People, Strategy & Focu$

Creating a Mindset Guaranteed to Improve Your Business Performance

Guest presenter, George Ilk, will open your mind to a new way of thinking about your business with this workshop - “People, Strategy and Focu$”. The workshop will:

1. put you and your business on a path of continual strategic thinking and action,
2. show you the way to address your business problems ,
3. show you how you can achieve your goals and create a business environment with:

• more time,
• less stress,
• more fun and
• more money.

WL Gore & Associates, the maker of Gore-Tex outerwear, has a business structure with no management layers, no organisational chart, few titles, no boss and a hierarchy replaced with a lattice. What businesses like Gore-Tex do doesn’t really “fit” with traditional management thinking.

It’s a given that in our constantly changing world tomorrow is no longer the same as yesterday. Why then do so many business owners simply repeat the things they did yesterday, or last month or last year?   The constancy and rapidity of change means many businesses just can’t keep up. But even those who try to adapt to change often follow principles handed down by textbooks and business schools based on traditional management thinking that hasn’t really changed that much since the 1960s.

Businesses like Gore-Tex and the iconic Google do it differently. They foster a culture of innovation that involves everyone in the business. They rely for their success on their people, their strategy and their focus. Learn how you can apply proven principles to your own business, regardless of its size and put yourself on a path of continual strategic thinking and action to deal with your business problems and achieve your business goals.

About George Ilk

Applying techniques, strategies, tips and a mindset garnered from sources as diverse as the world class intellectual property of his business partner (who holds a PhD in business strategy) and Rupert Murdoch’s nephew (who is a former business partner of George’s) George will walk you through how, as a public company CEO, he was able to increase profits by 346% between 2003 and 2004 and then, to prove it wasn’t a fluke, how as CEO of another public company George took profits up by 516% between 2005 and 2006.

George will explain the strategic mindset that enabled this to happen and how you can successfully create the same mindset for your business regardless of whether you have a staff of 5, 50 or 500.

George Ilk has advised, managed and operated a diverse range of businesses during a career spanning more than 30 years. As well as having owned and managed small businesses as varied as hairdressing salons, lawn and garden maintenance and professional services, George has also served in roles as Chief Executive Officer, Director, General Counsel, Responsible Officer and Company Secretary of public companies operating in fields as diverse as forestry, financial services, employment services, business advisory services and training & education.