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  • Registration Opens at 11:30 AM
    12:00 - 1:00 PM
    Lunch
    1:00 - 4:00 PM
    (workshop)
    Life Balance
    Neal Whitten, The Neal
    Whitten Group
    Making Room for the
    Unexpected...
    Tapping Into
    the Power of Serendipity

    Lori Silverman
    Partners For Progress
    Essential Leadership Skills
    Wendy Woods
    Watershed Training Solutions
    Microsoft Project 2010
    Quick and Clean!
    Kathryn Pottruff
    Pottruff Consulting Inc
    4:30 - 5:30 PM
    New Members Orientation
    5:30 - 6:30 PM
    Welcome Reception
    Interactive Presentation:
    Maximize Your Conference Networking Wendy Woods
    Watershed Training Solutions

  • 7:30 - 8:45 AM
    BREAKFAST
    8:30 AM office* CANADA EXHIBITOR HALL OPENS
    8:45 - 10:00 AM
    Opening Remarks and Keynote
    Are you Relevant?
    Ross Shafer
    10:00 - 10:30 AM
    COFFEE BREAK / BOOK SIGNING
    Interpersonal
    Communications
    Professional & Personal
    Development
    Project & Time
    Management
    Technology Lab
    Each class is limited to 24
    participants.
    Pre-registration is necessary
    10:30 - 12:00 PM
    Are You Too Soft?
    Neal Whitten
    The Neal Whitten Group
    How to Effectively Add
    Contributions In Meetings

    Lori Silverman
    Time Management
    Frank Byrnes
    HPCI
    Time-Saving Techniques
    Using Powerpoint

    Global Knowledge
    12:00 - 1:30 PM LUNCH: TRADESHOW
    1:30 - 3:00 PM How to Get Along With
    Anyone at Work
    Lori Silverman
    Change Your World -
    Dramatically Increase Your
    Persuasive Power
    Kathryn Pottruff
    Pottruff Consulting Inc.
    The Power of the Plan -
    Empowering the Leader
    Within You

    David Barrett
    Solutions Network Ltd.
    Time-Saving Techniques
    Using Outlook
    Global Knowledge
    3:00 - 3:15 PM COFFEE BREAK
    3:15 - 4:45 PM Partnering with your Boss
    Frank Byrnes
    HPCI
     Meditation for the
    Non Meditator

    Wendy Woods
    Watershed Training
    Does Your Writing Do
    You Justice?
    Ulla de Stricker
    de Stricker Associates 
    Time-Saving Techniques
    Using Word
    Global Knowledge
    4:45 - 6:00 PM Networking Reception on "office*" Show Floor!
    7:00 PM EXPLORE TORONTO
  • 7:30 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST
    8:30 AM office* CANADA EXHIBITOR HALL OPENS
    8:45 - 10:00 am
    Keynote: Power of Persuasion
    Arlene Dickinson
    (Star of TVs Dragons' Den)
    10:00 - 10:45 am COFFEE BREAK / BOOK SIGNING
    Interpersonal
    Communications
    Professional
    Development
    Project & Time
    Management
    Technology Lab
    Each class is limited
    to 24 participants.
    Pre-registration is necessary
    10:45 - 12:15 am Managing Up to Influence
    your Boss

    Gail Levitt
    Career Planning for
    Administrative Professionals

    Michael Rosenberg
    OYG Inc.
    Becoming A More
    Effective Gatekeeper
    Cathy Byrnes
    Coach Cathy
    Time-Saving Techniques
    Using Powerpoint

    Global Knowledge
    12:15 - 1:30 pm LUNCH: TRADESHOW
    1:30 - 3:00pm Efficient Minute Taking
    Can be Fun!

    Cathy Byrnes
    Coach Cathy
    Tips for Career
    Resiliency

    Gail Levitt
    Levitt Communications 
    Google-licious:
    How to Find Anything
    on the Internet
    James Spellos
    Meeting U 
    Time-Saving Techniques
    Using Outlook

    Global Knowledge
    3:00 - 3:15pm COFFEE BREAK
    3:15 - 4:45 pm Closing Plenary:
    Hot Technologies & Way Cool Tools!

    James Spellos
    Meeting U
    Time-Saving Techniques
    Using Word
    Global Knowledge
    6:00 - 11:30 pm
    Hooray for Hollywood!
    Gala Dinner and Dance

  • 7: 30 - 9:00 AM
    BREAKFAST
    9:00 - 12:00 PM   
    (Workshops)
    Power Excel for the
    Administrative Professional
    James Spellos
    Meeting U.
    Communication Power Tools
    Cathy Byrnes
    Coach Cathy
    Influencing Without Authority
    Michael Rosenberg
    OYG Inc.
    Ten Ways to "LEAD": An
    Administrative Professional's
    Path to Success
    Gail Levitt
    Levitt Communications Inc.
    12:00 - 1:30 PM
    Lunch and Closing RemarkS