Issue 9

Inside this issue:



Sherry Pelkey
Marketing Coordinator & Trainer
Atlantic Canada
Click here for Sherry's Bio

Audie McCarthy

Audie McCarthy
founder and president
of Marrek Solutions Inc.
Click here for Audie's bio

Lisa Dennie

Lisa Dennie
Training Associate
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Contact:
Phone:

902.367.1251

Email:

sherry@marrek.com

Web:

www.marrek.com

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Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber Of Commerce

Prince Edward Island Business Women's Association

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There is a great deal of conversation these days about getting into the flow. Creating your future by using your thoughts to create your life (“The Secret”) and finding genuine happiness by living your passion.

All of the books and the media make it sound so easy. However, there is a mindset that you must overcome to make it happen. The success literature of the past always focused on facing your challenges, fighting your weaknesses and “improving” yourself. What it all boiled down to was that you had to go against your own nature to reach your goals. I am all for getting more organized, managing time better, becoming more efficient and all those wonderful goals you set for yourself. In fact, we (at The Marrek Group) help people develop those skills every day.

What keeps coming back to me (with every article I come across, TV interview I happen to catch, e-mail that lands in my inbox) is that true success comes with bringing everything you are to what you do. Throughout your life you are told that what you are does not measure up in one way or another to the expectations of authority figures. Parents, teachers, extended family, employers, immediate supervisors, upper management, etc., all have voiced their opinions about what you should be. Truthfully, you can only improve your skills by finding ways of working and expressing yourself that are true to your own nature.

As a leader or business owner, it is worth noting that we hire an employee for the skills they bring to the table. Then, often times, due to over analyzing their productivity, we “measure” their talent out of them. A more effective plan would be to encourage employees to bring everything that they are to the job to reach their potential and take our business to the next level. While working with many organizations we have come to realize that the greatest successes a team has always comes from the way that the members bring together their unique talents to contribute to the achievement of the team’s goals.

As Dolly Parton once said, you can contribute your best to the world and reach your goals if you:

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose”

Please see the Tips section below for ideas to allow you and your team to be yourselves and “get into the flow”.

Have a great week.

Audie

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Marrek Moments

Thank you to Barbara Kennedy from www.changinggears.ca for her request to reprint Lisa’s article and Ten Tips for Living the Golden Rule. Please link to her website http://www.changinggears.ca/articles/celebrating_life/index.html for the full February Edition of Celebrating Life.

A fun and interactive learning experience was had by members of the Early Childhood Development Association of PEI during a Motivating a Multi-Generational Team workshop at their Winter Conference in Charlottetown

Photo by: Jillian Affleck
Link to their website: http://www.ecda.pe.ca

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  Events

Lunch & Learn – Prince Edward Island Business Women’s Association

Dealing with Difficult Customers

March 11, 2008

Presenter:       Sherry Pelkey, The Marrek Group

This session is intended to assist participants in understanding and dealing effectively with difficult behaviours. Topics include: separating the behaviour from the individual to develop a greater understanding of the actions of others, the role that the participant plays in a difficult situation, identifying hot buttons in self and other, and strategies to encourage positive behaviour.

Registration deadline: Thursday, March 7, 2008 at 4 pm.
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: 238 Grafton, Charlottetown Best Western
Price: Members - $15.00 plus GST
Non-Members: - $20.00 plus GST


For more information, please contact: Paula Laybolt
Phone:  892-6040
Email:  office@peibwa.org
Website:  www.peibwa.org

International Women’s Day – March 8, 2008

International Women's Day organizers are pleased to announce that Susan Howatt will speak at this year's IWD celebration on Saturday, March 8th at the Georgian Room, Charlottetown Hotel. This year’s event will honour Island women who are leaders in the environmental movement.

For more information call CUSO at 892-2610 or email cuso.atlantic@cuso.ca

If you are interested in assisting call 892-2610.

March 15, 2008 The Newcomer Artist Exhibition

The Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts

The Newcomer Artist Exhibition, a show dedicated to the artwork of immigrant artists who have recently settled on the Island. The exhibit will be on display for the last two weeks of March 2008 at The Gallery @ The Guild, located at the corner of Queen and Richmond Streets. An opening reception for all artists, friends and family will be held March 15, 2008.

If you have any questions, please contact Laurie McBurney at 620.3417 or by e-mail at lmcburney@peiartscouncil.com

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Workshops

Dealing with Difficult Behaviours
Wednesday, March 26th - 9 am - 4 pm

This one-day workshop is intended to assist front-line employees in understanding and dealing effectively with difficult behaviours.  Topics include: separating the behaviour from the individual to develop a greater understanding of the actions of others, the role that the participant plays in a difficult situation, identifying hot buttons in self and other, and strategies to encourage positive behaviour.

Location: Sherwood Conference Centre, 161 St. Peters Rd (Sherwood Business Centre)

For more information and to register call Sherry at 902.367.1251 or email: sherry@marrek.com.

Communicating with Confidence
Thursday, April 3 – 9 am – 12 noon

This interactive session explores the communication process and provides an understanding of the communication skills required to effectively interact with others.  Topics include: principles of effective communication, active listening and assertiveness builders to assist you in gaining trust and building your confidence.

Location: Sherwood Conference Centre,

161 St. Peters Rd (Sherwood Business Centre)

For more information and to register call Sherry at 902.367.1251 or email: sherry@marrek.com.

Coping with Change
Wednesday, April 23 – 9 am – 12 noon

Workshop Description:
This half-day workshop helps employees look at change and its impact both personally and professionally.  Topics include approaches to change, resisting change, benefits of accepting change and the skills required for change.

Location: Sherwood Conference Centre, 161 St. Peters Rd (Sherwood Business Centre)

For more information and to register call Sherry at 902.367.1251 or email: sherry@marrek.com.

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UPEI Centre for Life Long Learning

Creating AMAZING Customer Service – May 7 th, May 8 th

It's not enough these days to provide "ok" customer service, loyal customers are hard to come by, and once you have them you want to keep them from being lured from the competition.

This workshop is designed to improve customer service skills by focusing on areas such as projecting a professional image and understanding how providing poor customer service impacts the image of your organization, customer perceptions and the bottom line.

Two Full Days
8:30 - 4:30, May 7th and 8th, 2008,
Main Building, UPEI, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown.

Register Online at http://www.upei.ca/extension/short/schedule.html

Or call the Centre at 902.566.0336

Inspiring Multi-Generational Teams – one day

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

For the first time in history, we have four generations working side by side. Each generation has different values and work ethics. How do you get everyone on your team understanding one another and working together? Each person needs to respect the ideas and thoughts of the other person, no matter what the generation gap is.
This one-day workshop provides participants with strategies and leadership techniques to effectively motivate and inspire work team members from all generations.

Main Building , UPEI, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown.

Register Online at http://www.upei.ca/extension/short/schedule.html

Or call the Centre at 902.566.0336

ProfitLearn PEI Upcoming Workshops

March 12 – Promotion Pointers for Your Business 6:30 – 9:30

Presenter – Sherry Pelkey, The Marrek Group

Best Western, Grafton Street, Charlottetown

To Register and for more information contact: Greater Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce, Winnie O’Leary at 902.628.2000

March 27 – Internet Marketing Awareness Program 8:30am – 4:00pm

Presenter – Phillipe Gauthier

Charlottetown Hotel, Charlottetown

To Register and for more information contact: Greater Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce, Winnie O’Leary at 902.628.2000

March 28 – Internet Marketing Awareness Program 8:30am – 4:00pm

Presenter – Phillipe Gauthier

Loyalist, Summerside

To Register and for more information contact: Greater Summerside Chamber of Commerce, Joan Glover at 902.436.9651.

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Attention Employers - Workplace Lunch & Learn Series

Create a workplace of learning, communication and collaboration that builds morale, team spirit and creates ambassadors for your business. Sessions available include: Blow Bubbles…Stress Relievers for the Workplace, The Art of Networking and Dealing with Difficult Customers. Call Sherry today to discuss opportunities to really engage your employees.

Customized Positive Employee Relationship Programs - designed to suit your company’s culture and values. A few examples are… 

  • Effectively Assertive
  • Coping with Change
  • Creating Amazing Customer Service
  • Dealing with Difficult Behaviours
  • Successful Selling Techniques
  • Core Skills for Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders
  • Inspiring Multi-generational teams
  • Coaching for Success
  • Diversity in the Workplace

Contact Sherry today to arrange your complimentary information meeting at 902.367.1251 or via email: sherry@marrek.com

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Tips

Let Your Light Shine

  1. Look inside yourself to find out what means the most to you.
  2. Surround yourself with the people and things that make the list.
  3. Create a dream board to keep them in front of you.
  4. Focus on the work you love to do and put everything you have into it.
  5. Do the right things and right things will come to you.
  6. If it feels right in your gut and your heart, do it.
  7. If it feels wrong - goes against your nature - don’t do it.
  8. Never apologize for who you are but celebrate it.
  9. Tell yourself over and over that you have a unique contribution to make.
  10. Bring your unique light to everything you do.

Offer this process to your team members, appreciate and celebrate their uniqueness and allow them to shine in your business!

 

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