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The Book of Business Awesome

The Book of Business Awesome | UnAwesome

Is your company Awesome or UnAwesome? The cost of being unawesome to employees and customers is much more than ever before. For example, according to the author of new book, The Book of Business Awesome / The Book of Business UnAwesome, Scott Stratten, it should never take 10 business days to reply to a customer. [...]

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Social Media Content Strategies - Upcoming Webinar

Social Media Content Strategies

The people who occupy the top spots in any industry are those who create the most relevant and most useful online content – those who have a clear social media content strategy in place. What type of content should you create on a regular basis? And, which social media platforms are best suited to your [...]

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Build Your Profile with Social Media - Upcoming Webinar

Build Your Profile with Social Media

Whether it’s your business profile or your personal brand, the right use of social media can build your reputation and credibility. With social media, you can easily connect with people and create dynamic relationships. On the opposite side of things, whether you like it or not, your online reputation counts. If I Googled your name, [...]

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Amazing Things Will Happen

Amazing Things Will Happen

How do you do what you love? How do you find a way to spend every day working on that single thing that fills you with glee thinking about it? What does it take to achieve success, in all aspects of life? C.C. Chapman, author of new book, Amazing Things Will Happen — A Real [...]

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Latest Articles

Social Media Productivity: Top 5 Tools for Maintaining Connections AND Your Sanity

“How do you find the time to manage all of this social media stuff?” That’s one of the most common questions I’m asked whenever I present. And sometimes, I get the sense that people are hoping that it’s so complicated and time-consuming that they’ll have a great excuse NOT to do it. Not to learn [...]

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Tips for Getting Started with Social Media

Social media is a helpful communication tool for businesses as it allows them to communicate directly with customers and engage them in conversations. Social media can also help you to increase your customers’ brand awareness and find new contacts or business opportunities.   If you want to become active on social media, but don’t know [...]

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Top Tips for Women Travelling Alone on Extended Stays

When we think of business travel, our immediate thought may be of overnight trips interstate or perhaps a week long international stint. But for thousands of women each year, a business trip involves being away for home for much longer, and often, travelling alone on these extended stays. This situation is one that occurs more [...]

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High Performing Teams Result When There is Collaboration

Collaboration is an essential ingredient for teams to operate in the high performance space, yet few people really experience it. Most people experience compromise and mistake it for collaboration - people hang on to their own agendas when they engage in conversations or participate in meetings and the result is political game playing and manipulation. [...]

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Member of the Week

Trish Springsteen

Trish Springsteen

Trischel

Trish Springsteen is Managing Director / Senior Trainer of Trischel where confidence brings success; and is a member of Women's Network of Australia, Connectworking, Opportune, CBEC and the Australian Institute for Learning Practitioners.

Trish has been involved in training since 1993. She has a Bachelor Business (Health Administration) and holds Cert IV in Workplace Assessment and Training and has accreditation as an Extended Disc Practitioner. Trish is experienced in leadership, management communication, business skills and communication coaching.

Her passion is women and communication, gender communication, women and leadership and personal development. She has been actively involved in designing training courses for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne corporations for the last 10 years. Trish has been a keynote speaker at conferences, an MC at community events, Gala Dinners and weddings and undertaken speaking engagements to community and business organisations. Trish is skilled and comfortable with speaking on a wide range of topics to a diverse audience.

Trish has spoken on communication, conquering the fear of public speaking, personal development and positive thinking, leadership and gender communication. Having personally experienced the fear of public speaking and being lost for words when facing questions, Trish is passionate about helping others conquer their fear of speaking and communication.

Trish enjoys helping women develop their communication, leadership and presentation skills. Her speaking events include Communication Training for IQ Business Group in Sydney and Melbourne, Leadership Training for Tonkin in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane, speaker at Business Swap in Sydney and Brisbane, speaker at Womens Network Australia (Hobart), Connectworking and Terri Cooper events and speaking at the 2010 National Laundry Conference in Sydney. In addition to being a professional speaker and author of many articles and books on the importance of effective communication for business, Trish is a recognised expert in the field of communication training.

With over 15 year experience in Communication, Training and Public Speaking, Trish knows how to lead people to move out of their comfort zone, change their thinking and give them the confidence and communication skills they need to succeed.

She specialises in providing training for staff, managers and directors that empowers companies to increase revenue while building credibility and gives them the confidence and skills needed to increase their interpersonal skills, effectively communicate and deliver charismatic speeches and presentations. Most importantly Trish loves what she does and she has fun doing it.

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Latest herBusiness Blog Posts

7 Ways To Get Organised For Start-Up Success

Michele Connolly

Being organised can make all the difference to the success of your new venture. It doesn't matter how fast your market is growing or how accomplished your talents are. If you don't organise yourself, then it becomes easy to get overwhelmed, miss deadlines, and lose clients.   Here, then, are 7 ways to get organised [...]

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The Surprising Truth About Influencing Others (Like it or Not, We’re All in Sales Now)

The Australian Businesswomen's Network

The Australian Businesswomen’s Network has announced a new webinar, To Sell is Human - The surprising truth about persuading, convincing and influencing others, that presents lessons that will change how you see your world and transform what you do at work and at home. The free one-hour webinar will be held on Tuesday, 23 May [...]

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Commit to Selfishness

Alycia Edgar

Life is just one big juggle - the juggle of compromise. Some days I resent the juggle; I just want to do what I want. Selfish? Yes probably, but I think selfishness is a trait closely aligned with commitment. And we are all committed to our business, right?   Commitment is defined as: "the act [...]

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Social Media Ideas

Blogging for Business

Blogging is possibly one of the earliest 'social media' platforms. Now that 'every man and his dog' appears to be blogging, how do you use blogging to stand out from the crowd, generate engagement and drive business outcomes?          Mentioned in episode ShareThis Mashable Get in the Hot Spot - Travel Blog [...]

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ABN Member Spotlight

Member Tracy Simpson Inducted to Prestigious Stanford Who's Who

Member Tracy Simpson Inducted to Prestigious Stanford Who's Who

Australian Businesswomen’s Network Members Making it! Member of the Week ABN Member Tracy Simpson is a Partner with Koschel Simpson Mattner, a company that loves to build the wealth and well-being of their clients. Tracy recently joined the prestigious ranks of elite business social network Stanford Who’s Who as a result of her phenomenal work [...]

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Small Business Tips

The Virtual Workplace: Build the Capacity of Your Business, Without the Overhead

Jaleh Bisharat is the Vice President of Marketing at oDesk, the world’s largest online workplace with more than 500,000 businesses and 3 million contractors. Australia is the largest user of oDesk per capita. In this video episode of herBusiness.tv, Jaleh discusses: How to build the capacity of your business with oDesk, without the overhead How [...]

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