- Self-assessment of your skills
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- Assess your strengths
- Becoming an expert at something
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- Do you know your rights?
- Structure of the consulting business
- The business plan
- Start-up business expenses
- The home office furnishing and equipment allowables
- Home office business deductions
- Allowable workshop expenses
- The formal agreement
- The personal services agreement
- The letter of agreement
- What are you worth?
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- Travel
- Business forms
- Time management
- A quicklist for starting your workshop consultancy
- Protection with copyright
- Back-of-the-room sales
- The workshop proposal
- Hotel/Conference center selection criteria
- Meals and refreshments
- Exploring your unique workshop ideas
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- Marketing strategies
- Creating a professional image
- The biographical sketch
- The business logo
- The consulting niche
- Target audience profile: The niche
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- Professional networking
- Workshop timing
- Workshop titles
- Contacts
- Workshop promotional mailer
- Constructing your web site
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- Developing the workshop: Putting it all together
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- Selecting a workshop topic
- Steps to constructing a winning workshop
- Workshop registration
- Developing an effective workshop lesson module
- Constructing a participant handbook/workbook
- Packaging the participant handbook/workbook
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- The workshop leader's resource kit
- Loose workshop materials
- Workshop housekeeping
- Workshop lecturettes that excite and teach
- Tips for workshop presenters
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