Leadership and Business Innovation

PresentedbySamuelHayesIII,P.E.,MPA

CEO

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Friday, April 22, 2016 - 8am-3pmKirkley Hotel & Conference Center

2900 Candlers Mountain Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24502

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A FREE one day event offering attendees valuable information and resources to assist in starting, managing, and growing their businesses.

State & Regional INDUSTRY EXPERTS will be on-hand conducting a wide variety of workshops.

A great opportunity to NETWORK with other professionals as well as to showcase and ADVERTISE your PRODUCTS or SERVICES statewide!

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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

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Strategic Questions

How do you see yourself as leader? How do your clients or employees see you as a leader.

What strategic steps are you taking to

implement innovative strategies to grow your business?

Leadership and Business Innovation

Definition of Leadership

Quote about leadership from Dr. Myles Monroe: “Leadership is the capacity to influence others

through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction,

ignited by a purpose.”

- Spirit of Leadership

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Leadership Development

•  Personal Brand •  Ethics •  Emotional Intelligence •  Professional Development •  Personality Type Indicators •  Emotional Connections

Leadership and Business Innovation

Leadership and Business Innovation

Few small businesses intend to bring a new idea to market," they write. "Instead, most intend to provide an existing service to an existing customer base." And a relatively

small proportion of small businesses have aspirations to get any bigger, either.

-What Do Small Business Do

Leadership and Business Innovation

Definition of Business Innovation

•  Enhances something – IPhone •  Eliminates something – Charles Schwab •  Represents the past – Homeplace •  Reverses into the opposite – Email ------Inc.com

Innovation video - https://vimeo.com/77911159

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Best Practices for Business Innovation

•  Create a safe place for innovation •  Enable organizational agility •  Broaden perspectives •  Promote and reward collaboration •  Celebrate success and learn from setbacks

-Harvard Business Review

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Putting It All Together

•  Embrace and celebrate your uniqueness •  Invest in yourself and your company •  Scalability •  Measure results and benchmark •  Lead by example not by dictate •  Incorporate innovation in your everyday

Leadership and Business Innovation

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Samuel Hayes III, P.E. | CEO

shayesiii@stratageum.com (540) 521-8660

Are you going?

Friday, April 22, 2016 - 8am-3pmKirkley Hotel & Conference Center

2900 Candlers Mountain Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24502

Register Today!

A FREE one day event offering attendees valuable information and resources to assist in starting, managing, and growing their businesses.

State & Regional INDUSTRY EXPERTS will be on-hand conducting a wide variety of workshops.

A great opportunity to NETWORK with other professionals as well as to showcase and ADVERTISE your PRODUCTS or SERVICES statewide!

e a

Vendor & Exhibitor Space Available!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

3VDesignMedia.com

MinorityBusinessExpoVA.com or Call 434.329.3211