The Path to a Brilliant Business

 Powerful Insights and Pragmatic Tools

Are you a solopreneur? Being in it alone can be very lonely and difficult. If your business is OK, but you want it to be great and get over the "hump" then these seminars are for you. In this series, we teach fundamental insights and simple implementation tools that will enable you to get what you want more quickly with less pain and agony.

We use EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) as a set of mechanisms to implement the insights and practices we teach that will ensure you get what you want out of your business. EOS is a complete system of simple tools that drive three things; Vision, Traction and Team Health. Vision is getting everyone in your company the same crystal clear, powerful vision of where you are going and how you are going to get there. Traction is radically improving the Discipline and Accountability in your company. Team Health is advancing your company as a High Performing team.

August 14 Referral Marketing Mastery

These workshops are FREE but you must rsvp here: http://bit.ly/2GtkdJz

Do you get more than 50% of your new clients from referrals? Are you managing your referral practices as responsibly as you do your other business components? Probably not. Most people are very casual about their design and practices around Referral Marketing. Learn how to be rigorous and increase the number of leads you get from referral partners.

Sept 11 Hiring Brilliantly

Do you need to hire people for your company? Most people learn excruciating lessons in their hiring. Learn the fundamentals of making sure you get the Right People in the Right Seats so that you get the return you need out of your new investment.

Oct 9 Staying Focused and Disciplined

We all know that we need to work “On” our business not just “In” our business. It is not enough to set goal and to define a vision, you also have to execute. While we are usually pretty good at keeping our commitments to customers, we often do not stay focused on the strategic work in your business. Learn how to increase your discipline and accountability, keep moving your business forward and achieve your long term goals.

Nov 13 Digital Marketing

Can you sell your product or service through the internet? Are you doing that well? If you are normal then you could radically improve your Digital Marketing. Learn how to develop a powerful Digital Marketing Strategy. Understand the components of Digital Marketing and understand where to put your attention and get the results you desire.

Kevin Suboski's Background

You know the neighborhood kid with the table in his yard? That was Kevin. He sold candy bars to kids because the margins and turnover were much better than selling lemonade to their parents.

Later, he took that passion for entrepreneurship to big companies like EDS and Sun Microsystems helping to lead and organize their IT people. Kevin’s business exploited this opening in the market to better structure IT people to drive collaboration. While growing his business to 30 people with great margins was very satisfying he found he much preferred the heart and soul of small business.

In his obsession to succeed with his business and help his clients, Kevin explored and applied fundamentals of biology, linguistics, and philosophy. He took those insights to small and medium-sized business owners so they could get the benefits too. When he found Traction and learned of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), he knew that he could bring those powerful insights much more quickly and easily to his clients.

Kevin’s love for Entrepreneurs/Innovators/Visionaries has been the driving force in his career. He is serving those people by helping them free themselves by bringing insights and practical, pragmatic tools.

These workshops are FREE but you must rsvp here: http://bit.ly/2GtkdJz

The JAZZ music continues in Old Town this Thurs at UrbanBeat with HappenStance! We got Bill Bastian on piano, Duncan Tarr on bass and Robert Warren on drums! Come see the new outdoor patio, new menu items and plenty of cool cocktails!

Weekly food and drink specials!

Free Show - Come out and enjoy Jazz Thursdays with UrbanBeat
 

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS FOR TOP PERFORMANCE

• Learn the top 20 obstacles in today’s modern business world which sabotage effective communications
• Identify your professional communication issues and blind-spots
• Assess the impacts of organizational ineffectiveness found in common email and meeting practices
• Design your individual (or team-based) solution with clear actions to generate effective communications

Susan Topping Gauthier

Susan specializes in high-performance acceleration in business for leaders, teams, organizations, and institutions. She is a partner at Mark Kamin & Associates, Inc., a boutique management consulting firm which focuses on transformational training applied to organizational culture shifts, leadership development, sales mastery, highly effective communications and top performance. Susan has over 35 years of experience in management and consulting. She has expertise in working with C-suite executives and leadership teams to generate and execute enterprise-wide transformation in industries such as information technology, manufacturing, banking, retail, media, and government.

Register: https://bit.ly/2jGgw8J

We invite each of you to join us on Monday, July 30 from 3-5pm at Urban Beat (1213 Turner, Lansing) as the first draft is presented. Martin Cohen from the Cultural Planning Group will be with us to unveil and gain your input into the findings. It is anticipated that after this group meeting, where he will solicit additional input from you, he will go back and revise and shape the final version that will be presented at the Creative Placemaking Summit on October 4, 2018.  

 

We will also have a cash bar following from 5-6pm for those of you who would like to network. Please let me know if you can join the Arts Council and the rest of the steering committee to help us take one of the last steps in our process.  Please reply to this email if you are planning to join us by July 26th so we can prepare for your participation.

Blues Legend, Larry McCray will headline an intimate gathering of friends with special guest Tony Purifoy.

Purchase tickets here:

https://larrymccray.bpt.me

McCray, 58, was born in Arkansas and moved with his large family to
Saginaw in 1972. For years he balanced working full-time on a General Motors
assembly line with his budding musical career. He finally committed to music fulltime
25 years ago and issued the first of nine albums. His hard-rock guitar playing
combined with soulful vocals continues to attract legions of fans worldwide.

The second youngest of nine children, McCray credits older sister, Clara, as
his greatest musical influence. She gave him his first guitar at age 12 and taught
him how to play. He formed his first band with brothers Carl (on bass), Steve (on
drums) and nephew Tony Purifoy (vocals), Clara's son. The band broke up when
Larry signed his first recording contract, although younger brother Steve has
stayed with him.

Purifoy has performed with several premier soul and funk bands which have
opened for The Commodores and KC and the Sunshine Band. He brings a high-energy
style of soul, funk, and R&B to every performance.

Tickets will be limited, so don't wait!

Buy tickets here: https://billkirchen.brownpapertickets.com/

Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm

Guitar Player Magazine dubbed him the Titan of the Telecaster. Rolling Stone said hes an American treasure and one of our best. One of the best guitarists on the planet says Elmore Magazine. No matter what you call him, Bill Kirchen is a founding father of the Americana movement, now at the peak of his impressive career. 

Kirchen was originally known as co-founder and lead guitarist of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, one of the first and only rock-n-roll bands to infuse their honky-tonk sound with pure, blood-and-guts country roots and western swing. It was Kirchens indelible guitar licks that drove their hit, Hot Rod Lincoln, into the Top Ten in 1972, a song that eventually took on a post-Cody life of its own. Today, Kirchens extended version of Hot Rod Lincoln is his universally loved signature masterpiece, a pumped up joyride through the last 60 years of guitar-god history, described as epic by Rolling Stone.

In 2001, Kirchen received a Grammy nomination for his instrumental Poultry in Motion. The following year he was inducted into the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame, neatly sandwiched between John Phillip Sousa and Dave Grohl. Kirchen has recorded and/or played guitar live with a who's who of Americana and Roots Rock 'N' Roll, among them Gene Vincent, Link Wray, Bo Diddley, Hazel Dickens, Doug Sahm, Hoyt Axton, Emmylou Harris, Maria Muldaur, Dan Hicks, and Nick Lowe. Bill is pretty sure that he is the only person to have, in a single year, stood on stage and played with both Ralph Stanley and Elvis Costello.

Bill is currently touring with his all-star, all-Austin band, those Hounds of the Bakersfield: Rick Richards on drums and David Carroll on bass/vocals. Richards has made records and toured with Ray Wylie Hubbard, among many others. This brought him to the attention of Ringo Starr, whose recommendation led to the last three stadium tours drumming with Joe Walsh. David Carroll has played bass with a who's who of Austin artists, including stints with Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker and a run with Ray Price.

We will raffle off a Fender Telecast Guitar at the end of the show. Tickets are $5 each or $20 for 5, must be present to win.

Hosted by Jerry Nine Productions and UrbanBeat 

Weekly food and drink specials!

Toastmasters is a place where you develop and grow - both personally and professionally. You join a community of learners, and in Toastmasters meetings we learn by doing. Whether you're an executive or a stay-at-home parent, a college student or a retiree, you will improve yourself; building skills to express yourself in a variety of situations. You'll open up a world of new possibilities: giving better work presentations; leading meetings - and participating in them - more confidently; speaking more smoothly off the cuff; even handling one-on-one interactions with family, friends and colleagues more positively.

Join us for our biweekly meeting in Old Town Lansing. We look forward to those wanting to grow, Step up to challenges, try something new and just see what we are all about. Please join us for warm coffee, delicious treats, and a chance to discover a path for growth.

Come and celebrate the versatility and ability of our own Mid-Michigan Salsa band! Be sure to bring your dancing shoes as you won't be able to stay off your feet for long! 
Salsa Dance Lessons at 8pm and the party starts at 8:30pm!!!
$10 cover

Weekly food and drink specials!

No cover to get in!

Jennifer Barnett is an 18-year-old jazz vocalist and songwriter from East Lansing, MI.  She infuses sounds of classic female jazz vocalists from Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington to more modern icons such as Amy Winehouse and Hiatus Kaiyote in her lyrics and style.  She has studied with Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist and recording artist Sunny Wilkinson since she was 12.  Jennifer was selected as a national finalist for Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Academy vocal competition for 2016. She was a 2017 National YoungArts Winner in Jazz voice, a 2018 YoungArts winner in Popular Voice and a Finalist for Grammy Camp Jazz sessions 2017. She was also selected for Grammy Camp Nashville in 2017 as a vocalist, the only musician selected from Michigan. Additionally, Jennifer won two Downbeat Magazine student music awards in 2018. She is the national high school winner for Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist and won Outstanding Performance for Vocal Jazz Soloist. Jennifer will be attending The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music to study jazz voice in the Fall of 2018.

JONAH GOLDSTEIN is an 18-year-old guitarist from Los Angelos, California. He has studied music at LACHSA, Stanford Jazz Institute, Colburn School of Music, Grammy Camp and with countless mentors and teachers, most notably with Joe DiBlasi. Jonah has performed with jazz, rock, blues, pop, and hip-hop groups in venues and clubs across Southern California. He also writes music for these groups. 2018 Honors include YoungArts Merit winner, Southern California School Band and Orchestra association honors Jazz Band; Ventura Youth Jazz competition Semifinalist; Tri M Honors Society for Music and most notably he is the 2018 Spotlight Award Grand Prize Finalist. Jonah will attend The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in the fall of 2018.

Weekly food and drink specials!

Free Show - Come out and enjoy Jazz Thursdays with UrbanBeat
Featuring some very special guests!

The National Association of Career Women (NACW) is a non-profit organization devoted to the enhancement of woman's personal and professional development.
Meetings/Luncheons are held on the second Wednesday of the month.

The Path to a Brilliant Business

 Powerful Insights and Pragmatic Tools

Are you a solopreneur? Being in it alone can be very lonely and difficult. If your business is OK, but you want it to be great and get over the "hump" then these seminars are for you. In this series, we teach fundamental insights and simple implementation tools that will enable you to get what you want more quickly with less pain and agony.

We use EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) as a set of mechanisms to implement the insights and practices we teach that will ensure you get what you want out of your business. EOS is a complete system of simple tools that drive three things; Vision, Traction and Team Health. Vision is getting everyone in your company the same crystal clear, powerful vision of where you are going and how you are going to get there. Traction is radically improving the Discipline and Accountability in your company. Team Health is advancing your company as a High Performing team.

July 10 Your Marketing Sucks!

You know it does, but you are not sure what to do about it. Most companies meander about without a clear marketing strategy. If you are normal you have developed a lot of tools (business cards, website, brochure), but you are not really clear on who your market is, what you do for them or how you are going to get your message to them. We will show you the way to get clarity and have a strategy that is clear and actionable.

August 14 Referral Marketing Mastery

Do you get more than 50% of your new clients from referrals? Are you managing your referral practices as responsibly as you do your other business components? Probably not. Most people are very casual about their design and practices around Referral Marketing. Learn how to be rigorous and increase the number of leads you get from referral partners.

Sept 11 Hiring Brilliantly

Do you need to hire people for your company? Most people learn excruciating lessons in their hiring. Learn the fundamentals of making sure you get the Right People in the Right Seats so that you get the return you need out of your new investment.

Oct 9 Staying Focused and Disciplined

We all know that we need to work “On” our business not just “In” our business. It is not enough to set goal and to define a vision, you also have to execute. While we are usually pretty good at keeping our commitments to customers, we often do not stay focused on the strategic work in your business. Learn how to increase your discipline and accountability, keep moving your business forward and achieve your long term goals.

Nov 13 Digital Marketing

Can you sell your product or service through the internet? Are you doing that well? If you are normal then you could radically improve your Digital Marketing. Learn how to develop a powerful Digital Marketing Strategy. Understand the components of Digital Marketing and understand where to put your attention and get the results you desire.

Kevin Suboski's Background

You know the neighborhood kid with the table in his yard? That was Kevin. He sold candy bars to kids because the margins and turnover were much better than selling lemonade to their parents.

Later, he took that passion for entrepreneurship to big companies like EDS and Sun Microsystems helping to lead and organize their IT people. Kevin’s business exploited this opening in the market to better structure IT people to drive collaboration. While growing his business to 30 people with great margins was very satisfying he found he much preferred the heart and soul of small business.

In his obsession to succeed with his business and help his clients, Kevin explored and applied fundamentals of biology, linguistics, and philosophy. He took those insights to small and medium-sized business owners so they could get the benefits too. When he found Traction and learned of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), he knew that he could bring those powerful insights much more quickly and easily to his clients.

Kevin’s love for Entrepreneurs/Innovators/Visionaries has been the driving force in his career. He is serving those people by helping them free themselves by bringing insights and practical, pragmatic tools.

These workshops are FREE but you must rsvp here: http://bit.ly/2GtkdJz

Join us for an evening with three fine Michigan songwriters, performing "in-the-round" on Friday, July 6th at UrbanBeat Event Center in Old Town Lansing. 

Doors 7:00pm - Music 7:30pm - $10
1213 Turner St, Lansing, MI 48906

Michigan-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Timothy Monger first established himself as co-founder of seminal Ann Arbor folk-rock outfit Great Lakes Myth Society. In the mid-00's the band earned a cult following rendering detailed art-pop with British folk undertones and a distinctly Midwestern rock sensibility. Concurrently, Monger's solo career extended as a natural outgrowth with the chamber pop of 2004's Summer Cherry Ghosts to the more rustic tonality of 2011's The New Britton Sound. Released in February 2017, his third album, Amber Lantern, melds subtle synth textures with elements of psych, folk, and jangling power pop. 
http://timothymonger.com/

Singer-songwriter Brandon Grafius has called mid-Michigan home for several decades, with an interlude in California. Bringing together a wealth of experience in writing and performing, the songs on his newest album explore the journey of a life, offering an intimate picture of the places that connect us to one another. His mellow baritone voice, moving from a growl to a whisper and all the spaces in between, carries the contours and range of a great storyteller.
http://glgpub.com/roster/brandon-grafius

Monte Pride is a Lansing-born, Lansing-based singer-songwriter & fingerstyle guitarist whose songs recall the delicate vocals of Simon & Garfunkel, with guitar-work reminiscent of Nick Drake and The Tallest Man on Earth. He blends haunting melodies with vivid lyricism, bringing stories of love, loss, and longing to life in a complex array of healing, soul stirring song. 
www.montepridemusic.com

Weekly food and drink specials!

Free Show - Come out and enjoy this impressive Jazz Trio!!!
Featuring some very special guests!
Margherita Fava on Piano

Kazuki Takemura on bass

Lauren Rongo on flute

Sam Warren on guitar

Performing w/ HappenStance Trio!!!

In addition to a comfortable space, Urban Beat has food and beverages for sale.   Bring an acoustic instrument or just come and sing along or listen.  Extra copies of lyrics and chords are encouraged.  For more information, contact LeRoy at 505-2809 or Chela at 628-2301.   

Stop on out for Tuesday Blues-day for some very special performances, drinks specials and a new food menu!

Catherine Groll on vocals, Ron Bretz on bass & vocals, Rick Alicea on drums & vocals, Roger Little on keyboards & vocals & Stan Budzynski on guitar & vocals. Join us as we play thru our eclectic blues songlist including some deep cuts. We'll also be having some special guests sitting in with us too!! Food,drinks & dancing are available & no cover!!

Please share & invite your friends!

Toastmasters is a place where you develop and grow - both personally and professionally. You join a community of learners, and in Toastmasters meetings we learn by doing. Whether you're an executive or a stay-at-home parent, a college student or a retiree, you will improve yourself; building skills to express yourself in a variety of situations. You'll open up a world of new possibilities: giving better work presentations; leading meetings - and participating in them - more confidently; speaking more smoothly off the cuff; even handling one-on-one interactions with family, friends and colleagues more positively.

Join us for our biweekly meeting in Old Town Lansing. We look forward to those wanting to grow, Step up to challenges, try something new and just see what we are all about. Please join us for warm coffee, delicious treats, and a chance to discover a path for growth.

Doors open at 7pm - $5 cover charge

Benny has traveled the world, topped the charts with Stevie Wonder, James Brown, BB King and Marvin Gaye and he is coming to UrbanBeat for a very special performance this Friday!!!!

Recognized for bringing talent to Jackson to perform with him...such as Gene Harris, Lyman Woodard, Eddie Russ, Alvin Jones, and Abbey Lincoln, whom already lived in Jackson, it assisted them in getting world known.

Performed with Grant Green, Richard "Groove" Holmes, also at concerts with the Lloyd Price Band and Jimmy Smiths Group and more.

Long time performer at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort and other venues."A pair of funky jazz songs Poole recorded in 1967 — one of which briefly broke through on the national charts — have become collectors items, particularly in England, where Poole's name is still well-known among aficionados of the "northern soul" movement that emerged out of the '60s mod scene." - MLive Bill Chapen

Weekly food and drink specials!

Free Show - Come out and enjoy this impressive Jazz Trio!!!
Featuring some very special guests!
Margherita Fava on Piano

Kazuki Takemura on bass

Lauren Rongo on flute

Sam Warren on guitar

Performing w/ HappenStance Trio!!!

Stop on out for Tuesday Blues-day for some very special performances, drinks specials and a new food menu!

Catherine Groll on vocals, Ron Bretz on bass & vocals, Rick Alicea on drums & vocals, Roger Little on keyboards & vocals & Stan Budzynski on guitar & vocals. Join us as we play thru our eclectic blues songlist including some deep cuts. We'll also be having some special guests sitting in with us too!! Food,drinks & dancing are available & no cover!!

Please share & invite your friends!

JODI SCHAFER, SPHR

Owner, General Partner

Jodi Schafer has been with Human Resource Management Services, LLC since 2010. In early 2013, she succeeded Toni Talbot as the company’s owner and general partner. Jodi is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Education from Kalamazoo College. With over ten years of experience “in the trenches” of human resource management, her solutions are both practical and proven to help her clients succeed. Jodi writes a regular H.R. column for various statewide publications and conducts speaking engagements and training seminars on all aspects of human resources including Employee Relations, Leadership Skills, On-boarding, Recruitment.

REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2GDjxiU

Weekly food and drink specials!

Free Show - Come out and enjoy this impressive Jazz Trio!!!
Featuring some very special guests!
Margherita Fava on Piano

Kazuki Takemura on bass

Lauren Rongo on flute

Sam Warren on guitar

Performing w/ HappenStance Trio!!!

Stop on out for Tuesday Blues-day for some very special performances, drinks specials and a new food menu!

Catherine Groll on vocals, Ron Bretz on bass & vocals, Rick Alicea on drums & vocals, Roger Little on keyboards & vocals & Stan Budzynski on guitar & vocals. Join us as we play thru our eclectic blues songlist including some deep cuts. We'll also be having some special guests sitting in with us too!! Food,drinks & dancing are available & no cover!!

Please share & invite your friends!