Steve Nudelberg

Keynote Presentations

What to Do When There’s Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day

Look at your to-do list. It’s ridiculous. You can’t get all that done. As a skeptical audience member once told author Laura Stack before a presentation, “I don’t want to hear a productivity consultant telling me to do more with less. I want to do less and achieve more.” That’s exactly what Laura offers in this keynote presentation.

You’re never going to save time and increase efficiency by adding more to your bloated list. You need a comprehensive approach that will enable you to organize your life around the tasks that really matter and let go of the ones that doesn’t. Stack’s innovative, six step Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) allows you to spend less time and achieve greater results than you ever thought possible. By following her logical and intuitive process, you can wrestle your schedule into submission.

Laura shows how to separate the productive wheat from the nonproductive chaff—to hone in on the high-value tasks, protect the time to do them, and focus on their execution. You’ll learn how to scale back—reduce, reduce, reduce is her mantra. You’ll find dozens of ways to shrink your to-do list, calendar commitments, distractions, interruptions, information overload, inefficiencies, and energy expenditures. Each reduction will increase your results and save you time.

You know you can’t work any harder—if you want to accomplish more you have to work differently. If you can figure out how to be more efficient, more organized, and better focused, you can get greater results in less time (your boss will love you) and get out of the office earlier and home to life you love (your family will love you).

YOU Can Be a Productivity Pro Teambuilding Gameshow

Using a hysterical, fast-paced, game-show format, your audience members will compete over the bragging rights to the title “THE (your meeting here) PRODUCTIVITY PRO!” Using whole-audience techniques and multi-media, everyone will be involved, all the while building stronger teams and learning what it takes to be productive in today’s busy workplaces. You can expect musical instruments, videos, songs, audience interaction, shouting, prizes, and attendees up on stage. But it’s not ALL fun and games! Audience members will learn about the Characteristics of a Productivity PRO, so great content is added to the fun—all customized around the performance focus areas YOU want to highlight for your meeting.

Sample objectives include (customized for your meeting theme):

1. Invest time in the game changers.
2. Stay focused and concentrate on your work.
3. Save your fellow team members time.

SUPERCOMPETENT®: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best

In this keynote, emerging leaders, high potentials, and new leaders will learn how to achieve peak performance in the workplace. In this competitive economy, just being able to do your job is no longer enough. Competence is expected; you’ve got to be SuperCompetent to get an edge. SuperCompetent will give you proven methods to reach your maximum potential and achieve breakthrough results.

You’ll get to your productive best by mastering six keys to peak performance:

1. Activity: the value and importance you place on your work
2. Availability: the mastery over your schedule
3. Attention: the capacity to focus intently and concentrate on tasks
4. Accessibility: the ability to organize the inputs and outputs in your life
5. Accountability: the extent to which you take personal responsibility for your actions and outcomes
6. Attitude: your motivation, drive, and proactiveness

The Seven Daily Habits of Highly Profitable Salespeople

What separates an average salesperson from a high-performing salesperson? They spend more time on activities that produce sales and less time on those that don’t. Simple concept? Yes, but difficult to implement in reality, because most traditional sales training doesn’t focus on productivity, and “old school” time management techniques have little application for the salesperson. In this session, you’ll learn “real world” methods to manage your schedule, tasks, devices, follow-ups, and email.

Outline:

1. Do more of the activities that drive sales (actively selling, prospecting or closing sales)
2. Do fewer non-income producing activities (delegate, automate, reduce).
3. Integrate their various tools seamlessly (sync your in-house CRM, email, handheld, tablet, laptop).
4. Automate administrative activities (manual processing, filing, moving)
5. Maintain flawless organization systems (effective time, email, and information management).
6. Follow-up with impeccable accuracy and predictability (workflow systems that track open loops and pending items)
7. Work efficiently from anywhere (road warriors, mobile office, down time usage)

Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Leader Spends Time

As an MBA student, Laura Stack was inspired by Peter Drucker’s classic 1969 book The Effective Executive. But a lot has changed since it was written. And while Drucker’s advice on what to do remains brilliant, he didn’t give much detail on the how. This keynote detailing how today’s leaders and managers can obtain profitable, productive results with their time by managing the intersection of two critical values: effectiveness and efficiency.

Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization—doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them with the least amount of time, effort, and cost—doing things right. If you’re not clear on both, you’re wasting your time. As Drucker put it, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Stack identifies twelve practices that will enable leaders to be effective and efficient, grouped into three areas where they spend their time, called 3T Leadership: Strategic Thinking (Business), Teamwork (Employees), and Tactics (Self). For each practice, Stack offers advice from her 25 years in the trenches, working with thousands of leaders globally. You’ll receive scores of new ideas on how you, your team, and your organization can boost productivity.

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Dr. Tony Alessandra is two speakers in one… a professor and a performer, or as one client put it – he delivers college lectures in a comedy store format. Dr. Tony offers audiences the opportunity to enjoy themselves while learning practical, immediately applicable skills that positively impact their relationships with prospects, customers and co-workers. His focus is on how to create instant rapport with prospects, employees & vendors; how to convert prospects and customers into business apostles who will “preach the gospel” about your company and products; and how to out-market, out-sell and out-service the competition.

Dr. Alessandra has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having been raised in the housing projects of NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, Internet entrepreneur, business author, and hall-of-fame keynote speaker. He earned a BBA from the Univ. of Notre Dame, an MBA from the Univ. of Connecticut and his PhD in marketing in 1976 from Georgia State University.

In addition to being president of Assessment Business Center, a company that offers online 360º assessments, Tony is also a founding partner in the Platinum Rule Group, a company which has successfully combined cutting-edge technology and proven psychology to give salespeople the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with hundreds of clients and prospects.

Dr. Alessandra is a prolific author with 27 books translated into over 50 foreign language editions, including the newly revised, best-selling The NEW Art of Managing People (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008); Charisma (Warner Books, 1998); The Platinum Rule (Warner Books, 1996); Collaborative Selling (John Wiley & Sons, 1993); and Communicating at Work (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1993). He is featured in over 50 audio/video programs and films, including Relationship Strategies (American Media); The Optimism Advantage  (Nightingale-Conant); and Non-Manipulative Selling (Walt Disney). He is also the originator of the internationally-recognized behavioral style assessment tool – The Platinum Rule^®.

Recognized by Meetings & Conventions Magazine as “one of America’s most electrifying speakers,” Dr. Alessandra was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 1985. In 2009, he was inducted as one of the “Legends of the Speaking Profession,” in 2013, for the 4^th year in a row, he was selected as one of the Top 5 Sales/Marketing/Customer Service Speakers  by Speaking.com, and in 2010 Tony was elected into the inaugural class of the Sales Hall of Fame. Tony’s polished style, powerful message, and proven ability as a consummate business strategist consistently earn rave reviews and loyal clients.

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Ben Newman is a Best-Selling Author, International Speaker and highly regarded Performance Coach whose clients include top companies around the world, business executives, high performing sales organizations and professional athletes in the NFL, PGA and NCAA. Ben’s book, “Own Your Success” was ranked by CEO READ as their #13 business book of 2012! In addition in 2012, The Napoleon Hill Foundation recognized Ben as one of the TOP 51 speakers & thought leaders in the World!

Ben’s renowned Boot Camp’s, speaking, books, blogs and videos empower and inspire thousands of individuals each year to maximize results in their lives personally and professionally. Participants are able to uncover their true potential, ready to create the life they are meant to fight for and enjoy. Ready to take on THEIR relentless pursuit of greatness: Their Prizefighter Day!

Ben’s mother, Janet Fishman Newman’s death, 11 days before his eighth birthday, left a cavernous hole in his universe. Yet while his mother passed away all those years ago, not a single day goes by without the reminder that she helped Ben become the man that he is today. Her strength, her love, her work ethic and her legacy live on through him, through the family he has created, and through the work he does. He has come to realize that she was demonstrating a very important truth – our circumstances in life are much less significant than our responses to them.

Ben empowers audiences to recognize that “YOUR success is not just about changing YOUR habits, it’s about changing the way YOU think.” His clients have included: United States Army, MARS Snackfoods, St. Louis Cardinals, Northwestern Mutual, AFA Singapore, Mass Financial Group, Wells Fargo Advisors, Great West Life Canada, Boston Medical Center, Boys & Girls Club of America, St. Croix, New York Life, The University of Iowa and The Minnesota Vikings…as well as thousands of executives, entrepreneurs, athletes and sales teams from around the globe who attend his speeches and seminars.

His authentic, powerful, and engaging presentations have become nationally recognized. Ben has shared the stage with Tony Dungy, Colin Powell, Brian Tracy, Ken Blanchard, Jon Gordon, Dr. Jason Selk, Floyd Little, Aeneas Williams, Walt Jocketty and other leaders and legends in the world.

Ben is a 6-time author and his latest book, Leave YOUR Legacy was recently ranked as a Top 25 Business Book by CEO Read. He is also the author of the National Bestseller Own YOUR Success, YOUR Mental Toughness Playbook, Fight the Good Fight & Pocket Truths for Success. In addition, Ben was a co-author of the recently released Napoleon Hill’s 17 Principles of Success.

“Ben has over 20 years experience selling a very HIGH level.  His past sales performance garnered him national recognition within the Financial Services industry with production in the TOP 1% of advisors around the world on a team managing over $250 million dollars of assets. After selling his practice, Ben can now be found on stages and in boardrooms around the world sharing his proven sales strategies to empower others to sell at their highest level.

Ben is also as an official Sales Trainer for the St. Louis Cardinals.”

Ben lives in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri with the true measure of his success, his wife, Ami, and their children, J. Isaac and Kennedy Rose.

Ben’s Topics

Own Your Own Success: The Power to Choose Greatness and Make Everyday Victorious

Leadership Through Legacy

A powerful story and perspective of the succession of a FORTUNE 500 company to the next generation of leadership.

Intentional Leadership: “Be where YOUR feet are!!” 
Intentional Leadership is a simple concept centered on mapping your own personal success journey and using your experiences to create something lasting that others can benefit from. When you define and create your intentional leadership with legacy, you are more likely to reach your own goals, and, in doing so, to empower others as well.

The Power to REFRAME: When faced with adversity, REFRAME the negative response and choose the positive SOLUTION to keep YOU on YOUR path to greatness.

The Power of TEAM:
1. Passion for the Process

2. Trust

3. Legacy

The Art of Power vs. Authority in Leadership: explore the research of Max Weber and the importance of the empowerment of the people you lead.

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The Four Commitments of a Winning Team

Get your team into action and achieve breakthrough results. If you want to lead your team to greater heights in performance and achievement, you need to hear Mark Eaton’s story. In this high-energy, insightful presentation, Mark shares how he rose from auto mechanic to NBA All-Star and, after twelve amazing years with the Utah Jazz, reinvented himself and became a business leader, entrepreneur, radio and TV personality and subject of a soon-to-be released film.

You’ll experience the excitement and drama of how he challenged himself and his beliefs and found the courage to keep going and achieve success beyond anything he thought possible. You’ll get the inside story on what it takes to win, and discover how to turn your people into top performers by applying the concepts that create sports superstars to the world of business. Mark gives you proven strategies and powerful, actionable ideas you can use immediately to create breakthroughs in your workplace and inspire your team to start playing a bigger game.

Imagine the Value as You Discover:

• What it takes to consistently play at the top of your game.
• How to build trust and loyalty.
• The secret to establishing an inspiring, energizing and harmonious work environment

This is a must-attend talk if you want to attain your highest leadership goals, maximize your team’s potential and develop a game plan to turn every member of your organization into a peak-performer!

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