Welcome to a brand new, bright, and beautiful year from Progress Prescott.
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The new year holds 365 days of new possibility and opportunity that is yours to harness!
The year is yours to create.
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Another New Business in
Downtown Prescott!
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A new shop on King Street is creating quite a buzz!
Customers are saying it's beautiful, classy, smells amazing, and they love the prices.
It's a place where you can find gently used clothing for all including many brand names at affordable prices.
It's worth the trip to check them out!
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Sign up now
to have 9 baskets of Red House Honey’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) organically-grown garden produce delivered to your door, fresh every week, starting in late June. Own a share in this CSA operation by purchasing your veggie basket in advance via credit card, Interac e-transfer or cash. This tried-and-true method is used by CSA farms everywhere.
PAYMENT:
Small basket $200 (family of 2)
Large basket $300 (family of 4)
Due Feb. 2018
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Eggs delivered every other week (5 deliveries).
Add $50 (chicken eggs) or $80 (duck eggs) to your total.
Thirty spots available. Includes small or large jar of raw, kosher honey once per month depending on basket size purchased.
Contact us now to reserve with your name, email address, street address and basket size.
Pre-payment (1) helps us confirm your spot, order our seeds and begin our planning and growing processes; (2) helps us get the plants in the ground and nourish them and (3) ensures we can water, nurture, weed, harvest and deliver your veggies. See example box below.
(Serving Prescott, Johnstown, Cardinal and Iroquois).
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Business Events, Resources & Opportunities
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Spend an hour finalizing plans for your business and exploring the possibilities and potential of the new year with Wendy & Jeanette on January 23rd.
Prescott Town Hall, 360 Dibble St W, 2nd Floor
You bring your lunch and we’ll bring coffee and treats!
Price – Complimentary
for further information and to register.
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A Handbook, Webinar, & Workshop to Assist with Changes Brought by Bill 148
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Steering Through Change: Bill 148
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This
handbook and webinar
have been designed by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
to
help Ontario’s business community navigate the incoming changes from Bill 148 (Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act).
If you have questions or concerns, both of these resources are a great place to start!
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Do you have questions about how Bill 148 will impact your business?
The Employment & Education Centre
would like to invite you to a SOLUTION FOCUSED morning to discuss the Impact of Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act., 2017 on business in the area.
January 10th from 7am to 12noon
at the Brockville Convention Centre.
Breakfast included, no charge
, please RSVP by January 5th, 2018 to
Kim Barkley
or 613-498-2111 ext 245.
Your presenter for the morning will be
Chuck Tahirali, Senior Human Resources Consultant, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP.
Chuck will discuss the basics of the current Employment Standards Act and the changes that will be implemented over the next 12 months.
This presentation will provide the necessary information so that we can develop strategies to help manage the impact on our businesses.
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Do you know a new graduate that might be a perfect fit for your business or the business world who just needs a hand getting started on their career path?
Then this offering from the Employment + Education Centre may be the perfect place for them to launch their careers!
Contact
Clark Harvey
today for more details and to register.
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CSE Consulting Calendar January 2018
(Click the image to be directed to the website)
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This Meeting is our First Stop as part of the Touring Leeds & Grenville Series for the 2018.
There will be Catered Snacks and Refreshments.
This will be a Casual Business / Networking Event.
Where: Unit 7 - 2211 Parkedale Ave, Brockville, ON K6V 6B2, Canada
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New Year, New Goals
Goal Setting for Your Business
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By: Jacqueline Schoemaker Holmes, PhD
Economic Development Officer, Town of Prescott
The New Year brings with it a world of possibility and potential – 365 days of new opportunity. The New Year can also be fraught with busyness and reflections about the goals that you made for yourself and your business that you may or may not have met in the previous 365 days. If only there was a secret, scientifically-based approach to goal setting that we could use. Well, it just so happens, there is! Perhaps not so “secret,” the five principles of goal setting proposed by psychologists Dr. Edwin Locke and Dr. Gary Latham have long been lauded as the means by which individuals, and business owners, can reach their goals. The five principles are as follows:
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Clarity.
Simply, set clear goals. Ensure that they are measurable. Consider writing a personal and/or business mission statement to keep you on track.
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Challenge.
Locke and Latham noted that individuals are motivated by the rigor of the task and so they encourage the development of challenging goals. Don’t settle for what you know you can easily achieve. Strive for something you will have to work for. Spark your interest. Establish rules for self-discipline. Set up a system of rewards when milestones are met.
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Commitment.
“The goal–performance relationship is strongest when people are committed to their goals.”
– Edwin Locke and Gary Latham. Commitment here means both a rational and emotional commitment. You know what this unique combination looks like for you and so if you can’t find the will to make that commitment, create a goal that you know you can commit to. Visualization can help with sticking it out when the going gets tough – even creating a vision board or a treasure map can help you through the ups and downs of achieving end goals.
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Feedback.
Monitor your progress. Get feedback. Be flexible. Adjust along the way as needed. Weekly or monthly reviews can help with the feedback process.
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Task Complexity
. Ensure that tasks can be broken down into manageable bits in order to meet end goals. The mountain is always overwhelming, but it is the stones along the way that we can handle, one-by-one in manageable “chunks.” Sub-goals can be created for larger goals. Everything need not be accomplished at once.
This five-principle formula can act as just one piece of your business goal setting for this New Year. The Town of Prescott is hosting the Leeds Grenville Small Business Enterprise Centre for a workshop on Goal Setting on Tuesday January 23
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from 12pm to 1pm. Bring your lunch and your goals – we’ll supply the coffee and cookies. Unless cookies aren’t part of your New Year plans!
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May all good things find you, this year and always.
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