Business Power Sessions

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Intensive, Clear, Effective – When You Are Ready to Take Your Business To the Next Level!

Sometimes we need a boost forward, a powerful partner to assist us, a business POWER session.

BLC Bank’s Business Power Sessions are intense, information rich, walk-on-fire brain charge business networking breakfasts designed to help you break free, dig deep and make an amazing progress in record time.
Each session covers a topic.

Check out our upcoming sessions at www.lebanon.smetoolkit.org and choose the most relevant business topics to your needs.

Our first session is entitled “How to Ace your Life”, hereunder the outline:

Topic 1: "The Secrets of Persuasion"

·Reciprocity

·Scarcity

·Authority

·Consistency

·Liking

·Consensus

Followed by Q&A

Networking Breakfast Break

Topic 2: “10 PR Strategies I Have Learnt at Work”

·Be in the Moment and Enjoy the Moment

·Choose Your Battles

·Pleasing Everybody Doesn't Work; Take Care of Yourself

·It's OK to say No

·It’s Not Always Black or White

·Don't Take Things Personally

·Time Management

·There is No Such Thing as Luck

·Be Interested, Not Interesting

·Embrace The Haters

Followed by Q&A

About the Speaker:

Vanessa Abi-Rached is a specialist in client and public relations. Her clients include Italian fashion brands, NGO’s, luxury hotel properties, and an Arab celebrity: Bvlgari, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts, Ferragamo Hotels, Save the Children, and Magida El Roumi. Vanessa thrives on nurturing luxury brands and increasing their financial turnover through authentic and individualized service catered to each client’s needs. She increases her clients’ brand awareness and visibility by initiating, implanting, and controlling targeted projects, concerts, VIP events, press conferences, and product launches.

Vanessa holds a master’s degree in luxury business development, business administration, and public relations from SDA Bocconi (MAFED) Milan, Italy and a bachelor’s degree in history of art, history, and social sciences from the University College of London, U.K.

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BLC Bank

BLC Bank is focused on its vision of becoming a Bank of reference and is actively involved in financing economic sectors which have a lasting effect on national growth and sustainable development. Thus, the Bank is committed to SMEs, Women, Green Initiatives and innovative technology.

Within its commitment to SMEs, BLC Bank launched the SME Business Solutions, a program that provides tools, resources and opportunities for SMEs to develop. In this scope, BLC Bank created the “SME Academy” and launched the lebanon.smetoolkit.org.

Within this context, BLC Bank honors entrepreneurs who have achieved significant success in the region through the Brilliant Lebanese Awards, for the 3rd consecutive year in 2014.

Moreover, BLC Bank reaffirmed its position as a leader in the women’s segment through the We Initiative (www.we-initiative.com) which offers financial and non-financial services, ranging from learning and development to market exposure, networking & mentoring.

As a responsible corporate citizen, BLC Bank is dedicated to its employees, clients, community and the environment through a broad CSR “Boomerang” program.

Finally, as a pioneer in innovation, BLC Bank launched HEY! a revolutionary mobile payment solution. Designed with both the merchant and the user in mind, HEY! is the fastest, simplest, safest and most cost-effective way to pay, get paid and transfer money.

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BLC Bank Learning Center

Achrafieh, Lebanon