Talks

List of Talks
Talks are tailor-made for companies, organisations and groups where practical and effective new ways of managing businesses are welcomed. They can be designed around a marketing strategy of a number of events over a period of time and will invariably include time for networking, launches, announcements and maybe even eating. The events are very much interactive, as delegates get as much from peer comments as the information presented:

  • Breakfast meetings
  • Luncheons
  • Training functions
  • Company away days
  • Knowledge days
  • Motivational events
  • Conferences
  • Annual get-togethers

Content can cover a wide range of subjects such as: -

  • Ladies in Business – the inside track to help ladies in a male dominated business world
  • Personal resource management – in old talk “Time Management”
  • Building your own high performance teams – find the core motivators
  • Introducing co-mentoring – pulling your company up from the inside
  • Profiling – find out what your staff’s hot buttons are and what makes ‘em tick
  • Succession planning – creating the seamless changeover
  • Ladder of Change - a structured process for understanding and implementing change
  • Leadership - which is better leading from the front or behind
  • Company culture – understand what yours is and what needs to be done to prepare for the unknown territory of Peak Oil and Dear Food
  • Emotional Intelligence - one of the most important explanations of communication and behaviour ever put together
  • Networking – how to get you and your staff chatting to strangers and enjoying it

1. Ladies in Business – the inside track to help ladies in a male dominated business world
Ladies managing businesses are in a man’s world and it can be a bit of an uphill struggle.
Dealing with male ego’s, lack of communication, exclusivity and individuality is very difficult when you are coming from the other end of the spectrum and don’t have the necessary thesaurus or dictionary.
This talk is or any lady in business who wants to understand more about what she needs to do to live, survive and thrive in a world created by men. Come and get the inside track to all those nuances, interpretations of behaviour and provide recipes that work quickly and effectively

2. Personal resource management - in old talk “Time Management”
This talk is based on the workshop of the same name and is about helping people understand more about themselves, how they function and how their behaviours and core motivators and personality traits all affect how they manage their personal resources and time. All of these things have a fundamental effect on their Time Management, but which is totally ignored by all the standard Time management seminars.
The talk is useful for those who have difficulty saying no to requests, always say yes to everything, never have enough time and are invariably late, whose plate is always overflowing with jobs, have time for everybody and everything, is oversensitive, have little structure

3. Building your own High Performance Teams - find the core motivators
This talk explains what makes great team tick by discovering each person's core motivators, values and opinions that underpin their behaviours and their communication style. Armed with this information all members of the team are able to identify how they need to change order to generate the right rapport and the correct environment for the team to flourish.
The talk is useful for anybody who works together on a board of directors, a project group, in a department, a family business, etc and feels that they can do better and have a desire to be more successful.

4. Introducing Co-Mentoring into your Company - pulling your company up from the inside
This workshop is designed for those companies, whatever the size, which are interested in implementing a Mentoring process into their culture. It would probably only be of interest to those companies where the culture is focused on personal development, is proactive in communication, understands the power of listening and questioning, and interested in empowering its staff.
The talk is useful for directors, managers and supervisors, who are interested in helping their staff to generate more effective team working, communication and rapport building within in the Company.

5. Profiling – find out what makes your staff tick
This workshop provides directors, managers and HR staff, but it also to understand more about what motivates their staff and also why people behave and communicate the way they do. Immensely powerful and yet very simple, it provides the knowledge and structure to understand the hidden language that we all see and hear and yet do not understand. It is without doubt incredibly useful when recruiting, building teams and promoting people.
Anybody who works with people, the public, private or voluntary sector, directors, managers and supervisors involved in production, services, administration, HR, marketing and sales.

6. Succession planning - creating the seamless changeover
This talk is primarily about starting the discussion with family businesses who are faced with difficult emotional, financial, structural, communication, capacity building and management training issues, which are all part of succession planning.
This talk is useful for people, who are directly or indirectly involved with a family business and who are facing difficulties in moving forward with the business and their lives. Also Owners, directors and managers who are involved with running family businesses, whatever size, in whatever the sector.

7. Ladder of Change – how to understand and deal with change and people
NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming - has got to be one of the most interesting developments in human communication during the past 25 years and Gregory Bateson's Ladder of Change is a very elegant, interesting and simple explanation of why it is so difficult, and yet so easy to help people change.
This talk provides delegates with a structure and understanding of how to help people change by understanding the drivers behind all human behaviour. It would be useful for any owner, director or manager who would like to understand more about what is involved with the only thing that we can guarantee apart from birth, death and taxes – change.

8. Leadership – is it better to lead from the front or behind
Cajole and support from the tiller or command and demand from the bow? This talk centres around discussing what constitutes leadership and how these various attributes can be harnessed at different times for different people in different circumstances.
This talk is useful for owners and directors of She’s who are continuously needing to lead themselves and demonstrate leadership in one form or another to employees when moving into new territory, new markets and changing economies.

9. Culture change - preparing companies for the unknown oil, food and raw material territory of the 21st century
Peak Oil, rising demand for raw materials, increasing food costs and rise of internet incomes means that old style corporate cultures need to change more now than they have ever done before. This talk examines the basics of culture, where it comes from, who and what is involved and how do you change it for the future.
This talk is useful to bring owners and directors of companies up to date and able to take back to their families and boards some new thoughts, a structure to work with, some goals to aim for and some tools to use.

10. Emotional Intelligence - one of the most important explanations of behaviour and communication ever written
Ever since Daniel Goleman wrote EQ in the 90s and created the five aspects involved with communication, motivation and behaviour, modern management has been discussing how this obvious piece of human intelligence can be utilised to best effect in business
This talk is important to anybody who is interested in the three cornerstones of management - communication and motivation and behaviour. It also comes with a free Emotional Intelligence EQi profile and a booklet containing 55 ways to increase your EQ for each delegate.

11. Networking – how to get you and your staff chatting to strangers and enjoying it
Some people love it, some people hate it but like it or lump it networking face to face is here to stay. If your company needs you to meet people in business to build trust, gain contacts, become a rainmaker, market your products and services and even get some orders then you need to know how to network.
This interactive talk from a wall flower turned inveterate people chatterer and gatherer of business cards is for all the people who want to know how to network with confidence, have something to say, be able to get into a group, start a conversation off, move on to another group and then follow up.