Keynotes

Chris can present a keynote talk on a variety of subjects.

His keynote will be

different
amusing
practical

** all of the following sessions work well over Zoom as well! **

Reputation

Linkedin Learning - a top author - 20 million learners, 45 courses

Udemy - 30 courses, one million sold, number 1 for Leadership, Negotiating and Sales

Coursera - 25 courses published

Kindle / Amazon - 19 books

YouTube - 2.6 million views

Linkedin - 250,000 followers

Experience - Cambridge degree, MBA, Engineer, Senior Manager, University Lecturer, Trainer and International Speaker for 25 years

Here is the list of subjects that Chris has a proven track record of delivering:

Time Management - 8 keynotes to choose from

Leadership - 16 keynotes

Leadership style options for planning and for carrying out a plan - a unique new way to get it right
How to lead and motivate remote workers and remote teams
How to get the best from difficult people
Leadership - understanding leadership style
How to be an inspirational leader
Leadership 101 – what it is and how to do it
What is a leader supposed to do each day, week, month, and year?
How to motivate yourself, even in tough times
Happiness at Work - ten practical actions for a leader
Top Ten Tips for Success in your career at work
Ten keys to running a successful small business
Two new leadership ideas - the Captain of the Ship and the Management Potato
Ten unexpected leadership ideas
How to increase your positive thinking and that of your team - 10 practical tips
Selecting the right influencing style for different personality types
Amusing but informative extracts from my Management Vegetables book: pick any four from:
- The Potato of Performance (How praise works better than blame)
- The Coaching Cherries (The process of gradually raising the bar, explained)
- The Banana of Boredom (Retaining your talented people)
- The Iceberg of Ignorance (and FROB) (Why senior managers don’t really know what’s going on)
- The Meeting Marrows (What to do when chairing and attending meetings)
- Toadstool of Turnover (Why labour turnover costs much more than you realise)
- The Carrots of Motivation (Two carrots with the top 14 ways to motivate your team)
- The Cabbage of Communication (Tips for brilliant team communication that spell out the word cabbage)
- The Situational Seagull (The difference between delegation, empowerment, and abdication)
- The Freedom Frog and Leadership Tadpole (The four levels of freedom for your team)

Negotiation - 5 keynotes

Sales - 12

The top five Sales mistakes
Using project management and Gantt charts in Sales
Time Management tips for busy sales people
How to lead a remote sales team – your leadership style options
Six sales animals – which one are you? (Covering Efficiency, goals, achievement and enjoyment)
Negotiation tips for sales people
Why you should put your price up
How to scientifically optimise your pricing
Personal goals – why they work and how to set them
Top Ten Tips for success in your career at work
How to motivate yourself, even in tough times
How to increase your positive thinking and that of your team – 10 practical tips

Happiness and Success - 16

The meaning of life – and how to have a great one
The three keys to efficiency
Understanding stress and its relationship to achievement
Getting more done – how to get an extra month per year
Six ways to live your life as six animals – and how to improve on each one
Personal Goals – why they work and how to set them
Success – what is it and how to get the right kind
Top Ten Tips for Success in your career at work
How to motivate yourself, even in tough times
Happiness – practical ways to increase yours
Happiness at Work – ten practical actions
How to increase your positive thinking – 10 practical tips
The only six career options and how they affect money and happiness
Will money make you happy?
How to maximise your life
Amusing but informative extracts from my Management Vegetables book: pick any number from:
- The Goals Grapefruit (Much better than SMART!)
- The Pear of Promotion (The four qualities needed for career success)
- The Quality Quail (Quality of life, achievement, stress, and efficiency all on one graph, memorably shaped like a quail)
- The Happiness Magnet (Six practical ways to increase the happiness in your life)
- The Sausage of Self Discipline (How to be more self disciplined, …in the form of a sausage)
- The Volcano of Success (The seven secrets of success in life, which spell out V.O.L.C.A.N.O.)

Project Management - 6

The top ten project mistakes – and how to avoid them
The biggest Project Management secret: why you need both a network diagram AND a Gantt chart
Why project management is a great career – and how to get started
What to look for in a project plan / how to manage a project manager or subcontracted project
The pros and cons of Agile, Waterfall and PRINCE2
Two areas where the PMBOK might have got it wrong (for your info these are contingency and SPI)

Difficult People - 4

Commercial Success and Profitability - 7 keynotes

Customer Service - 3 keynotes to choose from

Influencing - 1 keynote

Clips from recent Customer Service conference here

The top five Sales mistakes: clips here

Careers and Success sample here

Put Chris on after lunch to get things going again!

or in-between some technical talks to give some variety and a bit of fun!

Contact Chris for more details

Remember - all of the above work well over Zoom as well

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Here is the list of subjects that Chris has a proven track record of delivering: