Keynotes-Leadership

  • Vision: Is your future brighter than your past?

  • Change Happens! Now how do I deal with it?

  • The Influence of Leadership

 

Winds of Change: Opportunity or Headache?

Synopsis:

Winds of change are happening. Are you prepared to engage and move directly into the winds of opportunity?

Key Takeaways:

  • Keys to understand how the mind sees change
  • Insight into dealing with unmet expectations
  • Must-Know Tools to develop your own roadmap to positive change
  • Motivation to effectively face and embrace change.

Renewing Your Board Effectiveness

Synopsis:

Are you or your organization struggling with questions like these?

  • How can we possibly grow in today’s economy?
  • Many small businesses are merging or going out of business. What can we do to not only stay alive, but to thrive?
  • Our Board meetings get reeeeally long! How can our Board be more efficient?
  • How do we know whether or not to expand into a new line, market, or geographical region?
  • Where can we turn to get answers?
  • Our management, staff, and Board are aging. Who can help us with succession planning?
  • How can we market today for tomorrow’s generation of customers?
  • How can our Board objectively evaluate its effectiveness?

Tough questions. But fortunately, there are answers and opportunities. We can help you find both. So, what are the tough questions facing your organization? The questions don’t get any easier by waiting. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get started!

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn Ways to be More Focused!
  • Learn Ways to be More Effective!
  • Learn Ways to be More Successful!
  • Learn Ways to be More Profitable!

 

Is Your Marketing Giving You Fits?

Synopsis:

Putting together or updating your Company Marketing Strategy? Many look at such a task as quite intimidating, but it need not be that way if you understand the concepts and know where to begin.

Key Takeaways:

  • Explode common myths related to Marketing.
  • Explore why knowing the “Five P’s” is critical before you can effectively Market.
  • Examine why not knowing your “Fits” can truly give you fits.
  • Exchange ideas on how developing an “Attitude” can be a good thing.
  • Expand their understanding of how Marketing and Planning can help to predict your
    future.

Friction, Fuel, Fire!
Knowing Your Reaction, Choosing Your Response

The single strike of a match can be the most destructive weapon…OR, it can be the most constructive and powerful tool. The result is influenced by our actions. Throughout the ages, great leaders have influenced others by their actions. As leaders of today, we, too need to influence others in ways that yield positive results rather than negative attitudes. In this keynote address, Kathleen challenges leaders to understand why organizations lose productivity. Kathleen motivates leaders to shift their internal thinking through 3 interactive components: Friction, Fuel, and Fire.

  • Learn to step through FRICTION rather than sidestep conflict…
  • Discover the appropriate FUEL that will allow you to RESPOND rather than react to trigger situations…
  • Succeed in identifying positive, healthy behaviors that will decrease the stress in your personal life and increase the FIRE in your organizational effectiveness.

Winds of Change: Understanding Generational & Cultural Influences

Synopsis:

The United States has commonly been referred to as the “melting pot of the world.” In our current-day business climate, the majority of our jobs, throughout any given facet of a project, will require us to work and interact with people of various generations and cultures. The added reality is that this “melting pot” is rapidly changing. This change can bring both strengths and differences. Each person we encounter brings a variety of individual filters. Do all people have the same mind-set about ‘work’? And how do you begin to work with someone who does not have your mind-set?

Never before has a workforce been so diverse. Yet there is much opportunity for success when each of us chooses to understand the uniqueness and values of various generations and cultures.

Key Takeaways:

  • Keys to understand Millennials, Gen Xers, Baby Boomers, and the Matures.
  • Insight regarding digital natives, digital immigrants, and their uses of social media
  • Tips to communicate with cultural & generational differences
  • Strategies to build stronger teams and get buy-in from co-workers and employees.