During O 's first-ever White House Leadership conference, participants completed the exercises offered below. Now it's your turn. Download the packet, read more about the event, and talk with others about starting a business on our message board.

Getting Started
Use this worksheet and grid to set SMART leadership goals.
  Goal-Setting
  Project Grid

Negotiation for Change
Women own about 40 percent of all businesses in the U.S. but receive only 2.3 percent of the available equity capital needed for growth. Male-owned companies receive the other 97.7 percent.* 
  Negotiation Basics
 
Leadership Challenge
Find out what's standing between you and success.
  Project Challenge,  page 2
 
Marketing
People are looking for someone real.Learn methods to help you articulate an authentic messsage.
  Communication

Time Management
Organization expert Julie Morgenstern shares her foolproof strategies to stream-line your schedule.
  Time Management Tools, page 2
  Make a Time Map

Building a Plan
No action plan is written in stone. What you write (and revise) here is today's best guess for how you want to move forward.
  Action Plan, page 2

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