Quick post to wish you and your family a happy and blessed New Year!

I'm taking the month of December off from speaking and leading seminars.

Happy Holidays!

Successful people develop a variety of personal and professional skills to succeed.

From time management to leadership, communication to networking.

But there is one skill you must develop and nurture to succeed in any economic climate, especially this one.

What's the skill?

Confidence.

Think about, when your confidence is high, everything seems to flow.

When it's low, nothing seems to work as well.

Here are three tips to increase your confidence and success:

1. Control your focus. What you focus on gets better.  If you focus on the problem, it gets bigger.  If you focus on the solution, it gets bigger.

2. Have a target. Having a target or goal helps you get better results with your time, energy and resources.  What are your top 3 goals for the next 90 days?

3. Strengthen your strengths. In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins points out that finding the one thing you do better than anyone else is a key factor for success. What's your #1 strength?  How can you further develop it?

Coaching Action Step: Right now, rate your level of confidence on a scale of 1 to 10.  If you're feeling super confident, give yourself a 10.  If you'd rate your present level of confidence as a 5 or less, work with a personal business coach to identify specific steps to increase your confidence.

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Right now, the motivational speaker is offering a complimentary 20 minute coaching session to help you get focused, build your confidence and achieve your most important personal and business goals in 2010.  Email or call our office to request an appointment.

NOTE: These appointments will be scheduled on Wednesday afternoons on a first come, first served basis because of travel and coaching commitments.

In less than 90 days, we'll be ringing in the new year…

Are you prepared to make 2010 your best year yet?

Now is the time to start planning your first quarter kick-off to get your team focused and fired up.

Here are a three ideas to make 2010 a winning year:

1. Schedule a kick-off meeting in the first quarter of the year. Bring in a motivational speaker to help your team identify and plan your most important goals for the year.

2. Incorporate coaching. Coaching can give your team the edge in 2010.  While most others charge extra for this, the motivational speaker is offering 12 months of follow-up coaching at no additional charge when you book him for your first quarter 2010 meeting before January 31, 2010.  Email or call our office for details.

3. Follow-up quarterly to skyrocket your success. More and more companies are taking advantage of a special program where the motivational speaker comes in once a quarter to work with their teams.   It's surprisingly affordable and the best option to grow your team, business and profits to the next level.

Whatever you do, get started now!

A little planning can make a big difference in 2010.

1. Is the speaker's topic right for my audience?

2. Does the motivational speaker customize the material?  To what level?

3. Does the motivational speaker entertain as well as inform?

4. Does the motivational speaker do "pre-program" research to prepare?

5. Does the motivational speaker provide hand-outs or other materials?

6. Does the motivational speaker involve the audience?

7. Does the motivational speaker do any kind of follow-up to make the ideas stick?

8. Is the motivational speaker easy to work with?

9. Has the motivational speaker spoken to groups like yours in the past?

10. What is the fee?  Are there any discounts?  (Location, time of year, pre-payment, etc.)

One of the services the motivational speaker can provide is follow-up coaching.

Personal and business coaching is a focusing and accountability process designed to help individuals and teams accomplish more of their most important personal and business goals.

One of the most powerful ways the motivational speaker incorporates coaching is by following-up to help participants put ideas into action after your event.

This follow-up coaching can be delivered in a variety of formats including:

• Follow-up conference calls for small and large groups,
• Pre-written lessons tailored for your company or group, delivered by e-mail, and
• Pre-recorded audio or video coaching delivered through a private, customized website.

For example, following a recent sales rally keynote, 130 participants received a 12-part series to increase their personal productivity.

"The follow-up really made a difference for our people," said the regional sales manager.  "The extra value and unique follow-up coaching process made this one of the best sales motivation programs we've ever experienced."

If you'd like to see an example of what your participants or team will receive from the motivational speaker, please call or email our office.

Small business owners often assume they can't afford to hire a motivational speaker.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The secret is to work with a motivational speaker in your local area.

For example, we recently put together a series of three, 40-minute presentations for a small business.  The topics included marketing and sales, teamwork and customer service.  The seminars where presented over a period of three months.

It was a win, win, win: the employees of the company received world class training at a price that fit the small business owners budget — and the motivational speaker was able to work close to home.

If you're a small business owner looking for a local motivational speaker, we can help.

Fill out the form below to contact our office…