Pricing your products or services can feel like one of the most challenging aspects of business ownership! With Andrew Gregson’s guidance, you can determine value pricing for your products or services to ensure profitability. This peer mastermind cohort will be based on Andrew’s workshop, “How to Price for Profit,” which will be delivered as the first session on August 19. Please note that other than the workshop, live peer mastermind sessions are not recorded. Ensure you can fully participate in the live sessions.
Over the course of five sessions, implement a pricing policy that reflects your marketing strategy, including:
- developing an effective value proposition
- implement the pricing ‘Goldilocks effect’ to avoid discounting
- learn how to sell your price
Please plan to commit roughly 8 hours (2 hours between each session) to work on your pricing plan.
Learning Outcomes:
Learn how to take the guesswork out of pricing your products or services and set prices that allow your business to maximize profitability.
“Determining new product pricing has completely transformed my business. I could not have done this without the support I received from Andrew during the Peer Cohort sessions that gave me a valuable opportunity to put his theory to practice, as well as meet and learn from others. His patience, and especially his review of our final homework assignment, made all the difference. Thank you, Andrew, for all that you do to help us succeed!” – Carol
Learning Outcomes:
- make clear decisions with ease knowing you are not compromising on what matters to you.
- amplify your life by staying true to what lights you up and never wavering again, EVER!
- boost your happiness, enhance your confidence, and help to uncover your purpose, that will be our next workshop.
Comprehensive Curriculum: The 8-week mastermind class covers everything from operating model fundamentals to advanced financial planning and process optimization, ensuring small business owners have a well-rounded understanding of enhancing their operations.
Interactive Learning: This course isn’t just about lectures; it includes hands-on sessions, practical exercises, and peer discussions, allowing participants to immediately apply what they learn to their own businesses. Be prepared to implement learning and do work on the concepts between sessions.
Expert Guidance: Led by a seasoned facilitator with extensive experience in business strategy and operations, the mastermind provides participants with valuable insights, strategies, and real-world examples to help them effectively refine and optimize their operating models.
Outline:
Week 1: Introduction to Operating Models
Week 2: Assessing Your Current Operating Model
Week 3: Designing an Effective Operating Model
Week 4: Financial Planning and Analysis
Week 5: Optimizing Operations and Processes
Week 6: Technology and Innovation in Operating Models
Week 7: Building a High-Performance Team
Week 8: Implementing and Monitoring Changes
Learning Outcomes:
Develop key strategies and best practices to enhance efficiency, boost profitability, and ensure sustainable growth.
- Learn how to recognize what stress is and how it affects you on a daily basis and what you are doing
- Learn what wellness is
- Assess how well you are right now and how well you want to be
- Understand how stress impacts your hormones
- Learn what you are already doing well to combat stress
- Learn a few new perspectives to help you manage stress and increase wellness
- Increase your motivation and take action
Learning Outcomes:
- What stress and wellness are
- How to manage stress and increase your wellness
- Gain new perspectives on how to manage your stress
- Increase your motivation to take action and care for yourself
Men have a 24-hour energy and hormone cycle, while women have a 28-day cycle. We cannot plan our time the same way as men (expecting to have the same energy every day). Understanding your energy allows you to better plan your business activities, including planning, networking and promoting detailed work, and reflection and learning. Changing your key activities each week to align with your energy can significantly increase productivity and reduce stress.
- How hormone changes affect women’s energy and focus.
- How to plan activities to better align with your energy each week.
- Signs of hormone imbalance and burnout, and how to pivot to correct both.
Learning Outcomes:
This workshop on time management for women in business focuses on empowering female professionals to optimize their productivity by aligning their schedules with their natural energy cycles. Participants will gain insights into leveraging their hormones as a tool for enhanced efficiency, resilience, and overall well-being, ultimately fostering a healthier work-life balance in the demanding business world.
- Would-be entrepreneurs with an initial plan are 260% more likely to start their businesses.
- That plan also makes entrepreneurs 129% more likely to pursue their business beyond the initial start-up phase and grow it!
- Companies that plan grow 30% faster than those that don’t plan; in short, businesses with a plan grow faster and are more successful than those that don’t plan.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify what a Road Map is and how you can apply that high-level overview to your own strategic planning.
- Examine how high-level communication tools help you articulate your goals and action plans.
- Learn your own milestones and get ready to examine in depth the projects that will elevate your business and its identity.
This workshop is hosted by a CRA Liaison officer who will:
- help you better understand your tax obligations and possible business deductions
- explain general bookkeeping concepts and best practices
- explain how to avoid common tax errors
- give you an overview of helpful online tools and electronic services offered by the CRA
- answer your tax-related questions and address concerns
- show you how to use the Financial Performance Data to compare your business revenues and expenses with others in the same industry
**Please note** This meeting will be held in Teams – not the usual Zoom platform so you may need to download a new app to join. This meeting WILL NOT BE RECORDED. Ensure to join live to get the information.
If you are unable to attend this workshop, you can also book a private session with a CRA liaison officer on the Canada Revenue Agency’s website (Google CRA liaison officer)
Learning Outcomes:
Find out if you are doing things right, well ahead of tax preparation time.
Pricing your products or services can feel like one of the most challenging aspects of business ownership! With Andrew Gregson’s guidance, you can determine value pricing for your products or services to ensure profitability. This peer mastermind cohort will be based on Andrew’s workshop, “How to Price for Profit,” which will be delivered as the first session on August 19. Please note that other than the workshop, live peer mastermind sessions are not recorded. Ensure you can fully participate in the live sessions.
Over the course of five sessions, implement a pricing policy that reflects your marketing strategy, including:
- developing an effective value proposition
- implement the pricing ‘Goldilocks effect’ to avoid discounting
- learn how to sell your price
Please plan to commit roughly 8 hours (2 hours between each session) to work on your pricing plan.
Learning Outcomes:
Learn how to take the guesswork out of pricing your products or services and set prices that allow your business to maximize profitability.
“Determining new product pricing has completely transformed my business. I could not have done this without the support I received from Andrew during the Peer Cohort sessions that gave me a valuable opportunity to put his theory to practice, as well as meet and learn from others. His patience, and especially his review of our final homework assignment, made all the difference. Thank you, Andrew, for all that you do to help us succeed!” – Carol
Introduction to:
- Lighting – balanced, rembrandt, back lit
- Styling – composition, angles, colour
- Editing – white balance, clone stamp, dodge and burn
- Overview of take home practice-bingo
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn how to create three different lighting settings to add variety and tone to your photos.
- Learn composition and styling techniques to create eye-catching images.
- Learn how to use three easy editing tool to elevate your images.
- Walk away with a practice-bingo sheet to promote skills practice.
Comprehensive Curriculum: The 8-week mastermind class covers everything from operating model fundamentals to advanced financial planning and process optimization, ensuring small business owners have a well-rounded understanding of enhancing their operations.
Interactive Learning: This course isn’t just about lectures; it includes hands-on sessions, practical exercises, and peer discussions, allowing participants to immediately apply what they learn to their own businesses. Be prepared to implement learning and do work on the concepts between sessions.
Expert Guidance: Led by a seasoned facilitator with extensive experience in business strategy and operations, the mastermind provides participants with valuable insights, strategies, and real-world examples to help them effectively refine and optimize their operating models.
Outline:
Week 1: Introduction to Operating Models
Week 2: Assessing Your Current Operating Model
Week 3: Designing an Effective Operating Model
Week 4: Financial Planning and Analysis
Week 5: Optimizing Operations and Processes
Week 6: Technology and Innovation in Operating Models
Week 7: Building a High-Performance Team
Week 8: Implementing and Monitoring Changes
Learning Outcomes:
Develop key strategies and best practices to enhance efficiency, boost profitability, and ensure sustainable growth.
