good path…or if you should GET OUT NOW!
The “B” word! - Budgeting is GOAL setting…would you like a simple, step-by-step process for making budgeting EASY?
What does your competitor know? Probably, not much! I’ll share a simple, no-fail formula for creating a SELLING PRICE that will leave you with exactly the $$$$ you WANT.
Getting your TEAM in on the Game. If they don’t buy it, neither will your customers.
Super-simple Bonus and Compensation Programs. How to reward right-stuff performers without shooting yourself in the foot.
Can you triple your prices and keep your customers? Simple marketing strategies for “no complaints” pricing.
Turn-around Tactics…You’ll also learn specific to do’s for moving from bad news to GOOD NEWS! Easy action items for improving the SCORE.
Want to GET OUT someday? - Would you like to RETIRE before you DIE? You’ll discover how to create a solid exit strategy…including a way to determine how much your company is WORTH!
This is no lecture! This program will be filled with Role Plays, hands-on exercises and lively discussion.
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate The Baby Budget. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
Ellen conducted the class with a sense of humor, while serious about everyone “getting it”. She demonstrated an understanding of our peculiar trade, with our wide variety of services. Ellen showed us how to break categories down to improve budgeting, and chart of accounts. She impressed on us the importance of pricing for profit, as well as frequently checking the books.
Dana Quigley Bristle Chimney Sweeps &
Wisconsin Guild of Chimney Service Specialists
Reward the Right Stuff – Winning Compensation and Bonus programs for you and your team!
Would you like to learn HOW to reward those who go above and beyond at your company…without shooting your PROFITS in the foot. This program is for you!
Your Team LOVES to play games – will it be your game, or something else?
Learn how to get your team in on the action. You canhold them accountable and drive performance that moves you in the direction of your GOALS.
Want to write BONUS checks with a smile? Quit rewarding the WRONG behaviors at your company. Learn a simple system for rewarding RIGHT STUFF performance.
Discover simple Scorecards, grounded in your Budgeted Goals, that will help you know who is winning and who needs HELP!
Coaching Basics for creating WINNERS. The MOST rewarding part of being the boss? Helping others improve their skills and move up the ladder. Learn HOW.
Overcoming Paycheck Paranoia! Changing the way you pay makes people NERVOUS. Learn how to get buy-in at every level of the company.
You can play the game YOUR way. In YOUR game, you win…your customers win…and your TEAM wins!
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate the Tech Scorecard and Salary Levels. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
“The neat thing about this workshop was it addressed what every contractor has experienced when attending a workshop or a seminar. They typically went to a seminar and got a great idea only to wonder whatever happened to that great idea 6 months later. But, not this time! The whole workshop was built to get things changed!”
What’s your POINT…why would your team take a bullet for you anyway?
Defining the GAME…how to get them to play a BIG game, your game…instead of a little bitty game.
Start with the SHOES…help your team – and yourself – WIN the game by building on the basics.
What about Attitude? Skip the psycho-therapy and focus on action.
The B Word…using your Budget to impose SANE, realistic, business-building GOALS.
Keeping Score…Why, who and how…basic game rules and scorecards.
Win-Win-Win Compensation… Bonus programs that reward “Right Stuff” performance, drive PROFITS and serve your customers!
Who can PLAY? Strategies for creating a game for EVERYONE on your team!
Let’s hear it…lively discussion for solving real-world employee challenges.
Play the game...YOUR way – with NO ARGUMENTS!
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate the The Bare Bones Biz Organizational Chart & Corrective Action Procedure. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
How to Keep Score to Make More Money! We’ll start with an overview of the financial reports. Scorekeeping can be fun and simple…from Main Street to Wall Street.
How to manage your company for profit…while the month is ON. We’ll play with Budgeting and comparing Actual performance to Budgeted Goals. This is how you get GOOD at making money every month.
Pricing Power…why, how, when and how much? We’ll explore the impact of a significant pricing increase. We’ll help your team settle their fears, too, and get excited about what’s in it for them.
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate The Financial Quick Check and the Month End Checklist. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
Business Planning made EASY – A simple strategy for a powerful business plan that will DRIVE you in the direction of your GOALS.
Year after year, most business owners just muddle through. Somewhere along the line, they give up on the dream that got them started in the first place…freedom, financial independence and an opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way. And, business is supposed to be fun! Are you ready to reclaim the energy you had when you first started? Are you ready to craft the business of your dreams? Let’s plan for it in this interactive, hands-on session!
All it takes is you, a three-ring binder and the right questions. The problem with thinking is that it doesn’t look like you are doing anything. However, if you don’t plan, you may be planned for…by your employees, customers and vendors.
We’ll work together in real time to build YOUR winning plan. Ellen will show you how to build your Bare Bones Biz Plan, step-by-step…
Setting Sight. What do you want your business to BE? How will you know when you have “made it?”
Building the Team. Who does what? Why, how and when?
Making Money. Learn the bare bones basics for building a budget, keeping score and bringing in the bucks.
Getting it Sold. How to create a sales-focused culture…without insulting your soul.
Getting it Done. Developing sure-fire systems for doing things the first time, every time.
Making Sure. Are you on the right track? How do you get back on track? It’s all about asking and answering the right questions.
Family businesses are particularly in need of a PLAN. So much heartache in family business is the result of having different business visions. Learn how to get everyone on the same page…and still get invited to Sunday dinner.
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate The Bare Bones Biz Plan. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
“Ellen covers things that you need to pay attention to. I’ve been in business for myself for 25 plus years. Her program is very informative and well worth it. I wish my wife could have been there with me.”
Ron Robinson Meadow Brook Excavating
“The most important part of business is to know if you are making money, or not. Ellen makes analyzing the numbers interesting, understandable…and fun! This course is good for people in service work – they need to understand all of their costs. I’d go again”
Buying, Selling and Getting OUT – Acquisition and Consolidation strategies for EVERY Business.
You don’t need to be a big company to consider Acquisition as a growth strategy. In fact, buying companies is the most cost effective way to GROW. Beats marketing and advertising by a country mile. Join Ellen as she presents 6 Buying Basics for growing your company through strategic Acquisition.
Learn how to VALUE a company…yours and others. Ellen will share simple valuation formulas and creative ways to structure a win-win purchase.
Finding, approaching, presenting and CLOSING the deal. Step-by-step behaviors for GROWING your company through simple acquisitions.
What about the EMPLOYEES? If you don’t provide wealth-building opportunities, they may LEAVE and start their own companies. (Already happened to you?) Learn how to offer a “Stake in the Outcome” without sacrificing your fortune.
What about getting OUT? How to create a fortune without enslaving the children.
What are the opportunities as an industry? Wall Street basics for understanding the BIG game.
This is NOT dry-as-dust accounting. This is “street smart” strategy for creating real wealth in business. You won’t learn this in college…you will learn this at NOWRA.
Course material:
Ellen Rohr can customize this seminar agenda and tie it into the theme of your event. She will demonstrate The Acquisition Action Forms. Ellen will provide the masters for the handout(s) for you to print for your members/clients. You can also post the electronic version on your website.
For a BIG IMPACT in a shorter time...Ask about Ellen's KEYNOTE Presentations!
These presentations are perfect for opening or closing out your event or meeting. These topics typically run 1- 1.5 hours in length but can be customized to suit your group’s needs. Please contact us to discuss your group’s individual needs and to confirm the availability on our calendar.
No-Arguments Management – Running your company your way.
Where Did All the $10 Million Companies Go? – How to get BIG.
Are You Willing to Make More Money? - A loving, but confrontational, call to right action.
Beyond Flat Rate – A Revolutionary Approach to Pricing.
The Right People Doing the Right Things – Every day anti-slavery strategies for recruiting, hiring and caring for employees.
Why I LOVE Tradespeople - A deeply appreciative recognition of who tradespeople are and what they really do for us.
The Best Boss in the World - A funny and moving story about the powerful impact you can make as a leader.
Have I Told You I LOVE You? – An Innovative Approach to Customer Care - We’ll discover what makes you different and better. HINT: It has everything to do with love (and nothing to do with your prices.)
How to Grow Your Business… The 4 MYTHS that keep you from building a WILDLY successful business
