Ted Janusz

Imagine telling your conference participants this year about the general session ... Okay. As a professional, you've been to plenty of conferences with a keynote speaker. Some of them have been very interesting. Others have been, well ... This year's conference is going to be quite different. In this session, we're going to focus on YOU ... and your fellow professionals. Yes, you are going to learn more about yourself, and the other wonderful people at the conference. How to best interact with people like you ... and unlike you. We're going to do this not through a speech but through a fun, interactive exercise - in which YOU are going to help write the script! And, we'll even give you a cool tool to help you continue to network throughout the rest of the conference. After all, besides learning and earning continuing education credits, isn't networking the REAL reason you attend conferences?

Sure, you could hire someone who has pierced body parts and tattoos for those parts that aren't pierced to try to demystify the phenomenally expanding use of Social Media for your audience. Many tech presenters can get too deep into the technology too fast. Just watch your participants' eyes glaze over! Successful business people need a speaker who is not a technology geek to be able to explain it to them - in terms they can actually understand. These business people are fascinated not by the technology (like many Social Media speakers are) but rather by how they can use this expanding trend to actually benefit themselves and their businesses, and how can they use the tools to promote themselves and their businesses on a shoestring budget. Have an experienced facilitator explain how to use Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and messaging apps - in ways your audience can relate to.

As employees return from furlough, or from working in quarantine, we will need to develop our teams again, and rebuild trust. This virtual pres gives leaders practical steps they can implement immediately to rekindle a spirit of cooperation. You'll learn to understand yourself better, each of your employees, and how to best interact with them. We'll give you practical tools you can use - today - like One-Minute Praising and the seven questions to ask each of your employees, so that you can be Boss of the Year! You'll learn about the number one complaint of employees, and what you can do about it. (Hint: it's neither wages nor benefits.) You'll find out about the Five Kinds of Difficult Behavior, and how to deal with them. You'll also learn about Employee Rewards That Motivate. We'll explore Michael Jordan's method to achieve SMART goals and the Admiral Hyman Rickover (Father of the Nuclear Navy) methods of running a productive meeting.