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The IIDM Audio Seminar Series presents leading business specialists, who share their knowledge and experience in critical business topics. Listen to the interview-style audio seminars at home, in your car, or at your desk. Develop your own library of latest thinking in business management.

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The following is a complete list of all audio seminar titles available. Those subscribers who are eligible to access PREMIUM content areas, will be able to LISTEN online. Alternatively these titles are available for anyone to BUY from the CEO Online Resource Centre.

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7 Steps To Create Great Teams
It is important to understand the links between teamwork, creativity, innovation and profits to prosper in the globalised 21st Century. Discover two important factors that create great teams. Learn the seven key steps that are used by some of the best teams ... and the 11 practical strategies that leaders can take to implement these seven steps.

Charles Kovess

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An Inside View Of The Life Of An Entrepreneur
Driven by passion, energy and a desire to make a difference, entrepreneurs are often consumed by business, having difficulty interacting with the rest of society and often complain of being lonely. It is not an easy life but few who have the natural talent for it turn away because it is who they are.

Dr Tom McKaskill

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Being Different And Better Than Your Competitors
The worst light in which your business can be held is for you to be viewed by your customers as 'just another supplier'. Achieving a competitive advantage requires you to be both 'different' and 'better' than your closest competitors.

Graham Haines

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Bosses, Bullies And Bystanders
Bullying is defined as a "behaviour that is repeatedly embarrassing, unacceptable or intimidating, and that is demonstrated either publicly or behind closed doors". Sound familiar? Unfortunately, these behaviours are all too common. This audio session will provide you with proven strategies to equip you and your business or workplace with ways to enjoy a more productive and happier workplace.

Ricky Nowak

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Business Mentoring 
A business mentor is someone who can act as a sounding board for your ideas and plans, and helps you think outside the square.  They bring their own unique experience of life and business and are willing to share their skills and know how with you.

 David Cartney

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Buying A Business 
Few firms are successful at buying and integrating an acquisition, and yet a systematic approach to selecting, evaluating, negotiating, integrating and managing an acquisition can significantly reduce risk and improve the return on investment.

Dr Tom McKaskill

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Conditions For Successful Change 
If there is one element every one of us needs mastery over, it is CHANGE. Some of us resist it; others relax into it; and others relish it and drive the rest of us crazy creating it! Catherine will explore some of your choices - and chances - in a time of change.

Catherine Palin-Brinkworth

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Conscious Leadership - Unleash Your Leadership Potential
What would it be like if you could unleash your conscious leadership potential, and that of your staff, and burst through the limitations that hold you back to create dynamic and life-long change in your business, your life and to consciously take charge of your own reality? What would it take to be a charismatic, influential, inspirational and extraordinary leader?

Steven Bowman

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Creating A Magnetic Workplace
With research showing that there are numerous business benefits of a positive workplace, it is critical that corporate leaders develop the skills and techniques to create and maintain a constructive culture. This session outlines the seven elements of a Magnetic Workplace - one in which employees are encouraged to perform at their very best.

Helen Mac

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Creativity + Innovation = Growth
Are you 'fit' enough to pursue something new or different? This session will explore some of the myths of creativity, innovation and enterprising behaviours. Many organisations have simply forgotten how to grow.

Marcus Powe

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Customer Retention: The Art Of Keeping Good CustomersTM
Many organisations place their highest emphasis on attracting and gaining new customers. While this is important, I feel it is more important to place a higher emphasis on retaining and keeping your current customers.

Steven Howard

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Effective Performance Management
Would your business be different if everyone you hired did what they were supposed to - on time and on budget?  If the rest of your planning is up to scratch and you have the right people, the missing link could be performance management. 

Paul Phillips, Horizon Management Group 

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Effectively Find, Inspire And Retain Talented People
What are the drivers of the current talent war and how aware are you of the impact they will have in the short and long term? Finding, inspiring and retaining people to work in a modern, competitive commercial environment has never been harder. The bad news is it's about to get tougher.

Kerry Larkan

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Employee Engagement: Solved! 
The greatest driver of your team's success is their level of engagement. Engaged employees are less likely to resign, unlikely to call in sick when they're not really sick, consistently do more than what's required, and have far greater levels of quality and productivity.

James Adonis

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Evaluating Business Opportunities
This presentation assists entrepreneurs to understand how to evaluate business ideas and understand the major principles that drive profitable, sustainable growth.

Dr Tom McKaskill

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Finance For Non-Finance Executives
Financial management is an important part of management that many managers or executives fail to understand. Generally it is assumed you need to be a skilled accountant to understand financial management, yet it is the area that managers/executives deal with (or should deal with) more than the accountant.

Ron Griffiths

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Gen Y In The Workplace
Gen Y is different! They have 'different' values regarding appearance, spelling & grammar, discipline, reward versus effort, accuracy (mistakes) and customer service. So how flexible are you in accepting this generational difference?

David Staughton

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How To Become 'Pressure Proof' In Work And Life 
In this interview, Australian Resilience Expert, Michael Licenblat, will demystify how you can become 'Pressure Proof' and resilient to stress and tension of today’s busy world – so that you can work at your best, without burning out!

Michael Licenblat

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How To Create Time
Seeking a balance in your personal and professional life? Creating time is very different to managing time. Learn ways to create time and how to use them to be more successful in both your personal and professional lives.

Mark McKeon

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How To Grow, Manage and Motivate Your Sales Team
Discover how to recruit everyone in your company into the sale efforts, manage their interactions with clients and keep them motivated. In addition you will learn strategies for working with your sales team directly reponsible for generating revenue into the business.

Rod Moore

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How To Make Your Website A Success
Websites are 'a dime a dozen' these days, so what tips need to be taken into consideration when improving or designing a website to stand out from the rest and achieve better results? More than 80% of websites fail to achieve their purpose - to attract more business. Take the first step to planning a successful website today!

Melissa Norfolk

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Juiced Up Business!
Boosting your organisation to create a working environment where people want to succeed! Recent research indicates that the key to increasing profits, productivity, employee satisfaction and customer loyalty is not to work harder, but to make work more enjoyable.

Helen Mac

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Key Numbers To Drive Profit And Cashflow 
In plain-English, this presentation identifies Seven Key Numbers - which are not contained in a typical set of financials. These seven key numbers are absolutely vital to profit and cashflow.

Sue Hirst
CAD Partners

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Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way 
There are many models for great leadership, and leaders are not 'born'. Leadership is a lifestyle - a way of thinking, a way of living, a way of bringing out the best in those around you. Leadership is also a choice.

Lisa McInnes-Smith

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OHS: Put Simply - How To Successfully Manage The Risk 
Are you grappling with OHS legal requirements and how you can proactively manage this risk to your business? Would you like to find out - in simple terms - your obligations and the steps you need to be taking to address the risk?

Tony Morris

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Passion: The Key To Your Sustainable Competitive Advantage In The 21st Century
Leaders who can thrive and grow in the face of challenges and demands are those most likely to build sustainable, competitive organisations. Explore the proven powerful and practical elements that lead to high performance business leadership.

Charles Kovess

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Presentation Skills For High Performance Results
Presenting articulately and persuasively to customers, staff and clients is a key factor in retaining staff, building relationships and demonstrating credibility in business. Learn easy and effective ways to improve your delivery, and structure your presentation to meet the changing needs of your audience.

Ricky Nowak

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Strategic & Business Planning: Why Do So Many Businesses Do It So Badly?
In this session we will explore an integrated approach to planning that addresses many of the problems that conventional approaches do not seem able to come to grips with.

Warwick Cavell

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Strategies To Turn Your Workplace Into A Wellplace
Would you like to find out how you can improve productivity by 300% and have 9 times less sick leave? Workplace demands, busy personal lives and the complexities of modern living can often be an explosive cocktail. Employees need the skills to meet these challenges head on. Healthier employees = increased productivity & morale + reduced absenteeism + greater team cohesion + increased resilience to stress + improved staff retention rates + reduced sick leave.

Sherry Strong

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Taking Your Business To The Next Level
Once you are actually in business and have placed a "stake in the ground" and developed a product or a service, a brand, some customers and some distribution, moving to the next level should not be all that difficult, or necessarily risky. All that is required is an understanding of some simple principles.

Roger La Salle

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The Art Of Influence
Influencing others is the most important part of a CEO's role. Unless you do everything yourself, you need to 'influence' others to perform or behave in the best interests of your customers or your organisation. During this audio presentation you will learn how to create quick rapport with anyone, and influence in positive and constructive ways. You will also learn five behavioural styles and a method of choosing which is appropriate.

Paddy Spruce

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The Attributes Of Highly Skilled Negotiators And Influencers
From now on to be an effective manager you will require the competencies of an effective negotiator. If you're responsible for influencing others then you should be honing your negotiation skills.

Wayne Harrison, ENS International

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The Most Frequently Asked Employee Relations Questions
Working with small to medium businesses ... 4 issues seem to dominate. Those issues cause significant concern to managers and can become very costly in terms of time and money.

Colin Puls

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What It Takes To Engage The Generations At Work
Find out what it takes to get people aged from 16 to 60 engaged at work in this humorous insight into the generations from Karen Schmidt, Re-engagement expert.

Karen Schmidt

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What Real Leaders Do And Fake Ones Don't
There is a current crisis of confidence with our leaders. A result by any means seems to be the modis operandi of many. Perhaps never before in history has there been such a cry for fair dinkum leaders, as there is today.

Ian Berry

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Working Effectively With Cultural Diversity
"The single greatest barrier to business success is the one erected by culture." ... Edward T Hall and Mildred Reed Hall. Workplaces are becoming increasingly diverse. Today, more than ever, business success requires intercultural awareness and effective cross cultural communication skills.

Maria Dimopoulos

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