It starts with knowing WHY you want the speaker. Your event, your audience at your function all adds up to something unique.
From a key note presentation intended to energise and provoke ideas at a conference, to seminars teaching your sales staff the principles of goal setting and motivation, to entertaining clients at a Christmas function. In every case, you want a motivational speaker because you want results. After listening to a motivational speaker you want the audience to come away with new understandings and a different attitude - to think differently and act differently. You want them to enjoy themselves too!
So before any presentation I will always meet with you to understand the background and goals of the occasion, the size and demographics of the audience, and what content needs to be put across in what manner so that my presentation and delivery can be specifically crafted to meet your needs, and you get maximum value from having me.
That said - here is what I typically get asked to do
- Entertain and inspire staff and clients
- Provide insight into outrageous (but achievable) goal setting
- Provide techniques for maintaining motivation and persevering through adversity
- To help create high performing teams
- To help achieve peak performance in an organisation
To help you give a better idea of what I might talk about I have attached outlines of the content of three sample speeches. Of course the content of these speeches can be mixed and matched or new content created for your specific situation. Email me or phone me to have a chat, or get some ideas from below.
Speech outline 1. Fearlessly Facing Challenges: Preparing your team for taking on daunting goals
Is your team under pressure to deliver major results?
Are they daunted by the size of the challenge they have been asked to take on?
Few things stay the same in business. Competitors get faster and smarter. Consumers want more for less. To take your organisation to the next level of performance will often require setting and achieving audacious commercial goals – from achieving dramatically raised sales targets to rapidly developing new products.
However, when a team is handed that challenge that requires them to step out of their comfort zone they may not always react with delight. If they are not fully engaged their efforts may only be halfhearted, leading to a lack of progress and a self-perpetuating cycle of discouragement. Energy that could be spent on making headway is instead siphoned off into making excuses and justifying poor performance rather than taking personal responsibility for the things that can be changed.
This presentation confronts those unspoken doubts head-on, and provides tips, tools and realistic strategies to help refocus team members on what they can control, build resilience, create momentum and achieve success. (Read more here)
Speech outline 2. Taking Performance to the Next Level
Is your team stuck in a rut?
Are people taking personal responsibility for achieving their work goals?
Every organisation faces times where performance plateaus, when the work force is firmly within their comfort zone. At these times what is needed is a bit of a circuit breaker, something to knock the problems and challenges back into perspective. Something to get people excited about how much more there is to achieve. (Read more here)
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Speech outline 3. Energising and Uniting teams
Are your teams working as effectively as they could be?
Are you looking to reinvigorate your culture?
There is plenty of evidence that shows that teams produce better results than individuals - but only when a team is functioning well! Everyone has experiencedthe frustration, aggravation and productivity loss of being in team that is dysfunctional. If the team dynamic is starting to turn sour it is best to address it early before problems become entrenched.
This presentation is about improving the culture within a team, about setting up the ground rules for behavior and heading off problems before they become serious issues. It’s suitable for a team that’s just starting out, a team that starting to showing a few cracks or a team that wants to take their performance to the next level.
Note! The big advantage of using an external person to raise teamwork issues is that it is entirely non confrontational. I am able to introduce frameworks, talk about my mistakes and learnings, and discuss appropriate and non appropriate team member behaviour drawing from my experiences from outside your organisation, so no one takes offense. (Read more here)
