Keynotes
Chris can present a keynote talk on a variety of subjects.
His keynote will be
- practical
- amusing
- unique
- memorable
** all of the following work well over Zoom as well! **
Here is the list of subjects that Chris has a proven track record of delivering:
Time Management - 8 keynotes to choose from
- The three keys to efficiency
- Understanding stress and its relationship to achievement
- The only five things you can do if you're too busy
- Getting more done - how to get an extra month per year
- Personal Goals - why they work and how to set them
- Twelve time management rules that are not obvious
- Importance vs. Urgency – from a new angle
- Amusing but informative extracts from my Management Vegetables book:
- The Turnip of Time
- The Productivity Porcupine
- The Pear of Procrastination
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 of different personality types
- Amusing but informative extracts from my Management Vegetables book: pick any four from:
- The Plum 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 to 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
- Negotiation - top ten tips
- Negotiation 101 – the process and how to do it well
- Eight negotiation rules and tactics that are not obvious
- Five true negotiating stories – with learning points
- Negotiation quiz, all voting on the answers – with correct answers explained
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 four 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)
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
- How to get the best from difficult people
- Psychological games players and how to deal with them
- Selecting the right influencing style of different personality types
- How to tell people something they don’t want to hear – and get a result
Commercial Success and Profitability - 7 keynotes
- Why you should put your prices up!
- How to scientifically optimise your pricing
- Cost cutting mistakes to avoid
- The unexpected effect of quality on profit
- Queues – the cost of having them and the cost of getting rid of them
- Ten keys to running a successful small business
- Amusing but informative extracts from my Management Vegetables book:
- The Orange of Opportunity
- The Strategy Samosa
- The Parsnip of Profit
- The Cost Reduction Crab (How to reduce costs and avoid the traps of false economy)
Customer Service - 3 keynotes to choose from
- My Customer Care picture show - good and bad!
- How to gain new customers and not lose existing ones – 15 tips
- How to surprise and delight your customers
Influencing - 1 keynote
- Selecting the right influencing style of different personality types
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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