Latest Past Events

Have an Idea for a Small Business? Here’s How you Start: Small Business Development Tips and Tactics

Messenger Public Library of North Aurora

This talk invites participants to go from a business idea to an actual business plan. We start with strategies for determining what kind of business you would be best suited for. Then we discuss how to write a simple business plan. Finally, we work through simple marketing strategies that can be implemented to start the growth and continue it into the future.

Free

Time and Info. Management: Organizing in a Digital World

Round Lake Area Library Virtual

“I don’t have time!” We hear this and say this so often in this fast-paced digital world we live in! Can we change this? Yes! While we can’t create more hours, we can be more efficient with the hours we do have. In this presentation, we look at how we receive and manage our time and information…..this will highlight the “why bother” behind learning to use the tools available to us in this digital age. Then, we look at the top Apps/Programs for managing everything from our schedule and tasks to our projects and teams.

Free

Raising Responsible Children

St James Church 820 N. Arlington Heights Rd, Arlington Heights

In this presentation, I look at what Responsibility really entails in the context of our families and in our world in general. I provide practical tips on how to begin teaching the lessons of responsibility in age-appropriate ways at a very young age, how to increase and improve the lessons as the children grow and mature, and how to seamlessly weave the responsibilities at home into those expected at school etc. We also learn about the numerous benefits of teaching responsibility and how to maintain and stay consistent in the practices we begin with our children.

Free, Private Group