Monday, January 14, 2008

I’m A Business Owner - Get Me Out Of Here!

  • Are you so closely tied up with your business that customers insist on dealing with you and only you?
  • Are you unable to take a holiday for fear your business will collapse while you’re gone?
  • Have you sought the freedom of being your own boss only to discover that you’re now answering to a tyrant?

Is your first waking thought: I’m a business-owner. Get me out of here?

In other words, has your dream business become a living nightmare?

Billionaire and entrepreneur Brad Sugars talks of “building a business where you’ll do the work once and get paid forever.”

I’m Out Of Here is an action-based session that puts you to work on your business so that it works for you to deliver you the authority and freedom you want.

On completing your session you will:

  • Clearly understand why your business must work for you (and not you for it)
  • Identify the working parts of such a business
  • Know how your brand works to establish a business identity that’s separate from you
  • Know how to go about building such a brand
  • Decide the steps you must take to build a business where you “do the work once and get paid forever”

“Following this session, I fundamentally reviewed my business and decided that I needed to restructure and rebrand it. Thanks to what I’ve learned, I’ve successfully redesigned the business structure based around the roles required by the business and have separated out my own professional identity from the identity of my business. Gentlemen, I cannot thank you enough for what you’ve started.”Paul O’Connor, Architect, Daedalus

I’m Out Of Here is for business owners and anyone planning to start their own business.



Delivered by Gerard Tannam & Robert Steininger

Gerard
developed Islandbridge's practical, story-based approach to branding for entrepreneurs and has seen it applied successfully to dozens of businesses across Ireland (More About Islandbridge). 


His recent guest presentations include the Irish Management Institute, the Smurfit Business School at UCD, Dublin City University and Dublin Institute of Technology whilst he is also a member of the DCU Invent Expert Panel and the Enterprise Ireland Mentor Network.

Originally trained as an engineer, Robert built and managed a multi-million dollar profit centre for the Siemens Corporation in the US before setting out on his own. 


In 2004, he joined the ActionCOACH business coaching team in Ireland (More About Robert).
He is frequently on stage running seminars and workshops and has recently featured in the “Ask The Expert” column in The Sunday Times.