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THE FREAK FACTOR: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness

This seminar is designed to encourage you to become more of who you are, not to turn you into someone else. It’s about becoming more different and more unique, not more average and more mediocre. You will learn how to:

• Discover your distinctive strengths and weaknesses
• Frame your unique characteristics in a positive way
• Find situations that highlight your positive qualities
• Maximize your self-control
• Implement permanent procrastination
• Flaunt your weaknesses

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The Freak Factory: Making Employees Better by Helping Them Get Worse

Are you frustrated by disengaged and unproductive employees? Are you looking for better strategies for improving employee performance?

Research shows that most people are not committed to their jobs and the way we currently manage employees does even more to harm, instead of help, their performance. We think our employees are broken, treat them like they are broken, and then wonder why they don't work. Instead of attacking people's weaknesses, we need to find the strength that is hidden inside their apparently negative characteristics.

It is time to stop trying to create well-rounded and balanced employees. We need people that are unbalanced. We need freaks. This session will explore four essential strategies for improving employee engagement by turning our teams, departments or organizations into freak factories.

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Dead Leaders: Lessons from the Lives and Violent Deaths of the World's Most Influential People

Do you want to become a great leader? What does it take to achieve greatness?

When I ask audiences to identify the greatest leaders in the history of the world, a few names always make the list. After asking this question repeatedly over the years, I finally noticed something. The leaders, who were consistently rated as great, shared one thing in common.

They had all been killed. They didn't die natural deaths. They were either executed or assassinated. This led me to explore the lessons that we can learn from their example. During that journey, I discovered four leadership principles that have the power to transform your leadership and your legacy.

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EXPLORE! Understanding Ten Trends that are Changing the Future

Do you wish that you could predict the future? Unfortunately, I can't give you the winning lottery numbers, but I can share a simple secret for acccurately predicting what will happen next.

Globalization, outsourcing, demographic shifts and technological advances are just a few of the seismic changes causing dramatic shifts in the way people live, work and play. These changes are combining and accelerating their impact on the world. This impact is both positive and negative, creating opportunities and threats, hope and fear. It is important for everyone to understand these trends and how they affect the future of their lives, careers and organizations.

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The Four Factors of Effective Leadership

Whether you are a manager, parent, teacher, little league coach or nonprofit board member, The Four Factors of Effective Leadership will help you improve your ability to influence others to achieve meaningful goals. This book combines the wisdom of ancient philosophers, successful executives and leadership gurus into a clear roadmap for effective leadership. The four factors focus on common themes that can be found throughout most books on leadership and interpersonal effectiveness. These factors show that: — Everyone can be a leader — Leadership begins with you — Leadership is a relationship — Leadership produces positive change. Using stories of famous leaders and infamous failures, the author illustrates the importance of the four factors: Influence, Integrity, Inspiration, and Improvement. These factors are contrasted with the pitfalls of ineffective leadership: Power, Position, Popularity, and Personality. Self-assessments for each factor are included to help you evaluate your leadership and develop a plan for continued improvement.

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GROW! Ten Strategies for Maximizing Your Leadership Potential

Do you want to increase your influence? Are you looking for practical ways to improve your leadership? Effective leaders recognize the importance of continuous learning and personal development. They are also dedicated to empowering and training others. Based on the fourth factor of effective leadership, improvement, this seminar offers ten proven methods for leadership development, including strategies for personal growth and developing other leaders.

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CREATE! Initiating Change and Inventing the Future

Individuals and businesses are constantly confronted with rapidly accelerating change. Effective leaders of the future will need to not only adapt to change but also create individual and organizational transformation. Unfortunately, most people and organizations resist change and are not aware of future trends. This session will explore methods for managing resistance to change as well as ways to become a creative person and an innovative leader.

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RECHARGE! Managing Stress and Avoiding Burnout

Are you burned out? Do you feel overwhelmed by personal and professional stress? If you want to recharge yourself and reclaim control of your physical, emotional and mental well-being, this seminar can help. We will explore the causes and symptoms of burnout, as well as six proven stress management strategies. You will learn how to:

• Take control of your responses to stress
• Focus on what is really important
• Use passion to overcome pain
• Develop a new perspective on stress
• Build relationships to prevent burnout
• Balance activity and renewal

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FOCUS! Organizing Your Time and Leading Your Life

Are you too busy? Do you feel overwhelmed? Are you constantly being pulled in too many different directions? Is it hard to find time for the things that really matter? Time management is more than just checking items off a to-do list or squeezing a few more minutes out of each day by multi-tasking. In fact, these activities can often be counterproductive. In order to increase effectiveness and restore your peace of mind, it is essential to clarify purpose, develop plans, prioritize activities, and proactively execute those priorities each day. This seminar will show you how to:

• Develop a clear direction for your life
• Set and achieve meaningful goals
• Focus energy on high priority activities
• Align daily tasks with long-term objectives
• Manage interruptions effectively

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PERSUADE! Nine Strategies for Getting What You Want

Do you always get what you want? Why do some attempts succeed while others fail? What can you do to improve your ability to convince others? Whether you work in sales, fund development or organizational management, powerful persuasion is an essential element of your success. This seminar will explore nine fundamental principles of human behavior and help you harness that knowledge to persuade the people around you. You will learn how to:

• Influence people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors
• Establish and maintain credibility
• Find the right audience
• Make big changes by starting small
• Create vivid appeals

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