The Art of Creating an Inspiring Financial Strategy is a hands-on workshop designed to inspire attendees to create a vision for their life that takes them beyond their current thinking of what is possible.

We welcome Brett Lightfoot, National Director for the Health and Public Sectors and State Director for Queensland and Northern Territory at Microsoft. Brett has long foreseen the impact of Artificial Intelligence. With Microsoft’s clear leadership in the Generative AI space unfolding, the conversations and questions from TEC members promises this to be a truly memorable event.

This Members and Alumni lunch has been kindly supported by On Talent and The Executive Connection.

Artificial Intelligence has hit the headlines in 2023 especially with the introduction of Chat GPT.

Hear Australia’s guru on Digital Marketing lead the group through a discussion on how AI will affect businesses, especially in the area of marketing. This workshop is designed to be light on the technicalities but focused on members’ specific needs.

An interactive 3 hour workshop focussing on the performance aspects of communicating in one-on-one situations, particularly difficult one-on-one's, such as giving feedback, performance review and workplace counselling.

This session also helps members and their partners bond and get to know each other!

As the world changes faster and faster every business leader has to perform under pressure. This timely and timeless topic, including organisational strategies to get email under control, is brought by one of TEC’s most active speakers, Steuart Snooks.

The old ways are dead and we need new ways to think in a new age of marketing. This workshop builds on Ashton’s ground-breaking Predatory Marketing workshop with “Outsmart vs Outspend”. Predatory Marketing is the great leveller enabling smaller brands to compete with bigger competitors. It's never been about the medium - always the message. So, if you and your brand can get predatory, you'll be guaranteed to get results. Ashton will take you on a myth-busting ride through 'giant slaying, marketing style' and will leave you in no doubt that the future is predatory and what you have to do to survive.

The business world is accelerating.

While “Innovation” is always great, how do we do this in a time of uncertainty? How do we do this when the team is flat out managing the current changes?

Peter Laurie uses all his skills as a mentor for start-ups to lead a TEC group (usually scale-ups!) through some great tools and processes designed to help a team focus and deliver.

This talk is for business leaders knowing that they and their team must become more strategic, but struggling to find ways to lead their team through the uncertainty of 2023.

In this interactive presentation, Jonathan will address one of the top three frustrations shared by business leaders of all shapes and sizes – managing unmanageable staff – using case studies, group activities based on real cases and practical information that can protect a business from common employment law traps.

Greg Donlan (aka “The Sales Coach”) is a dynamic TEC speaker who has presented to over 100 TEC groups. Greg helps CEOs to obtain the very best from the significant investment they make in their sales team (be it one or many individuals).

• How the CEO can help the sales team to plan for success

• Ideas to inspire, motivate and monitor the team

• Takeaway tools to continue to build their sales skills.

Artificial Intelligence has hit the headlines in 2023 especially with the introduction of Chat GPT.

Hear Australia’s guru on Digital Marketing lead the group through a discussion on how AI will affect businesses, especially in the area of marketing. This workshop is designed to be light on the technicalities but focused on members’ specific needs.

Forget the traditional HR workshops. This is a radical new approach to looking at Talent Strategy and finally giving your members their hands-on accurate powerful data to drive people decisions across their businesses.

Whether it’s assessing their leadership team fit against their strategy, hiring candidates who are behaviourally and cognitively aligned to the position, or inspiring high performing teams – this is a new approach your CEO’s, Business Owners and Key Executives need to experience. An accurate and powerful data driven approach to making better and more accurate people decisions.

The business world is accelerating.

While “Innovation” is always great, how do we do this in a time of uncertainty? How do we do this when the team is flat out managing the current changes?

This talk is for business leaders knowing that they and their team must become more strategic, but struggling to find ways to lead their team through the uncertainty of 2023.

2023 is a year of re-growth, renewal and exploring new directions. Matt Tice, TEC speaker of the Year and the Ultimate Strategist and Promoter of Insurgents will lead us into the world of Game Theory. With applications in the introduction of new strategies, business models, products and policies, this workshop brings three TEC groups together to provide a unique insight into exploring unconventional strategic opportunities that are all around them.

Coming through the last three years, the role of the CEO has been compromised more than ever. Most TEC members have had to roll up their sleeves and help their teams go through immense short term challenges. But just as we always encourage the Business Leader to be “On the Business“ rather than “in” it, that is almost impossible to do until the top team raises its performance.

“Raising the Bar” uses the Leading Teams methodology on the TEC Group - with the model and lessons learned applicable back with the Leader’s Executive Team.

In Australia, the labour market is very tight. Holding your best employees is a strategic issue. And the cost of replacing a skilled employee is up to 12 months’ salary. So, it would make perfect sense for every employer to be tuned in to employee satisfaction and retention. Yet, what employees want from their workplace and what management thinks they want are rarely the same.

The pivot point for a person’s satisfaction in the workplace is often the conversations they have. It is during those conversations that a person feels validated or not. It is during those conversations that a person knows whether they are the right fit for the organisation or not. It is during those conversations that a person’s creative contribution receives permission to fly or is quietly crushed.

‘Cooperative Conversations’ are a structured framework for productive organisational communication. But they are much more than that. ‘Cooperative Conversations’ operationalise a philosophy – a philosophy of empowerment and engagement.

Ian Plowman specialises in revitalising organisations through paying attention to their internal communication. This workshop builds on his thirty years’ experience as an organisational psychologist.