Creative Innovation - Out-of-the-Box Thinking
Today's leaders are in the business of creative innovation. Whether the creativity is expressed in new products and services, new public relations approaches, new programs, or new marketing or merchandising methods, success in the long run depends on creativity and innovation! This creativity keynote shows how to generate ideas alone or in a group, how to brainstorm for increased productivity, and how to encourage a creative organizational climate.
Tennis Shoes & Blue Jeans - Back-to-the-Basics Approach to Creativity and Innovation
International keynote speaker Harry K. Jones sheds his traditional business attire to grace your stage in "tennis shoes and blue jeans." There's a method to his madness. His fundamental apparel is a visual footnote to remind us that the latest creative trends in every field are grounded in a back-to-the basics-elementary-this-is-not-rocket-science approach to problem-solving, over-coming barriers, and dealing with the growing challenges we face in today's competitive workplace. Listen, learn, laugh and leave this creativity keynote inspired to make a difference and eager to apply what you learn as you return to the workplace with a Tennis Shoe & Blue Jean mind set.
Consumers to Fans
Consumers invest their precious dollars where they feel they will receive the best return on their investment. The challenge to every organization today is to transform consumers into fans ... customers who will sing your praises to others and voluntarily urge them to purchase your products and/or services. This customer service keynote provides the necessary blueprint, safeguards, and guidelines for doing exactly that.
On Your Mark, Get Set, Goal!
Today, we live in a microwave, throw-away, live-for-the-moment society. Successful goal setting is the continual process of making a goal and achieving it, and making still more goals and achieving them. This goal setting keynote helps you take control of many areas in your life so that you can determine where you're going, how to get there, when you'll get there, and what you want to do when you arrive.
Cavalcade of Champions
Learn more about the winning ways of Stephen Covey (author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People), Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart), Oprah Winfrey (television host, producer, actress), Herb Kellerher (CEO of Southwest Airlines), Jack Welch (CEO of GE), Bill Gates (CEO of Microsoft), Michael Eisner (CEO of Disney), and many others as this leadership keynote examines those basic, but powerful, common characteristics that you, too, can harness for greater productivity and personal satisfaction.
Leaders are Readers
This leadership keynote provides shocking statistics on the current state of adult reading habits in the U.S. today, in both students and working adults, and how it's affecting our business environment. Learn what you should be reading, shortcuts and methods of faster reading, and what to do with what you learn.
No Business Like Know Business
People have to increase their learning power to sustain their earning power. Lifelong learning is the norm that is augmenting and in some cases displacing school-age education. Half, yes 50%, of what students learn in their first year of college is obsolete by the time they graduate! For companies to remain competitive and workers to be employable, they must continue to learn. This leadership keynote provides a strong foundation on which to build your Learning Organization.
Productive Chaos - Riding the Wave of Change
Are your organizational arrows aligned to prepare you for the chaos awaiting you? Will you be a victim or a benefactor of this inevitable trend? The choice is yours! This change management/leadership keynote provides participants with specific hands-on techniques to break out of old traditional thought patterns and develop new ways of thinking and responding. It examines and integrates the very latest research, development, and theories into a simple, easy-to-use formula for success at a time when we're all being asked to accomplish much more with less.
Reframe for Success
This leadership keynote reveals a number of examples of very familiar leading organizations in a number of fields, many of their actual reframes, and the positive benefits resulting from their follow-up. Discover why so many organizations and leaders continue to avoid duplicating these obviously successful models of new era thinking.
Round Up Your Sacred Cows
This leadership keynote shows you how to prepare your people for the challenge of examining your well-worn beliefs, assumptions, and practices and identifying those that have outlived their usefulness. It also provides guidelines for creating an environment in which your people are more open to new ideas, eager to recognize and overcome resistance to change, and willing to take the action needed to thrive in a changing environment.
Networking for Personal Productivity
Whether you're generating sales for your organization or looking for a job, networking is a powerful and effective tool. This networking keynote describes the four types of networks and examines the networking hierarchy, mapping analysis, planning, and a 20-item list of "do's & don'ts." Each participant establishes or enhances his/her network before the conclusion of this keynote.
Stress: The Ultimate Paradox
Do you thrive on stress? Or does stress make you anxious? The critical difference between positive and negative stress lies in the way we perceive and deal with each potentially stressful situation. Stress management is, simply, effective coping. This stress management keynote provides a practical presentation of time-tested techniques to reduce both our perception of stress and its harmful consequences.
Developing Empowered Teams
This team building keynote provides participants with the skills, knowledge, and guidelines to develop winning teams by improving each person's team leadership and team membership skills.
The "I Hate Time Management" Program
This time management keynote was not designed to sell a daily planner, a diary or a new philosophy. It was, however, created to provide participants with tips, guidelines, time-proven methods, systems, surveys, and analysis to establish a plan for improved task and time management. This time management keynote is essential for anyone who might benefit from better task and time management.
Becoming a Choice Employer: Attracting & Retaining World-Class Talent
Business success and growth in any industry is clearly linked to the attraction and retention of talent. In fact, there is no issue with greater urgency, or more far-reaching consequences. It has been identified by numerous resources as the #1 business issue of the 21st Century! In this seminar or keynote, examine solutions and examples of how Choice Employers deal with this most vexing problem!
Leadership Boot Camp
This leadership boot camp educational seminar is action-packed and filled with practical tools that will help leaders create a more effective team. Throughout the sessions, activities will help participants apply what they have learned. They will also have valuable networking opportunities to help them learn from each other.
Customer Satisfaction Strategies
A powerful wave is shaking the already turbulent business world. It is a wave of service-or more specifically, an intense interest in quality of service and satisfaction. This customer service seminar or keynote provides knowledge, methods, and expert guidelines to help you establish the competitive edge as we prepare to face a truly challenging marketplace.
TRAVELS FROM: Michigan
FEE CATEGORY: A ($5k or less)
