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• Maryland Book Club (Potomac)

  • When
    January 21, 2020
  •  
    7:00 PM

  Register

  What to read: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
  

  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
    January 22, 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.

  Podcast: Organize Your Stuff, we'll focus on "Laundry Hell" & "Organized Adulting"

  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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• Arlington/Alexandria Neighborhood Group

  • When
    January 28, 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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• NAPO-WDC Virtual Chapter Meeting: Business Automation

  • When
    February 03, 2020
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Meeting
  • Registered
    23 registrants

  Register

  Business Automation

  
  

  You must register to receive Zoom meeting participation instructions.

  Virtual Meeting Info

  This year we have a new virtual meeting tool: Zoom. This will allow participants to interact with each other via audio and video on their computer in a real virtual meeting (optional alternative audio available by phone) where we will be able to see and listen to each other in real dialog. During the traditional networking times, we will have breakout rooms that you can participate in, including Ask the Expert.

  • How to Join a Zoom Meeting: Be sure to download the app when prompted for the full experience.
  • Meeting Controls
  • Tip: In upper right you can toggle between Speaker view and Grid view that shows everyone.

  Agenda

  • 6:30 - 6:35: Virtual Meeting Instructions

  • 6:35 - 7:00: Introductions & Breakout Room Networking. Maria White will be our virtual Ask the Expert.
    
  • 7:00 - 7:05: Virtual Meeting Instructions
  • 7:05 - 7:30: General Chapter Business
  • 7:30 - 8:30: Presentation: Business Automation
  • 8:30 - 9:00: Breakout Room Networking
    

  Presentation

  The most important factor when it comes to running your business isn't money or resources --  it's time. If you have more time, you can generate more revenue, develop additional resources, or even just kick back, relax, and actually enjoy the fruits of your labor.

  With only 24 hours in a day that you can physically do work, how do you go about finding more time? You start by identifying the low skill, low creativity tasks you find yourself doing on a recurring basis, and you automate them.

  In this presentation, we'll answer (at least) 3 questions:

  1. Why should you automate business tasks?
  2. What tasks should you/can you automate?
  3. How do you automate these tasks?

  By the end of the presentation, Robert's goal is to start you down the path to saving hours in your day, so you can instead spend that time doing what's most important.

  Speaker: Robert Koepke

  
  

  Rob Koebke is the owner of Perform Growth, a digital marketing agency that helps small businesses keep up & stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital marketing world. He is also the marketing analytics manager at Lumaverse, a collection of software products that help thousands of nonprofits, universities, K12 schools, and corporations manage groups.

  Before transitioning into the world of tech and digital marketing, Rob was the co-founder of 202strong, a gym brand with two locations in the Washington, DC area.

  In his free time Rob loves to hang out and watch Netflix with his wife & their cat, create content for social media, and help aspiring entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground.

  You can follow Rob on:

  Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/robkoebke

  Instagram: @robkoebke

  Facebook: facebook.com/robkoebke
  

  Inclement Weather Policy

  Rain or shine, unless we have power issues. 

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• Business Development Day with Cena Block

  • When
    February 07, 2020
  •  
    8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    George Mason University Arlington Campus, 3351 North Fairfax Drive, Room 313, Arlington, VA 22201
  • Registered
    24 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.

  Early Bird Discount Deadline

  After January 13, 2020 pricing will increase by $10.

  Room

  TBD

  Rain Date

  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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• Golden Circle Potluck

  • When
    February 09, 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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• Northern VA Book Club (Arlington)

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

  Register

  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

  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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• 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
    7 registrants

  Register

  Gain & Retain Clients

  
  

  Speaker: Katie Nelson

  More details to come...

  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

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Show details