BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20211006T130000Z DTEND:20211006T140000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Business Support Series: Advisory Boards & How They Accelerate Your Growth DESCRIPTION:Business Support Series \n\nThe Business Support Webinar Series will explore timely topics with industry experts to provide key insights and answers on the best ways to succeed as a business. Hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce\, this series will feature a wide range of topics on how to survive and thrive. \n\n\n\nAdvising the Wise. Owen Sagness and Colin Mason will share their assessment and the associated recommendations of a study done by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). This original research examined a sample from the BDC database of 28\,000 medium sized Canadian firms (SMEs) and the resulting effectiveness of using an advisory board to increase their productivity & profitability.\n\n\n\nAn astounding 86% of the firms with advisory boards\, when contacted\, reported that the advice adopted from their boards had a significant positive impact on their company. No surprise given the measured increases in sales growth for those firms.\n\n\n\nOn conclusion of the study\, BDC commented that it was puzzling to them why only 6% of Canadian SME?s use an Advisory Board\, when the numbers show conclusively what a difference in bottom-line results were achieved by those firms who chose to utilize such a source of business wisdom.\n\n\n\nThree takeaways from your webinar:\n\n\n \n What is an advisory board and why you should create one for your business\n \n \n Assess your readiness for an advisory board\n \n How to create an advisory board\n\n\n \n\nABOUT THE PRESENTERS:\n \n\n\nOwen Sagness\, Chief Executive and Advisor\n\nC-Level Executive Solutions \n\nOwen Sagness specializes in growing revenue and profit by transforming organizations through culture and innovation. As a chief executive and advisor\, Owen brings an approach that unleashes the potential of people\, products and partnerships for mid-size and enterprise level companies that need to ignite their next wave of growth.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Mason\, Chief Marketing Associate \n\nC-Level Executive Solutions\n\nColin Mason has built a wide-ranging and significant career in marketing and strategic management. His back-ground and experience is uniquely broad and diversified\, and yet practically based with roots in sales\, advertising media\, agency consulting and marketing. As a former Marketing Director for Trade Centre Limited\, he formed and led a central in-house marketing team to serve all Trade Centre facilities\, brands and events. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
\nAdvising the Wise. Owen Sagness and Colin Mason will share their assessment and the associated recommendations of a study done by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). This original research examined a sample from the BDC database of 28\,000 medium sized Canadian firms (SMEs) and the resulting effectiveness of using an advisory board to increase their productivity &\; profitability.
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\nAn astounding 86% of the firms with advisory boards\, when contacted\, reported that the advice adopted from their boards had a significant positive impact on their company. No surprise given the measured increases in sales growth for those firms.
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\nOn conclusion of the study\, BDC commented that it was puzzling to them why only 6% of Canadian SME?s use an Advisory Board\, when the numbers show conclusively what a difference in bottom-line results were achieved by those firms who chose to utilize such a source of business wisdom.
What is an advisory board and why you should create one for your business
\nAssess your readiness for an advisory board
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\n\nOwen Sagness specializes in growing revenue and profit by transforming organizations through culture and innovation. As a chief executive and advisor\, Owen brings an approach that unleashes the potential of people\, products and partnerships for mid-size and enterprise level companies that need to ignite their next wave of growth.
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\nColin Mason\, Chief Marketing Associate \;
\nC-Level Executive Solutions
\nColin Mason has built a wide-ranging and significant career in marketing and strategic management. His back-ground and experience is uniquely broad and diversified\, and yet practically based with roots in sales\, advertising media\, agency consulting and marketing. As a former Marketing Director for Trade Centre Limited\, he formed and led a central in-house marketing team to serve all Trade Centre facilities\, brands and events.