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			<title>Forum: Aligning Your Strategies for Improved Marketing - Christchurch (13 June 2012)</title>
			<description>This Forum will discuss how to bring your marketing strategies and your business strategic direction into line to achieve your businesses’ financial objectives. The Board, by setting the strategic direction of the business and its mission,...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=326</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:58:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Business Ethics - Christchurch (18 July 2012)</title>
			<description>This workshop serves to highlight how important it is for companies to address ethical issues and second how companies can in practice go about developing and enforcing ethical standards that they will need to embrace when doing business. The...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=325</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: How to Effectively &quot;Field Coach&quot; Teams Christchurch (20 June 2012)</title>
			<description>Field coaching focuses on developing the specific selling skills and knowledge of your salespeople: selling benefits, handling objections, closing, and product/application knowledge.

  Topics and modules include:

  Introduction and Definition of...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=324</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:47:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Strategic Business Development | Key Account Selling - Christchurch (15 May 2012)</title>
			<description>This workshop is designed to help move salespeople from tactical sales calls to long-term strategic selling. It enhances the sales force&apos;s ability to identify opportunities, set long-range goals, develop strategies, and execute action plans for...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=323</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Forum: Advisory Boards for Manufacturers (28 March 2012)</title>
			<description>• Needing additional expert advice to cope with the changing times?
 • Considering an advisory board of experts but unsure of the benefits and any pitfalls?

  This Forum will provide an opportunity to explore the benefits of advisory boards to...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=322</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:38:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Value Added Negotiation - Christchurch (18 April 2012)</title>
			<description>A highly interactive and practical workshop that helps salespeople negotiate customer demands for better service, delivery, products, pricing, and other issues while meeting their own objectives.

  Topics to be covered:
 - Planning a...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=321</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:31:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Telephone Sales - Christchurch (29 March 2012)</title>
			<description>This workshop is designed for customer service roles where they are required to sell products and services through telephone contact with customer’s calls both inbound and outbound. Focusing on learning and practicing the fundamentals of a...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=319</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:30:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Customer Service - Christchurch (29 February 2012)</title>
			<description>This workshop is an experiential, interactive, and fast-paced one-day workshop to make your customer service staff &quot;customer service stars.&quot; With an emphasis on customer-focus and adding value, this is a &quot;must&quot; for today&apos;s customer service...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=318</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:06:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Telephone Sales - Auckland (7 March 2012)</title>
			<description>This workshop is designed for customer service roles where they are required to sell products and services through telephone contact with customer’s calls both inbound and outbound. Focusing on learning and practicing the fundamentals of a...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=316</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:45:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Lean Implementation / Manufacturing Excellence Auckland (Starts 8 March 2012)</title>
			<description>New Start Date

  A three day course where you will gain leadership and management skills to help you shape an organisation. The workshop will be delivered one day a month for three months and will cover the following:

  Day 1: Leading Change
...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=314</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:21:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Lean Implementation / Manufacturing Excellence Christchurch (Starts 1 March 2012)</title>
			<description>New Start Date

  A three day course where you will gain leadership and management skills to help you shape an organisation. The workshop will be delivered one day a month for three months and will cover the following:

  Day 1: Leading Change
...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=313</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:48:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: Diploma in Competitive Manufacturing - Tauranga (Starts 22 February 2012 )</title>
			<description>The Competitive Manufacturing Diploma is a programme specifically designed to assist manufacturing businesses to achieve real bottom line results and set the platform for positive cultural change.

  The programme utilises proven Lean...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=310</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:25:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: Diploma in Competitive Manufacturing Christchurch (Starts 1 March 2012)</title>
			<description>New Start Date

  The Competitive Manufacturing Diploma is a programme specifically designed to assist manufacturing businesses to achieve real bottom line results and set the platform for positive cultural change.

  The programme utilises proven...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=309</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:38:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: Diploma in Competitive Manufacturing Auckland (Starts 8 March 2012)</title>
			<description>New Start Date

  The Competitive Manufacturing Diploma is a programme specifically designed to assist manufacturing businesses to achieve real bottom line results and set the platform for positive cultural change.

  The programme utilises proven...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=308</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:59:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Forum: Succession for Business Owners - Christchurch (29 February 2012)</title>
			<description>One of the most challenging and important task of a business owner is to develop an appropriate succession plan for their phased exit in order to preserve the business when they are no longer there to lead it.

  The Forum will give an overview on...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=281</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:17:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: CPIM - Master Planning of Resources Christchurch (Starts 23 February 2012)</title>
			<description>This is the second module in a series of five that make up the Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) programme, the internationally recognised qualification from APICS.
 
 This course is designed for anyone working in production...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=242</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:51:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: CPIM - Strategic Management of Resources Christchurch (Starts 30 May 2012)</title>
			<description>This is the final module in a series of five that make up the Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) programme, the internationally recognised qualification from APICS.
 
 This course is designed for anyone working in production...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=241</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:14:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: CPIM - Execution and Control of Operations Christchurch (Starts 28 February 2012)</title>
			<description>This is the fourth module in a series of five that make up the Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) programme, the internationally recognised qualification from APICS.
 
 This course is designed for anyone working in production...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=240</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:41:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Programme: CPIM - Detailed Scheduling and Planning - Christchurch (Starts 31 May 2012)</title>
			<description>This is the third module in a series of five that make up the Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) programme, the internationally recognised qualification from APICS.
 
 This course is designed for anyone working in production...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=238</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:15:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Workshop: Proactive Selling - Christchurch (21 March 2012)</title>
			<description>We are delighted to bring to members, this “proactive selling” training course tailored specifically for manufacturing organisations. This highly interactive workshop focuses on learning and practicing the fundamentals of a consultative, yet...</description>
			<link>http://www.nzmea.org.nz/event.aspx?id=235</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:18:52 GMT</pubDate>
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