Keynotes & Programs
Keynotes Available for 2010:
- Advance Your Agenda: Re-Calculating- 7 Ways to Stride Confidently in a New Direction
- Protect Your Value: The Rules of Communication are Clear and Finite
- Confidence: The Influence of Illusion
- Develop the Diva Within: Power Up Your Diva Potential
- From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Ten Myths of a 21st Century Leader
- Your Authentic Value: Identify It, Communicate It, Protect It
- What Your Child Needs to Know to Take Over Your Business - And What You Need to Know to Get Out of Their Way
- The Multi-Generational Workplace: Who Will Vote Whom Off the Island?
"Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to act as the Keynote Speaker for the Ohio Women's Bar Association. The response was an overwhelming "WOW!"
Pamela Houston,
President
Ohio Women's Bar Association
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Advance Your Agenda:
Re-Calculating- 7 Ways to Stride Confidently in a New Direction
A New Year is often a time to re-assess our business and ourselves: Wouldn’t it be great, if like a GPS, we could re-calculate correctly at will?
The purpose of communication is to Advance an Agenda: to get results. There are “Rules of the Road“ to reach our goals more quickly. Learn how to identify your destination and confidently make adjustments along the way.
- Exhibit the Consistency Required of a 21st Century Leader
- Create your own Dramatic Answer to “What do you do?”
- Laser Focus on the Decision Maker
- Be a Follow Up Warrior
- Develop a Peer Level Relationship with Anyone
Protect Your Value:
The Rules of Communication are Clear and Finite
We are a society of rules. There are rules for everything. We have rules for driving and rules for spying in the NFL. So why would you think there are no rules for how we communicate a commanding presence?
- The first step is to know that there are rules (50)
- The second step is to know the rules
- The third step is to know that there are consequences for breaking the rules!
- The Rules Rule
- If you want to get results then you need to learn the rules on the communication highway
Confidence:
The Influence of Illusion
Confidence is like the home court advantage. Difficult to measure by metrics; definitely a part of every athletic event. What role has confidence played in your life? Bigger than you imagine.
Where does confidence come from? How can we replicate it on demand?
- First correctly identify your value
- Confidence comes from repeated success
- The look of confidence can be conjured at will
- Know the differences between confidence and arrogance
- Use communication skills to facilitate other’s belief in you and your confidence in self
Develop the Diva Within
Power Up Your Diva Potential
Women leaders have a unique set of communication challenges. Women leaders need to communicate with the clarity, conviction, and confidence that are often identified as male traits. This more concise and laser focused approach is needed to move agendas forward in negotiations and other forms of communication.
There are Myths and Mystery as to How Women Communicate:
- Differences in how each sex communicate
- Speak with authority
- Identify defining moments and leverage them
- Present the image you need to present to succeed
- Communicate to pass the three W’s
- Convey Confidence, Clarity, Conviction
From Ordinary to Extraordinary:
Ten Myths of a 21st Century Leader
The focus of this dynamic interactive keynote is to develop the strategic mindset to be heard and have influence on key decisions. Begin the journey to look inside yourself to see what you need to accomplish to be seen as someone with something to say.
The goal is to generate an invitation to the table earlier and to be heard once you are there.
In this keynote you will learn:
- The value of strategic
- Strategic versus Tactical
- Techniques for advancing your ideas in the leadership environment
- What to expect and what is expected once you get to the table
- Become an ambassador for yourself, your company, and your industry
Your Authentic Value:
Identify It, Communicate It, Protect It
Most people and businesses have incorrectly identified their value. Even if you market or advertise your value, what if you are marketing the wrong thing? Your value lives in a very small, special place: how you make someone’s life better or different. The more differentiation, the more perceived value.
You are your most valuable product. Are you memorable and consistent? Do you create magical moments for your audience of one or one thousand??
In this interactive keynote we will address:
- How is someone better off after having heard you?
- How is someone better off after buying into your product, idea or service?
- How is someone better off after having been led by you?
- Do you communicate your value clearly?
- Do you protect your value by what you do and say?
What Your Child Needs to Know to Take Over Your Business
And What You Need to Know to Get Out of Their Way
Family businesses should be outlawed by the constitution of the United States, unless they follow 13 rules of engagement. Are you strong enough to make decisions based on what is best for the business rather than what is best for the family?
Can your child be in the family business and be both a leader and your child?
- Can you deal with ambiguity?
- Is there accountability and specific areas of responsibility?
- Does your child have a passion for the business?
- Do you have a shared work ethic?
- What are your multi-generational ideas of professional development?
The Multi-Generational Workplace:
Who Will Vote Whom Off the Island?
This is the first time in history four generations have been working together in the workplace: four very different generations. The flashpoints occur most often between Generation X and the Baby Boomers. Generation Y and the Traditionalists round out the workplace equation.
Tension points include:
- work hours
- feedback
- dress code
- computer competency
- community involvement
Understand the differences to protect your value and excel. The focus needs to be to develop effective skills in dealing with members of any generation. Then operate from understanding those differences.
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