Fueling Connections

The PARO On Wheels team will be traveling east June 19, 20 & 21.

The team will be traveling east this trip and thus far have appointments in Nipigon, Red Rock, as well as Longlac and Geraldton.

If you are interested in meeting with one of our team members, please give Anke a call (807.625.0328) or email her (paroonwheels@paro.ca) to set up an appointment.

We would love to meet with you to provide any assistance that we can: to learn more about you and to share information about PARO and our programs.

Mark your calendars for the next PARO Leads & Links and our annual bar-b-q. The next Leads & Links will be Wednesday, June 27th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm at Rosalind Lockyer's home. We're pleased to have Laura Morine & family of ABC Custom Embroidery as our speakers for "Home Based Business - Never Judge a Book By Its Cover". Further information and driving directions will be available soon.

PARO Leads & Links are held the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 5-7PM, and offer networking and learning opportunities, as well as great advertising opportunities for your business with display booths available at each event. To find out more about how you can promote and showcase your business, product, or service at PARO Leads & Links, or call Maria at 625-0328 or programadministrator@paro.ca

PARO Peer Lending Circles

PARO Peer Lending Circles are groups of 4-7 women who are in business, are prospective entrepreneurs, or believe in women helping women. Circles provide peer support, the opportunity to access and share business knowledge as well as a variety of perspectives and experience. Circle members also have access to small business loans.

If you would like to learn more about PARO ’s Peer Lending Circles, please contact Pam at now@paro.ca.

Pam and Laura M have started calling Circle Members to update the information that we have in our database about the members and the circles. Please be patient with us as we make our way through the list.

More Resources for You

Volunteer specialists asking "Who Cares?" Linda Graff and Paul Reed, two leading experts on volunteerism in Canada , have put out a compelling new call over the internet. They want all Canadians to become more aware of the threat to our communities that is posed by the declining number of volunteers across the country.

In Canada , 67% of all volunteer work is done by just 5% of people, and those numbers are continuing to become even more lopsided. The Reed-Graff Conversations explore the data and ask the important question: "Who Cares?"

The website includes a terrific series of audio conversations and supporting text documents that highlight the issue and offer suggestions for how communities can begin to tackle it together. Take part in the conversation yourself, and share it with leaders in your community. The website is at: www.canadawhocares.ca

Do you have an elevator speech? This short description of one’s business, program, or one’s self is a requisite tool whether you are an entrepreneur, a salesperson, starting out in business, seeking partners, or seeking employment; whether you are selling an idea, an existing product or service, a project, or one’s self. An elevator speech is a concise, consistent, and benefit-focused description of a new product or service.

You never know when you will run into someone who you need to tell about your business in a short period of time. It always pays to be prepared.

Chris O’Leary’s “Elevator Pitch Essentials” http://tinyurl.com/38sj7h
Business Know-How’s “Art of the Elevator Pitch” http://tinyurl.com/yv4xxc
Monster.ca’s “Prepare Your Elevator Speech” http://tinyurl.com/3428s5

Interest rates are a mystery to many Canadians. How are they set? What makes them go up and down? Why are there so many different rates? What effect do they have on our dollar? What impact do they have on our lifestyle? What’s going to happen to interest rates in the future? How do they affect Canada ’s economy?

When you think about it, many activities in our lives are affected by interest rates. They have an impact on our standard of living, our mortgages, and the type of car we can afford, our savings and investments, how we’ll live in our retirement years and our tax situation. You get the picture.

The Canadian Banker’s Association’s article “The Interest in Your Life” http://tinyurl.com/2phnon

The Business Accelerator

Time-Management Ideas

By Christopher M. Knight

Discover when your peak work hours are, and make your work life evolve around those hours, so you are most effective.

ALWAYS take the last 15 minutes of each work day, to prepare for the next day. This will usually save you 2 hours the next day, and make you more focused.

Start your day 1 hour earlier than everyone else. You want a competitive edge? This is it.

IDENTIFY your own 80/20 rule. Is 80% of your day really ineffective? If so, what are you doing during the 20% which produces all of your tangible resultes?

DECIDE to take control of your game. Make your own rules for the strategies you'll need to manage your time.

TAKE ACTION: What are 3 things you've been procrastinating about doing this week? Get them done over the next hour. Do it. :)

Lastly, USE Technology, ONLY WHEN it saves you time or produces a positive equity gain in your life or business.

The Business Accelerator Program at PARO Centre offers
Incubator Office Space for Rent!
Contact Suzanne @ 625-0328 for more information.

PARO’s advanced Business Accelerator program provides a flexibility of workshops, mentoring, business counseling, web and tele-classes to women who are already established in their businesses but want to ‘grow a little or shift a lot’. This program builds knowledge, skills, capacity, confidence and resilience as a business owner, and each participant’s program is specially tailored to suit their needs. Contact accelerator@paro.ca to find out how the program can benefit your business.

PARO's Accelerator project has been supported with a grant from the Canadian Women's Foundation Economic Development Collaborative Fund, a partnership of the Canadian Women's Foundation, CIBC, The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation and an Anonymous donor.

This project is supported by Industry Canada / Fednor.

June 11th - Biz and Bagel

Next Biz and Bagel Monday, June 11th

Featuring: Willow Springs Artist Collective

Presenting... "Group Problem Solving, Part 2"

Biz & Bagels are open to the public and we welcome you to join us
Mondays, 12:15pm - 1:15pm @ PARO Centre

If you are in the region and would like to join us, we have limited spaces available through teleconference. Please contact Joni @ jsharkey@paro.ca or 1-800-584-0252.

This program is funded by the Government of Canada

Business Development Programs

Are you a Woman with a Disability?
Dissatisfied With Your Work?

Want to Become Self-Employed?

Are you a woman contemplating going into business but do not know where to start?

For more info, please call Joni at 625.0328 or 1.800.584.0252

Start Your Business Today. Let us help you!

Join the Making A Difference: A Business Development Program

Funded by:

The support of Government of Ontario through the Ontario Women's Directorate, the Ministry of

Citizenship and Immigration is acknowledged

PARO Self-Employment Benefit Program

PARO's GATEWAY: A Path to Self-Employment

On EI now or in the last 3 years, or had Maternity benefits in the last 5 years?

Register Today!!

Click here for more information

This program is funded by the Government of Canada

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Do you have a computer? Can you surf the internet easily? Why not try our new Pilot project...
PARO On-line.