Events/Workshops

QuickBooks is an outstanding management tool for small business owners but it can be confusing without the proper introduction or training. This workshop helps you learn and understand exactly what Online QuickBooks has to offer. This program helps you: • Compare Quickbooks Desktop to Quickbooks Online (QBO) • Navigating and general overview of QBO • Income, invoices and deposits, bills and expenses • Reconcile your bank and credit cards, credit card options • Connect your online bank account • Discuss different business types- tips, tricks, how to set up QBO for your business (i.e. Inventory based, Contractors, Real Estate, Farming, Restaurants) • QBO pricing and levels, discounts for you • Find QBO training online

Speaker: Michelle Halverson

In this program you will learn how to utilize QuickBooks (desktop version) for processing your payroll. Topics include: -Basic payroll concepts -Setting up wage & PTO items -Setting up employees -Setting up payroll taxes and garnishments -Setting up pre-tax deductions -Processing payroll and liability payments -Direct deposit options -Quarterly and annual reporting

Speaker: Anke Swartz, JRM CPAs

Not sure if your idea is a great opportunity? In business and want to expand? Learn how to use the Business Model Canvas to help you more clearly define your business idea and develop your value proposition. Learn how to use nine building blocks for a customer focused business.

Speaker: Terri Urbanek

Motivation and employee engagement isn’t mysterious or magical. It’s actually a very simple suite of factors that help build employee engagement, increase performance and productivity, and reduce turnover. This session offers a roadmap toward integrating these factors into how we design our work environments to bring out the best in others.

Speaker: Jeff Russell

What enables a group of people to come together as a high performance team? How can leaders encourage teamwork within a group? What are the most common obstacles to people working effectively in teams? This seminar explores the answers to these questions and more as it leads participants into an exploration of what enables a group to become a high performance team. We’ll examine the work of leaders in creating the conditions that enable teams to become effective and identify the actions of leaders in each of the four stages of team development to guide any team to great performance outcomes.

Speaker: Jeff Russell