Keynotes & Workshops

With both humor and well-researched content, our keynotes and workshops educate and inspire.

Keynotes are scheduled from 45 to 90 minutes and include:

Myths R Us
This program communicates how stories and storytelling are your corporate culture. It provides opportunities for learning and examples of how organizations that implement storytelling have turned 'resistance to change' into 'enthusiasm for the challenge'.

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Creating Commitment: A New Attitude
Creating a sense of commitment begins with a clear and actionable vision for your organization and is linked to the image/personality/brand you project, how you choose to influence others, and the relationship between you, your members, customers or clients, colleagues, employees, suppliers and the community that you serve. It's created from the inside out. The purpose of this program is to instil and enhance the knowledge that everyone has a part in the responsibility for creating significance. The journey requires an examination of the attitudes necessary to build appropriate and long lasting commitment.

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Workshops can be done in 3 hour time frames or a day-long format.
They include:

Myths R Us – depending on your specific needs, the stories being told in your organization, between your team members, or between your team and your customers reflect the values you are built on. They are your corporate culture; they provide the foundation for how you communicate, both internally and externally.

This is important for several reasons:

• Internal communication
• Customer service
• Sales

What does It Cover?

Strategy

• Using stories as a strategy
• Linking narrative to values

Structure

• Formatting your story
• The ‘how’ and ‘why’

The Process

• Create the stories
• Connect values to challenges
• Communicate with team

Purpose

• The importance of specificity

Practice

• Sharing your story with others

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The Symbolics of Leadership – this workshop describes the day-to-day tactics leaders need to harness the full potential of their organizations and their market place in the immediate future. Working through the various components of the workshop assists people in leadership positions to meet the challenges of making and accepting changes.

What Does It Cover?

• Why you can not “thrive on chaos!!”
• How the Symbolics of Leadership becomes a tool that enhances productivity, innovation, retention, service delivery, and change processes.
• Memorable Words
  
  
  • Avoiding hollow clichés & the latest catch-phrases from the management guru de jour
  • A formula for creating decision fulcrums that shape behavior.
  • When, where and how to deliver them

• Symbolic Actions
  
  
  • Making the words come alive
  • Planned spontaneity
  • Recognizing and leveraging power moments
  • Seeing, creating, and maximizing teaching opportunities

• Perfect Heroes
  
  
  • Why you need them, what they look like
  • Where to find them, what to do with them

• Creating Your Corporate Story
  
  
  • Providing the right understanding . . . on purpose!
  • Guiding attention and behavior
  • Navigating through uncertainty

• The "Invisible They"
  
  
  • Who "they" are
  • Harnessing the grapevine
  • Decisions and explanations

• The Weapon On Your Wrist
  
  
  • Using your calendar to set organizational priorities