If you’re looking for some run-of-the-mill timetable filler for an event you’re planning, DON’T look here.
What we’re talking about on this page are genuinely motivational events delivered by genuinely motivational speakers. The sort of talks and speakers that not only educate the audience but also lift their spirits and show them the power to improve that they hold in their own hands.
The talks come in 45, 60, 90 and 120-minute sessions and are designed for audiences of between 30 and infinity. Most commonly they’re delivered to sales meetings and team rev-up sessions. Occasionally, though, they provide after dinner entertainment – testimony to the equation: Interesting Speakers + Interesting Topics = Fun.
All our speakers have an exciting, energetic and empathic speaking style guaranteed to inspire the audience. Their delivery is compelling, their empathy with the business audience is entirely natural and their feedback-history is exceptional. Nick Smallman is our principal Speaker. The wider picture, though, is that Kate Faragher speaks exclusively about “Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace” and Paul Hill exclusively about “Making the Most of Your Voice” and the rest of the team speak on the rest of the topics.
All our talks focus on relevant workplace-related subjects meaning that your organisation will get the added bonus of your people taking away with them something of immediate practical use.
And, incidentally, if you want particular content or emphasis included in a talk to suit the specific needs of your organisation, you just have to say.
Here are the topics.
The Science of Personal Impact
Have you noticed that there are some people who get respect and support from others without any apparent effort? The Science of Personal Impact is the talk for everyone who wants to graduate to that same level of presence, charisma and confidence, but who, until now, have seen it as beyond them.
In this powerful session we inspire the audience to take responsibility for their message and show them easy strategies to “wow” their listeners.
It’s what we call Communication Excellence and it homes-in on building confidence and displaying real presence, impact and optimism. Crucially, we also discuss the power of “state change”.
Presenting made Easy
Presenting is NOT about providing the face and voiceover to a PowerPoint presentation. Successful Presenting, Pitching and Persuading is about justified self-belief; possessing the right manner with other people; impressing in company; being listened to; being taken seriously. It’s about getting the message across, making the pitch, closing the sale. You’ve got the idea. We’re “Presenting” the whole time. And the good news is that the specific skills you need to excel at it are i) latent within you ii) easy to develop with the right coaching.
In this fascinating and fast-moving talk, we cover relaxation, energy, tonality, body language, spontaneity, clarity, vocal agility and preparation. If you want a framework for exceptional presenting, pitching and persuading; if you want a toolkit you can use immediately; and if you want both of them fast, this session is the one to attend.
Communication without Boundaries
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Knowing how to communicate at all levels; being entirely at ease; feeling on equal terms in any setting. That sort of confidence is what building relationships is all about, and the ability to build relationships is a cornerstone to any successful business career.
Meaningful communication and the ability to understand how people tick (clients and colleagues alike) is where you start. Discussing assertiveness, influence, empathy, collaboration, rapport and the use of active listening, we unlock, step-by step, the essential secrets of all these relationship-building communication behaviours in this energising and empowering session.
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Emotional Intelligence is about the ability to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of yourself, of others, and of groups. It’s about knowing when and how to express emotion. It’s about controlling emotion. And it’s about thinking and acting in ways that have a direct impact on the bottom line. A study of 44 Fortune 500 companies found that salespeople with high EQ (Emotion Quotient) produced twice the revenue of those with average or below average scores!
Emotional Intelligence is a topic of huge and growing interest to Human Resources Departments and internal Businesses. It is illuminating, practical, and current. It is also fascinating as you’ll see when you’re guided through content like Understanding EI, Exploiting the Eight Competencies and Using EI in the Workplace.
No one leaves this session without greater inner knowledge and greater ability to make a real difference to their own lives and the lives of others.
Making the Most of Your Voice
Good public speakers, good presenters, good pitchers of ideas build rapport with their audiences. They start a conversation with them. They don’t treat them to a dull monologue!
Vital to any successful conversation of the sort are preparation, mindset and body language. Certainly as important, though – perhaps more important – is your voice and how you use and control it. It is a crucial aspect of your total presentation.
In this talk we tell you about the many, little-known techniques that will improve your vocal delivery and make yours an appealing, purposeful and persuasive voice to listen to. The means are within us all. Your voice really is your choice.
Why Personal Brand Matters
“Your Personal Brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”*
If you see the sense of that statement then you understand why Personal Brand matters.
Personal Branding is about creating the right external-facing impression about yourself, ensuring that impression is authentic and differentiating yourself from your competition.
Using as a foundation i) our Seven Laws of Personal Branding ii) the influence of Branding in the Corporate World and iii) the lessons drawn from good and bad examples, we show how you can develop your own outstanding and successful Personal Brand. And we top it off with a peek at the most powerful Personal Brand in the world – and what makes it work.
• Jeff Bezos (Founder and Chairman of Amazon).
Powerful Memory
PCs lose unsaved information unless you save to hard disk. Your short-term memory is like unsaved information. Your long-term memory is like the hard disk.
On the PC you Save by a simple click. Saving to your long-term memory happens in many ways. You might retain something because the topic interests you – or just by chance. With smart people, though, it’s something else. Brain training – which takes desire, imagination, knowledge and strategy.
In these highly entertaining, practical and interactive talks we give demonstrations and show you how to use those brain-training techniques. Techniques illustrated by the likes of the Long Number Game, Putting Names to Faces and The Roman Room.
These talks are informative to be sure but, just as much, they’re Fun!
Peak Performance
Suffering from work pressure and feeling that you’re not wholly in control? Welcome to the Club.
Most of us experience workplace anxiety at some time or another. High work volumes, changing procedures, workplace uncertainties, tight deadlines, difficult situations and people. These are just some of the more common causes.
This talk centres on identifying the problems, describing how they manifest themselves and showing not only how to overcome them but also how to grow in strength from them – turning them into the weapons of Peak Performance.
That last statement sounds quite a trick but, in truth, it isn’t. By understanding concepts with titles like Self-Monitoring, Thinking Errors and Confidence Killers (just three of a battery of concepts we discuss) you’ll very quickly grasp that there really are simple, practical and effective ways to turn “Bad Stress” into “Good Stress” and to enhance your workplace performance mightily in the process.
