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The Regis Group
Converting Your Career Course in Motion Again!
 
Converting Your Career has moved to a central focus of The Regis Group, Inc. once again. CYC provides professionals who have a lifetime of experience in their chosen careers with the means to repackage that extensive knowledge into a winning proposition for a wide range of clients.

In conjunction with The Loudoun Small Business Development Center (LSBDC), TRG will offer our day-long course:
 
Converting Your Career (CYC)
July 19, 2013
Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel
117 Fort Evans Road NE
Leesburg, VA. 20176

The Loudoun Small Business Development Center (LSBDC), helps entrepreneurs in Loudoun County start, manage and grow their business.

As with the three rounds in 2012, Marc P. Chinoy will conduct the course.  “We are particularly pleased with the steady evolution of this course, and the feedback from the first several rounds of participants.”
 
Participants are required to bring a laptop or other device capable of opening a complimentary flash drive with the available course presentation documents.

Additional courses are being planned for other locations in the Eastern United States. There is limited seating for this CYC Course, so early registration is required. 
 
Please call to learn how this can be made available in cooperation with your group! 703.777.2233

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The Regis Group, Inc.
102 North King Street | Leesburg, VA 20176 |  
703 777-2233 | http://www.regisgroup.com/
 
                      July 2013                  
 

Policies and Procedures: We can make it simple! 
by Deborah Cornwell
 
For a business owner, Policies and Procedures can be a complicated and overwhelming process. Which ones are right for my business? What does Government require of me? How do Policies and Procedures protect my business? Do I really need Policies and Procedures? 
 
The answer to the last question is a resounding yes! A Policies and Procedures manual, now most often taking the form of an e-directory, but still required by law to exist in a printed form in many businesses, provides direct support to effective day to day operations. 

When everyone within an organization understands the range of functions and requirements that touch them, the group as a whole operates far more efficiently.

There is no magic number as to the amount of Policies and Procedures your team may need. That number varies from one business to another.

Having too many in writing may seem to be an issue, but an unstated procedure, followed incorrectly and at random, can hurt your business. 
 
Over the past decade TRG has written and sorted the full range of P&Ps into a logical general index, designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of organizations. Our TRG “checklist” of P&Ps was designed to allow you, the business owner, to focus on those elements that are essential to your business, while having the balance available as needed.

The Regis Group can also assist with a wide array of forms to focus and supplement the generic list. 
 
No business, big or small can afford to operate without a clear, concise and comprehensive set of Policies and Procedures. To see the contents of the generic index, please visit our website. The Regis Group can get you started today on your way to an effective management tool customized to your needs.

Call us at 703.777.2233 for more information or visit us a http://www.regisgroup.com/ to see the full range of business tools available to you right now.
  
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Focus on the Future
Guest Predictions:
Robert Pizzimenti 
 
Guest Predictions is a regular feature in which we ask leaders in a number of professions a set of questions that affect us all. 
 
Robert Pizzimenti, Realtor with Keller Williams Realty
"I am an advocate of the idea that people create the world in which they live by virtue of what they choose to think and believe.  I also subscribe to the principle that people don’t stop playing because they get old; they get old because they stop playing.  I hope I never lose the sense of wonder and fun which comes from being alive and aware." 
 
A former senior executive with high growth international telecom interests, now focused on placing mid to high end residential real-estate with forward-looking buyers.

Q:     What do you see as the key emerging uses of the Internet in Real Estate?
 
A:    The Internet offers anonymity, but can complicate the communications process.  The efforts of a professional Realtor require both clear and effective communications, and collaboration. An emerging Internet need will be to find a way to bridge that gap, while facilitating the steps between anonymity and collaboration. 
 
Q:    What surprising applications of the Internet have you found in Real Estate?
 
A:    I have been unpleasantly surprised by the tendency of Real Estate professionals to focus more attention on becoming Internet “experts”; paying attention to such issues as search engine optimization, and key words... than on improving their communication and negotiation skills. 
 
Q:     What have been the "Best Uses" of the Internet for you?
 
A:    The Internet has helped Brokerages to gain brand awareness among the public, at an affordable price.  The Internet has been best used by Realtors who use it to demonstrate their “saaviness” in the technology as opposed to being good Real Estate agents. 
 
Q:     What should be avoided when dealing with the Internet? 
 
A:    Do not trust the accuracy the data unless you have  other sources of validation.  Don’t confuse data with knowledge of what the data represents. Don’t assume that an Internet skilled Realtor is necessarily a good salesperson. 
 
Q:     Which next steps might you recommend for all of us to take? 
 
A:    One of the great attributes of the Internet is its open architecture and the scope of its available information.  A feature by which a question could be posed by a person, and sent randomly, to a set number of professionals for a response would be interesting...avoiding getting answers from only those who have best exploited “the key word” aspects of the Internet. 
Marc Chinoy
President's Letter
 
“THE TIME HAS COME...”

Points to those of you who know the quote... (from one of the Great Works of fiction laced with logic).

In this case, the turning of the economy opens all of us to the opportunity to review our planning circumstance...

Does your group have a working long range plan connected to a working (and both measurable and measured) review sequence?

Our work in cooperation with multiple client groups on both Converting Your Career and formalized Policies and Procedures now made available to a wide range of organizations has been the result of our TRG planning.

We are currently in discussion with local, regional and national groups interested in offering one or both of these products to their constituency.

I would be pleased to hear from you, if you would like to understand how either of these might fit into your group’s revenue development program...
AND we would also be most pleased to discuss the sequence leading to a Development / Strategic Plan for your group!
 
 
Best,
Marc Paul Chinoy! 
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BizSpeak!
Winner of the Month:
Ted Carvis, Independent IP Attorney   

“Open the Kimono!”
 
Definition:
Full disclosure of all circumstance surrounding an issue.
 
Related Terms:
Put it all on the table; Paint the picture; Out in the open
 
How it Sounds:
The CEO pointed to the General Counsel and said, “It’s time right now to Open the Kimono!”
 
Don't forget to send us your BizSpeak to:
infotrg@regisgroup.com
 
Click here to check out the BizSpeak book!
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102 North King Street | Leesburg, VA 20176 | 703 777-2233 | www.regisgroup.com


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