Current Speaking Topics
How to go through a Turning Point in your Business & Life
In this interactive workshop with Jon Goldman, you’ll discover the no-nonsense strategies to thrive as an owner, team leader, and individual.
During this session you can choose from the following topics:
- How to get your team to be more self-motivated and self-managed.
- The three parts of the scientifically-proven “6 Minutes A Day” program to increase your happiness and productivity.
- How to deal with abrasive team members and / or challenging family business dynamics. “Manage ‘em in or manage ‘em out, but manage ‘em.”
- Practical steps to create a transition plan and delegate away the parts of your job that you hate, so you can do the job you love.
- Real-world case studies and insights from business leaders who are thriving and more profitable now than ever, against all odds.
Taming Abrasive Leaders: What to do when your business is dependent on someone everyone avoids
How to effectively manage abrasive team leaders.
- Learn how to get honest, 360-degree team feedback that won’t send you or your employees into the Federal Witness Protection Program.
- Understand how to develop an abrasive leader’s poor social skills and group dynamics.
- Discover how best to respond to the abrasive leader’s denial and resistance.
- Go deeper: get a glimpse into what is actually driving the abrasiveness. Find out how to use this hidden force to turn them around.
Planning for Inevitable Transitions: The Owner’s Manual
- Develop deep insights into where you are now and envision your next phase of life. What are your dreams, aspirations and life goals?
- Are you working towards building your business for new acquisitions, looking to replace yourself as owner, or preparing your business for sale? Learn to walk steadily and confidently across the “Bridge of Transition”.
- How to best prepare your team for these transitions: financially, emotionally, and legally. Bonus points given for difficulty if your team is also your family.
- Time frame: How much time do you have to make this transition? Determine what’s a reasonable time frame for you, your team and your business. Don’t leave anyone behind, but don’t drag it out.
- Path of Ascension: How to have that hard conversation about who can lead the next chapter of your business. Create a Path of Ascension for the next leader so that they can earn their role and your team’s trust.
- Tips, tricks and insights from the field.
Build Freedom Teams and Systems: Break free from unnecessary business struggle
In this interactive workshop with Jon Goldman, you’ll discover the no-nonsense strategies to thrive as an owner, team leader and individual. During this session you can choose from among the following topics: Learn how to reduce your business’s dependence on you. Set up teams that help instead of hinder. Create systems to propel you on the road to success with fewer bumps and greater ease. Create a Path of Ascension to build the next generation of leaders and a culture of team accountability. Discover the Fast Four Feedback Loops that keep you in sync with your teams. Understand how to use a SCRUM board to literally double your productivity and get twice as much done in half the time. Play and learn with our great Game of KPIs – Key Performance Indicators – to help your team understand what’s expected, feel more confident and successful.
Courageous Conversations: What to do when conflict seems inevitable. (And you hate conflict.)
How to work through business and personal strife in a way where everybody feels good. Really. Learn how to create a healthy and safe place to resolve disagreements, revisit expectations and reexamine perceptions. Understand tools for mediation that you can use in your business and family. Learn the 4 step clearing model, “I” statements, tips for articulating your thoughts, and more. Deeply understand what will happen if you do not confront these issues. Face the inevitable future if you shy away from Courageous Conversations. Improve productivity and flow with these highly developed interpersonal tools. Discover how to be a Coach, not a Cop! Coach your team and yourself to better results.
HABUT – what is the Highest And Best Use of (your) Time?
Shift from working in administrivia to work that you love and one else can do better.
Learn how to track your activities and determine whether you should do, delegate, digitize or dump them.
Shine with our Red Light and Green Light system: it’s not just for Christmas anymore! Understand how to color code your activities and decide what’s the best and worst use of your time.
Learn practical ways to actually work more ON your business than IN it. As a business owner or team leader, your time is precious. Move from Grinding to Minding or Finding (and learn what this means).
In short, get more done with less effort. And love your job.
You are only one page away from greater happiness: The One Page Life Plan and One Page Strategic Plan
Learn how to pair a successful business with a fulfilling life outside of work. Yes, it can be done! Learn 6 techniques, 3 strategies, and 1 page. Can your Strategic Plan stand up to the combat zone of real life? Planning is essential, but all plans fall apart as soon as they hit the battlefield unless you learn how to revisit and revise. Find your personal rubber band to pull you back to what matters most in your life and your business. If you want to spend more time with loved ones, invest in health, spirituality, and rejuvenation AND make a profitable business then complete the One Page Strategic Plan.
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