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• Northern VA Book Club (Arlington)

  • When
    February 18, 2020
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    See confirmation email after registering (members only).

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  Book: "Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World" by Cal Newport

  Where: The Northern VA Book Club will meet at C. Lee Cawley's home in Arlington, Va.  The exact location and C. Lee's contact information will be relayed to members via email upon registration.

  What to bring: This will be a Pot Luck Dinner. 

  To do: Register to attend and please email C. Lee to let her know what you will be bringing.
  
  When: We meet at 6:30 PM for shared food and conversation and begin discussion of the book at 7:00 PM. 

  For new members: Welcome to NAPO-WDC!  We have two book clubs, one in Maryland and one in Virginia. They alternate months and read different books.  You are welcome to attend both or whichever one is more convenient for you.  The Virginia club meets at a home in Arlington and the Maryland club meets at a home in Bethesda.

  The Book Clubs are a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.

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• Rte 66 Neighborhood Group (Chantilly)

  • When
    February 20, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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  The Rt 66 Neighborhood Group meets at Wegmans 14361 Newbrook Drive Chantilly, VA 20151 from 7 PM to 9 PM. 

  The coordinator is Karen Salinetti. Karen's contact information will be included at the bottom of the registration confirmation email.

  The Neighborhood Groups are a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.

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• Business Development Day with Cena Block

  • When
    February 21, 2020
  •  
    8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    George Mason University Arlington Campus, 3351 North Fairfax Drive, Room 313, Arlington, VA 22201
  • Registered
    23 registrants

  Register

  We are pleased to announce that the chapter has invited Cena Block to present two half-day business development workshops. Cena is a NAPO member in Pennsylvania who is a productivity expert, entrepreneur, business lifestyle coach, ADHD Coach, master facilitator, and author. She was recommended by two chapter members who have attended her workshops in the past.

  Attendees can attend the full day or just one of the two workshops, and there is a reduced membership rate for NAPO-WDC chapter members. Please check out more information about Cena and the workshops below. We hope you will join us for this exciting opportunity to grow our businesses.

  Room 313

  Rain Date - Our event was carried over to our rain date of February 21, 2020.

  Presenter Details

  Cena Block is the founder of SaneSpaces.com and creator of the Time & Space Style Inventory. She's a Certified Organizer Coach on a mission to save entrepreneurs from ‘Solo-biz Super-Hero Syndrome...’ giving everything they have to everyone else and leaving themselves last on the list.

  Cena helps entrepreneurs (with ADHD or not) with no time and too many tasks on their plate escape overwhelm, systematize, and get back in the driver’s seat. Through her private coaching and group programs, Cena works with business owners from the startup through growth stages of business. Clients gain awareness and learn to prioritize tasks so they can create their life-centered business in place of a frenetic, business-centered life.

  Morning Workshop

  Finding Flow: Time Management & Organizing Style Personality Preferences (Qualifies for CEU)

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Organizing and productivity professionals use different assessment strategies with clients to determine gaps. This leaves it “up to the professional” to come up with solutions for clients. Sometimes solutions are based on the expert’s preferences or are often limited to products and off-the-shelf solutions already available on the market. This assessment approach to flow is client focused and provides an objective basis upon which client’s style preferences are assessed. Behavioral anchors help clients self-identify and intuitively learn what will work for them, based on their natural, already-in-place behaviors. Style acceptance empowers ownership for time and space struggles and offers clients the ability to flex their behaviors. This assessment is a tool for service, coaching and organizing professionals to instantly increase client skills-transfer.

  Key Program Topics

  1. Understand ‘Flow’ and its characteristics in behavior
  2. Understand six Time Style Preferences and Flow Steps associated with managing time
  3. Understand six Space Style Preferences and Flow Steps associated with managing space
  4. Understand Flow In Action Model™ and the Free Decision Model™
  5. Understand your own natural Time & Space Style Preferences

  Afternoon Workshop

  Signature Systems, Your Key to Cash Flow (Does not qualify for CEU)

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  A Signature System is the small service business owner’s key to cash flow. Creating your Signature Program is easier than you think. In this program you’ll identify the three most important results you deliver, and how to weave those results into an easy to understand unique and step by step process that potential clients can easily identify with. When you create your signature system, it will become the basis of nearly everything you will do as a service-oriented business. During this presentation, you will:

  Key Program Topics

  1. Know how to identify your top three transformational service results
  2. Receive a planning tool to help you create a Signature System or Program
  3. Outline your signature story
  4. Learn the difference between ‘features’ and ‘benefits’
  5. Identify potential audiences for your Signature Program

  Cancellation Policy

  Event fees are non-refundable. If you need to cancel, please contact development@dcorganizers.org so the presenter can plan accordingly.

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• NAPO-WDC Chapter Meeting: Gain and Retain Clients

  • When
    March 02, 2020
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Faith Lutheran Church, 3313 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, Virginia, 22201
  • Registered
    18 registrants

  Register

  Gain & Retain Clients

  
  

  Agenda
  

  • 6:30 - 7:00:  Check-In, Networking, Ask the Expert Table with C. Lee Cawley CPO®, and Refreshments
  • 7:00 - 7:30:  General Chapter Business
  • 7:30 - 8:30:  Gain & Retain Clients
  • 8:30 - 9:00:  Door Prize and Networking

  Presentation

  Topic: How to Gain and Retain Clients

  Join us as Katie takes us through the steps of understanding how to apply sales to a professional service. She will also explain how to create clear goals in systematically reaching out to your target market and making the sale. And once you've done the work to gain your clients, Katie will explain how to retain your clients through proven techniques and technologies.

  Speaker: Katie Nelson
  

  
  

  Sales is my love language.  I realize that not many people can say that if any at all.  From the initial cold call through a lifelong client relationship, I am passionate about each puzzle piece that makes up the Sales Life Cycle.  Whether it is raising qualified prospects in your pipeline by 550% in a year, to increasing your closing ratio from an industry standard of 33% to 82% in that same year, I love it all.

  With 25 years of experience in sales of all kinds and now in my 3rd business venture, I work with entrepreneurs and sole proprietors to create an excitement around their sell.  I provide expertise in the tips and tricks of selling, all the way through the identification of your sales process and create tailored programming around more efficient business practices to put more money in the company coffers, and your pockets!

  Directions and Parking Instructions

  If navigating by GPS, use 19 N. Jackson St, Arlington VA 22201

  Parking Map

  Faith Lutheran Church is at the corner of Rte 50 and N. Jackson St. in Arlington, VA. The entrance is in the very back of the building on N. Jackson St. We have a sign on the sidewalk on N. Jackson St. at the walkway leading to the entrance door.

  The closest parking is behind the building on N. Jackson St. at 1st Pl. There is more parking in front of the building by Rte 50.

  Inclement Weather Policy

  In the event that bad weather is predicted on the day of a chapter meeting, NAPO-WDC will not cancel the meeting, but will instead switch to a virtual meeting. A virtual meeting conversion will be determined by the cancellation protocols for that meeting's location set by Montgomery County Public Schools or Arlington County Public Schools. If a switch takes place, meeting registrants will receive login instructions for the virtual meeting.

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• Arlington/Alexandria Neighborhood Group

  • When
    March 12, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Register

  Arlington/Alexandria Neighborhood Group meets at Whole Foods, 2700 Wilson Blvd Arlington VA, upstairs, from 7 PM to 9 PM. The coordinator is Amy Dobson. Amy’s contact information will be included at the bottom of the registration confirmation email.

  Feel free to purchase food from the hot or cold bars, or you may bring your own food. Wine, beer, and coffee are also available for purchase.
  

  The Neighborhood Groups are a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.
  

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• Maryland Book Club (Potomac)

  • When
    March 17, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM

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  What to read: "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport
  

  Where: The Maryland Book Club will meet at Denise Sintetos's home in Potomac, MD. Location and Denise's contact information will be relayed to registered members via email.

  What to bring: (optional) a small dish to share

  To do: Register to attend

  For new members: Welcome to NAPO-WDC!  We have two book clubs, one in Maryland and one in Virginia. They alternate months and read different books.  You are welcome to attend both or whichever one is more convenient for you.  The Virginia club meets at a home in Arlington and the Maryland club meets at a home in Potomac.

  The Book Clubs are a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.

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• Podcast Club

  • When
    March 24, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM

  Register

  The Podcast Club is just like a book club, but you will listen to a podcast or series and meet virtually. The coordinator for the Podcast Club is Nicole Holtman.

  NAPO Stand Out “Episode 46: Unlocking Generational Codes"
  

  Nicole will contact registrants with information about how to join the virtual meeting. Her contact information will be included at the bottom of the registration confirmation email if you have any questions.

  The Podcast Club is a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.
  

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• NAPO-WDC Chapter Meeting: Marketing Your Business

  • When
    April 06, 2020
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza, One Veterans Place, (Spring Room) Silver Spring, MD 20910. Use 8528 Fenton Street for GPS purposes.
  • Registered
    3 registrants

  Register

  Marketing Your Business

  
  

  Speaker info on the way!

  More details to come...

  Agenda
  

  • 6:30 - 7:00:  Check-In, Networking, Ask the Expert Table, and Refreshments
  • 7:00 - 7:30:  General Chapter Business
  • 7:30 - 8:30:  Marketing Your Business
  • 8:30 - 9:00:  Door Prize and Networking

  Parking Instructions

  • Parking Instructions for Silver Spring Meetings
  • Town Square Garage
  • Wayne Avenue Garage

  Inclement Weather Policy

  In the event that bad weather is predicted on the day of a chapter meeting, NAPO-WDC will not cancel the meeting, but will instead switch to a virtual meeting. A virtual meeting conversion will be determined by the cancellation protocols for that meeting's location set by Montgomery County Public Schools or Arlington County Public Schools. If a switch takes place, meeting registrants will receive login instructions for the virtual meeting.

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• Rte 66 Neighborhood Group (Chantilly)

  • When
    April 16, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Register

  The Rt 66 Neighborhood Group meets at Wegmans 14361 Newbrook Drive Chantilly, VA 20151 from 7 PM to 9 PM. 

  The coordinator is Karen Salinetti. Karen's contact information will be included at the bottom of the registration confirmation email.

  The Neighborhood Groups are a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.

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• Recycling and Disposal Center Tour

  • When
    April 23, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    I-66 Transfer Station 4618 West Ox Road, Fairfax, VA 22030
  • Spaces left
    2
  • Registered
    18 registrants

  Register

  
  

  Join us for a tour of the Fairfax County Residents' Recycling and Disposal Center at the I-66 Transfer Station and learn how you can help your clients recycle to keep trash out of the landfill. Also, 123Junk will show us their donation pods located there. Afterwards, some of us will get together for lunch somewhere nearby.

  Registration Limited to First 20 People

  Details

  This is a chapter members-only event.

  Transfer Station Tour

  Take a tour of the I-66 Transfer Station, which includes trash, brush, grinding, hazardous waste collection and a recycling drop-off center. The tour will take about an hour.

  123Junk Donation Pods

  123Junk donation pods are located at the transfer station. They will show us how their donation process works and what kind of items they put in the pods. The tour will take about 15 minutes.

  Lunch Nearby

  To be determined

  Parking & Tour Start Location

  Parking is limited so it is recommended that participants carpool. GPS will not take you to the correct building. You’ll want to park in the lot on the map below by following the red line and go into the building circled in blue. Directly above is the Residents' Recycling and Disposal Center.

  

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• NAPO-WDC Chapter Meeting: Productivity Consulting

  • When
    May 04, 2020
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Faith Lutheran Church, 3313 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, Virginia, 22201
  • Registered
    3 registrants

  Register

  Productivity Consulting

  
  

  Speaker: Heather Cocozza

  More details to come...

  Agenda
  

  • 6:30 - 7:00:  Check-In, Networking, Ask the Expert Table with Andrea Hancock, and Refreshments
  • 7:00 - 7:30:  General Chapter Business
  • 7:30 - 8:30:  Productivity Consulting
  • 8:30 - 9:00:  Door Prize and Networking

  Directions and Parking Instructions

  If navigating by GPS, use 19 N. Jackson St, Arlington VA 22201

  Parking Map

  Faith Lutheran Church is at the corner of Rte 50 and N. Jackson St. in Arlington, VA. The entrance is in the very back of the building on N. Jackson St. We have a sign on the sidewalk on N. Jackson St. at the walkway leading to the entrance door.

  The closest parking is behind the building on N. Jackson St. at 1st Pl. There is more parking in front of the building by Rte 50.

  Inclement Weather Policy

  In the event that bad weather is predicted on the day of a chapter meeting, NAPO-WDC will not cancel the meeting, but will instead switch to a virtual meeting. A virtual meeting conversion will be determined by the cancellation protocols for that meeting's location set by Montgomery County Public Schools or Arlington County Public Schools. If a switch takes place, meeting registrants will receive login instructions for the virtual meeting.

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• Golden Circle Potluck

  • When
    May 17, 2020
  •  
    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  The Golden Circle Potluck is an event for all NAPO Golden Circle members, including those who are not members of the NAPO-WDC chapter.
  
  Please bring a dish to share. If you are a Golden Circle member and would like to attend, please RSVP to Lauri Mennel (lauri@bluebonnetpo.com). She will provide the address. 
  
  Registration via the website is not available.
  

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• NAPO-WDC Chapter Meeting: Business Partners to the Rescue!

  • When
    June 01, 2020
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza, One Veterans Place, (Spring Room) Silver Spring, MD 20910. Use 8528 Fenton Street for GPS purposes.
  • Registered
    3 registrants

  Register

  My Client Needs Help! Business Partners to the Rescue

  
  

  Panel: NAPO-WDC Business Partners

  Topic: Case studies from project beginning to end with how business partners can help & how to best network with business partners.

  More details to come...

  Agenda
  

  • 6:30 - 7:00:  Check-In, Networking, Ask the Expert Table with Vernestine Laughinghouse, and Refreshments
  • 7:00 - 7:30:  General Chapter Business
  • 7:30 - 8:30:  Business Partners to the Rescue
  • 8:30 - 9:00:  Door Prize and Networking

  Parking Instructions

  • Parking Instructions for Silver Spring Meetings
  • Town Square Garage
  • Wayne Avenue Garage

  Inclement Weather Policy

  In the event that bad weather is predicted on the day of a chapter meeting, NAPO-WDC will not cancel the meeting, but will instead switch to a virtual meeting. A virtual meeting conversion will be determined by the cancellation protocols for that meeting's location set by Montgomery County Public Schools or Arlington County Public Schools. If a switch takes place, meeting registrants will receive login instructions for the virtual meeting.

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• Rte 66 Neighborhood Group (Chantilly)

  • When
    June 18, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Register

  The Rt 66 Neighborhood Group meets at Wegmans 14361 Newbrook Drive Chantilly, VA 20151 from 7 PM to 9 PM. 

  The coordinator is Karen Salinetti. Karen's contact information will be included at the bottom of the registration confirmation email.

  The Neighborhood Groups are a “chapter members-only” benefit, so we ask that you not bring guests who are not members of our chapter until they join.

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