Powerful Keynotes
For Every Educational Level

Change Your Conflict Lenses:
A Fresh Look at Contention, Confrontation and Resolution

A Question of Style:
Exposing the Gap Between Different Communication Styles

Brand Aid:
How to Prepare and Package Your Potently Personal Message

Wake Up and Smell the Power:
How Candor Is Your Key to Outrageous Success

Communication Standards:
Codes and Commitments for Clarity, Candor and Civility

Say It Strong:
PowerPhrases for Clear Communication

Some Boats Need to Be Rocked:
How to Use PowerPhrases to Talk About What Matters Most

Change Your Conflict Lenses:
A Fresh Look at Contention, Confrontation and Resolution
Skilled conflict managers know how to look at conflict through eyes that lead to resolution. They know the difference between being resolute and stubborn. They know the difference between being assertive and aggressive. They know what words and behaviors incite the very resistance we want to overcome. They know how to use power rather than force. This remarkable keynote tells you how to look at conflict through a lens that will transform conflict to resolution.


A Question of Style:
Exposing the Gap Between Different Communication Styles
If someone’s words seem like Greek to you, chances are you have different communication styles. This entertaining keynote takes an amusing look at the four different styles of communication and how to communicate with someone whose style is significantly different from your own. It includes hilarious anecdotes that tell tales not only of how people have miscommunicated, but how they learned to overcome their communication barriers.


Brand Aid:
How to Prepare and Package Your Potently Personal Message
The world is full of writers, trainers and speakers, but is painfully devoid of true original thinkers. The Stephen Coveys and the Tom Peters in the world stand out because they do something that other educators do not. They create new paradigms that not only get people looking at things differently, but get them looking at different things. This keynote tells you how to take your ideas and develop them into transformative concepts that become embedded deeply into the psyche of your audiences. This concrete presentation provides eight guiding principles that are essential to convert ordinary ideas into original systems of thought that others embrace.


Wake Up and Smell the Power:
How Candor Is Your Key to Outrageous Success
Too often your success is limited by the things you don’t say. The ideas you don’t share, the injustices you silently tolerate and the questions you don’t ask hide your key to propelling you to your next level of outrageous success. This dynamic and entertaining keynote opens your eyes to what you are not saying, and unlocks the doors that keep you from saying it.


Communication Standards:
Codes and Commitments for Clarity, Candor and Civility
Once upon a time, society hid behind communication norms that valued politeness at the cost of clarity. Recent years have seen those norms dissolve into the chaos of a verbal free-for-all. While there is much to be said for the abandonment of rigid communication norms that prohibited the mere mention of sensitive issues, there is more to be said for new standards of communication that promote clarity, candor and civility. This fun and highly practical keynote explains the need to establish standards of communication to get your company, community and colleagues communicating by the same game plan.


Say It Strong:
PowerPhrases for Clear Communication
Mark Twain said that the difference between the perfect words and the almost perfect words is like the difference between lightning bugs and lightning bolts. This entertaining keynote tells you how to turn your words into lightning bolts of communication that say what you mean and mean what you say and get you what you want. Learn to say it strong.


Some Boats Need to Be Rocked:
How to Use PowerPhrases to Talk About What Matters Most
Playing it safe is not all it's cracked up to be. Some boats need to be rocked - and if you go through life never making waves, you'll fall far short of your potential. In particular, you need to be able and willing to have "Risky Conversations" and engage in "Dangerous Dialogue" about topics some people prefer you avoid. This presentation provides the PowerPhrases you require to navigate the communication waters of life in a changing world. Get the tools to successfully talk about the things that matter most. It might be a conversation with a boss who thinks he should be the convention emcee and you know he shouldn't. It may be a discussion with vendors who are falling short of their commitments and blaming you. It may be a confrontation with a meeting attendee who seems to be trying to hijack the meeting and make it all about them. Whatever your communication challenge, Some Boats Need to Be Rocked provides the tools to take the danger out of "Dangerous Dialogue" and take the risk out of "Risky Conversations." It arms you to effectively talk about things that matter.

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