Presentation Topics

High energy, highly interactive presentations designed to build better people.

You may…

  • pick one of the topics listed below which will be adapted to your specific needs.
  • combine main ideas from several topics to be combined into one presentation.
  • give Steve your theme and he will develop a presentation specifically for you.

Don’t Die Until You’re Dead!™

Description

The goal of so many people is just to survive. For many, that is the daily achievement. But people who are growing have a totally different goal. It is to die young as late as possible. Life becomes exactly what we make it. In this seminar, you’ll learn some steps you can take to add enthusiasm to your life, job, and world. Not only will you have fun, you will leave committed to not die until you’re dead! You will also learn how this enthusiasm can enhance your personal and professional relationships.

Skills Developed

Positive attitude, enthusiasm, and perspective

Benefits

  • List eleven steps for developing enthusiasm in life and work.
  • Discover five steps to change an attitude.
  • Learn five ways to regain enthusiasm.
  • Understand how to eliminate negativism in your life.

When You’re Through Changing, You’re Through!SM

Description

Very few people like to change and it seems the older people get, the harder it is for them to change. We live in a world full of change. If people and organizations are going to stay on the cutting edge, they must have a willingness to take risks, fail, try new things, and change. Once you have stepped across the line, gotten out of the box, and started thinking differently, you will be one of those people who will change. You will discover that when you’re through changing, you’re through.

Skills Developed

Change strategies

Benefits

  • Understand the difference between fictional and factual statements about change.
  • List eight steps to effective change.
  • Learn a six-step strategy for lasting change.

Brain Waves of a Leader™

Description

Leaders are different from most people in many ways. Leaders are different from each other in many ways, but one common ground that all leaders share is in the way they think. The new millennium will require more productive thinking than ever before. During this session the participants will discover how leaders think.

Skills Developed

Strategic thinking, leadership development

Benefits

  • List ten ways that leaders think.
  • Discuss ten phrases that limit thinking and suggest what can be done to offset the influences these phrases produce.
  • Create a game plan to change personal “thinking” habits.

Don’t Work for a Living: P-L-A-Y!™

Description

There are too many people working today. Instead, they should be playing. Can the workplace be fun? Can people keep a positive attitude when everyone else is negative? Can employees deal with situations, people, and events and maintain integrity and personal dignity? The answers to these questions and more will be given in an action-packed presentation which will help each person desire to PLAY, not work. One more bit of information: the word P-L-A-Y gives the four-word formula for success in the workplace. Get ready to be challenged!

Skills Developed

Attitude, understanding personality types, passion, perspective, laughing

Benefits

  • List seven steps to help make and keep the workplace fun.
  • Discover the four-word formula for continued success in the workplace and daily activities.
  • Identify the four basic personalities and list ways to work effectively with each.
  • Learn how to make “confrontation” positive and beneficial.

Three Customer Service Presentations

Description

Good customer service sets an organization apart from others. It is a choice. Helping staff members to keep it a priority 24/7 requires creative leadership, good training, and recognition for a job well done. Employees have a simple yet accurate way of figuring out what’s important at work. They just look at what their leaders pay attention to – what the bosses talk about and focus on, and then act accordingly. There is little difference between what businesses offer at times but the difference that sets some apart is customer service. Kate Zabriskie says it best, “Although your customers won’t love you if you give bad service, your competitors will!” Learn how to take your customer service to the next level.

Skills Developed

An understanding of what exceptional customer service commitments, attitudes, and tools look like.

Bringing Your “A”-Game To Customer Service!

Benefits

  • List ten new and creative concepts for customer service.
  • Implement their personal “service game plan” developed during the session, in their individual workplace.
  • Develop a “Listening” strategy plus focus group “listening posts” to use with current customers to enhance and improve overall service.
  • Learn how to think like a coach, see like a player, and work like a team.

Customer Service That Goes Against The GRAIN!

Benefits

  • List six traits of a great “go against the GRAIN” team.
  • List seven genetics of a customer.
  • Write eight principles of doing simple things but in exceptional ways in meeting the needs of your customers.
  • Define how being creative and responsive are important elements to customer service success.

Customer Service In A “SACK”!

Benefits

  • List four words that will fill the “sack” of their customers with exceptional service.
  • Discover how the principles taught in this session can become daily habits.
  • List seven benefits of exceptional customer service.
  • Learn how to make their customer a guest.

The Pursuit Of Excellence

Description

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pursuing excellence is a habit, not an act. We are what we repeatedly do. Jim Collins, author of “Good to Great” says, “Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.” Steve Siemens, in a presentation entitled, “The Pursuit Of Excellence”, will give you some very practical tools to use to develop excellence in every area of your life, both personal and professional. When an organization is filled with people pursuing excellence, it’s a win-win-win outcome. Learn how to be an excellence-filled organization and person.

Skills Developed

Leadership, People Relationships, Personal Development

Benefits

  • List the four building blocks to “catch” excellence.
  • List five benefits of being in the pursuit of excellence.
  • Discover a strategy for change that helps create a culture for excellence.
  • Learn how to turn excellence into a daily commitment in every area of life.

Visualize or Fossilize™

Description

What you see is what you get. The importance of visualization is so critical to the success of the individual or organization. It determines so much and yet so many people do not take the time to visualize. There should be time spent at every meeting for visualization. Every leader should spend time daily visualizing. Since this is a learned behavior, the session will not only teach the techniques, it will show the benefits and it will include some time for personal and professional visualization.

Skills Developed

Leadership, visualization, passion, creativity

Benefits

  • Discover the seven steps for visualization.
  • Define solutions to the six elements that sabotage the success of the individual or the business.
  • List the five “D” words that create a visualization game plan.

Please Pass the Passion™

Description

Passion is one of those words that is so essential to the life of a leader and person. It means the difference between good and greatness. I believe one person with passion is worth more than 99 with an interest. The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion. Add a little passion to anything you do and the rest will follow. This session will encourage you to develop passion and then give you the tools to make it a foundational stone in your life and leadership.

Skills Developed

Creative thinking, passion, accountability

Benefits

  • List the ten ways that leaders think.
  • List five statements about passion.
  • Identify seven reasons why people lack passion.
  • Create a game plan for developing passion in your life.

Staying UP in an Upside-Down WorldSM

Description

From time to time, any job can be very stressful. People can lose their perspectives very easily if they aren’t careful. “Staying UP” to so many people seems like living in the clouds of unreality. The fact is everyone can stay UP. There are six areas that help people face life with excellence, passion, and enthusiasm. The six areas are: purpose, people, problems, perspective, positivism, and persistence. This session will take those six areas and help each person implement them into their lives and work. It will be fun, very practical, and very useful.

Skills Developed

Attitude, thinking, leadership, creativity

Benefits

  • List seven steps to make life fun.
  • Identify how problems can be stepping stones rather than tombstones.
  • Learn how to keep from losing your perspective and maintain the right perspective.
  • Create strategies to stay positive and define your life’s purpose.

The Seven Sides Of Leadership™

Description

Everything rises and falls on the leadership. Today more than ever, good leaders are needed and exceptional leadership is required. Leadership can be defined by two words: positive influence. And because of that definition, I believe every person in the workplace can be a leader. Each has different responsibilities and roles but everyone can be a leader. One of my favorite proverbs is this, "Man who said it cannot be done should not interrupt man who is doing it." That is the world we live in. Leadership will determine if you are doing it or interrupting it! Learn the seven sides of leadership.

Skills Developed

Leadership, thinking, passion

Benefits

  • List the seven sides of leadership.
  • Write 45 characteristics of a leader and create a game plan on how to improve each one in your life and leadership
  • Discover at least two powerful characteristics you possess as a leader.

One Team = Team Won

Description

Teamwork is nothing more than everyone being committed to each other’s success. It’s simple yet most of the time people make it so hard. Each team member determines the success or failure of the team. People often forget how important their contribution really is.This session will help each team member realize that winning teams do things losing teams won’t do. There is a WOW experience people can enjoy, especially when the team functions as one.

Skills Developed

Team building, working with others

Benefits

  • Discover 15 characteristics that hold a team together.
  • List ten characteristics that a winning team exhibits.
  • Identify the personal leadership style you bring to the team.

Taking Your People Skills To The Next Level!™

Description

Based on Steve’s new book Push-Ups For People, learn some exercises (skills) you can use to build better people. Physical exercise builds better bodies; people building exercises build better lives. It’s never too late to take your people skills to the next level. People are the greatest asset of any organization. When you surround yourself with the right kind of people, you grow; with the wrong type of people, you stagnate. Each of us needs to be a people builder in every area of our lives. You are either pushing people up or pulling them down. Learn some exceptional principles that will help you get into a daily exercise program of pushing people up!

Skills Developed

Attitude, respect, appreciation, listening

Benefits

  • List six steps for building good relationships with people.
  • Identify the three basic needs of people.
  • Understand and apply 30 people building skills by working on one skill each day for six months.

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